Because I had some downtime this weekend, I started tinkering with a card kit from scale scenes that I saw in another members layout. They're a bit fiddly to put them together (something not so easy to do if you have pickle fingers), but the results are pretty awesome. They look superb up close and from a distance. If I can master making these, I'm going to use the kits to make the walls of the viaduct after all the wiring is done and the layout is more or less in that ready state for scenery.
Again the layout is 120" x 28" being built in 2 sections.
I'm using 1/4" ply for the top, and since I don't own a lot of tools, I'm going with dimensional lumber for the structure... I chose 1x4 select pine, as it seemed to be fairly hard, and didn't seem to bow much if any on my last layout.
Pretty straight forward stuff, I used cabinet screws on the structure. I bought 2 2x4' 1/4 ply sheets into the necessary lengths and braced the middle with an additional 1x4 where they met together.
Hi Folks,
I'm not shy to say I've been lurking on this site for a while, looking at the photos, and getting a lot of inspiration from everyone here...
I recently tore down an n-scale 6'x10' bedroom layout as it was taking up too much of my time, money, and (living in a 800sq ft condominium) space. I'm now in the process of building a much smaller (modular) wide-shelf layout.
The new layout planned is 120" x 28" or 10' x 2'4", this will be divided into two 5 foot sections. Eventual
