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Playing trains.


Chrislock

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Off to help Mark run Witney Euston this Sunday at Railex.

Hopefully I will get the hang of this DCC stuff fairly quickly...and looking forward to getting my hands on that exquisite 0-6-0!

Interesting to read Missy's blog about her frustrations with Highclere, especially as I always think of it as exemplary modelling in 2mm scale.

My own interest has been waning on my far more modest layout, and am thinking that maybe salvaging the point motors and starting again, hopefully with better craftsmanship might be a good idea.

It hasn't helped that having purchased a book about the Leicester and Burton Branch recently, I have discovered the perfect little station for my needs, and the idea of modelling an actual MR prototype is very compelling right now.

I think it saves you having to keep visualising how things should look, and keep trawling for prototype examples of building etc which would fit!

On a more positive note, I have begun to dress my little 1F. Compressor arrived a couple of days ago, so managed to get a topcoat on and then yesterday brushed some balck and red on.

Still plenty to do, but hopefully should be finished by the end of next week.

 

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Regards,

Chris

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Looking fantastic Chris

 

Getting a layout to run nicely seems to take an age I know others are having the same problems, trust me we will spend the weekend tweaking bits as we go along and find other probs to be addresed at a later date but slowly it gets there.

As for you running the layout I have spent much of this week trying to simplify it as much as possible for you.

 

Mark

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nice paint job Chris. Perhaps you should perserve with the current a bit longer until you have solved the problems. Then you can build a better layout. I don't know which DCC system you will be using. Two of my lens controllers have a large knob speed control and buttons for forward/reverse. You can ignore the F buttons until you get the hang of it. These are much more familiar than the all push button type although that sort is better for programming which is why I have one of those as well.

Don

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I know what you mean about modelling an actual location. Many of us strive to recreate past times and I think a real location would help in capturing that elusive atmousphere.

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I have spent much of this week trying to simplify it as much as possible for you.Mark

 

Well hopefully you won't need to simplify it too much mate!!

Forward, backwards, fast and slow should do it!

 

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Well Don I bought an NCE system a few months back to try it out and its still in its box... :secret:

I've used a Lenz before briefly so know the basics.

Running someone elses layou is more about knowing where the point switches and magnet are I've found!

As for my present layout, it is a pivotal moment right now, because what I have gained is a great deal of knowledge and skill, so the time spent on it has certainly not been wasted.

You might be pleased to know that I've had it set up this morning and fixed a couple of glitches resulting from ballasting and laying the coal yard surface ( DAS), and I quite enjoyed it.

It also occurred that I can use the buildings from the prototype location on Barnwell, then transfer them onto a new model if I decide to scrap it.

What Barnwell is waiting for at the moment is a backboard to be fitted. I have all the various stuff needed for landscaping ready. Hopefully when it begins to look like a railway in a landscape my interest will pick up again.

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