Little Wicket Layout Build - Ep1. Baseboards 🔧🔨
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
- Episode 1 in the series documenting the construction of the new Little Wicket layout. In this video we talk baseboards and I build the lower level storage from plywood sheets.
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:53 Baseboard Design
04:13 Materials
05:59 Little Wicket Baseboards
08:38 Cutting Plywood Strips
13:43 Cross Supports
14:13 Drilling Holes
15:22 Putting it Together
17:36 Repeating the Process
18:34 Bolting on the Extra Bit
19:46 Finished!
Very enjoyable video. Excited to be able to watch the last year of videos and progress. Good luck to past you!
Great video! thanks for uploading
Just came across your channel love it .Looking forward to following you from Paul in Australia
Thanks Paul 👍
Thank you for showing the "as you build" footage. That is soo much more helpful than some benchwork related videos, where the builder does not do this. They only point to their finished benchwork, saying "just do that". To those with no woodworking skills whatsoever, that's like pointing to an ancient piece of Chinese art, and saying "just do that".
Thanks Mac. Hopefully there was about the right amount of build footage in there. About 4 hours got cut out. I think there are better "step by step" type videos out there, but this was more about documenting what I did rather than being a definitive guide (which I'm in no way qualified to make!). Lots of useful advice coming from people in the comments too which is nice.
Slow And Easy Rob Always Remember This You are The Biggest Crittic.
Nice to see the 2P painting getting it's money's-worth in the background of the talking shots.
Haha, yep, well spotted. Gotta get some value from it. Needs to be properly hung really.
Well done Rob in filming this Baseboard Build video. Very well explained and how to cut, glue and screw it all together with the right tools one can see it all come together. See you on the next chapter of the new Little Wicket build.
Thanks John. I'm looking forward to the build, but it's going to be a slow process.
@@LittleWicketRailwayRob I will have to get my finger out and build something to get me going on-line (intended). So, I have ordered the Proses Engine House with two motorised louvers doors. I plan to build an end-to-end TMD or Shunting lines that will veer off on to a main line to add it to a shed or room sized layout later. I don't know about doing a Channel on here, but you'll never know what will happen later.
Can't wait for part2 of your build. I'm just back in the hobby after many years and started building a layout about 5 months ago. This video set me back a few months as you had the great idea of the floor insulation. I was just a bit ahead of you but had to rip up all the track. Was happy to do so as it was only the track and no scenery started yet. Thanks for all the advice even if I don't want to hear it 😀
I can't really take credit for the floor insulation, I saw it on Chadwick Model Railway. Hopefully you didn't have to take up too much track.
Rob this was a very thoughtful and well presented baseboard video. You explained grid benchwork versus L girder well. A cool tool that I have recently invested is a pocket screw jig. This allows you to move the cross braces even after you screw the layout to wall because the screws used for the braces go from the inside out.
Thanks. I'll check out the pocket screw jig. A degree of flexibility sounds useful.
Your woodwork looks great and neat, much neater than mine is.
I made my baseboard very similar to yours and I'm quite happy with it. I would have cut my own cross braces had I had a circular saw. Instead, I used store-bought braces that I only had to cut to length.
Tip: I glued a layer of 5 cm foamboard on all my boards, which allows me to create some scenery at lower levels like gullies or rivers.
Dude you missed the whole point of his video. This is storage so there will be no scenery.
@@smccoy5114 I assume that there are more baseboards to be built, plus viewers might find it helpful.
Always interesting, topical and sensible. Thanks. 🇧🇫
Thanks Melville 👍
Hi Rob, I’m a new subscriber to your channel and as a Carpenter/Joiner for 45 years, I must congratulate you on your tenacious methods and choice of materials and techniques to build your layout. I can appreciate that you are more of a technophile and practical work may not be your no 1 skill set but my hat goes off to you for your approach and execution. You have worked with basic power tools to produce top results which is important. I also really enjoy your video production and presentation style, very sharp, very clear and very professional. As an aside,,I am the guy behind the construction of the OO Live Steam Roadshow layout you may have seen at shows and that took 200 hours just for the joinery prep and assembly so i fully appreciate your great efforts to produce top results.
Looking forward to further progress and perhaps a natter if i spot you at a show. Warley soon so ill keep an eye out!!!
Thanks 👍 Definitely not my no 1 skill set, but I really enjoyed building them.
Wow, 200hrs for the live steam boards! I'll be at Warley, so will come say hi and check out your handiwork.
Awesome build. I can't wait to see the project as it develops.
Cheers Tony! Can't wait to see how yours progresses too.
Nice job Rob, much more satisfying than buying premade modules (and a lot cheaper !) I use a 135° bend push fit waste pipe fitting on the end of my circular saw, It directs the dust more downward and can be rotated to avoid it blowing onto me - still makes a mess, but a bit more concentrated.
Thanks for the tip. I need something if I'm going to cut inside again. Your solution sounds a lot better than gaffa taping the hover over the hole which was my back up.
Got ya self a new sub bro
Wow enjoyed your latest video thanks for sharing.
Thanks 👍
@@LittleWicketRailway Thanks very much for replying to my comment. It's nice to see other people's work to get idea to improve my Channel. Take Care & Stay Safe.
Excellent video 😊 I think that you did everything right and that you are on your way to a great layout!
