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backdrop for a reasonable price, when one of the sales guys asked
if I’d been helped. I had a layout photo on my phone [3] that
showed the peninsula and where I wanted to attach the backdrop.
I showed him the photo and told him about model railroading and
backdrops. Did he have anything that would work?
He called the lumber area manager. I showed the photo and
gave the spiel again. He marched me over to a pile of Patriot
Lumber’s 5mm RevolutionPly™ and asked if that might work.
It looked too stiff to bend into my 24” radius corner, but
we pulled a sheet off the pile and, using another person as
a fulcrum, tried bending it. It was a lot more flexible than I
expected; I figured I’d buy one sheet to test. The manager said
he’d take it back if it didn’t work for me. I went for it.
14. Experimenting with a 2x8 sheet of 1/8” Masonite.
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