... taken to task about the lack of railplates. So I CNC machined railplates from Plastikard to go under the rail and the track then looked like this. 25_101855_120000000.jpg To lay pointwork I laid the timbers on a Templot printout then positioned every fifth or so railplate on the timbers and stuck them down with Butanone. The rails were then spiked through these railplates and checked for gauge. When all looked well, the other railplates were inserted and glued and the spike holes were drilled and the spikes inserted. Here's a turnout partially constructed. 25_101859_200000000.jpg There's also a difference to UK practice since I'm using self-guarding "frogs", so no check rails. However, I did have to lay my diamond crossing and a tandem turnout with standard crossings and check rails and I used a mix of the plastic railplates as above and also nickel silver plates spiked to the timbers to solder the crossing assemblies to. There were short nickel silver plates between stock rails and check rails. 25_101903_160000000.jpg I found the best tools to put the spikes in were two sets of snipe nosed ...