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This is my first post to this forum. I am in the planning stage of a new HO layout (my first, I have built a small Nscale module) to occupy a room approx 12' X 16'. I would like to have some suggestions on benchwork. My first idea is to run benchwork around the walls on 2 x 2's screwed to the studs. It would run for 8 feet along the 16' walls and approx 12' across the end of the room and across the middle, at this section the bench work would be 18" deep, completing a squared circle around the room and leaving me an equal space at the other end of the room for work bench and storage. I was planning to use particle board cut in half for the benchwork surface covered with extruded foam. How thick should the foam be? 1" or 2" and why? How can I support the particle brd particularly across the center of the room? My plan was to make some L shaped legs from scrap lumber and strand board that I have lying around. Thanks for any suggestions
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