RMweb Premium OnTheBranchline Posted August 11, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 11, 2023 3 hours ago, sjrixon said: I had a day off with the youngest today, so as its just the two of us, time for some trains.. I've been putting off painting the rest of the track as it means moving everything.. Ideal job when I've got all day.. I then showed him how to cover up the point blades ready for painting.. Then, we got the airbrush out... "Dad, this stuff stinks" "No, it doesn't now get back to work" 🤣 1 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold sjrixon Posted August 11, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 11, 2023 1 hour ago, OnTheBranchline said: "Dad, this stuff stinks" "No, it doesn't now get back to work" 🤣 Dad went back to his beer in the garden! 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold sjrixon Posted August 12, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 12, 2023 Does anyone have any good Led recommendations for lighting up buildings? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold sjrixon Posted August 18, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 18, 2023 Actually a lot of progress in the picture... The kids helped me give the back scene a paint of blue and then we cleaned the track and got a few things running. Then I've wired up a couple of platform lights.. When the Manor arrives with its firebox flickering, will look amazing in the gloom.. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted August 20, 2023 Share Posted August 20, 2023 On 12/08/2023 at 09:14, sjrixon said: Does anyone have any good Led recommendations for lighting up buildings? I usually just cut a piece of 12V LED strip to length and use that (mainly because I've got a lot of offcut!), though it's perhaps a little on the bright side. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold sjrixon Posted August 22, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 22, 2023 As you say Richard, they tend to be a little too bright.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Vecchio Posted August 22, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 22, 2023 Just put some resistors in series to the LED's. Start with something like 2.2kΩ, if not enough use another one in series and so on. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold sjrixon Posted August 22, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 22, 2023 I'm colour blind, so resistors are my worst enemy.. I can never tell what resistance any of them are!! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 On 22/08/2023 at 13:39, Vecchio said: Just put some resistors in series to the LED's. Start with something like 2.2kΩ, if not enough use another one in series and so on. You need to start with high resistance and work down - putting too low a resistor in series may well damage the LED. You need a 1K resisitor to run LEDs off a 12V power supply. Most multimeters have a resistance setting which you can use to find out the value of resistors. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Vecchio Posted August 23, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 23, 2023 13 minutes ago, RJS1977 said: You need to start with high resistance Well this is why I said 2.2kΩ. With this one you will not kill any standard LED. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted August 23, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 23, 2023 Easier than resistors; acrylic matt white or cream, applied over the bulb in layers until it looks right. Leds do not give off enough heat for this to be a problem. 'Maltese cross' lampshades will assist in preventing bleed and direct light where you want it to go inside the building. Overbright lighting is a general issue on layouts, especially steam-era ones when domestic light bulbs were bought by cost-concious Scrooges like my dad who reckoned anything over 60w was insanity*. Coach lighting was 25w 12v powered, and signal (and most loco, and all tail lamps) were oil. Basically, if you can see that the lights are on under your normal ambient layout lighting conditions, they are way too bright; coach lighting could not be clearly seen to be on under station lighting at night! Street lighting was a bit brighter, at least on main roads with the orange sodium discharge lamps, and neon was used for advertising, but everything else was a bit dim and pathetic. Anyone from the 1800s would have thought it was all miraculously bright, but they lived with oil lamps and candles. Yard and industrial lighting was pretty feeble compared to modern equivalents as well; with filament bulbs, there was a point at which the heat generated made them vulnerable to cold rain or frost forming on them, about 150w. Sports stadium floodlighting was much brighter, but required generators to power it and some time to warm up to full brightness, too expensive for yard or industrial use. You could see stars in the night sky that I haven't seen in the city for over 60 years... *Trying not to go into 'two Yorkshiremen' mode, but, as a middle-class not-particularly-deprived sort of schoolchild I did homework in a bedroom that was so cold in winter that there was ice, frozen condensation, inside the windows and on more than one occasion my 'Quink' froze in the pen (we weren't allowed biro for homework); you knew it was proper cold when it froze in the pot... Going into town and doing it in the reference library was more conducive to a studious atmosphere, but not much warmer! Yer tell kids that terday, they don't berleeve yer, but it's true, and was the norm in the 60s; none of my peers had heated bedrooms either. When I used my own paper round money to buy a small convector heater, the Captain demanded five bob a week off me (a sixth of my paper round wages) for the electric, then confiscated it for his own use and gave me a paraffin heater! No wonder I failed A levels, my brain was frozen and fogged with paraffin fumes (this isn't a joke, I've always believed that the fumes were harmful)... 