This crazy idea came around after I saw a couple of photos of a similar thing on the 16mm e-group, needless to say I was eager to start and begun looking at the prices of ironing boards, and my lord are they expensive for what they are!!! The plan crashed, but did not burn, a light bulb developed above my head after a couple of days. Why not ask a friend who has various odds and ends of scrap metel around his yard whether or not he had one, and needless to say this so called 'Ironing Board' appeared in our car earlier this evening!
I've now cleaned it up in preperation to slap some primer on if the weather is OK tomorrow, I shall then set about cutting a section of Ply to make the base board and work out how I shall make the metal work hold itself together without collapsing!
Eventually it will be a small shunting yard using mamod track, and is to be based on a small quay and will only be suitable for the smallerst of locos. With luck it'll be complete this half of the year and it'll appear at an exhibition in the future!
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