Steadfast Posted July 20, 2023 Share Posted July 20, 2023 I'd best be on good behaviour, I've got one less excuse for crashing than you guys 😁 Looking forward to it! Jo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted July 20, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 20, 2023 20 minutes ago, Steadfast said: I'd best be on good behaviour, I've got one less excuse for crashing than you guys 😁 Looking forward to it! Jo You’ll be fine percentage wise, Mike sets the standard 😇 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steadfast Posted July 20, 2023 Share Posted July 20, 2023 3 hours ago, PaulRhB said: You’ll be fine percentage wise, Mike sets the standard 😇 I'll sit back, relax and await the inevitable then! Jo 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Revolution Mike B Posted October 1, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 1, 2023 (edited) With Taunton show rapidly approaching, yours truly managed to break his arm / wrist a few weeks ago playing in a charity football tournament! Rather than withdraw from the show, the layout is still going and I’m grateful for the help of Nick who’s going to help me get it there, and Ian and Rhys to help put the layout up on its legs once it arrives. if anything is running around unweathered, you’ll just need to turn a blind eye to it - painting with my wrong hand hasn’t gone well as there’s more paint on the desk, walls and carpet then on the models! A couple of things will be making their debut, my Caroline Inspection Saloon and my Accurascale 37/6. Cavalex are loaning me one of their new Colas 56s along with a DC Rail liveried one, and there should also be one of our new Class 18 battery shunters running backwards and forwards in the stone yard. There’s going to be some excellent layouts at this year’s show including Rhys’s Cornish China Clay layout ‘Porthlevan’, Steve Jone’s Chilcompton Tunnel (making its last appearance) and Mike H is taking Oldshaw. So until the next update, stay safe folks, and don’t play football if you’re old and past it!! Edited October 1, 2023 by Revolution Mike B 13 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Revolution Mike B Posted October 15, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2023 I’ve just arrived home from GETS with a couple of things for next weekend. First of all, 37418, to run with Caroline, and secondly, a Colas 56 made by a company called Cavalex? Can’t say I’ve heard of them before but they seem like nice fellas 😀 While I was at the show, both Ben and I had the chance to operate Making Tracks Three….which was not only fantastic, but mind boggling too. Waiting for a few minutes for a train to arrive after coming in to view takes a bit of getting your head around! So for now, it’s a few days wait, and the layout will make the track down to Somerset for its second appearance at Taunton RailEx and Mike H will now be helping crash some trains too. I feel this coming weekend could be chaos……… 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Temeraire Posted October 15, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 15, 2023 1 minute ago, Revolution Mike B said: feel this coming weekend could be chaos……… it’s okay me and Paul are bringing deckchairs and lots of popcorn! Can’t wait.🤣 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steadfast Posted October 15, 2023 Share Posted October 15, 2023 7 minutes ago, Revolution Mike B said: I feel this coming weekend could be chaos……… Why do I feel I resemble that remark?... Looking forward to it Jo 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted October 15, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2023 29 minutes ago, Temeraire said: it’s okay me and Paul are bringing deckchairs and lots of popcorn! Can’t wait.🤣 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southwich Posted October 15, 2023 Share Posted October 15, 2023 Hope the show goes well Mike - enjoy! Look forward to seeing the grid running again on your layout Kind regards, Will 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Revolution Mike B Posted October 16, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 16, 2023 7 hours ago, Southwich said: Hope the show goes well Mike - enjoy! Look forward to seeing the grid running again on your layout Kind regards, Will G’day possum….hope all is well in Straya? Having had a play around with one on the buffering up challenge, I’m looking forward to it too. It sounds great and runs like a dream. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southwich Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 3 hours ago, Revolution Mike B said: G’day possum….hope all is well in Straya? Having had a play around with one on the buffering up challenge, I’m looking forward to it too. It sounds great and runs like a dream. All good thank you sir - busy with work but some occasional modelling is happening. The man that hated grids has changed his tune eh! 😉 Will 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Revolution Mike B Posted October 16, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 16, 2023 1 hour ago, Southwich said: All good thank you sir - busy with work but some occasional modelling is happening. The man that hated grids has changed his tune eh! 😉 Will I think it's more of a necessity as I've found a video of a Colas one passing through Cary 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steadfast Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 5 hours ago, Revolution Mike B said: I think it's more of a necessity as I've found a video of a Colas one passing through Cary Well if you dislike them so much I'll gladly spend the weekend playing with the noisy screamy loco. I do like a 56, and wouldn't mind that model shrunk down. This went though Cary about 30 mins later. 