 |  1/4 inch scale narrow gauge |
January, 2009
The big print
23 January, 2009
My second lot of foamboard arrived today and it is not bowed. In order to get a decent cutting I went into my main graphics program and tiled together 28 A4 pages. Once I had the outline of the base of the layout in, I did the print.
My new Epson printer is noisy, like seriously noisy, and for the next 10 minutes my studio sounded a bit like a garbage truck. Warning, if you don't like really, loud printers, don't get an Epson D92. This thing must have a decibel rating of around 95-100. Eventually I had my 28 pages with the line of the baseboard on.
Wait a minute, you might say, model railroads have straight edges and 90 degree corners, why print out over 2 dozen pages for this? I never said it was straight.
The next job will be to size up the sectons of foamboard and get three sections of 36 inches by 24 inches - twice. Then the top part will have some areas cutout for inserts and the whole lot laminated together. The layout will break down into 3 units eventually. I'd like to use special magnets to hold them together, but need to find out more about that.
It would be nice to have the bases done within the next week. However, I have website to maintain, some software projects that are still in progress, plus my daughter and her husband are moving house. As she has just had a baby, it's mostly up to the rest of us. So I will be busy.
Will you have photo's of what you're doing Ted? No. I don't like websites that have "under construction" pages on and would never, ever, do that. The same principle is being applied to my model railroad layout. "Under construction" photo's are a no-no (unless of course it is a tutorial and only then parts are shown as they develop toward the whole). I figure it either works or it doesn't and if'n it ain't working you don't see it.
posted on: 17:18