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Im still waiting for my two but that does look very nice how long is a 9 car? I really need to make a start on my own layout (although I have a little one on the way in two weeks so how likely that is is another question).

Can you even list an item on eBay you technically don’t have?

That 68 looks so nice and sounds great, with your video and the real ones going past my window I’m finding it more and more harder to resist getting one.

I opened this topic up on page 4 having not seen it before and when I saw your 50 I thought it was O Gauge with the amount of detail, so to learn its 4mm I am in awe, inspirational stuff thanks for sharing.

Not sure why people are complaining about the owners advertising on their own site, i’d rather that than pay a membership fee. It would be nice to have a little more info on the compressor and airbrush, I might be tempted as I’m after something that isn’t as nosiy as my current compressor so I can do weathering at night when the little one has gone to bed. I do find the picture and statement that I can buy everything Phil used a little misleading, the photo shows lifecolour thinners but they are not included in the list, unless they have of course been missed off by mistake.

I’m with you that sounds pretty sweet, I may have to pinch your idea in the future.

The space saving of helix looks great, would I be right in thinking that the helix climb will lead to a run behind the backscene so the left helix feeds the right hand scenic side and vice verse? (If you understand what I mean).

Thanks Mike, that’s good to know. As for sending orders I think we can all appreciate the hard work you and Ben have put into this project and I for one certainly won’t be grumbling I’m not the first to receive my order and have to wait a little longer.

I imagine this has been asked before but for those of us who have moved do we need to do anything to make sure our delivery address is right? Or will you use the current address on our account? Thanks James

I phoned Hornby and changed cv’s as suggested but to no avail, I have four tts decoders, one is in the railroad fitted 31, and the others are the solo 37, 47 and 60 chips. Only the 60 goes at slow speed the others all share the same slow running stutter issue. I will be returning the offending chips for reprogramming. As for postage I’m paying to return but I assume Hornby will pay to send back.

I’m glad you mentioned this issue I ran my 37 around a bit of test track yesterday and put the stutter down to dirty track. Trying again today mine appears to have the same symptoms as others mentioned on here so I too shall be contacting Hornby.

Those containers look fantastic particularly the GESeaco, if it wasn't for the surface it sits on I'd struggle to tell it was a model.

She certainly won't haha, still think the men's needs a pile of nuts magazine's on top of the cistern. I forgot all about the freezer, will certainly have to rectify that, but I don't know if I have enough bits in my scrap box to represent all of Mr G's various stored items in his storage lockup, sorry water tank room.

It is 4mm, I'm just trying to recreate how I remember the box, downstairs will not be near as detailed as I very rarely ventured into the S&T's mess except for testing the fire alarm, same for the interlocking room. The areas I have done will be seen through the various windows and skylights, I'm also considering making the roof removable.

Work on the upstairs interior detail has been going strong and I have now completed the corridor side of the floor. I laid the kitchen out as I remembered it building the cupboards, cooker, fridge and sink from thin card folded into various box shapes. A few small pieces of detail,can also be seen, the tap is a staple and there is various bits of spare plastic kit parts that make up the kettle and saucepan, with a few dirty plates left lying around. To complete the kitchen scene I added various other details inclusing the bin and a piece of Airfix station platform fence to represent the radiator. I added shelves above the sink and used a chopped up cotton bud to represent the various cups that where kept on the shelve and hung above the sink, it must be time for another cuppa as two mugs sit next to the kettle. The kitchen table is an old one from a kit master kit with some new legs. The chairs are made from a platform bench that I chopped down and added legs to. The final part of the corridor side is the Men's and Women's toilet, things are very tight and trying to get a good photo was proving a tad difficult, but you can make out the various signage and door handles. The detailing in these rooms is very small and my iPhone couldn't quite focus but hopefully you can make out what I've done. This is the men's loo with a coat hanging on the pegs, electric heater and loo roll on the wall. This is the ladies, the sink comes from an old kit master kit the tiles are drawn on thin card and the mirror is clear acetate with humbrol no.56 painted on the back. And no toilet would be complete without a toilet. These are made up of various card components with the bowls made from th off cuts of two posts that I have hollowed out (with a bit of glue n glaze to make the water) I used to work with a chap who spent an awful lot of time in one of these small rooms, seems his 1:76 equivelant is doing the same!

I thought that might be in the spanner in the works, although why anyone would want the new GWR electrification masts, you wouldn't be able to see your trains there so thick (not to mention ugly).

Just playing devils advocate but what about an accurate crowdfunded cantenary?

Thanks Graham I'll have to look into that, it looks very smart. That was my thoughts in regards to the scenic break the advantage of using Banbury Lane as a basis for a scenic break is you can have an abrupt end to the scene without having to model a cutting as the rising land around the line is man made for the new bridge to replace the level crossing with the surrounding area being mostly flat.

Looking like a good start and I must ask where did you get that lovely royal train from? Name wise maybe a bit too south for your layout but I take the little one to Banbury Lane just off the A5 north of Towcester to watch the pendo's go by maybe something along those lines, could work for a name?

