Foam Board Model Railroad Benchwork

Wednesday 15 July 2020

Foam Board Model Railroad Benchwork

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With proper support the rigid foam can easily hold anything a modeler may want on a layout.

Foam board model railroad benchwork. Allen keller discusses tips and techniques for laying styrofoam foundations on your model railroad benchwork. Im a bit hesitant about trying to make vertical curves in foam board. I am building open grid style with 1x4s and building the track on strips of plywood.

We havent really decided how to do the current layout but extruded foam sheets are an option. Our old layout was built using plywood with a layer of homasote up top of it. This is episode 2 of the my model railroad series.

If you have carefully drawn your trackplan on grid paper using a scale of say 1 inch 1foot then you will be able to measure the size of platform you need on top of the supporting structure. Plywood has been the primary material for model railroad bench tops for many years. My last layout was built on layers of 2 foam board it looks smooth as glass but i guarantee you it isnt.

You will need to keep your trackplan in front of you as you design your benchwork. We are a few weeks away from starting bench work. Our club is getting ready to start building our new ho layout.

Planning your model railroad benchwork. In this video i discuss installing the plywood top to the mianne benchwork and gluing down the extruded polystyrene foam pink foam to the. But in many situations ive found that extruded foam insulation board is a viable alternative for bench tops built on either flat surfaces or open grids.

Plywood foamboard or both. He explains the importance of using a wooden beam under any type of styrofoam foundation regardless of the thickness. I will probably cover the open areas with foam board later on and build the scenery on top of that.

In the model railroader book how to build a model railroad kent johnson describes the process for using 2 pink foam insulation board as the layout surface for the 4x8 o scale cascade. We feature beginner and advanced help on all model railroading scales including layout track plans model railroad product reviews model train news and model railroad forums. Although a 4x6 layout using 12 plywood as the layout surface wouldnt be prohibitably heavy and unmanageable i am leaning toward using the foam.

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