It has been a lovely sunny day and I have been out in the garden building the branch line although it has taken me far longer to build 1 simple piece than it did to build the larger baseboards used on the mainline!
This was mostly down to the fact that I have tried to make nice neat curves and also because the posts filled with concrete proved difficult to drill without the concrete cracking. In the end, as the picture below shows, I used a wooden block with a hole drilled in it to grip the post. The baseboard is then screwed onto this block.
The baseboard is made in the normal way with extra framing underneath to stop any sagging between the supports. A nice generous coat of Cuprinol clear has been applied with brown fence preserver to go on top of that tomorrow.
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| The wooden 'collar' used to fix down the baseboard. |
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| The first baseboard having been coated with preservative is drying in the sun. |
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