Impatient Youth

After setting that 5 second average lap record yesterday, it dawned on me that unless I do something about the size of my table, I'm liable to race on the same layout multiple times. This is already a problem, considering that I'll eventually have to come to a decision on a layout eventually, as my wife will be wanting to get started on scenery.

So today I had some time, got out the saw, did a little cutting, and built an extension:

The two-foot extension [left], and angled winglet. That's 6 feet to the wall. I'll be building a mirror version on the other end of the table.

I wanted to wait until I had the proper wood to do the job. Not that this was improper wood, just that it wasn't the same in uniformity to the rest of the table. I didn't have the 1"x5"s like I had before, so I had to make due with 1"x3"s.

While lighter and less rigid in design, it's still plenty strong. It's on four legs itself, with 1"x3" cross braces.

I have enough wood to finish the other end, but I think I'm going to wait. I'd like to pick up a little more wood to finish, and I'll probably rebuild most of the side I built today. While it only bugs me a little bit now, it'll really bug me tomorrow, and be a full-blown annoyance by next weekend.

I'm also in no rush to finish as I don't have any more track to make it around satisfactorily. There's a chance I might get some sweet curves coming up, so I'm kind of hoping the slot cart will lead the horse a bit here. Build the table, get the track. We'll see what happens around holiday time.

For the time being, this will give me a change to mess around with more turn space. I'm going to try to keep a nice long straight if I can, but it likely won't be 13-pieces long.