portable tinplate/clockwork layout

Here is the wood top I am thinking of using.  Would love to put an engraved front panel to the table support that has "Just like Clockwork" in the middle and the BL and Hornby logos on each side of that.  Mike

Top now has 2 coats of spar varnish, working on what to make the table legs and support from.  Might go get some unstained turned posts at Lowes this week.  Mike

Looks good, Mike.  Can't wait to see the finished layout!

My next step, now that I have a winding key for the Duke, is to try him on Lionel 0-27 track I have on another mini table that goes under our Christmas tree.  I know my Hornby 4-4-0 Compound wont do that radus unless I rework how the pilot truck is mounted.  But the Duke is mounted differently.  Still on the fence about buying a Lionel Albert Hall set, I have the money but its either the set, or a tinplate building or two and some rolling stock.  Mike

She has morphed into a prewar Lionel layout, I started with Lionel and guess I am going to stay loyal to the brand.  We have a little 225e set on the layout right now, along with a Marx depot, Lionel 394 beacon, Marx bridge that I repainted. I still have Marx telephone poles, tinplate gantry crane and crossing light to install.  This little table will eventualy be an upper level to a small Std gauge table below it.  I plan to do the same thing, a small table thats big enough for a small loop of Std gauge track and my 8e to run around it.  I have put my last UK style tinplate engine up for trade.  Need other items to fill up this little layout that come from the prewar era.  I love lighted stuff, a different station would be nice, street light poles, different cars or engines ect.  Open to most anything I can use on here. The transformer will go in the front right corner once it arrives in the mail and I replace the cord.  Mike