Show & Tell
Across the board
In the May 2021 issue of Model Rail (MR286), Philip John Pugh described how he made a baseboard out of cardboard. Upon seeing this, I thought I’d share my layout with you. My layout is a ‘OO’ gauge micro layout depicting a fictitious locomotive stabling point in the late 2000s, a stone’s throw away from the National Railway Museum in York. Because of this, the NRM’s shunter, Class 09 09017, can be seen stabled at the yard sometimes. Work started on the layout in April 2020 and it is entirely made from cardboard.
The baseboard is one of two cardboard slabs salvaged from an IKEA delivery, along with some smaller pieces. This was then cut in half and one of the pieces was used for the scenic section. The bridge is made up of one of the smaller pieces of cardboard and I cut a rectangular hole in it for the trains to pass underneath. The walls are made from the cardboard you get from cereal boxes. These were then painted brown, along with the rest of the bridge. The road surface is also made up from a cereal box but painted grey. This was painted the same time as the baseboard. The backscene is made up of cereal boxes cut to size and stuck on the sides of the baseboard. Then I glued on some sky, which I found on Google Images and copied and pasted onto a Microsoft Word document. This was then printed off and stuck on. The security fence and cable trunking are both from Wills.