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Looking forward to this progress.
I do have to give you a serious word of caution though if I may?
Floor finished, detailed, hours and hours of work, time to glue it to the base, all good.
The problem came when I started the scenery base layer a week later, base layer dirt flooded with alcohol, covered in glue, another dirt layer, all good.
Got up the next morning and the awesome floor had more ridges, ripples and waves in it than an experienced surfer would want to tackle.
The card stock had rippled and warped like paper and card does when it gets wet and the floor was a mess. So disqusted with this situation and unable to rectify the problem, the dio at this point sadly got shelved for a good 18 months before I went back to it.
Thankfully I salvaged most of the situation after ALOT of work and went on to build the Locoshop….
Be warned and good luck.
Do you think using something thinner like printer paper would have helped any? I used printer paper on the floor for my woodcutter shed floor basically copying the ho scale loco floor methodology.
Or, is it possibly a size/scale thing to do with the amount of materials involved?
I think (and I'm just guessing here) that when MY cardstock warped/wrinkled/waved... it had much more 'pushing' ability / strength to warp my floor due to its added thickness and therefor swelling and distortion than thin paper would. I certainly wouldn't worry about a paper subfloor, it's been tried and completed successfully many times. I would def do that next time if I ever build another model.
When I read Arts comment about the card stock I was slammed back in time to my own misfortune and wanted to warn him of my experience and hopefully prevent a similar dismay for him.
This is part of why I love this forum....we look out for each other. Karl....much Thanks for the heads up.....Check back tomorrow to see how things work out.....lol
As I noted previously, paper templates cause no issues,
Its just when you mentioned 'card stock' earlier I had to advise of my own experience.
Looking forward to the next update.
I may go to the store tomorrow to see if I can get any.