I've decided to build a portable exhibition layout for the Trainbarn, and the first section of it emerged from my workshop today. It's actually the first layout I've built in the workshop, all the others have been in other odd parts of the world and are now doing good service as kitchen tables!
Of course it is just a specially designed table. The idea is that there will be another identical one facing it, and then two 'bridging' sections- one on each side, between them. These bridging sections can vary in length, depending on the display space available. The first two will be about three feet, making the overall length ten feet, as that's all the room I've got spare inside my workshop. I've just got an undercoat on the plywood surface at the moment, I'll put the green satin topcoat on tomorrow. Green-painted plywood- hence Plywood Central!!
I've put some Atlas O gauge track on the layout here, and a very nice product it is too! I don't plan on securing it, although it may just need a screw or two. The advantage of this is that I can change the track easily, depending on what I want to display at the time. Any of my various scales/ gauges can be accommodated. Initially it will be British coarse-scale O gauge, hence the beautiful Pullman coach having a test run. This Pullman is named Michaela, and was issued to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Hornby Railway Collectors' Association, of which I am a member.
Building layouts is probably the thing that I most enjoy doing, so I'm having a very good time doing this! Probably my second favourite thing is travelling around to toy-train shows searching for 'new' trains, and I haven't done that in quite a while. I plan to remedy that situation soon! In the meantime, the Plywood Central is keeping me happily occupied!
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