[Bachmann C Class - Video Version]

Tks - what pressure do you use in your airbrush pls?

[Photography and Lighting]

Am amazed at the results you get just using f8!

[How many Pannier tanks does one man need Part 2]

I always thought the answer was 863

[Lugsdale Road - Electrocuting Frogs - OR - Wiring Woes]

Oops, just realised....  if you do want to put a switch in the bottom road as at X, then the power needs to come in to the right of the switch

[Lugsdale Road - Electrocuting Frogs - OR - Wiring Woes]

OK I had a bit of time free so am assuming it's only 1 controller and DC.  I reckon you need to feed power in at 5 places (it'll give you practice with soldering!).  Hopefully the places you put insulating joiners are clear.  If I've done it right you're only feeding power in to the 'single' side of any point. 

 

I don't know how much stock you (will) have.  If you don't have many locos then by judicious swicthing of points you can have locos visible but not powered - I've shown just one place where you might want to consider put a switch in so a loco can bring a train and and another hitch onto the back to take the stock out. 

 

Electrofrog help by Sarah S1ddons, on Flickr

 

I'd recommend you invest in more than 1 colour of wire and eg always have black going to the rails at the 'north' of this diagram and red to the other.  If/when you expand it makes things easier.  I have 2 circuits and 2 controllers and on my current layout found it much easier to have wires at the front of the layout rather than directly underneath.  Solder dropper wires to the rails and then bring them to the front so you're not trying to do too much soldering under the layout with solder dropping into your face!

 

Bus wiring and droppers by Sarah S1ddons, on Flickr

 

You have in effect a number of facing crossovers here.  As you're working in N gauge you may not have the problem I had with older Lima/Hornby stock.  A number or rmwebbers gave me help in 2015 here if you find some locos run through crossovers but ones don't: 

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/99438-help-was-lima-and-electrofrog-crossovers/

 

Finally let me say electrofrogs were a black art to me 7 or 8 years ago but I'm so glad I persevered a bit, due to the improved running qualities.  Once you get your head around it and it clicks, it'll become 2nd nature

[Lugsdale Road - Electrocuting Frogs - OR - Wiring Woes]

Can you clarify, are you using one controller or two?  I suspect it's 1 from the diagram but want to be sure.

[Lugsdale Road - Mikkels Curvy Canopy - And a Plague of Electric Frogs]

Actually this might be a better starting point.  My old layout was a lot simpler.  This diagram shows how I went about converting from all insulfrog to all electrofrog

 

rev Old Layout DC electric feeds by Sarah S1ddons, on Flickr

[Lugsdale Road - Mikkels Curvy Canopy - And a Plague of Electric Frogs]

Here's a track plan with feeds of my layout - hopefully not too incomprehensible!

 

rev ver 9-Lite DC electric feeds by Sarah S1ddons, on Flickr

[Lugsdale Road - Mikkels Curvy Canopy - And a Plague of Electric Frogs]

Keep at it.  I find every time I try something (and it works) then several more jobs get added because there are now more things I CAN do that I didn't previously believe I could.

 

Ref electrofrogs (assuming you're DC) I used to be afraid of them.  However It's really quite straightforwards.  Power must only come in to the road where you have 1 track and you use metal fishplates here.  On the side of the point that has 2 roads you use insulating fishplates.  Thus you need power to the track to be delivered somewhere beyond the insulating joiners.

[Brake Van Special - Figure painting]

Another quite busy special here:

 

78-015A by Christopher Yapp, on Flickr

 

Keep up the good work

[Brake Van Special - Figure painting]

Depends how special you want your brake van special to be

 

027-Arnside by David Flitcroft, on Flickr

[LNWR Watford Tank in BR Days]

I can't help but this Q is likely to be seen by a wider audience if you post in the UK Prototype Questions area on rmweb

[Renewing an Old Bachmann London Transport Pannier Tank]

Ref the darkening of the red. There’s a very real reason for this. In a photo caption on p.37 of the Red Panniers book it states:

At Neasden an old oil drum full of a ‘patent’ mix, possibly oil, paraffin and a silicone wax, was kept stirred and this was applied by the cleaners. The problem was that the dirt was not cleaned off first and so became covered by the mix. The silicone set and at the next cleaning was polished and the dirt was encapsulated. Apparently it then took a wire brush to get back to the original red.

[British Rail class 37672. oo gauge Bachmann class 37.]

Also here:

 

https://flic.kr/p/5MB4fc

[British Rail class 37672. oo gauge Bachmann class 37.]

You don't need a flickr account to search on Flickr

 

Bodmin Parkway 37 672. by mailrail, on Flickr

[Cambrian Kits Sturgeon A - Weathering and Transfers]

Nice - what transfer did you use pls?

[Mixed feelings]

Well done - nice to see you still have a library rather than a 'resource centre' 

[Weathering the Bargain Hornby Class 08 - 1]

Pic here at EH in 1967 where the paint looks very fresh, a strong clue as to blue paint date?  Sorry about the position of the arrows

D3219_Eastleigh_11-3-67 by robertcwp, on Flickr
 

[We are the Mods, we are the Mods......]

Oxford Diecast currently have a OO scale Fokker - just remembered that the Fokker is actually a Messerschmidt! 

[New Wagons weathering in process]

Very nice interior to that open wagon

[It's Arrived, It's Arrived!]

If you're going to Graubunden don't forget the 1 month B

[A show stopper or half baked - the Dapol Stove R?]

It always struck me that they made a bad design decision during the process.

 

Presumably a lot of the problems have come about because they tried to make it go round train-set curves?  However (unless I'm mistaken) the sales of new ones have always been through controlled channels ie you either had to fill in a form in a magazine, or phone a telephone sales number?  Given that most buyers will be 'modellers' of some description surely all that was needed was to add a note to the printed order forms and modify the script for telesales to make people aware this model will not negotiate curves tighter than --- mm? 

 

People could then make an informed decision whether to buy or not.

[A show stopper or half baked - the Dapol Stove R?]

Very timely, as I have one of these to put through works this autumn.  Thanks.

[royal train coaches]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Royal_Train

[SPROSTON- putting up fences]

I like EZ line and like you bought some from the US (can't remember which store).  Only then did I find Model Junction at Slough stock it!  No connection etc etc

 

http://www.modeljunction.info/estore/index.php