Reading back over "The Book", we realised that the track running past the site heading towards Basingstoke is a 1 in 82 incline, levelling out in the middle and heading towards Worting Bridge a 1 in 50. This meant that we had to raise the track level, and introduced some ramps on the curves at the ends, as the track had to end level with the back where the siding goes into a building. The track bed was raised using 6mm and 12mm MDF, cut to size, sanded and plained down to produce the ramps and inclines. On the downside to this, the track level is now higher than Ciddesden, which means we'll have to create a new inter-scene-section to join them together (whenever we decide to do that). As with Cliddesden we painted the ends, back and sides jet black as they are not part of the prototype, and it draws the viewers eyes to the main layout.
As you can also see from the above picture we have also began laying the track.
To attach the ends to the main board, we decided to utilise our 3D printer, David drew up a design for a latch using CAD software and set the 3D printer to work making 4 of them. To help with alignment we also added in two dowels in each side. Hopefully this design will make it a lot quicker to set-up and tear down.
Ed
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