Benchwork/layout skirting

I've heard good things about landscape fabric. I'm going to use it on my layout.

Landscaping fabric works well, here is a picture from my home layout taken a few year ago.

looks  great. However I could never find landscape fabric with out the marble mess in them.

I like the table skirts ... and they are under 25 dollars each!

My mother in law made ours. She's a professional seamstress and bought a roll of black fabric in bulk from a fabric store. Pleats and velcro were sewn in so it's easily removed. We couldn't find anything at the heights we needed so a custom skirt was in order.

Are you looking for something solid with doors or fabric that can be easily moved? Do you want cheap or expensive? Sort of depends on what you want but a ton of things will work. Some folks use cardboard from refrigerator boxes and paint scenes on them. The fabric store carries any ting from burlap to muslin to canvas or a sheer black fabric hides well. I will be building my skirting like individual cabinet panels with some removable, some that slide out to hold my trains and others fixed. A few panels will be thick glass to show what I have going on below earth level but that is still top secret well actually medium secret now. T-111 plywood looks very nice and 1/4 luana plywood gives a nice finish as well.

Thanks to everyone for your suggestions for skirting.  I'm going to use a combination of landscape fabric as well as some display shelves.  I'll post some pictures when its up.  thanks again.

Here's what I did - using Glenn Snyder Shelving cut to length and 1/4 inch plywood backing recessed back about 1 1/4 inches to bring the shelves about flush with the table legs (Mianne Benchwork).

With this arrangement, all of my transformers, etc. are on the side not facing the room.

Access to the inside is via Mianne's "liftgate" section seen at the left end of the table or via the rear area of the benchwork.

Good luck with your project!

Stan

Wow! Beautiful benchwork and shelving, Stan!

I used black material and attached it with Velcro. 

I used landscape cloth and it worked out really well.  And the price was right

Ed

We used a heavy tarpaulin/canvas like material. Maw-in-law sewed it up custom and each section went between the Mianne benchwork legs with Velcro. We chose a much more neutral color. Looks great to me at least..

I got lucky father-in-law was wanting a woodworking project.

NelsonW posted:

I got lucky father-in-law was wanting a woodworking project.

Yes, you certainly did. Wow. That looks so nice.

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J Daddy posted:

looks  great. However I could never find landscape fabric with out the marble mess in them.

I like the table skirts ... and they are under 25 dollars each!

J Daddy:

Do you have a link for the skirting pictured above?  It looks great and, at $25 per section, that's a good deal.

Please let us know.

Thanks.

Steven J. Serenska

Link to what we used for Standard Gauge Modular Association (SGMA)  

We used a top gather with Velcro. Many colors and lengths available.