• My Gorre & Daphetid Part 3: Cookie Cutter?

• My Gorre & Daphetid Part 2: Benchwork

• My Gorre & Daphetid Part 1: Introduction

It’s now time to fish or cut bait.  One of the reasons it took me so long to get started is I didn’t know whether to start with a flat table top and use Woodland Scenics (WS) incline/decline risers or do what John Allen did and use an L-girder type of construction.  A third method was to start with a flat table top and do a Cookie Cutter (CC) approach.  Here is a picture of my table top where you can see that I used a 1/4 scale picture with 12 inch squares to draw the plan on the bench.  As I mentioned in my first blog, I liked the idea of a flat table top fo

I built my benchwork on the following plan from Model Railroader.  I also followed along with the YouTube video “Build a model train layout: Model railroad benchwork train table how to WGH”.  The following posts will detail my methods.

Call me crazy, but I am going to attempt to recreate John Allen’s original 3’ 7” by 6’ 8” Gorre & Daphetid.  I have had two small layouts in the past.  The first, a poorly modeled 4’ x 8’ that taught me a lot of lessons.  The next, the 4’ x 6’ Gold Hill Central from Model Railroading.  Alas and alack, I sold both when I moved twice.