2 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold brumtb Posted August 24, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 24, 2023 12 hours ago, The Johnster said: *Trying not to go into 'two Yorkshiremen' mode, but, as a middle-class not-particularly-deprived sort of schoolchild I did homework in a bedroom that was so cold in winter that there was ice, frozen condensation, inside the windows and on more than one occasion my 'Quink' froze in the pen (we weren't allowed biro for homework); you knew it was proper cold when it froze in the pot... Going into town and doing it in the reference library was more conducive to a studious atmosphere, but not much warmer! Yer tell kids that terday, they don't berleeve yer, but it's true, and was the norm in the 60s; none of my peers had heated bedrooms either. When I used my own paper round money to buy a small convector heater, the Captain demanded five bob a week off me (a sixth of my paper round wages) for the electric, then confiscated it for his own use and gave me a paraffin heater! No wonder I failed A levels, my brain was frozen and fogged with paraffin fumes (this isn't a joke, I've always believed that the fumes were harmful)... That sounds all too familiar, my bedroom was an unheated "conservatory" with a glass roof, the plug in heater made no difference whatsoever. Still, we survived, although no A levels for me either! Tony 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold sjrixon Posted August 24, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 24, 2023 Started building a wall today... 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold sjrixon Posted August 25, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 25, 2023 @The Johnster Painting over them could certainly be an option...... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold sjrixon Posted August 25, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 25, 2023 The 48xx pulls into the bay with a B Set... With the new wall and backscene, starting to look a little better... 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold sjrixon Posted August 25, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 25, 2023 4 hours ago, thetrains said: Really coming along now. Thanks.. Get the wall completed tomorrow, maybe some lights and then it's needs more people! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold sjrixon Posted September 1, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 1, 2023 (edited) We spent the morning glueing our fingers together, or, installing the fencing on the down platform. At one point, I was stuck to the platform. The lights were finished last night. I still want to add a switch, but that's a further down the line type project.... Need to have a tidy, running session, and then find the paint to complete the fence. Edited September 1, 2023 by sjrixon 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold sjrixon Posted September 3, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 3, 2023 The Manor looks really good, sat waiting to take the down passenger service this morning. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold sjrixon Posted September 10, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 10, 2023 We went to 'Steam' at Swindon yesterday, as they had a model railway exhibition on. It's been a while since I'd been to one there.. I don't think personally it was their best, still enjoyed the day, but the trade wasn't that interesting and I felt their could have been a few more layouts. Anyway. I bought a wagon and pint glass to support 2874.. Also had a pint to support the museum ;) Once of the highlights however was holding the GWR railcar from Kernow. They really are exquisite. This is them on the shelf... 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold sjrixon Posted September 15, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 15, 2023 Some Friday modeling.... I've now got a couple of lights on the goods shed.. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold sjrixon Posted September 15, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 15, 2023 GWR pint glass... 😀 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted September 16, 2023 Share Posted September 16, 2023 On 15/09/2023 at 19:16, sjrixon said: GWR pint glass... 😀 We've still got a couple of "Cholsey & Wallingford Railway" pint glasses for sale at Wallingford station... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain_Mumbles Posted September 16, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 16, 2023 This looks like it is going well. 👌 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold sjrixon Posted September 18, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 18, 2023 On 16/09/2023 at 22:00, RJS1977 said: We've still got a couple of "Cholsey & Wallingford Railway" pint glasses for sale at Wallingford station... Really should pop over, never quite make it.. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold sjrixon Posted September 25, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 25, 2023 Still needs a blast of Matt varnish. The T3 is looking quite smart in the yard . 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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