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Here comes the summer

legomanbiffo

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blog-0591588001367787611.jpgNot my favourite track by The Undertones (that would be John Peel's favourite, Teenage Kicks) but good all the same.

 

Yes, the Siberian winter has finally drawn to a close and not before time - I was getting fed up with it. The camera has been out a few times and I was especially pleased with this one of 90041 near Dordon. 'It's all about the sky' as they say.

 

On the workbench I've finally completed engine #1 of the Deltic sound project. In 7mm it sounds really good. In 4mm it's good but quiet, and I fear there is little more I can do about it. With an Alan Butcher bass reflex speaker it is acceptable for home use but you won't hear the engines properly at an exhibition. If anyone is desperate to try it please drop me a line, I'd be interested to hear some feedback before finalising it (you'll get a free reblow with the finished article of course). Developing the second engine has begun but is tricky as it has to be done in the model (the Lokprogrammer software allows you to test one sound set at a time but I need to drive two at once to see how the engine sounds interact).

 

Also coming along nicely on the workbench, and very likely to overtake the Deltic is a new engine sound set for the Class 33, based on recordings made last year at the ELR. This one has got a really nice chuggy, rolling idle and is quite different to the first one I did.

 

I thought Bristol show was better this time than in previous years. There were three really nice 'kettle' layouts and even - shock horror for Bristol - some Modern Image. I picked up a nicely weathered Heljan DPU from Lord & Butler which will no-doubt feature in a video sometime in the future. It's a really nice model and sounds great with a 23mm round speaker at either end (inside the body on the 'shelf' above the bogie towers, facing up).

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P.C.M

Hi Legomanbiffo,

I would love to hear the new class 33 as I have your older one which I think is pretty good. Was it ELRs 33/1 that you recorded? I remember seeing the pushers all the time living between Southampton and Bournemouth, I always thought they sounded more Thrashey ( if thats a word) than the standards.

 

Also do you do reblows? I have a Bachmann 37 which I am pretty sure is a v4 chip, and your 37/4 would be just the job.

 

Cheers Peter.

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legomanbiffo

Yes, the second loco I recorded was 33109 at the ELR (the first being 33019 at The Battlefield Line). You are right, the engine sounds quite different on 109.

 

Yes I do offer a reblow service. If you send me a Private Message I'll send you a list of all the sounds I do on v3.5 & v4 chips.

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