Another bumper update

Another day full of great progress! I now have a large percentage of the track completed on 3 of the four boards. I have however run out so I will need to get some more to do the jetty board, the line to the dual gauge shed, and the two sidings on the Ashlett Creek board.

So without further ado, here are the photos to prove it. Firstly, the 3rd completed board join - this is the join between the centre board and the Ashlett Creek board. First job was to roughly mark out the position of the loco shed so I leave enough clearance (you can just see the thin pen line bottom left).

Then I soldered on the track straight to the point (off camera to the right), and bent it to its approximate final position. As usual, locations for screws were marked and then screwed into place. The track was again roughly laid back into place to get all the screws at the correct height.

Then came the important part, getting the track as straight as possible between the screws. For this I used push-pins and the edge of a square:

Whilst this was all still in place, the first side of screws were soldered:

And the steel square removed and the other side soldered. The other end of the track was soldered onto the next point, leaving us with the complete section:

You can also see in the photo above the completed power house siding (left of the photo) and the inspection pit (of course, soldered onto the point before bending into place).

I also managed to glue the upper level narrow gauge track into place, with the sidings also soldered, pinned and glued into place!

Well that about sums up today's progress. Tomorrow I'm hoping a visit to the model shop will prove fruitful with track and more plasticard.