I know how you feel , having not removed jumpers from two Peco turnouts when i bonded the switch rails to the stock rails. Good luck on the rest of the layout.

I am visiting Ally Pally on Sunday, have a good day.

I'm really looking forward to seeing the Johnson 1P kit as it will be very interesting to compare with the 4mm one that I've been building. I also wondered about the two kits. They must be very carefully designed if they manage to capture the fairly small dimensional differences between an 1833 and a 2228 in a 2mm model.

Nick

Which of the two O-4-4s versions will you be doing?

Mikkel,

I will be doing a round boilered version, though I have yet to get to grips with the exact differences between prototypes. I have the Wild Swan publication and need to study it before I go near the kit.

Don, I went into this with what I thought a very simple circuit, but the truth has been very different - definitely a long way from being a profesional, though it has not been so bad dis/reconnecting so far. I have already found two iffy joints though!!

The suggestion of testing bit by bit is too obvious and easy for me to have considered it in the first place, perhaps! I have certainly learned the value of a meter though.

Fingers crossed it will be sorted this week, then I can get on with the enjoyable task of ballasting.

Chris