10 autos for Bristol via Taunton. Jo 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium GWRPhil Posted October 16, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 16, 2023 really looking forward to seeing the layout again at taunton on Saturday. do you know which hall you are in yet? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ba14eagle Posted October 17, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 17, 2023 Videos of chaos available post show 😄 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium GWRPhil Posted October 18, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 18, 2023 21 hours ago, ba14eagle said: Videos of chaos available post show 😄 I might film a few of them myself. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Revolution Mike B Posted October 18, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 18, 2023 (edited) Note to self: Never, ever…..weather half a rake of wagons. You’ll never remember what colour paints you used, or in what order when doing the rest of them three years later. Second note to self: You should already know this. Many many pages back in this thread I’m pretty sure I said the same about the platform tops!! D’oh!! Edited October 18, 2023 by Revolution Mike B 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted October 18, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 18, 2023 24 minutes ago, Revolution Mike B said: Note to self: Never, ever…..weather half a rake of wagons. You’ll never remember what colour paints you used, or in what order when doing the rest of them three years later. Second note to self: You should already know this. Many many pages back in this thread I’m pretty sure I said the same about the platform tops!! D’oh!! Just weather one side. 1 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
treggyman Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 Hi Just mix them up in the rake....... Weathering isn't always the same/uniform within a rake of wagons.... Cheers Bill 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Revolution Mike B Posted October 18, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 18, 2023 28 minutes ago, treggyman said: Hi Just mix them up in the rake....... Weathering isn't always the same/uniform within a rake of wagons.... Cheers Bill Unfortunately Bill, the new JNA-Ts look virtually identical inside. They’ve all got a really odd pink tinge from the ballast they carry which also highlights the ribbed framing. I think I’ve managed to fudge it a little. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted October 18, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 18, 2023 10 minutes ago, Revolution Mike B said: Unfortunately Bill, the new JNA-Ts look virtually identical inside. They’ve all got a really odd pink tinge from the ballast they carry which also highlights the ribbed framing. I think I’ve managed to fudge it A pink tinge on a rib has my vote. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Revolution Mike B Posted October 18, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 18, 2023 Steady Mick….😂 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Revolution Mike B Posted October 20, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 20, 2023 Well we arrived….eventually! Paul and Ian kindly helped get the layout up on its feet and apart from a short on one fiddle yard board (my doing as I’d left a wire trailing from break down at DEMU 2022), and an accessory decoder not working (again my fault as I’d forgotten to U.K. the power supply voltage) fixed with the help of James at DCC Train Automation, it’s all working fine and dandy! Looking forward to the ensuing carnage tomorrow when three people who’ve never operated the layout before have a baptism of fire! 5 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Revolution Mike B Posted October 21, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 21, 2023 Today has been absolutely manic with the layout 3 people deep at times. Ben, Nick and Jo soon got the hang of crashing trains. Same again tomorrow. 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Revolution Mike B Posted October 22, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 22, 2023 (edited) Well that’s a wrap as they say!! After 18 months of being stored in the container, the layout ran pretty much faultlessly all weekend. A huge thanks to Paul and Ian for their assistance, and to Nick, Jo and Ben for helping me crash the trains. Also thanks to Rhys for his company along with Paul and Ian last night for dinner. The Cavalex 56 is an incredible piece of engineering and was a joy to run (once we’d figured out the controls). We also had some EP samples of our Revolution Trains Cartic 4s (that I’d not actually seen in person) and even if I’m being biased, they look fantastic and run brilliantly. Our EP sample of the Class 18 Battery Loco ran well too and we have made a note of a few minor tweaks we’d like to make before we go into production. Our KSAs also made an appearance and these followed suit. Steve Pike and his team need a huge round of applause for once again putting on one of the best exhibitions and we thank them for their hard work and hospitality. So now, I have a dilemma……sell it, or keep it…. Edited October 22, 2023 by Revolution Mike B 10 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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