Good morning O Gaugers, Just a quick update on the roundhouse build. I now have the Gargraves track inlayed into a 1/4" sheet of ACX plywood. The green skylight windows have been permanently glued into the roundhouse.
I do have feeder wires placed into the rails so they're isolated like normal.
Next up was to add the flooring of the roundhouse. This is 1/4" birch plywood. Mathmatically with the ACX and the Birch plywood, the track stands proud of the floor by a few thousandths. The flooring in between the rails will be glued tight up against the center rail, thus leaving a gap for the wheels on the outer rails. I now have to ensure that the leading and trailing trucks of my locos are gapped correctly. The plan is now to remove the ACX and birch plywood and seal the birch with sanding sealer to get a smooth surface. Then, paint the floor with a concrete color paint, and weather it. I haven't gotten the knact of weathering yet, so it's a slow and painful process for me. I do watch modeling videos, so I believe it'll come with time.
A couple of shots with some of the walls held on with clamps. I'm waiting to glue these in place, cause I want to install the new laser cut windows I have coming from Mr. Muffins. The windows in the kit were horrid. They were semi-clear, somewhat opaque, with dimples, completely unacceptable. The birch plywood will be trimmed round on the approach to the roundhouse and in the rear before I install the walls. I had thought of trimming the track back some, but have decided to leave it. The portion sticking out from under the floor isn't glued down. So it'll be easy enough to shorten it if the need arises when I install the turntable.
I really like how the lights turned out. Guess I should make sure they work before I glue the roundhouse down permanently.
Questions and comments are always welcome.
Until next time...
