Piemanlarger Posted March 12, 2010 Author Share Posted March 12, 2010 Been busy Shooting of late but did get into the model room today and prepared 3 x class 60 for soundproofing when the base reflex speakers arrive next week. Got a few small jobs to do on New Rimenough, but they are likley to take a back seat as I want to finish (as finished as any ;ayout is) Oliver's Road RMD in the coming Months! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piemanlarger Posted March 13, 2010 Author Share Posted March 13, 2010 Had a quick play with some class 60 last night, refresh the memory of how it all works! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpleymodeller Posted March 13, 2010 Share Posted March 13, 2010 That video was outstanding! I was good to hear 1 sound 60 at first but 3!!! The video had such an atmosphere that it felt like you were actually there at a depot at night,really realistic! :icon_thumbsup2: Regards Lewis Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piemanlarger Posted March 25, 2010 Author Share Posted March 25, 2010 Couple more class 60 ready for action, though there wont be much as Rimenough is having a break (in the middle!) while i take it down and finish Oliver's Road Rmd. anyway, class 60045 & 60070 are ready for service. Both have light weathering and of course sound. Three friends And the fleets So far! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piemanlarger Posted March 29, 2010 Author Share Posted March 29, 2010 Riemnough going down today for a few weeks / months as Oliver's road needs finishing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpleymodeller Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Shame, looking forward to the next update in I hope the not to distant future Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piemanlarger Posted April 1, 2010 Author Share Posted April 1, 2010 Shame, looking forward to the next update in I hope the not to distant future Not sure when it will go back up. as it is its sitting on top of Oliver's road now so there i potential to run both, one on top of the other! Dought I will get round to doing any layout work on Rimenough until September now, its going to Cirencester model railway show 1st weekend in October for a 2 day show so will finish off the small jobs before then. Locos / rolling stock will be worked on before that however. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpleymodeller Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Do you plan on adding any more sound 60s? How many sound locos do you have?,after looking on your youtube channel I can see it is in double figures!! Regards Lewis Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piemanlarger Posted April 1, 2010 Author Share Posted April 1, 2010 Hi Lewis, may well stretch to another couple or three class 60. Presently i have 4 x class 66 4 x class 67 8 x class 60 18 x class 37 1 x class 47 1 class 158 Plan to add a 153 for a duel period layout a friend and I will be building this year. Probably going to ship at least three class 37 as i have too many! All are sound chipped! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpleymodeller Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 What happened to 33030? 18 tractors,that would sound good when all starting up a once! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piemanlarger Posted April 1, 2010 Author Share Posted April 1, 2010 What happened to 33030? 18 tractors,that would sound good when all starting up a once! I sold alot of the sound stuff, the class 20 pair, the 33 (worst sound chip ever!), the 50, the mk 1 class 47 plius the steam i used to own. lol, i often mass start up 6 or so class 37, will do the full fleet when they are all ready! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpleymodeller Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 hi what sound chip did the 33 have? Id love to have that many sound locos one day,so far I have 1 but that is better than none!! Regards Lewis Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piemanlarger Posted April 1, 2010 Author Share Posted April 1, 2010 hi what sound chip did the 33 have? Id love to have that many sound locos one day,so far I have 1 but that is better than none!! Regards Lewis It was a MrSoundguy one via Dcc supplies. I started with 1, taken 5 years get here? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpleymodeller Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Ill save up for 5 years and may be Ill have more sound,ill have to wait and see! B) At the mo Im looking forward to testing 60048 on arpley street,then there will be two ews sound layouts on rm web! Cheers Lewis Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piemanlarger Posted April 1, 2010 Author Share Posted April 1, 2010 Ill save up for 5 years and may be Ill have more sound,ill have to wait and see! At the mo Im looking forward to testing 60048 on arpley street,then there will be two ews sound layouts on rm web! Cheers Lewis Dont forget to adda bass speaker to the 60! