If you didn't read it, dig the copy out of your magazine stash or get a back issue from White River Productions.
The article has 11 pages and a detailled track plan. The issue is worth its money because it is loaded with more great articles.
Showing posts with label Benchwork. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Benchwork. Show all posts
Monday, March 21, 2016
RMC layout article
If you want to read how I built my home layout, Railroad Model Craftsman published my article in the October 2015 issue and it's titled Modeling AT&SF's Surf Line in Germany
If you didn't read it, dig the copy out of your magazine stash or get a back issue from White River Productions.
The article has 11 pages and a detailled track plan. The issue is worth its money because it is loaded with more great articles.
If you didn't read it, dig the copy out of your magazine stash or get a back issue from White River Productions.
The article has 11 pages and a detailled track plan. The issue is worth its money because it is loaded with more great articles.
Monday, December 16, 2013
Benchwork Main room
Benchwork in the main layout room also went straight forward with IVAR shelves along the four walls.
In the middle of the room I installed the benchwork for a peninsula. The track curves are all 30" radius.
I did a lot of trying until the shelves had their final position. Then I secured the shelves with 1x2's
The subroadbed above at left will be San Clemente, at right Oceanside (OK at this stage its hard to figure out)
This is the framework for the peninula
As you can see, I had to use every bit of free space to temporarily store my supplies, until all the benchwork was ready.
Monday, December 9, 2013
Benchwork
On my previous layouts I used "traditional" benchwork with brackets bolted to the walls of the layout room.
One big problem I encountered with this system was that the spacing of the brackets never fit the needs for storing boxes or crates under the layout. Either they were too far apart or too narrow, leaving useless space in between. Another disadavantage in my opinion is the fact that construction is more timeconsuming with constantly leveling everything out.
When we moved into our new house back in 2007, I had so many boxes with rolling stock and structures that there was no way in moving everything to the new house and then starting to build the layout. I just did not have enough store room for everything.
I decided to set up IKEA Ivar shelves along my two layout rooms and filled the racks with my boxes as soon as I had another shelf standing. I had planned this step a couple of weeks ahead of our moving so that I had no boxes with material standing in my way.
Before I set up the racks I built L-girders from two 1 x 2's and screwed them along the walls of my layout rooms, at the height (124 cm) so that the legs of the shelves fit right underneath. I advanced one leg after the other, always fitting shelves in between as I went along. Then I screwed the legs to the L-girder to keep them from moving.
Along the front of the legs I screwed another L-girder.
Then I screwed joists to the L-girder to support the plywood sheets on top.
The shelving system did not fit seamlessly into the corners, so I joined the L-girders and screwed them together. With the plywood bases on top the benchwork became sturdy as a rock.
To join the two rooms I had to break a hole into one wall. One leg of my turning wye in Old Town reaches through this hole and saves me space.
The shelving system is easy to set up and gives a very strong support for the layout. I could even sit on top of it when attaching the lighting system. The shelf boards are clicked into pins so they may be adapted to the size of the storage boxes. All in all its a very rational system.
One big problem I encountered with this system was that the spacing of the brackets never fit the needs for storing boxes or crates under the layout. Either they were too far apart or too narrow, leaving useless space in between. Another disadavantage in my opinion is the fact that construction is more timeconsuming with constantly leveling everything out.
When we moved into our new house back in 2007, I had so many boxes with rolling stock and structures that there was no way in moving everything to the new house and then starting to build the layout. I just did not have enough store room for everything.
I decided to set up IKEA Ivar shelves along my two layout rooms and filled the racks with my boxes as soon as I had another shelf standing. I had planned this step a couple of weeks ahead of our moving so that I had no boxes with material standing in my way.
Before I set up the racks I built L-girders from two 1 x 2's and screwed them along the walls of my layout rooms, at the height (124 cm) so that the legs of the shelves fit right underneath. I advanced one leg after the other, always fitting shelves in between as I went along. Then I screwed the legs to the L-girder to keep them from moving.
Along the front of the legs I screwed another L-girder.
Then I screwed joists to the L-girder to support the plywood sheets on top.
The shelving system did not fit seamlessly into the corners, so I joined the L-girders and screwed them together. With the plywood bases on top the benchwork became sturdy as a rock.
To join the two rooms I had to break a hole into one wall. One leg of my turning wye in Old Town reaches through this hole and saves me space.
The shelving system is easy to set up and gives a very strong support for the layout. I could even sit on top of it when attaching the lighting system. The shelf boards are clicked into pins so they may be adapted to the size of the storage boxes. All in all its a very rational system.
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