Grasshopper John

Just to confirm, I've just sent a superb piece on this loco over to design last night. Look out for it in the November issue of EiM!

Excellent News well done and well deserved Gary, Not familiar with EiM, Is that Engineering in Minature ???

Food for thought Martyn, Haven't done anything really apart from make a nice sturdy board for the Template and covered it with plastic, have fitted chairs to the stock rails but STILL waiting for the switch blades,

I have Butanone and brush at the ready to glue straight stock rail in place but just a bit reluctant ATM as I need to think about how to do it.

Looking Fantastic Martyn.

Fantastic work Martyn, Bout time only been waiting for this since Feb 2014

Crackin stuff Steve.

It looks good from here, bet it's really good in person.

Saw It at Telford Peter,it's beautiful, even had chance to speak to the man himself, Also had the chance to admire Mickoo's fantastic work but didn't get chance to meet him everything just had that 'shear quality' look about it.

Just come across this Thread, unbelievable modelling Allan. 

Gary, shame there isn't a Brilliant/Fantastic button, Hope you take up Phil's offer and get it published it's worth it.

Hello Matt, I'm no expert but wire in tube method manually changes the points by using point levers and cranks you push and pull to open/close the points.

I bought the lot from Andrew at Model Signal Engineer last week but the parts are the same as here:

http://www.lytchettmanor.co.uk/lytchett-manor/mercontrol---point-control

I've had to make Shackles and small connectors for the 'Pip' on the Peco point, and quite a bit of fettling on all the parts.

And my Test Track i've just completed is the same layout as yours, mine is 11' x 1' so my points are nearly 6' away from where I want to position the point levers.

HTH.

No the wires are not split Matt, you have 2 wires coming out of the control box, 2x positive and 2x negative In the illustration by Dutch Master take the Blue as + and Green as -

What a beauty, First time I've seen a thread on RM showing the finished article, did you do a build thread at all.

Lovely workmanship, Oh and make sure to make a video when you steam her up and post on here please.

Andrew, Install CCleaner on your PC and laptop and run it, it will clear all your cookies, temporary files,browsing history ect on both.

HTH

Have you got time off Peter, your really cracking on with this Build, In fact I would go as far to say your giving Ken (Jazz ) a run for his money

Not a big diesel fan Jinty, but boy do you bring them to life.

'A bit of progress', Ken, You do in one session what would take us mere mortals 3 days to accomplish

Almost there now Martyn, Inspirational workmanship my friend, Top quality.

Use a cocktail stick, simples.

Many thanks for all your 'likes' etc. Very much appreciated

 

Sandy

 

Well deserved Sandy IMHO

Superb workmanship again Peter.

It's coming Peter slowly though, Have been busy recently making a Test Track 10' x 1' two parallel lines with 2 points in the middle, just waiting to get some wire now.

You clever old Git, no end to your talent, CN is really coming along nicely now Martyn, lovely workmanship.

Sooner or later that bar you keep raising is going to touch space Brilliant as always Peter.

Good luck Marc,

I started volunteering on the La'al Ratty last year, I picked this up from the preservation society, a very good little book with lots of pics.

HTH.

Hello Tim, and welcome back. Personally I would have painted the Number plate on the smokebox before fitting, Took me a good few attempts to get the black background and white numbers.

I can see light at the end of the tunnel now