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    Class 37, by Accurascale

    in Accurascale / Irish Railway Models

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    10 minutes ago, SRman said:

    If anyone is interested, I had a good session on the LokProgrammer reconfiguring D6704 's functions (with Accurascale's own 37/0 sound factory-fitted) to get them closer to the other 37s I have for operating the lighting functions, although I decided to simplify it a bit seeing as the standard Accurascale file allows for lighting options the green 37 simply doesn't have. I also have all of them set to use F2 for braking, which means the horns get shifted up one each to F3 and F4. I have not rationalised the AUX outputs for the lighting functions yet, as some are not actually used to light anything. There is no night headlight setting on this model, and only the headcodes and tail lights for the nose ends (i.e. no actual headlights at all!). I have put tail lights as default off, using F20 to turn them on. Cab lighting is now on F21. Engine room lighting is on F17.

    F23 does depot lighting, which is all red tail lights on when stationary, but I'm not sure the 37s of this period had this feature.

    I must emphasise that I have not finalised the ancillary sound allocations yet, so some of these are a bit arbitrary at present.

    Turning F0 on lights the headcodes at whichever end is leading. Pressing F20 while F0 is on turns on tail lights at the other end. F21 lights only the leading end's cab light, which has had its brightness turned down to a setting of 11 (out of 31). The engine room lights have also been dimmed to 17.

     

    I always save the file loaded into the LokProgrammer first, then save again with a different name so that if it all goes pear-shaped, I can load the file settings I started with back in.

    I understand fully that not everyone wants to do any of this, and it is done purely to satisfy my own preferences, but I hope this might get people thinking about the possibilities for their own models. I hope you can see the logic in these settings. One thing defeated me with the simplifications though, until I looked at the original file: AUX13 had to be there for all of the lighting functions to work. I'm not sure why that is, but until I put those two lines at the end back in, none of the lights worked.

     

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    That looks useful many thanks for sharing 

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    Bachmann Class 42 / 43 Warship

    in Modelling Questions, Help and Tips

    Posted

    10 minutes ago, rogerSDJR said:

    Thanks for your replies.

    Sadly that's the conclusion I have come to.

    So I need to track down a Class 42 with a 21 pin DCC decoder. I'm looking for green with small yellow panel. Did they ever produce one?

     

    I think the answer to that is …. Afraid not! There was a green one 32-052 but no yellow panel. There were only 3 models in that release…. Thus green one plus two blues. You could always swap the body from an earlier non DCC ready one…. 

    Accurascale's First Steam Locomotive; GWR Collett 78xx Manor Class!

    in Accurascale / Irish Railway Models

    Posted

    1 hour ago, hminh2005 said:

    Thank you for explaining the issue that I still don't understand. Because I have several H0 scale steam locos from America and Europe (Germany, Austria...), all of which have front and rear lights that work. It may be because the principles of operating locomotives in each country are different.


    A fundamental difference is that away from the UK trains were fitted with headlamps to provide illumination - although whether braking was good enough to stop the train if an obstruction was spotted is a moot point! 
     

    As has been mentioned back up the thread lamps on the front on a loco in the UK never fulfilled that purpose in steam days …. They were merely there to indicate the class of the train being hauled to assist signalmen and other operating staff in identifying the train.

     

    This means that to be credible headlamp positions on UK steam outline models cannot be fixed if realistic operation is to be modelled.

     

    The same with tail lamps…. If a locomotive is hauling a train the lamp would be on the last vehicle of the train not on the locomotive so the same issue applies. The function of a tail lamp is to designate that the train is complete ….. no lamp, the train must have split! 

     

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    Downendian details

    in Modifying & Detailing RTR stock

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Downendian said:

    This months progress. Hugely time consuming task of getting the 21T hopper Tytherington fleet together. All handrails added (the toughest part of these Parkside kits). Decals now beginning to be added and some preliminary weathering, plus liquid lead added to the underside of the hopper, plus instanters. These will be running as a fitted head with a mix of ex LNER 1/100 and BR 1/146 diag in both bauxite and grey livery. Both original and rebodied wagons are to be in the rake. Stone decals applied to the first few- I’ve no way of matching original running numbers as photos just aren’t there- however I’ve done my best to match livery/rebody to prototypical wagons.

    A rake of 14 wagons so far aiming for 20 or so plus a pair of brake vans either end.

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    Neil


    That will be a cracking g train Neil. Looking forwards to seeing your clays run again too …. 

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    Prototype use of Model Tankers.

    in UK Prototype Questions

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Michael Hodgson said:

     

    I suppose those vinegar tankers ran on the back of fish trains, along with a salt wagon 🤣

    The Vinegar branch would have made an interesting model.  It had a slotted post level crossing signal I would love to have seen

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    I did see them …. Just about!!! In later years there was a train of acetic acid in tanks from up north to South Wales …. Smelt just like vinegar. As it ran from Saltend to name it the Salt-end-vinegar was just too tempting….

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    Abbotswood and Norton Junctions - layout build

    in Layout topics

    Posted

    7 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

    My dear Lord Bullock of Abbotswood,

     

    Your photographic collection shows the very positive attitude you have towards your peasants it getting them to tend to your lands in such a neat style. I therefore congratulate you on your endeavors. 


    I do look after them … would not want them trashing the place!!! 

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    57xx Pannier Tank Family, By Accurascale

    in Accurascale / Irish Railway Models

    Posted

    On 21/01/2024 at 14:10, Captain Kernow said:

    There was certainly one 74XX in GWR livery operating on the Bala to Blaenau branch in the 1950s and also 7788, operating in the Gloucester area right up until the early 1960s and I suggest she was scrapped in that livery.

     

    Both locos had BR smokebox door numberplates, however.

     

    Tom Foster did a really splendid job on the 74XX, which he used on his Cwm Prysor layout.

     

     
    4628 was a Gloucester then Worcester loco …. Went for scrap in 1964 still wearing GWR on her tanks… 

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