Work has started on the ops floor, I've started with the corridor wall, marking out where the doors will go and then moving on to the doors. The doors to the Panel room have windows above, I decided to use thin card folded on itself with the frame cut out one half and the door on the other, using two of the these to sandwich clear acetate to make the full assembly. All four doors for the corridor done, I found a video on YouTube of the Panel being removed from the building and noticed the kitchen and corridor door didn't have bottom windows! So these where filled in with some plastic putty and filled down. The store cupboard doors are just one piece of card folded on itself. All have various door handles and the entrance to the Panel has the various no unauthorised signage added to it. The doors where inserted into the wall, I'm not sure why but the store cupboard end bowed up from the floor thus the butchering above the frame and the puddle of glue, I'm not to fussed as the the ceiling is at the top of the frames and the floor will be covered. With the doors in place I moved on to the cleaners cupboard, in the panel the wall in cupboard had an old notice board with a very worn ordnance survey map of the Swindon area. I've tried to recreate the same here, using various brown and grey alcohol markers to age the map and then using my smallest fineliner to draw the map. When everything is together the chances of seeing this detailing through the window is going to be small but I still went for it, I find it quite fun adding little bits like this. The vacuum cleaner is made up of a vacuum cylinder from a kit with buffer heads for wheels and some thin brass strip bent to shape. I used a bit of square plastistrut for the boxes and the bottles on the top shelf are made from machine gun ammunition that was a spare part from an Airfix kit. I also added some door closers to the green doors, you can just see one above the kitchen door, I made this out of some spare brake wriging from a battered old kit. Next job will be the kitchen.

Very much so, that's where I'll be going for the photos of the interlocking room.

Hello Mr.H didn't know you where on RMweb

I've been moddeling in N Gauge for a few years now and whilst awaiting my new pendolino will continue to do so for some time. I enjoy moddeling in N Gauge, its advantage of long trains in scenery is great, but recently I've been wanting to build in a bit more detail and I've been thinking about the longer term, what would be more ideal collection to have later in life, the answer of course is O Gauge, but as there's no guarantee I'd be able to fit a full size four track Mainline circuit into any future abode, it would probally be best if I went with OO. So recently I've starting planning for the future and have been building up a collection of 80s and 90s stock for a layout that will be based around my fondest memories of the railway. But whilst I can't start on the construction of the layout right now there is no reason why I can't start building other bits for it and so I decided to build something I've been intending to build for some time, the first signal box I worked, Swindon Panel. I was at Swindon for four years and typically I didn't take a single photo of the outside, so working with a photo from my old training plan and few shots I managed to search out on line and using my memory for the the bits I couldn't find I sketched out a plan. The size is not going be exact to the model but I managed to count brick courses and using my memory of the size of rooms I worked out a not to far off size. So with a rough estimate of size and with the use of my source material I got the biggest sheet of mount board I could find and began marking up... I've started with Panel Room and half of the relay room on the ground floor, at first I wasn't convinced I had got the measurements right but I decided to go ahead and if it looked wrong I could always start again. Once the walls where folded I was more convinced... So I moved onto the upstairs floor marking out the various rooms, I may have got the width of the building a little short as there should be a bit more space between the office and the corridor but it's only a couple of (scale) feet too short so I can live with that. I intend to make the interior upstairs fully detailed, showing the box the way I remember it and if possible create a representation of the relays downstairs, fortunately the Swindon Panel society have a few photos I can use for that part.

I love Star Wars, I always have but this film is not only a terrible Star Wars film it's a terrible film in genral, it's too long and there are far too many plot holes and sub plots that go no where. The forced humour destroys the tension of what is meant to be a dark film and the jedi now seem to share powers with the wizard community of Harry Potter. How can Rey know so much of the force when she only learnt she had the power halfway thorough the last film, this film follows immediately on from TFA so she has even had her power for a week, yet appears to be more powerful than Yoda? The treatment of Luke Skywalker is an insult (not even mentioning that milk scene), this is not the character we last saw in Jedi, he goes to murder his nephew in his sleep without confronting him when he only suspects he's gone dark, the same person who turnd Vader back to the light? And why would he hide, Luke has always fought for what he thought is right, he ignored Yoda and Obi-Wan just to save his friends from Vader but won't stand up to the first order to defend the galaxy? And at the end he dies of exhaustion at the age of 54! Someone that strong in the force. The slow chase through space, why didn't the first order send a couple of Star destroyers into hyperspace to get ahead so they could flank the rebels? Why do the rebels have just three capital ships? why is there no fighter escorts? Why didn't the first order just send wave after wave of tie fighters to destroy the ships after the rebels just destroyed a dreadnaguht with essentially an xwing and the galaxy's slowest moving bomber. The casino planet sub plot was just an utter waste of time it achieved nothing apart from getting some more rebels killed. And the cast of Annie as slave children just didn't fit. As for Snoke? They kill him off without giving us any back story, I've seen a lot of people try to defend this move with the argument we didn't know anything about the Emperor in the original trilogy but that only had a film history of 3 films, this film has a history of 8 other films and not one of them tells you how someone so powerful in the force went undetected through the entire rise and fall of the empire or how he managed to build a new empire. But his death also contradicts Jedi as Luke could have killed the Emperor in exactly the same way. There is so much more wrong with film I could be here all night. I know everyone has there own opinion and some would have liked this film (fair enough) but all I saw was one of my favourite things die a slow and painful death.

Look forward to seeing this one, I'm in the same boat I need to get something started for when my pendo's turn up. Jimmy