RMweb Premium JimFin Posted April 20, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 20, 2019 All the best with the show, be interested to hear how the wires go. Have some fine and thicker Sommerfeldt to play with but not at that stage yet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted April 20, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 20, 2019 Looks like you need a hand with ballasting Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
warbonnetuk Posted April 21, 2019 Author Share Posted April 21, 2019 12 hours ago, roundhouse said: Looks like you need a hand with ballasting See you Tues at 9:15 then.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
298 Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 On 19/04/2019 at 19:27, PaulRhB said: I used the heavier gauge Sommerfeldt, just for robustness on an exhibition layout, and painted it grey/green to minimise the visual impact. You could use the finer Sommerfeldt but it needs proper tensioning or it flexes a lot as trains pass. That just makes the joints a bit more of a challenge. With the heavier wire I just curled the ends so they clipped in across baseboard joints. Anchoring/heavy tension at both ends definitely helps with keeping the wires taught, but can lead to wire creep with soldered overhead where the registration arm needs resetting in position after everything is tensioned, and I'm not sure how you'd get around this with Sommerfeldt Catenary as the wire positions are fixed outright, Another trick is to decrease the spring tension in the pantographs by flattening or stretching a few coils to make the spring weaker, the force on even the real things isn't that strong and in model form you only need enough to keep the pantograph head against the wire. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted April 21, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 21, 2019 7 hours ago, warbonnetuk said: See you Tues at 9:15 then.... I would if I didn't need to be home for tree felling!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted April 25, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 25, 2019 (edited) With just a few days to go before Dans layout has its first outing I have been giving him a hand. Still plenty to do but at least the main building is just about complete apart from the chimney name boards and ancilliary bits. Dan will have a busy night and final day installing the OLE since being test fitted then painted, plus more foliage including trees so the photos will be history since taking these this afternoon. The lighting pelmet of mine has been test fitted to the layout ready for the weekend. Dan will be building his after the show when he has more time to do so. Come see the layout at Rotarail this Saturday if you wish to see how the layout will have changed after today. Edited April 25, 2019 by roundhouse 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted April 25, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 25, 2019 Of course he must get one of these 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted April 25, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 25, 2019 does the van have sound in it? We were only talking today of t cows with bells on a Swiss layout Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Claude_Dreyfus Posted April 25, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 25, 2019 Looks very smart. Nice to see we're not the only ones trying to get the layout looking presentable for Rotarail. Looking forward to seeing it 'in the flesh' so to speak. Our 'Inspired by Friedrichstrasse' is another debuting layout at the show. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted April 25, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 25, 2019 21 minutes ago, roundhouse said: does the van have sound in it? We were only talking today of t cows with bells on a Swiss layout No it’s full of chocolate and I’ve not heard, (or in the cows case herd!), It make any noise. That tends to happen when the operators eat it 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
warbonnetuk Posted April 25, 2019 Author Share Posted April 25, 2019 Knocked off for the night after fixing some scenic issues, cleaning track and putting in the centenary masts (bolted only). Main bugbear today has been the Peco /WWS static grass glue drying gloss for a second occasion. It's been hidden as much as possible but its prob needs a rework after this weekend and once I've got a fresh supply of Woodland Scenics glues and the Peco stuff is going on the bin. Jobs for tomorrow is to link up and programme the servos for the uncouplers, have a last hoover up and test run the layout before boxing up 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satan's Goldfish Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 15 hours ago, PaulRhB said: Of course he must get one of these What, a cow with Milka branding on its side?... I'll get my coat... (If you're saying the wagon comes full of chocolate, please tell me there's a G gauge version available.) 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted April 26, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 26, 2019 33 minutes ago, Satan's Goldfish said: What, a cow with Milka branding on its side?... I'll get my coat... (If you're saying the wagon comes full of chocolate, please tell me there's a G gauge version available.) Cant to Milka but can do crème eggs etc in G 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted April 26, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 26, 2019 51 minutes ago, Satan's Goldfish said: What, a cow with Milka branding on its side?... I'll get my coat... (If you're saying the wagon comes full of chocolate, please tell me there's a G gauge version available.) Never seen a G scale one but I have the Milka van in HOm and Om Might have the correct chocolate though . . . . if it lasts till tomorrow . . . 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted April 27, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 27, 2019 I am sure that Dan will be posting about the layouts first outing, at Rotarail today but here are a few photos taken today of trains mooooving 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted April 27, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 27, 2019 I was mooved too looking great Dan! 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted April 27, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 27, 2019 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted April 27, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 27, 2019 Enjoyed the Milka chocolate. Thanks Paul. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted April 27, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 27, 2019 We did manage to run a steam special a few minutes before show closing time 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
warbonnetuk Posted April 27, 2019 Author Share Posted April 27, 2019 3 minutes ago, roundhouse said: Enjoyed the Milka chocolate. Thanks Paul. Seconded! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
warbonnetuk Posted April 27, 2019 Author Share Posted April 27, 2019 Had a great day at Rotarail and thanks to Chris for the invitation. As to be expected from its first show outing there a number of issues on the snag list to be addressed on track and stock running plus the remain work required on the overhead wires, signals, backscenes and small details So thanks to Paul for the advice and Milka and Ian for his assistance over the last couple of weeks 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted April 27, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 27, 2019 It captures the Engadine look very well, I can see Zernez in it I might have a teeny bit of yellow envy . . . 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Claude_Dreyfus Posted April 28, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 28, 2019 Nice to see the layout yesterday, looks great so far - looking forward to see this develop. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
warbonnetuk Posted October 17, 2019 Author Share Posted October 17, 2019 With a combo of work and the kids being on their summer hols the long list of jobs for Santa Maria before it's trip to Warley had taken a bit of a backseat. With my wife's Beetle convertible replaced I now have the whole double garage to myself so the layout has been partially set up to work on. First up are the electrical / DCC issues identified at Rotarail. Firstly all the fiddleyard points have had their frogs isolated and rails bonded to combat shorting. Secondly all the 2nd gen DCC Concepts point decoders have had the centring feature disabled and then reprogrammed. Latest job to be completed is re-rigging the four servo driven uncoupling ramps, swapping out one stripped motor and then setting the actuator arm throws on the Digikeijs DR4024 servo decoder. Uncoupler ramp in action Next up are a couple of points that the little shunting tractor doesnt like then it's catenary wire time!! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
warbonnetuk Posted November 4, 2019 Author Share Posted November 4, 2019 Dose of man-flu had swept the household in the last week so 2 sickly kids and myself nit 100% has dented progress. Despite that gantries masts continue to get prepped for anchor points amd tensioners. Also I've pushed on with the rail served warehouse with the roof being added along with the majority of the loading bay. The blue sections visible are the Wilko cheapo Lego-style bricks used to make a supporting shell for the building 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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