02-06-2010, 07:50 PM
one of the biggest advantages of hand laid is your not stuck with turnouts or cross overs, that are in a fixed number or angle giving you more freedom in planning a layout and specialty track work that you can't buy like the lap turnout i'm planning to use. the down side is the time to get up and running, to get around that my last layout i just hand laid turnouts and cross overs and used flex track for the rest , once i was happy with the results i started replacing the flex with hand laid a few feet at a time.to me its the challange of building my own track , but its not for everybody.
jim
jim