This weekend I managed to get level 1 (the lower level) completed.

I drilled two holes into each bracket for cable routing, and went ahead and ran the DCC bus cable while I had the decking off. I then secured the the benchwork top with 2-4 screws per backet depending on location.

Then it was time to add the supports for the backdrop, which is aluminum trim coil. I picked up some 2″x48″ pieces of wood strip from lowe’s and cut them down to 10″ pieces. Then using Heavy Duty Liquid Nails, I glued the wood strips straight to the exposed bracket.

Next up, the trim coil. This is was just a matter of puting more liquid nails on the wood strip, pushing up the trim coil and moving to the next one. I used some staples from a staple gun a some spots to hold the trim coil in place, like the corners.

I had to break and cut the coil and one spot cause it was angling up and creating a bulge. I glued the two pieces together and will eventually use some caulking probably to blend the seems. Shouldn’t be visible to much.

Trimmed out the area for the bracket to go in.

and voila! An (almost) seemless brackdrop running around the whole level.