a (blatant) plug for signals...
Good evening,
A productive start to the New Years modelling as with the Landlady away all last week I snuck in 4 consecutive nights of modelling...never managed that in BCN The work centred on the ARC wagons from my last post but more on that later this week...
Tonight I wanted to talk about signals...but not semaphores as have been demonstrated excellently on here of recent by other 2mmFS modellers (you know who you are ) but colour light signals.
I needed two for this layout, to make operations a little more interesting and decided to commission Matt of Absolute Aspects (formely Roger Murray) to build them. https://absoluteaspects.com/
I began conversations with Matt circa the summer re design and prices etc and enjoyed a healthy exchange of emails with him, including my sending pics of the two signals from the location. The main issue was whether the heights would fit in the box file depth (top of baseboard to lid) and also the gubbins beneath to wire them.
The signals come as a push in connector to the PCB and the suggestion is to ballast around the base with bluetac once located to allow removal, but I decided I wanted to minimise the amount of items that were loose so I asked Matt to build them in the available depth (38mm) and also for a little extra he can do a reduced thickness for the PCB too, so that was a must also.
I required a simple 2 aspect home (starter?) for the bay platform and a 4 aspect with a right feather for the main line...the feather is actually for the junction off my board scope for this project but I thought it might be a nice touch.
I also asked if both signals could be the same proportion so they looked similiar in appearance, which may have resulted in them being a little lower in height than the prototype but they should both fit and the bottom aspect is the same height (about rainwater gutter level on the coaches) and looking at the prototype the heights did vary at each end of the station.
The signals arrived a month before Crimble so I then had to wait to collect from my folks on the 26th but it was well worth the wait IMO.
This weekend I managed an hour to try and relocate them in the baseboard (but not test wire them yet) cutting slots as necessary...need to check it all folds back in the boxfile as intended next week
So....a few pics...starting with the packaging which is very nice...its like buying an Apple product, where for me, a lot of the pleasure is just spent looking at the design and layout of the box it arrives in
Nice presentation...
Lid off and we can begin...
Well protected too
The signals and plug in bases...
And again...
2 aspect home...
4 aspect with feather...
From the end of the bay platform...
Looking the other way...
New N gauge Inspection saloon also collected at my folks house...
In summary, very pleased with these and just wanted to plug Absolute Aspects as a great service received from Matt. Once they are wired in I will post a few pics of them working...
Over and Out...
- 18
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