I used cookie cutter and have pics [and tutorial] on my site showing how. You did ask for pics 
Ed, yes you still can use it. My edges are nailed down as well.
Ed, yes you still can use it. My edges are nailed down as well.
Cookie Cutter Method
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Amrap: If you have the plywood lightly tacked to a framework, you have to watch on the cookie cutter that you don't run the jigsaw into the framing members.
Generally, with cookie cutter you expect to leave the unraised bits down at elevation 0. BUT there's no reason you can't use cookie cutter variations 2b or 2c where bits of flat board are removed.
There is a further variation where all that's left is track bed and some outside walls and the scenery is suspended in the middle.
Generally, with cookie cutter you expect to leave the unraised bits down at elevation 0. BUT there's no reason you can't use cookie cutter variations 2b or 2c where bits of flat board are removed.
There is a further variation where all that's left is track bed and some outside walls and the scenery is suspended in the middle.
You don't have to cut your curves in one continuous piece. you can use smaller pieces of plywood and make a complete 180 degree curve out of several pieces. Saves a lot of cost that way. By the way, this is the way layouts used to be built in "the old Days" when wire and plaster were the primary scenery materials. It was called open grid benchwork
Chandler,
I reconize that layout! Thats the Jerome and southwestern of John Olsen isn't it? I've had that book on that for twenty years now and I still get insprastion from it. It looks like you've done a good job on it.
I reconize that layout! Thats the Jerome and southwestern of John Olsen isn't it? I've had that book on that for twenty years now and I still get insprastion from it. It looks like you've done a good job on it.