How to mount an around the wall layout?

After a year and couple of months I'm getting back to my layout project. I currently have a 4x8 O gauge I'm getting board with.....
I'm looking at building an around the room layout, I have roughly 12x11 room to work with. I'm going to use 2 lift out sections to access the room, and closet. Question I have, whats the best method to mount the layout to the wall? I'm thinking of building open a "boxed" open grid, using cookie cutter roadbed with pink foam to build up and scenic. Still haven't figured out if I'm going to stay o-gauge or switch to "HO" so I thinking self depth around 24"-30" Any pics of bench work, and mounting it to the wall would be great.....

 

Shelf-track. Easy-peasy. 30" is a little deep for this, but the deepest sections could easily also have legs.

You may want to check out this book by Ian Rice: Shelf Layouts for Model Railroads.

There's an excerpt on Google Books that covers construction

And of course the book itself is available from the usual vendors.

 

I was thinking about sometime like that, but I've never been to found of the metal hangers in the metal brackets screwed to the wall, The ones I've had in my garage workshop always seem to fall over when knocked or bumped into..... Might have to take a trip to the local box store and see what else is out there before i build something myself

 

How about this ? .....Mike

 

Here a link to how I did it.

http://kdrail.blogspot.com/2011/02/first-benchwork-framing.html

 

Here is my method, which works great at least out to 32"(the width of the doors I am using) and probably at least a few inches more:

One thing to be aware of if you use legs and have carpet: make sure you can adjust the length of the legs in the future. My original method had the back side of the layout mounted to the wall and the front side on legs. Although it was level when a initially set it up, a few months latter after the legs had settled into the carpet the layout was no longer level but instead slopped from the back to the front a noticeable amount(luckily I had not gotten around to permanently laying track yet).

 

Hot glue ....Mike

 

It's probably solid as a rock, but thinking of a shelf held on to the wall only by hot glue (and with a few hundred dollars worth of equipment on top) gives me the willies.

 

Meeee, too.

 

It is real solid. I wouldn't put my whole weight on it , but it is more than sturdy enough for all types of scenery. ....Mike