Mike_Lock

Hi again smoke unit all installed, works brilliantly posted a video of her on test bench on youtube

I bought the engine ready built bit looking pretty wrong and with basic moulding .http://www.flickr.co...0ck/7166175657/ But I always had the intention of stripping it and repainting / super-detailing etc so I wasn't worried Good thing with it being a Jeavons model is you can do a lot of cutting / routing out without causing any loss in strength Re- the lights, I have red "marker" and white "headcode" lights in both ends (effectively 2 sets, wired 2 white to 2 red) so what the extra relay does is to sit connected to the reverse wire point (black wire) on the VTX main board, so when you select reverse from the hand controller, the black wire changes from 0v to 12v - this changes the relays on the VTX board to reverse the motors, but with the extra wire fed off it also activates that relay which alternates between the 2 sets of lights... if that makes sense ? now with the DMR in the mix it is obviously more 'sensitive' than the manual switch and thus the 12v were all going to the relay which was in effect competing with it -- so it wasn't sending power to the VTX relays to change direction It wasn't helped by the fact that the actual way the DMR was working (high and low volts on black wire) was opposite to how the guide said it did. plus the fact the chap from 4QD is, dare I say, "less than customer friendly" and not very helpful other than to assume I had wired it up wrong and blown it all sorted now, i just need to introduce another transistor to interact with that relay to switch it without upsetting the DMR !! The it will be on with fitting the smoke unit ! A vapouriser type which uses tap water and no heat at all - works amazingly well Look up Foggy units from http://marksmodelbits.com/ Tell him Mike sent you.... :-) I'm the first guy who's bought one of his units for model rail use.. but I suspect will not be the last once people see it in action

Hi Mark I'll crack on with it then.... I need to get some more weight into her to pull the Mk1's Dan Jeavons design of MDF box for teh body is great but there is no "chassis" in effect.. so she's a bit light in her feet Also need to get leisure batteries but again due to the build layout they need to be of same size as my normal car batteries and most seem to be larger than that :-( might have to make do with a 2nd set of car batteries... oh well Yes I'm using the DMR-203 - I did have a glitch where she wouldn't go into reverse, spent ages trying to work out why, and eventually got diagnosed as being due to a relay connected to the reverse wire on the VTX which is used to reverse the lights... so gotta modify that arrangement also but should be fairly easy all good fun !!

Hi Mark, thanks for the compliments yes the same methods as for smaller scale.... just with bigger brushes and airbrush ! I started off weathering 00/HO , then 0, then G and finally 5inch.... so far !!...... One day I must write up an article for GL5 or similar mag with all the works done on her from when I bought her, when she looked completely wrong got the R/C working now too, which was causing some issues up there (you may have seen us crowded round with the roof off scratching our heads), so come August I can ride the back of train and if double heading again there wont be a need to have a giant bloke in the middle ... all good

Hey Jonny, also missing, a good looking 37 - Loch EIl ??? ok, she looks a bit "grubby" but I'm not gonna clean her up now