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpleymodeller Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 Hi where do you get bass speakers from? Ive seen that a few people have added them to RTR sound 60s but I think that job will be some way off yet as im not that keen taking apart any model for electrical alterations,especially a sound loco! Thanks for the tip though Lewis Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piemanlarger Posted April 2, 2010 Author Share Posted April 2, 2010 I order mine from south west digital. Its a straight forward job on the Hornby 60 and vastly improves the sound, check out my comparison vids on u tube of standard sound and bass added sound. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpleymodeller Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 Ill have a look then Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piemanlarger Posted July 19, 2010 Author Share Posted July 19, 2010 Right, time to re-erect New Rimenough and continue finishing off before the October show turns up! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piemanlarger Posted September 29, 2010 Author Share Posted September 29, 2010 Right, time to re-erect New Rimenough and continue finishing off before the October show turns up! Mmmm, good plan. But with only 2 days left i have not done a thing! Good job there are only a few small jobs need doing before Cirencester this weekend! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piemanlarger Posted October 1, 2010 Author Share Posted October 1, 2010 Well, the couple of jobs that needed doing have been done (Lighting change on the depot). All was working before the layout was taken down for transport Saturday morning As long as it all works when re-assembled, you just never know lol:D Mainly a 60's weekend this time out I think. Not beetles but Tugs! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leon Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 Cant make Cirencester, but hope all goes well, get some picture taken for us, All the best Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piemanlarger Posted October 4, 2010 Author Share Posted October 4, 2010 A good weekend on the whole. Layout ran well despite some chap who for reasons beyond me, wanted to view the layout from the Depot "End". He kicked the end stand, not once, but twice! The second shunt moved the boards! Must insist on some sort of barrier from now on, even if its the strap type? Had a bit of re-jigging to do before sundays running but the layout ran well as did most of the stock really. I turned the sound down lower this weekend than I have run them before. From 15 ft away with the room empty (before opening Sunday) you could not hear the locos. Ideal hearing distance in the show was about 3- 6 ft. This was fine unless trying to hear the loco at the far end of the layout, so need to turn them back up a touch. St..Andrews road was about 30 foot away from me with a load of sound fitted class 66 and a spattering of 67. Trouble was, with their volume on full I could hear those locos over mine. I kept wondering why my 67 were starting up without me pressing any buttons lol. Thank god I left my 66 at home this weekend! We had a breif loco exhance, a 37 departed Rimenough and a Fastline 56 arrived. Was told it was Howes sound. However, i was not overly impressed as with just one speaker under the fan and on full volume, the quality of the sound was poor. Lots of vibrating noise really as if the speaker was not secured properly? Just think, from my own experience that the problem of distorted sound on the model was due to running to high a volume, it was very loud. What was nice is that despite not having time for railways during the summer, i really enjoyed the weekend and playing trains. Looking forward to Thornbury MRC show at the end of November now, that will more than likley be the layouts last outing, though it is also going to the Barry & Penarth Open day mid november, new 08 will be the depot shunter for those shows too!. Rimenough Once of Dyseth road, now out of service on Rimenough, 37684 is blocked in by 67001, also out of work with no mail today! Lets talk about work, its not as taxing as doing the work! No passenger trains today as it was sunday and work was being dome on the main line, so the snowplougha went on a test run. visiting class 56 Health ans Saftey have said the converted Queen mary mess room was not safe, so its been carted off and replaced with te managaers office! Its a 60's weekend line up. 37886 awaits the depot fuel tanks Think this is now my favourite class 60 Noisy neighbours:D St.Andrews road Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leon Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 Hi Simon, glad it all went well, great to see the photos....Will have to arrange a day over the winter for you to bring some of those 60's up to my steelworks for a run. Hopefully will get the fiddle yards laid soon and the trains will have somewhere to go... All the best Leon. ps the 66 is fitting in well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piemanlarger Posted October 4, 2010 Author Share Posted October 4, 2010 Hi Simon, glad it all went well, great to see the photos....Will have to arrange a day over the winter for you to bring some of those 60's up to my steelworks for a run. Hopefully will get the fiddle yards laid soon and the trains will have somewhere to go... All the best Leon. ps the 66 is fitting in well. Thanks Leon, sometime in novemeber would be great as long as your sorted for that? Thanks simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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