Richy59

Thanks 🙂

I’ve had a look through a few pages but can’t find any answers, does anybody have the West Coast Railways livery Mk2s and how does the livery compare to the current Bachmann West Coast Livery? Are they similar or any stand out colour differences? Thanks

Do you know if the newley released Mk2 from Bachmann (39-354) is a better match than the older model?

Is the glazing easy enough to remove? Looks like a good option for adding the windows - even though they should have been clear in the first place. i was going to question the difference in paint colours between the top/bonnet and the lower section of the sides, as in my model there is definitely a green tinge to the yellow. However looking at NHY 581’s picture, this looks to be pretty accurate.

I asked in the live stream if the shunter voice could be muted and they replied saying it can be. Not sure if it's set to a specific CV and you can just set the volume to zero, or if it will be an alt function.

Fingers crossed for the long rumoured to be dead Class 170 🤪

I can't comment on your experience, but that isn't what I have found to be the case. I change the address on the app and it is the correct address on my dcc controller - an ACE-2. I can just type the address into my dcc controller and - as long as I have the TXS decoder in DCC mode - it just starts working. I can put it on the programming track and it reads the correct address.

I eventually managed to get them to work on my DCC controller like the other TXS decoders I have, but it took for me putting them on the programming track and manually entering an address. For whatever reason - and the other decoders don't do this - the address was different when being read by the DCC controller compared to what I entered on the app.

Anybody know how to make the sound work in both ends of an HST via Bluetooth. So far I can only work out setting them up as individual locos and then the sounds work independently. Unless I am missing something obvious, both of them have same MTU profile installed as well. I have set them to same address for DCC but neither of them is working via my DCC controller (others are fine) and I can't figure out how to make them a consist via the App.

I'm actually a little annoyed about this, I bought the RailAdventure set on sale when it first started and it's only been out the box for a brief test run. I'd have happily waited for douple points to buy it, and I'm well past my 2 week returns window.

I don’t usually ‘bash’ his reviews as I do find them informative and can be interesting especially when he takes them apart and goes into good mechanical details of locomotives, but I agree with the comments on his torque measurement. At the end he seems to measure the 2MT as being able to pull 20 coaches before its constantly wheel slipping, but sticking a finger in front of it and applying power means he knows it has low torque. It did seem to be geared for lower speeds at 50% power, and he shows it has decent speed at 100%. In the end it gets 4/5 stars across his ‘scores’ except one 3 star rating, and he gives it an overall score of ‘D’ which seems really low for a locomotive he was overall quite positive about.

I just read this in the latest issue of Railway Modeller, they seem to be doing a preserved version of Locomotion as the Collectors Club loco for 2024.

Recently got my new blue tanks out for a run alongside batch 1, and discovered they don’t seem to just be a re-run as expected but a lot of the detailing and separately fitted parts are a lot more refined and with better detail. Things like the hazard signs and such are much more vibrant and a bit clearer. I’ve noticed the new gratings on the top are a bit warped compared to the first batch, but it’s almost as if they are a little too long compared to the space available. Also, but it’s hard to see in the picture, the blue is a different shade. Quite vibrant compared to the first run. A little disappointed as I sold one of my batch 1 blue tanks to get two of the batch 2 blue wagons so I had different running numbers and it’s quite stand out different now. Batch 1 had extra decals for changing numbers and other extras, batch 2 doesn’t seem to have that. Not a big deal, just of note. My favourite wagons I have by far, mostly because I live near the line for Grangemouth refinery and see these behind the Colas 70 very often. I have more blue tanks now than needed but I like having equal numbers.

Exactly what I was thinking, given the mess of the ScotRail 153. However, they got it right with the livery application for the older Northern Rail Star livery on the 153s so…you never know!

Looking back at all the other photos and even the Hornby pictures there is evident seams along the boilers on all the models from what I can tell, which doesn't exist on the plastic body. I thought it was maybe a real life quirk that has been missed all these years, but it seems that isn't the case and the diecast mould is joined at two different areas across the top of the body.