Outer edges and skirting; viewing aisle(s)

In the shop we used cherry.  

At home I plan on using a combination of faux steel and concrete.

Dave

My wife did a very nice job with curtains that she made.  View as a slideshow.

Some nice ideas. I will be using plywood on the outside of my layout and some sort of cloth for the inside.

My little black skirt:

I just worked on mine yesterday.

1/8" Masonite bends easily around curves and with a little heat so does the PVC trim.

I attached Velcro under the trim so the skirt can be removed and reattached with no trouble. The Masonite will be dark green and the trim Tuscan red.

Steve C.

I have my done in Toy Train Skirting

My trainroom.

Very nice wood work!

I've now seen this picture a few times on this site and so far have not commented.  Tremendous work.  I know (assume) the benchwork is suppossed to be bridges, but everytime I see it, I think of the Yankee Stadium frieze.

FrankM, I think your skirting is very tidy, practical, functional, discrete and appropriate. It's 'neutral' so it does not divert attention away from your great modelling work and it provides cover for useful under-layout storage.

Gilly's work reminds me of a very famous concrete bridge north of scranton. just need to paint it, and add L A C K A W A N N A in maroon paint over one arch.

I use carpet runner - gray industrial carpet in 36" width from Lowes of Home Depot.  I cut it to fit.  It absorbs sound, both that revererating from underneath the layout and from all around the layout, much better than fabric.

Gilly:

Your craftsmanship for the table supports is phenomenal, the best I have ever seen.

Suggestion: If the carpet runner was accurately trimmed and tacked down tightly onto a  framework, the appearance would improve.  Regardless of claimed sound suppression benefits of the carpet, the fabric and wooden skirts in the above posts are way superior aesthetically to the carpet as shown.  IMO 

TomB

As well as making custom train shirts, I also make curtains and layout skirting. Here is the fabric I'm using to make curtains for Chuck aka Trainpop.

Here are the valances I made for Marty's house. He wanted train themes, so I did steam trains on blue in the dining room and Lionel faric featuring Postwar F-3's from the 50's under a viaduct for the living room.

I wanted my layout to look as close as possible to a piece of furniture so I decided to go with wood all around. Some sides are shelving while others are plywood with trim applied to the outside surface. All the wood is red oak purchased at one of those big home imprevement places. I cut, fit, sanded, and stained everything in my garage before attaching to the pine frame of the layout.  -Len

This is my LGB layout built in '89, still run it often. The doors are Mahogany. The Lionel layout I am building will have antique black woodwork at the edge of the layout. Fred

Man-o-man, the variety of self-expression in this regard is as inspiring as the variety of the layouts themselves we hobbyists craft.

And Ace, I esp. appreciate your approval of my skirting because my impression of it as "rough-hewn" certainly seems to have been well-founded given some of the better work shown on this thread. However, thanks for the nice smile in my direction, sir.

It sure is interesting to compare and see what can be done.

FrankM.

Some fabric I got for free. Can't beat the price.