How Time Flies - Particularly When You're Not Looking !
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November, Oh my what have I been doing !!
I have this thing, you could call it a problem, of trying to "sell" the hobby.
Now you don't do that with loads of threatening "Do Not Touch" signs. I agree that
when you're showing a multi thousand pound layout the last thing you want are
people poking at things - like a lady who once knocked a signal box off my layout
onto the floor. But when you do exhibitions it's a risk you take.
About the time I last posted my buddy and I decided to make a shunting puzzle
layout where members of the public are invited to drive. We have Kadee couplings,
a spare Hornby Select DCC unit and work began on a test track that we called HS I.
Difficulties, still not fully resolved, around the Kadee magnets were examined and
we than built HS II. Quick decisions, rapid track laying, not like the Governments HS 2.
For a public driving layout we may have gone over the top on scenic work and ideas.
Still why not - we enjoy the building.
Almost finished now so some photographs. First an overall look.
Then with some wagons - Mostly Ex-Dapol unpainted kits
Note the welding flash through a window - this was a lighting exercise job
Looking up the head shunt that is the only line in, getting equal lighting
was a problem involving several changes of resistor. Happy with this.
That my friends amounts to more or less the last 6 months work. We have done several
exhibitions with our other "Public can drive" layout of Thomas & Friends.
Dad-1
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