Baton Rouge Southern 3.0 - a Design discussion

[Philip H]

modeling work this weekend consisted of:

• Finding my stash of code 55 #7 turnouts;
• determining that I DO NOT have the lone #5 I need
• Getting a #5 from a friend online
• participating in a Saturday TRW virtual Happy hour
• and body mounting couplers on a lone Deluxe Innovations woodchip gon.

so progress I guess.

[LIRR]

any progress is good progress

[Philip H]

Let the track laying begin:

[wazzou]

I love the smell of a freshly torn open box of Midwest Cork.
Congrats!

[Hawghead]

I love the smell of a freshly torn open box of Midwest Cork.
Congrats!

[amato1969]

Beat me to it @Hawghead!  What a great movie.

  Frank

[Hawghead]

Beat me to it @Hawghead!  What a great movie.

  Frank

Sorry, it instantly came to mind  .  One of my all time favorites.

Scott

[Philip H]

So who want to share a great Legos for transferring the printed plan to the foam? My video conference addled brain is having a tough time, as I don’t just want to glue the pattern down since I have to scrape through it to do scenery bit poking a bunch of pin holes requires eyesight I may not longer possess.

[mu26aeh]

Have access to a tracing wheel ?  Or come up with some similar ?

[Philip H]

Have access to a tracing wheel ?  Or come up with some similar ?

Don’t have one.
But I like a good @DKS like engineering challenge

[DKS]

What I do is tape the plan down, then trace over the track outline with a ball point pen, bearing down heavily enough to leave indentations in the foam. After I remove the paper plan, I draw over the trace lines with a Sharpie to make then easier to see.

[C855B]

I use a tracing wheel, also known as a "pounce wheel". I found this one on eBay:



I print the plan at 1:1 on an 11x17 laser printer with the (AnyRail) plan set for centerline and go from there. It's done well for me.

(Yeah, the wheel looks like a medieval torture implement, but it's effective. At marking the plan, that is.  )

[Philip H]

What I do is tape the plan down, then trace over the track outline with a ball point pen, bearing down heavily enough to leave indentations in the foam. After I remove the paper plan, I draw over the trace lines with a Sharpie to make then easier to see.

And I think we have a winner, though @C855B certainly brings an A game to this topic . . . .

[Ed Kapuscinski]

I usually use knowable points (like this switch is parallel with the front) from the plan and then triangulate.

[wm3798]

Ed would put track parallel to the front edge...