Our aim when building a model railway table was to make it easily portable and more manageable.
We wanted to make full use of a 244x120 plywood sheet for our table and had it cut into 4 even sections. The frame to support our plywood sheet would split into three sections and be bolted together, allowing us to dismantle it into three separate tables when necessary.
We discovered that our plywood needed better support as it collapsed at the joins. We added more support beams directly under the plywood joins.
The finished frame looked like this, standing 1 meter tall. We could have taken more care to keep the legs straight but overall the structure is solid.
To prevent the plywood from warping with exposure to moisture I painted it with PVA glue diluting it as instructed on the bottle.
The finished product
What we needed to build the table
- 244cm x 120cm of 9mm plywood (cut into four 60cm x120cm sections)
- 2"x4" timber frame (six 80cm sections and nine 113cm sections)
- Four 2"x4" timber legs (we chose 1 meter height)
- Eight 2"x2" timber legs of the same height for all inside legs.
- 120mm wood screws for frame
- 90mm wood screws for legs
- 130mm M8 bolts, M8 wing nuts, M8 washers to hold the three frames together
- PVA glue to seal the plywood
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