Taigatrommel Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Going back a few posts, what is the source of the TT scale VW Golf? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted January 7, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 7, 2013 Going back a few posts, what is the source of the TT scale VW Golf? Rich We bought it in the Czech Republic a few years ago so not sure of the make. It could have been Viking. 3 SMR show them on thier website but out of stock. Unfortunately it doesnt say who makes them but might be worth contacting them to find out. http://www.3smr.co.uk/vehicles.html Ian 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dorset Wanderer Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 Worth looking at Finney and Smith's website- they do many ancient and modern vehicles in whitemetal and Autosculpt. See blog- click on link uderneath posting and search for vehicles to show the type of castings they do. Steve 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted March 15, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 15, 2013 Smrzovka will be at the Nottingham show this weekend. Layout is loaded already for the journey North tonight. Stock etc ready to load along with the new coaches and locos bought just after Christmas but unfortunately we didnt have space in our bags for some Czech beer aswell as the new stock so no Czech beers - will have to make do with the pubs in Nottingham!! Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
branchie Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 (edited) Just stumbled across this thread Ian. What a fantastic layout. Good luck this weekend. Edited March 15, 2013 by branchie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted March 15, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 15, 2013 Just stumbled across this thread Ian. What a fantastic layout. Good luck this weekend.Cheers Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted March 17, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 17, 2013 (edited) We had a good day yesterday with the layout at the Nottingham show. We did have a solenoid fail and the spare I had pre wired I cut the operating wire too short so the failed solenoid had its coil wire unwound and resold erred. All working a short while later. We are one of a few layouts in the "Czech Point" room at the show. I now have a HO sound fitted goggle loco and two coaches bought from Tabor models. The plan is to possibly build the terminus of the branch line from Smrzovka in HO. Not sure when though. Ian Edited March 17, 2013 by roundhouse 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted March 17, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 17, 2013 (edited) A special working passing through the station today - a class 742 towing an overhead DC electric class 163. Edited March 19, 2013 by roundhouse 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
squeaky Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Love it! I was about to order a Roco HO Goggles, but may get a TT one instead, this looks great! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted March 19, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 19, 2013 Love it! I was about to order a Roco HO Goggles, but may get a TT one instead, this looks great! The TT ones are very nicely detailed and run very smoothly. Apparently you can get sound fitted DCC ones aswell but I havent come across one yet. The Roco TT ones do have an NEM box which looks the same size as the N scale ones, so I am going to try the Dapol magnetic couplings at some point as the Microscale ones we have been using just dont want to uncouple over the magnets despite being set at the correct height etc. Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
squeaky Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 I seem to have caught the TT bug and I have just ordered a Roco 36257 which is a 754 with sound! Now I need some track....... Do you have more pictures of this great layout? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted March 20, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 20, 2013 I seem to have caught the TT bug and I have just ordered a Roco 36257 which is a 754 with sound! Now I need some track....... Do you have more pictures of this great layout? Looks like you may need to make a few visits to the Czech Republic now. I am very tempted to go DCC with the TT stock. However as we have many class 810 4 wheel railcars that all look the same it would make it difficult to work out which one is which number!! It is a lovely scale to work in though. We used Tillig track which is superb. However the turnout tie bars are quite fragile. We have had to replace some of the tie bars with copper clad sleepers. I did take a few photos last weekend so wil try and post soem more at lunch time. An extension to the layout is currently being considered which may involve building the branch line terminus at Josefuv Dul. Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted March 20, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 20, 2013 Some more photos of the layout taken last weekend at the Nottingham show: A Roco Goggles. it runs very smoothly and much quieter than the resin built ones. A resin and scratch built chassis (not by me) class 749 Bardoka. A bit noisy but still very smooth running. A class 810 and trailer - these are plastic bodies on various motorised chassis, some built by me but many bought ready built then detailed. Some will get wing mirrors now that the stock trays have been altered to accommodate the mirrors without knocking them off. A class 714 on a frieght working. This is a brass body on a scratch built chassis bought ready assembled from the Czech Republic. A behind the scenes shot of the control panel. Most the storage tracks (out of view) are stub end tracks but under the poanel there is one through track. We hope to add another through track under there to increase flexibility as there is space for it. Ian 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted April 11, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 11, 2013 (edited) On our recent trip to Prague I coukdnt resist thiis brightly coloured Tillig class 720 in Viamont livery.I am not sure if it is based on the old Berlinerbahn body but the handrails are definitely finer and the chassis is new. The old Berlinerbahn ones had a fixed 4 wheel drive chasdis with the bogie side frames fixed to 'pony' trucks.This Tillig one is a proper all wheel drive bo bo affair.I have toned the yellow down a touch .Also this loco comes with N scale NEM pockets so I have fitted some Daol Easymate couplers and will do the same on some wagons to see if uncoupling over the magnets work better than the Microscale ones.Ian Edited April 11, 2013 by roundhouse Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
