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Posted by Johnnny_reb on Sunday, February 17, 2008 10:05 AM
 concretelackey wrote:
 adt320 wrote:

buy a book, search the internet  ask questions on this forum after you have done the research!! 

It is amazing to me that a 12 yr old ask these simplistic questions and everyone responds.

That opinion is fine BUT it amazes me that someone would be so close-minded about supplying some direction, REGARDLESS OF THE AGE OF THE ONE ASKING....Whistling [:-^]

He has been asking questions a "LOT" of questions. Please refer to the search engine on this forum to find all the questions he has asked. And a lot of people on this forum has been trying to help him. Myself included.

hint search for the user "train lover12"

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Posted by train lover12 on Sunday, February 17, 2008 10:05 AM
and about the tools Qs etc.   i have access to a lot of good toools and access to someone very experienced(my grandfather) he is so good that about 35 years ago he and his wife(my grandmother) built the house i am typing in with his bare hands...+power tools
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Posted by concretelackey on Sunday, February 17, 2008 10:00 AM
No pic showed up....are you sure you did all the steps?
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Posted by train lover12 on Sunday, February 17, 2008 9:59 AM

im not sure i did the pic in the previous post right

can you see it?

all i see is a white box with shapes

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Posted by train lover12 on Sunday, February 17, 2008 9:57 AM

layout in planning" border="0" />

This is my layout.  I filled the track, edges, and grid with pen.  each square=3 square inches so a bigger square that is 4 squares by 4 squares would = 1 square foot

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Posted by concretelackey on Sunday, February 17, 2008 9:50 AM
 adt320 wrote:

buy a book, search the internet  ask questions on this forum after you have done the research!! 

It is amazing to me that a 12 yr old ask these simplistic questions and everyone responds.

That opinion is fine BUT it amazes me that someone would be so close-minded about supplying some direction, REGARDLESS OF THE AGE OF THE ONE ASKING....Whistling [:-^]

Ken aka "CL" "TIS QUITE EASY TO SCREW CONCRETE UP BUT TIS DARN NEAR IMPOSSIBLE TO UNSCREW IT"
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Posted by Johnnny_reb on Sunday, February 17, 2008 9:40 AM
Questions? What questions?Clown [:o)]

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, February 17, 2008 9:35 AM

buy a book, search the internet  ask questions on this forum after you have done the research!! 

It is amazing to me that a 12 yr old ask these simplistic questions and everyone responds.

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Posted by IRONROOSTER on Sunday, February 17, 2008 8:28 AM

Kalmbach has a couple of books on it How to Build Model Railroad Benchwork, 2nd Edition
By Linn H.Westcott and Basic Model Railroad Benchwork By Jeff Wilson.

One of these should help you.

Enjoy

Paul 

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Posted by concretelackey on Sunday, February 17, 2008 7:31 AM
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Posted by concretelackey on Sunday, February 17, 2008 7:29 AM

The answer depends on a few yet-to-be-known issues....

your skills or the skill available to you,

the tools available to you,

the building materials either available or intended to be used,

the elevation requirements of your design.

The first 3 are self describing, the last one means if you designed a zero elevation change in track work/scenery you can essentially build it like a table. If track work/scenery has been designed with a healthy amount of vertical seperation then perhaps a cookie cutter still benchwork would be better.

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Posted by train lover12 on Sunday, February 17, 2008 7:02 AM

hello everyone

      ive finally decided on a track plan to build but i have no idea how to build the benchwork.

so how do you design benchwork?

i would post the trackplan but i dont know how     anyway it is 10x8' and "U" shaped

 

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