Show Time - Part 3

The stand skirt is one length of 1.4m wide, 100% black polyester cloth labelled as 'banqueting cloth' in the shop so, I guess it is meant for covering table tops. It was inexpensive compared to other grades of black cloth at only £2/m and is quite opaque. The ends were folded and stitched for the required length and height and then fixed to the frame with hook and loop sticky pads.

Black is the traditional colour for framing exhibition model railways as it highlights and focuses attention on the model but, I have subsequently read suggestions that a brown material is just as effective to focus attention but gives a lighter mood and blends with the model, suggesting the underlying earth of the landscape.

Beneath the table top two miniature speakers have been positioned at each end of the main railway track, fixed with hook and loop sticky pads. We plan to play sounds of the landscape and the trains as they pass through.

The LCD monitor is fixed to a pole which clamps to the frame. A presentation introducing the historical basis for the model  and explanation of cameo scenes built into it is shown and from time to time the train roster to support the arrival and departure of trains can be shown.

David

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