Very nicely explained
Thanks 👍😀
Looking forward to seeing this project progress. Quick tip: screw a longer piece of wood to your guide n the saw, it will support the saw much better by cutting down on the twisting and make for a cleaner cut
Thanks Beeley Wood, that's an excellent tip and I wil be using it 😀👍
*really* good job and an excellent video showing how to actually do it as well.
have 9mm ply "X" braced frame here, smaller, use 18mm without framing as a desk but eck thats heavy. 18mm sides for that size seems perfect.
and looks a very professional job
When cutting loads of strip to same length on the chop saw you can use a stop to butt the material up too.
I’m planning on building something like this so this is great stuff!
Glad you found it helpful 👍
Good video, ideal tool for the Job is not a table saw but a track saw / plunge saw. They make much more accurate cuts than a circular saw without splintering the boards. They have got far cheaper lately with only being around 100. They also have the ability to have good dust extraction. There is also no offset so you drop your track edge on your line and don't have to worry around measuring the offset to your blade from the base.
Peter millard on RUclips has a brilliant tracksaw playlist for newbies
I would get a track saw if your doing this again
For the dust, just attach your hoover to the exhaust port. If it doesn't quite fit, you can normally bodge it.
Great job
Nick Australia
Thanks Nick 👍
An excellent video, so good to see all the option that may be possible to choose from re materials. Cutting all the cross braces and then the holes is so repetitive and time consuming but well worth it in the end. Top surface layer of material should be great, would you also go with 3mm cork? Will lift the track up for ballasting. Whole board sounds so impressive, looking forward to seeing it all in place in the room. All best and good luck with next stage. Marc
Nice video - my advice would be to splash out on a track saw, a bit more expensive but the best in my opinion for accurately ripping down sheet materials.
I will check out track saws. Will they cover a full 2440mm board?
@@LittleWicketRailway Further to my email, Makita tracks are 1400mm long so two connected together is more than adequate for a 2440mm sheet. You managed very well with the guide on your circular saw but obviously it's limited. The tracksaw is one of my most used tools
One thing that I would add is that when buying timber DO NOT rely on the sizes that are indicated at your D.I.Y. store i.e. 1.2m or 0.9m lengths. I did, and to start with I couldn't understand why things didn't line up. Now I measure everything to make sure I've got it right.
It's a lot easier to get the ply cut into strips at B&Q !
Agreed! But I'm pretty sure my local B&Q offers this 😔 I asked Travis Perkins and they don't offer it either. They said that services has been dropped from most DIY shops around here now.
Thanks for tackling this subject Rob, it's something we all have to undergo!
I plan to use a box structure support - but I have bought up a lot of "left over" laminate flooring boards quite cheaply from marketplace to surface it with - since these are engineered to be pretty rigid and to hold their shape and they interlock to present a flat surface. Also, they are are fairly easy to cut to shape with a laminate saw. I won't start this build for a month or two yet, but I wondered, has anyone tried this? How did it work out as a surfacing material?
Not tried using flooring, it but hopefully someone who has will come along and confirm that it works. It sounds like a good idea. My only concern would be the potential for warping if the environment is damp or there's mositure in the air. My only experience of this is using it as flooring where it didn't take much moisture or change in temperatre for it to expand. Maybe just be careful when using water/pva mixes for ballast/scenics/etc. or maybe try to seal it?
@@LittleWicketRailway Yes, that is a consideration - that stuff does deform horribly if you spill moisture onto it. However you can - so I read - spray a thin layer of PVA on it to prevent that - not tried it, but it sposed to work.
Looks like we are both embarking on similar projects at the same time! Except my layout will be portable. I am making a 12ft x 6ft multi level 00 gauge automated layout.
I really want to build my boys one on insulation board, with a hole in the middle for him, he loves being in the middle. would be great if you could try it and tell me if it works first 😃. I was thinking it would be easy to sculpt and of course light enough to put away after use.
If your first cut of the plywood wasn't straight because your fence bowed, then using the guide that came with the saw for subsequent strips will also produce the same slight curvature.
Circular saws and jig saws cut on the up stroke. if you cut from the underside of the work piece any break out will then be on the underside of your boards and not seen.
You sound like you know what you're talking about. I'll remember this. Super advice 👍
@@LittleWicketRailway You can by downstroke blades which are made for cutting work surfaces where you don't want to blow out the top surface...
Great video. Personally, having built both closed and open frame boards in the past, when it came to tearing it all down and starting again, I opted for laser cut ply. For me, the cost was offset by the saving in time spent woodworking (even if I did have to wait a few weeks for delivery), not to mention the fact the I now have boards that have proper 90 degree corners! Shall we just say that woodwork is not my favourite part of the hobby....
Your joints would come together tighter and easier if you drill clearance holes in the bit your screws go right through. You can get drill bits that drill clearance holes, guide holes nd countersink all in one go.
Thanks Robin. My dad (who knows way more about woodwork than I do) approved of this comment, he said he would have done the same thing. Don't suppose you have a link to the all in one bit?
Quite inspirational. I'm looking at rebuilding my small layout soon. Originally used cheap standard studwork and 9mm MDF, but its bowed an warped so this time round will be using 9mm ply instead. Is there anything gained by using strips of 18mm ply for the framing over traditional 3" x 2" PLA softwood?
The upside of all the sawdust is that one might use it emaking flock.
Great idea, I've certainly got enough of the stuff!
@@LittleWicketRailway I've made flock by putting sawdust for rodent cages in a blender and painting it. I recommend using sieves to get rid of the really fine particles and the coarser ones.
There are instructional vids here on RUclips that explain the process in more detail.