squeaky Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 (edited) On our recent trip to Prague I coukdnt resist thiis brightly coloured Tillig class 720 in Viamont livery. I am not sure if it is based on the old Berlinerbahn body but the handrails are definitely finer and the chasdis is new. The old Berlinerbahn ones had a fuxed 4 wheel drive chasdis with the bogie side frames fixed to 'pony' trucks. This Tillig one is a proper all wheel drive bo bo affair. I have toned the yellow down a touch . Also this loco comes with N scale NEM pockets so I have fitted some Daol Easymate couplers and will do the same on some wagons to see if uncoupling over tge magnets work better than the Microscale ones. Ian I like it, does it have lights? I was looking at this model on www.ben-model.cz when they had their 10% off at easter, unfortunately it wasn't in stock, in the end I bought a Kuehn 372 CD which arrived yesterday and is a great looking model, although it did take some effort to remove the body in order to put the DCC chip in! Does anyone do a DCC sound project for the 720? Edited April 11, 2013 by squeaky Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted April 11, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 11, 2013 Squeeky It wasn't in stock as I bought the last one from them in the shop... sorry! Ben Models is a nice shop and the people in there speak good English, friendly and they take credit card so very useful. Their shop is near Smichov station (another reasonably important station in Prague) and almost opposite a smaller halt at Smichov but the tram is an easier trip. However they don't generally do the small cottage industry resin / brass built stock so a trip to Prago Models was the next stop. They also take credit card but they dont speak much English. They did have the 720 though at much the same price. I haven't had the body off the 720 to see if there is room inside it for a decoder. I did try to remove the body but as I am not going DCC on the TT stock i decided to leave it in one piece. It does have working lights aswell. The sound decoders in the Roco Czech locos are Zimo so they may well do one. Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted April 11, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 11, 2013 Here is a link to a photos of the actual Viamont loco http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/3807/720567726516160806ai3.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.mysnip.de/forum-archiv/thema-21202-201773/__st__%2Bund%2BUmgebung%2Bam%2B16_8_%2B_9%2BB__.html&h=600&w=800&sz=201&tbnid=6f_M-cL207Y1RM:&tbnh=105&tbnw=140&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dviamont%2B720%2Bphoto%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=viamont+720+photo&usg=__6x0_76cNkNGzw7yqXzIVpcJjou8=&docid=W7BkVW1RfAovvM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rGdmUYKMPImn0wW1-oDgCA&ved=0CFwQ9QEwDg&dur=494 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted August 6, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 6, 2013 (edited) Last week I received a package from fellow RMweb member. In it was some as new locos and wagons. So a slight distraction from working on N scale stock. The wagons have had Dapol Easy mate couplers inserted into the NEM boxes. They couple up to the other stock fitted with Microtrains 1015 / 16 couplers but there is a slight height difference. However we shall see how they perform at the next show. I have fitted the Dapol couplers to some of my newer coaches so we will be able to run complete trains fitted with the Dapol couplers should there be problems. I have had trouble getting the Microtrains couplers to uncoupled over the magnets fitted on the layout so the Dapol ones are a test to see if they will perform better. If they do then there will be a mass conversion to the Dapol ones. The goggles below is one of the new locos. As I already have one of these I have just swapped the front cowl with the older one that has Microtrains couplers so now both of them have Dapol one end a d Microtrains the other. This new loco also has found and it's as good as the HO ones so I am now considering changing over to DCC but that won't happen for a while yet. Edited August 6, 2013 by roundhouse 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted September 14, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 14, 2013 A very long journey last night to get to Sutton Coldfield but be managed to get a pint before bed time. At least we had a bit of a lay in this morning before heading off to the town hall o set the layout up at the German Railway Society show. Layout running fine and the Dapol Easy shunt couplers seam to be working fairly well with the Microtrains couplers although we haven't tried to do much uncoupling over the magnets yet. A few photos taken today. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted September 14, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 14, 2013 A few shots of the yard whilst a bit of shunting takes place 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted September 14, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 14, 2013 A couple more shots, one of the fiddle yard at one end of the layout showing a line up of locos awaiting its turn on the layout plus a photo of a new addition to the fleet. This Bardotka is fitted with Dapol Easy shunt couplings Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNCF stephen Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 It was nice to see the layout in he flesh. I had been looking forward to seeing his one for some time nod it did not disappoint. It was a shame I di not have longer to spend at the show. Here a few pictures I managed to capture. Stephen 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted November 8, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 8, 2013 Smrzovka will be at Tolworth Showtrain this weekend. In the past we have used PC screens etc to display photos of the real location but we have found that many dont relate the photos to the layout (didnt htnk our modelling was that bad ) as viewers often ask if the layout is based on a prototype. With other layouts we have used folders containing printed phots and that tnedsto get more viewing than the screens. So for this show (and future shows) a folder has been created with photos track plans and timetable. It will be placed on top of the fiddleyard so viewers can browse at their liesure. We now have another loco with sound fitted, although not all the sounds will be available as we run the layout with conventional DC. Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted November 9, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 9, 2013 Layout was loaded into car last night then spent some time doing more glazing in the class 854 railcar and again this morning. Still a few panes to do but it's a big improvement after doing nothing on this unit for a few years. Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonhall Posted November 9, 2013 Share Posted November 9, 2013 See you there. Jon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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