Currrent Progress, Now what??

[Connor]

Well, Speak of the devil! up_santafe is the guy whom I barrowed the layout from! His layout was really nice and appealed to me.. Lots of mainline and switching action simplistic enough (or so I though) for a beginner, but enough of a challenge to be fun. I just hope I can figure everyting out..

 

[trainwhiz20]

Awesome Connor!

My layout is a little past your stage, but all these "start-up" layouts in reasonable spaces have really been an influence.

I too have admired up_santafe's layout, it has amazing detail.

Please keep up the wonderful progress--and look out, I might just steal some ideas! :thumb:

 

[Connor]

Okay, so, Here is my BIGGEST question at the moment. Plaster cloth or road bed first?? I'll be using WS road bed.. I've seen a thread on here about putting plaster clother under the road bed, or doing road bed first the plaster cloth.. which works best? Which is easist?

 

[Nick8564]

My question is where did you get that thick of a peace of foam from? I have been to Lowes many of time and can only find 1/2 inch stuff or littler. How much do you expect to pay for a sheet of foam, any size sheet?

 

[Connor]

I got that sheet of foam from Home Depot, around $22.00 or so. I think they're 2" Thick.. I'me using two of them.. Probably overkill, but, I wanted to be able to dig into the top peace.

 

[Matthyro]

I imagine there are many benefits to 2inch foam. On my N layout I used 1/2 inch foam with nothing but the L girder frame with a cross piece every 12 inches. It works fine for me. Once I have the fascia in place you would never know it is just the foam that serves as a base.