Hi guys, sorry I've been away for the last month, but I didn't do any work on the layout until the last week, and I worked just one day, when Patrick came over. He came over again on Tuesday.
The project we are working on is preparing to hang skirting on the layout. In order to do this, we are putting up plywood strips so that landscape fabric can be stapled to it.
This process is fairly easy for the straight sections, as we just screw on 1-1/2" strips of 3/4" plywood to the legs of the layout, we just have to go around the electrical outlets.
It gets a little trickier to do the curved sections at the ends of the aisles. I've chosen to use 1/4" plywood with three laminations to try and follow the curves of the fascia.
Here's a straight section under Red Wing.
Between the two outlets, is a nifty "S" curve.
Across the aisle is the end of peninsula one. Here we are installing a support block that will be used to anchor the the first 1/4" strip.
Here I am cutting off the overly long track riser, so we can turn it into a support for the rail. This was just a happy accident and wasn't planned that way.
The clamps are on while we wait for the glue to dry on the left.
Patrick puts the clamps on the the next layer of the curve at the end of aisle one.
I'm going to run to Menards in the morning to pick up the landscape fabric. I'm anxious to see how the layout looks with skirts.
