No.31 Platform Update
The gales and hailstones continue so luckily no gardening. There has been plenty of time to progress the platform paving. My previous layouts were made from chipboard and I used the off cuts to form the platform bases which were then surfaced with 3mm plywood. The current layout is built with ½ inch MDF and again the off cuts have been utilised for the platform bases. This time I chose to use 5mm balsa wood for the surfacing. This gives me a top of rail to platform surface height of 12mm for my code 100 Peco Streamline track. The balsa surface is held in place with counter sunk steel pins, whilst the platform sides are covered with brick or stone paper. As a teenager I can remember being very impressed by a railway modeller who had scribed individual paving stones. The whole platform was given a uniform colour wash and then individual paving stones were picked out with different tones. Life is very short and I do ...