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Odd thing is the pictures in the magazine (which I will not copy here) look like the front windows look like they have shattered 😁 it’s a good effect but I think in the flesh they probably really look like the special strengthened tinted glass on the prototype. Just the way the plastic panes photograph.

Bottom line. “It’s quite simply sublime”. 💯

Ah OK, got that. This is the answer I got from ESU when queried last year ”If you do not want to use the speed curve, you have to use the DCC - only version of the ESU V5 decoders. All ESU multiprotocol decoders of the V5 series use the speed curve.” ESU tend to be a bit curt with their answers. 😁

Definitely the European multi-protocol version only has speed map tuning, I found this out last Christmas when I bought five V5 sound decoders and got in a right pickle trying to use three step speed set up. I have no idea what the LP5 manual is, sorry.

No one is disputing that, but it’s not the answer to the question. The MKL version no longer has the “three step” accel/deccel settings, you have to use a speed map rather than what the U.K. has been used to since DCC first raised its head. That’s the real annoying change to the ESU decision to market this version in the U.K., after all the Maerklin/selectrix/Motorola system are almost unheard of here.

Pretty sure it needs to be the Lokpilot/Loksound “DCC” version not the MKL, the MKL is the European version which is multi protocol where as the DCC version is just DCC, which is used in most of the RoW, I think people have had issues with some of the lighting functions using the MKL. Can AS confirm this pleased/

That’s what I thought 😉 I always forget a sense of humour is often as lacking as common sense.

Oh no, I wasn’t assuming just hoping, obviously wrong. Don't bother replying, I won’t see your post.

Wait until they ask about orthographic views 😁

Absolutely correct, I wouldn’t pay the higher charges before because everything but the ad-blocking I didn’t really need or wouldn’t miss, but when removing the ADs came down to just £12 it’s worth every 3.28p every day.

Indeed, and I was answering “thegreenhowards” question.

What a pleasant chap.

I brought Guinness into it as well 🤣

Axonometric, I’ve not heard that since secondary school TD class 😁

Ours is set to come on at 07:00 and off at 22:00 as we are in the house all day, it normally comes on for a few hours after 07:00 and unless very cold outside it doesn’t fire up again until early evening for an hour or so and then sometimes it won’t come on again until we go to bed, I think it all depends upon how well insulated the house is and the heat “leakage” between the timings.

You’ll still see them on a lot of the “manufacturers/suppliers” pages, and yes on an iPad it is very annoying.

If I had said Mass would it have been better for you? I assumed the people here wouldn’t have thought the couplings would only be strong enough to pick a coach up by one, they might have the common sense to realise it might need enough strength to be pulled by a Loco around a track? RMWeb…..🤣

I had a chap come around to view and buy a Citroen CX, he arrived with his wife in a pristine XK140…….when he signed the paperwork he sign “Lord”……and he was a lovely bloke too 😁

Thinking about it and looking around my records I am pretty sure they were C- Type replicas as he had access to the original drawings and specs

Unfortunately most people do try and “save the planet” in one way or another even if it’s just recycling properly or fitting LEDs in every fixture but then you often see some jerk at the top of the tree blatantly doing something completely at odds with their message, they know who the mugs are.

We had an engineer at work who used to hand build replica XK120/140 Jags, I even took some piccies for him over Hanningfield Reservoir with Afghan Hounds as the props, oh yes and a blonde 😉 unfortunately so long ago they were in transparencies and don’t think I still have them anywhere. I seem to remember his name being Brian……but that decades ago, his name might have been Johnny Vegas and I wouldn’t remember .

Gorgeous, I wish Pocher did a model of it…….I’ve a spare kidney 😷

I wonder if the Octopus CEO sat in the dark watching TV on his Ipad? 😂

Which is why I mentioned the weight of the N Gauge stuff is a LOT lighter, and doesn’t require the extra strength of magnets, they way you have done it takes care of both requirements, strength and detail.

Which is why the usual recommendation is the have the room where the thermostat is sited radiator at maximum so radiators in other rooms will always get flow when set lower (this is on the proviso the radiator and heating set up is correctly installed), it works for us because we have a large hall, open to upstairs as well the bedrooms we don’t use and a bathroom we have turned down to “frost” protection (not that that would ever happen), our heating is also set to only run during daytime 07:00>22:00 because we are at home all day……although not sure anyone needs heating on at night unless they live in a drafty castle. It’s basically whatever heating installation you have it has to match the (often) unique circumstances of each family/dwelling requirements.