Yes I am still waiting for a saw to finsh the benchwork but after spending the afternoon staring at the layout, just like Rob Clark says I had a spark of inspiration. Yes! it hurt I had to have a lie down afterwards.

Anyway back to the model, Basically I decided i can start on the scenery without the MDF sub bases being in and slip those in at a later date. The foam for ackerville is already cut so the first part of this is going to be gluing down the foam to prepare the base for sculptamold. That messy job will come tomorrow but now lets get this going.

We all need to start somewhere and this is the North end of Ackerville this embankment will continue along the length of this aisle. The embankment will carry the WSOR above the Ackerville yard so it continues along the whole length so getting it square here matters. There is nothing scary or even smart here so long as we use a foam safe glue. I use gorilla wood glue, its a very tacky PVA that wont melt the foam it also doesn’t expand so is perfect for this.

I got a nice bead of glue under the foam blocks and smoothed it flat before placing it on the foam base.

The gorilla glue is really quite tacky and would hold the foam in place. However, I used some 20mm T-pins just to hold this in place while the glue dries.

A few more pics of the foam, hopefully tomorrow we’ll have some sculptamold covering all this and we can move to the getting the roadbed down.