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Lugsdale Road - Mikkels Curvy Canopy - And a Plague of Electric Frogs

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Well in one of my more recent posts, a regular contributor on here who will remain nameless, oh what they hell it was MIKKEL, said that my station canopy was curvy, how rude :)
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To be fair, he was right (I cant believe I have committed that to writing), but on the other hand he was just stating the obvious.....so I thought I better do something obvious to try and fix it.

As luck would have it the Domestic Overlord was a little poorly today (not that the DO being sick is lucky for me), so Price towers was renamed Emergency Ward 10 and I went in to the full dutiful other half mode. Anyway I digress, each time I got ready to do a little modelling, the DO managed like a little Trojan to find the energy to ring the "Im sick" bell, so I had to down tools and see what the "love of my life" wanted, if it was only to say things like "I don't feel well" :).

 

Filled with concern, and because I am such a genuinely nice person, in fact positively saintly, I did some research to see if I could find a way of improving the DO's life threatening condition, and I found the solution. On my last visit the bio hazard area (our bedroom) I performed an emergency "Clapper-ectomy" and peace was restored to Price Towers (God help me when the DO recovers).
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So I got out my supply of card (well the bits I could actually find) and got to work in an attempt to get the basic canopy and station building roof formers completed. Progress went a little better than I thought and I managed to get the majority of the basic canopy completed. I even managed to get the building roofs ready for covering with roof slates, using my graph paper method.
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The problem is I am at that stage now, where the more I seem to do the more jobs I seem to have to finish, so at some point I will have to start to look at producing windows and doors, but at least its starting to look like a station?
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Which leads me on to the next problem, or maybe problem is not a strong enough word? I am supposed to be building a model railway, and railways need track to run the little Choo Chooos on and that is where I am a model railway maverick, I have not laid any track (well not counting just under a yard for the trams).

 

I have sort of settled on the final track plan for the layout, I thought I would put myself at the cutting edge of model railway technology and use these new things called "Electro Frogs". So I made a list checked it twice, winced at the cost of all the track I needed and bought half of it.

 

Apparently though these Electric Froggy things need to be wired differently (people who have seen my wiring have described it as different) to the usual "insul Frogs" I use, and this is where I need HELP

 

How do you wire these things up to stop short circuits, and does it mean I will have to get my favourite tool of mass destruction or Soldering Iron out. Any advice will be gratefully received.

 

Until the next time as Ever Happy Modelling :)

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Keep at it.  I find every time I try something (and it works) then several more jobs get added because there are now more things I CAN do that I didn't previously believe I could.

 

Ref electrofrogs (assuming you're DC) I used to be afraid of them.  However It's really quite straightforwards.  Power must only come in to the road where you have 1 track and you use metal fishplates here.  On the side of the point that has 2 roads you use insulating fishplates.  Thus you need power to the track to be delivered somewhere beyond the insulating joiners.

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Keep at it.  I find every time I try something (and it works) then several more jobs get added because there are now more things I CAN do that I didn't previously believe I could.

 

Ref electrofrogs (assuming you're DC) I used to be afraid of them.  However It's really quite straightforwards.  Power must only come in to the road where you have 1 track and you use metal fishplates here.  On the side of the point that has 2 roads you use insulating fishplates.  Thus you need power to the track to be delivered somewhere beyond the insulating joiners.

Brilliant thanks for the help, I may have to post a picture of my track plan and beg some more help

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Hi Paul, having consulted the White House I would like to make the following statement: I never said the canopy was curvy. Well actually I did, but what I meant to say is that it was straight. Although actually, it was curvy. Not that I ever said it. Only sometimes. Maybe.

 

Anyway, jokes aside it looks brilliant, I think! Despite the different levels and architectural styles it all blends together very realistically. I especially like that third shot with the street in front and the industrial area behind.

 

I hope the DO has recovered. I do not know what a "Clapper-ectomy" is and I am not going to Google it. I suspect it would attract weird Google ads for the next 10 years!

 

Good luck with the wiring. Not an area where I am qualified to advise others, and it looks like Metroland has got it sorted.

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Hi Paul, having consulted the White House I would like to make the following statement: I never said the canopy was curvy. Well actually I did, but what I meant to say is that it was straight. Although actually, it was curvy. Not that I ever said it. Only sometimes. Maybe.

 

Anyway, jokes aside it looks brilliant, I think! Despite the different levels and architectural styles it all blends together very realistically. I especially like that third shot with the street in front and the industrial area behind.

 

I hope the DO has recovered. I do not know what a "Clapper-ectomy" is and I am not going to Google it. I suspect it would attract weird Google ads for the next 10 years!

 

Good luck with the wiring. Not an area where I am qualified to advise others, and it looks like Metroland has got it sorted.

 

Mikkel you cannot hide from the truth forever......... :)

 

On a serious note, it is just eating up modelling time and I have not even started on the second board yet, and I beginning to question if I ever will.

 

As for the DO, all I will say is that normal service has been resumed and I am back to being my ever dutiful self :)

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