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Railmatch Silver White RM240
Will Hay replied to cambo74's topic in Weathering, Painting & Transfers
I know it's an old thread but when searching Google for an answer to a question sometimes this happens. Don't you love it when a search result directs you to a page, but the answer doesn't include how the resolution was reached? Cheers, Ben. -
Ah, yes, of course. I secretly knew Chimer had it right first time but I certainly couldn't spot it In all honesty, I've hit a little bit of a brick wall on one aspect. I don’t yet have a means to control points automatically, so that's guiding my layout somewhat. At the minute, nothing is running on more than one loop, so can sometimes be rather 'samey' ['boring' is an incorrect description]. As I outlined to a couple of people way back when I started in and around April time, I'm limited by my imagination/the possibilities available. I know I have to decide what I want, and what I want is a number of locomotives running all at the same time. I'm far from adverse to curves, I quite like the beauty of the 'snaking' effect at times. As for the troublesome Tornado, this thing is a beauty at very, very slow speed on the straights, but doesn't like the diamonds and occasionally it slows on points. It's such a shame as I do like it, plus it was a bargain. I have to add that, somewhat embarrassingly, none of my track is yet secured, as I'm still not 100% happy with the layout. I accept this might contribute to the problem with the Tornado but given that the rest run fine, it's clearly a locomotive issue. Any recommendation as to tweaks on layout to gain a particular advantage would be very welcome. Thanks.
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I like it too, but I have a 2-6-2 [might be a 4-6-2, it's the Tornado, in any case] that doesn't share my love for my current configuration. Having said that, it's only one of fourteen locomotives [if you don't count the 0-4-0 and my 0-6-0 SWB's] that slows over each diamond so I may retire the Tornado to the ebay graveyard.
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Thanks for this Don't be fooled on the kits. Whilst I absolutely love making them I haven't made all. I'd guess about 50% were bought from ebay, fully assembled and well made and averaged no more than a fiver each. The church with custom made steeple was just under nine pounds I think I was lucky, I bought two lots of eleven buildings [for approximately fifty pounds each set] but recently ebay prices have gone crazy. I clearly got in at the right time. They're an absolute delight to make, my favourite is the esso station, booking hall and department store, all of which were by my fair hand! Sincere thanks Chimer. That's a lot to take in for me so I'll study more later tonight. I'm not adverse to anything, I just want to be able to link the tracks and feel this is the final aspect of the jigsaw.
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Inspiration for an 8x8 Trainset Board
Will Hay replied to MiniMan64's topic in Layout & Track Design
Hello. I remember you commenting on my 'trainset' [as in we both want something probably not overly popular here!!!] thread a while back, looking for an update, so here it is -
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Hello. A bit of an old thread so sorry for that, but I'm nearly there with pinning down after months of playing and testing etc. I'm having trouble with Hornby diamond crossovers, specifically that just one of my numerous locomotives don't like them. Can anyone recommend an alternative? As you can see I have four loops, two are clockwise [3 & 1 in blue] and two are anti-clockwise [4 & 2 in orange]. I want to be able to maintain a link between loop 4 [outer] and 2 and 3 and 1 [inner] with diamond crossings. A couple of helpful folk have recommended either a couple of Y's toe to toe, or a slip joint. Despite playing with my track software and looking at countless images on google of real tracks showing the slip joint, I just can't seem to fathom it. I've posted this on another forum that I've pretty much decided to give up on, so if any of you inhabit both forums and have responded already then I'm sorry. As far as my layout, the video clip [link below] should give you an idea of where I am so to those that offered invaluable guidance earlier this year; you have my sincere gratitude. https://www.dropbox.com/s/2na7zpy8ox7szr1/20201128_215954.mp4?dl=0
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Thank you all.
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Righto, understood, thanks again.
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Having just looked, 39-253 looks to have much darker window frames than 39-028.
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That's wonderful, sincere thanks. At the risk of appearing stupid, how can you be sure they're an exact match? For example, the descriptions of 39-053 and 39-153 are slightly different, so how would I know [using the same method for, say, my choc cream set] I'm buying an exact match to compliment those I already have? Thanks again. Rob
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39-178 39-153 39-253 Those are the three I've bought, and want to add a further two which are appropriate to what would have been expected back in the day. A method to understand how to determine what goes with what product code would be ideal as, whilst these specific one's are green, I have maroon, choc cream and blood and custard Bachmann sets I'd like to add further coaches to. Thanks.
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Hello. I contacted Bachmann recently for some help in understanding product codes. I had assumed a 34 prefix pre-dated a 39, i.e. that the 39 range was a later release, but was wrong. Bachmann did help, but I'm still a little lost. For example, I'm about to buy three different BR Mk1 coaches, all with the 39 prefix, but want to add two more but can't figure out which others are in exactly the same range. Any heads up would be appreciated. Thanks.