This is a very useful thread; I remembered reading it but on searching in baseboards to re-read was surprised it's not in there but here in Track and Turnouts!
I've got my Kyle layout fully planned and ready to go. It seems to me that when it's possible to etch a Templot plan straight onto the baseboard top, that is the best way to accurately and easily lay the track - saving the intermediate stage of printing out paper templates, sticking them down and laying the track on them, with all that faff as well as the possibilities of slight inaccuracies building up into something possibly rather less than slight...!
Of course a problem is noise when everything is stuck down directly on the baseboard top.
Then reading Ian Penberth's posts here with the resilient separation of the track bed and ballast from the baseboard, giving much quieter running, I've started thinking the thing to do is to get the track etched onto a layer of - well, balsa, or thin ply perhaps - and stick that down on..... well, why not rubber sheet? And why stick the track to wood, whether it's balsa or ply or whatever? Why not plastic of some sort, like vinyl sheet?
In my case the sleepers are all 1.6mm thick, so the ballast shoulder will likely be enough depth for the rather minimal one needed for this shed scene, to the extent it's needed at all.
Shed view with bodies.PNG
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