Michael Tondee

But I want to be sure. Referencing the plan shown here....

http://www.layoutvision.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/HO_8X10_water_wing.pdf

Are the squares with the dotted lines leading to the curves the curve centers?  Believe it or not, in my 34 years as a serious model rail, I've never tried to draw a plan out on plywood using curve centers. I've always roughed them out with flex track and sectional pieces and maybe a few turnouts and then traced and removed the track before cutting my plywood sub roadbed. I may still do that in part with this plan but I'd like to try to do it with the old "hole in a yardstick, nail and a pencil method"

Thanks,

Michael

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LKandO

Yup

Appears to be.

Alan

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Rio Grande Dan

The plan you have is fairly

The plan you have is fairly simple to copy as it looks to be laid out on a 12" grid. All you need do is draw out the track plan full size on some paper laid on the floor before you build the bench work. When your full size drawing is complete tape the paper into 4 foot squares and pick up the paper and build your table bench work. You can then lay the 4 foot squares onto 4 X 8 sheets of plywood and cut out the tracks using your full size templates in the cookie cutter fashion.

Second way uses less sheets of plywood: Lay out your paper the same as before on the floor and draw your layout on the 4 foot square sections then, Cut out all the track 3/4 wider on each side of the tracks drawings. This extra 3/4 inch on both sides will give you plenty of room to attack your scenery base later. Then transfer and glue these paper template cutouts to your plywood and try to get as many of your paper templates glued on one piece of plywood as you can as close to one another as possible and it would be a good idea to have a small drawing at the same time and mark each section of track with a corresponding number on the small drawing as a guide as to what numbered section goes where. then build your bench work and assemble your track road bed sections using the small drawing as your guide.

Dan

Rio Grande Dan

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