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Richard, I'm just building my first layout, but I will tell you what common sense led me to do. I have just over 8'x8' with a curvy diagonal cut to fit our living space. I didn't want to do carpenter work, I just wanted a layout with no harm to the house. Since I couldn't find straight 4x8 sheets, I bought two particle board sheets 3/8" which turned out to be very strong. On that I glued 5" of foam board, cheap at a building supply, (two 2" and one 1", the beadboard type that everyone says don't use it, but they also said don't use particle board). Two sides are velcroed onto window ledges and dowels are the legs which are velcroed to the floor. Moving this layout in two pieces will be light and easy. The foam allows me to have rivers, valleys, trestles, waterfalls, and my engines have no grades to climb, you know like 16 feet to go up 3" and back down. It gives me a 15 foot length of cliffs/rocks at the entire front face along with my waterfall, trestle and mountain stream. I love trains moving along cliffs. Adding or subtracting height is so easy. I used spray paint (acrylic) on the foam to give it a starting color, and used foam glue for my rubber roadbed. The lightness allowed me to have a center cut out of 30 inches which will be my mountain and logging operation when I don't need it to work from anymore (but it can come out for maintenance issues, since it is all so light). All that carpenter work scared me into this method, and so far I don't regret it. If you have any other questions email me at avsecb2@hotmail.com Regards, Reg
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