Over the last month I managed to pretty much finish the benchwork around the walls. The XPS Foam is yet to be glued on, but that is one of the last jobs - wiring and such first. Then I had to rearrange the contents of the shed a bit to give some more room at the head end.
I have found that the 1.2m mobile scaffolding unit I have, which was actually purchased many many moons ago for me to use when sheeting the walls - yeh, that never happened, as I got a professional to do the walls so they were done right! Anywho, that scaffolding of mine makes a really great mobile wood and steel storage unit for my current building materials for the layout :-)
So with a bit of space made for construction, I began the small peninsula. This is the smallest one and has had a few iterations after discussions with the fellas. So far I have been able to build the rectangular framing for all three decks and get them screwed into position. The lollipop end of the penisula has yet to be built - a few ideas mulling around in the old scone for that. So just a corflute semicircle sits giving the idea of the end of the peninsula.
So that gets us to yesterday. Today I decided to get the curved bits done where the peninsula joins the wall units. Fiddly, but worth it in the end run. I think I will be using masonite to act as the facia for the decks, so it needs some places to screw into aroud these joins. So offcuts of the timbers I use for the decks comes in handy - waste not, want not.
So we start with a corner.
I'll think of something to do tomorrow. Maybe hunt down a welder... as I am thinking that the ends of the peninsula might be made from 20 x 20 x 1.6 mm steel tube welded up like this and then bolted to a big 35x70 or 35x90mm verticle chunk of wood.
Love seeing your layout framework coming together. Rather inspiring.
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