Great progress today. Board 1 has had both its ends connected to copper strip and soldered on for sureity of alignment and a bit of extra security should the ends of the board get knocked in transit. Where board 1 meets board 2 (see shot above) the track was aligned and tested with a lilliput bogie coach.
Then, track was laid down to the north loop point, which was also installed with insulated joiners. Once again the 15" curve is preceded by a transition curve of 18" radius. This is to ease running. Finally, a few further pieces of cork were clued down on board 3 ready for the great platform alignment project (tomorrow?)
PS This post was created using picasa 2, somw rather cheeky image software that is free from google http://picasa.google.com/ and allows you to publish images to the blog directly as well as create web galleries now. But I'm sticking with fotopic for that for the mo - see http://colin-lea.fotopic.net
Colin 
2 comments:
The layout is looking great Colin, I'm enjoying watching it develop. And congratulations to you all on the birth of Thomas.
Ho!
Have you thought of putting a 'scale' in the foreground of the photos? One of 6 inches / 150 mm would be good. It may seem a bit of an odd request, but as an old archaeologist (or rather a FORMER archaeol't) I can vouch that the value of a scale can't be underestimated where there isn't a lot in the photo - i.e. the early stages of the landscaping.
Keep it up, good work.
Lez
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