Donington Road

Sometimes a reboot of the old flip flop can work wonders when you get a problem.

Well done Andy. I had just written out the instructions and done some screen shots how to sign into YouTube, came back here to post and you had done it. Video is good by the way.

Maybe best to delete your first post and amend your last one so there is no confusion

There's going to be a lot of jittery BRM modellers out there, who having seen your previous incarnation, were counting on their survival by taking refuge in your new non-destructive bunker in the event of nuclear war.

Have you seen the photos of John's Hintock Quay today? If Trebudoc Quay comes anywhere near that Andy you will can no longer claim to be Mr Bodgit.

Those 12 pane windows look far more realistic. They give the whole building a more substantial look, as if it was not imposing enough in the first place. Well worth the effort

I like that idea of keeping the cables taut and it looks very neat as well Also just noticed the glue gun has been used to good effect.

You would be amazed at what some people are prepared to pay, especially those who have plenty of money, mainly because they can't be bothered to do it themselves. I had a client in Jersey who needed a new circuit board(£160) fitting to a set of motors. I asked them to get their local electrician to do it and I would give him the instructions of what to do, a simple job with the right tools, that would take about an hour to do. They were adament that I should do it myself even thought the cost incurred was two days travelling, one night in hotel and ferry costs which came to around £1400. So I took my wife with me and we made a cheap one weeks holiday out of it, all the the sake of about two hours work in the end. Another one was a customer in Yeovil who needed two batteries changing, a do it yourself job, remove four screws holding a cover, replace the batteries, screw cover back on, ten minutes to do and back home again, 400 mile round trip, £400 inc the £18 batteries.

Its only fair that if you have a day off then we can too

Nice build Mike Just right for delivering my favourite fruit cake Now, what would your recommended wagon be for transporting the Stilton Cheese that goes with the fruit cake

That's dedication, by the 10th saw cut I think I would have gone mad. Well done, it will look good when all the levers are inposition.

That's the way Andy :sungum:

I see it like this, click to enlarge, 800 pixel thumbnails. If I click the bottom picture it then enlarges to 1700 pixels in width. I do not have to scroll horizontally.

Yes, I do know the difference. At 100% the original will print or need a computer screen of 43x24 inches to see it in its full glory. The reduced photo at 100% comes out at 16x9 inches. Do the majority of people on this forum who like general photographs of the railway scene really want mega pixel photos that they are going to have to scroll around? I think not. If I wanted to see a larger photo to glean some extra detail then a polite email to the photographer asking if they would supply the original or give a link for its whereabouts would IMO suffice. Tony's photos are usually 2000 pixels in width which I find just about right on my screen for general viewing - I would not want larger, but it would be interesting to know what other people think of that size when they view on small screens. After enlarging the thumbnail does scrolling get to a point where it becomes a pain and the viewer no longer enlarges the thumbnail and just accepts the smaller image within the body of text?

There you go Phil, it's now only 240kb file size, can you tell any difference from the original?

It was a single oven Don with a gas hob. It did need its own cable, if just to keep it off the ring main which had other heavy load stuff, but 45amp was way over the top.

Oh too true, she keeps going on about a new bathroom at the moment, nothing wrong with the not so old one. The tin bath has got no holes in it and the outside loo is cosy Why do they buy so many gadgets that they deem as being the best thing since sliced bread, then they never see the light of day again once they are out of their packaging

I fitted a new kitchen a few years ago and needed to change the position of the cooker socket and put in a new ring main. The fuse box is near the front door and kitchen at the back of the house, so while the floor boards were up upstairs I decided to put in a seperate 45amp cable just for the cooker as well as the 30amp ring for new sockets. The new cooker arrived and it was fitted with a 13amp plug.

Mmmm Is it going to be flexible enough? What about bridging the lift out section? Are you going up and over the door or across the floor to continue the bus with flexi-track? You will have to solder each length together. Will expansion cause a problem? You place droppers from the layout track very frequently to avoid voltage drop. So why does the bus (track) underneath not need more feeds? Sorry, don't mean to be negative, but Bitton is a large run.

That is an interesting list of the 300 series routes. I remember a lot of them now that my memory has be jogged.

The people with very good eyesight see the outside world differently to those with poorer eyesight. Larry's comment about things being fairly sharp within 14 feet on his model is ok but that equates to around a 1000 feet in the real world. If I go outside and look down the road to 1000 feet things start to get blurry with little definition. On a very dry day with daylight from the back of me then objects twice that distance will have far more definition. Go to a hot and dry summers day and heat haze starts blurring objects less than 500 feet away. So atmospherics plays a large part in successful depth of field. One of the reasons that most professional landscape photographers take their shots in the early morning when the air is clearer of turbulance and lighting is less harsh. Another aspect of how much depth of field should be portrayed is the angle of shot of the subject. Take the two helicopter shots that Tony took a few days ago from the M&GN bridge. A high angle and the full length of LB without doubt needed the maximum depth of field to portray the subject matter. The two recent head on photos of the A4, IMO need far less depth of field, beyond the footbridge in both should have been slightly out of focus. Bringing the camera around to a position between the signal box and the goods shed then depth of field needs to be increased again. IMO it is not just model railway photography that is trying to emulate the real thing. Far too much emphasis is placed on using software unnecessary to try and fool the human brain into seeing what the photographer thinks we need to see rather than the brain deciphering what we percieve to be true. Photostacking can work but it can be difficult to achieve good results when there are a lot vertical and horizontal straight lines, which seem to abound on model railways. Stacking on an outside landscape photo with undulating hills and pretty scenery can be much more successful. Andy R's photo of the point shows how careful you need to be when photostacking, as his photo shows there is out of focus patches from top to bottom within the photo itself. Reducing file sizes to post on this forum; how many are doing it the correct way and using the right software? Most model railway photos will have quite a large file size, much larger than the 1MB limit imposed here on BRMweb. The majority of software reduces file sizes by eliminating pixels thus degrading to some extent the quality of the original photo. Then, we are all viewing on different size screens, so the final output of someones photograph is going to look at lot different to a lot of people. Viewing any Gamston Bank photo fills my 23 inch screen with a fine clear defined view, but Davidw viewing them on his mobile phone screen sees nothing but distortion because the pixels are being squished up. So, I think at the end of the day we will all agree to disagree with depth of fields, post processing and photo trickery. I just feel thankful that we have the technology to see such a variety of model layouts in all their wonderful guises and converse with complete strangers on this absorbing hobby without moving away from a computer screen. And a final note to those publishing layout photographs in the magazines, spend less time doing photoshoppery for the sake of it and please do not saturate the colours so much.

Something to start you off, perhaps not the right model number The Crescent Bridge carried the A47 trunk road through the villages of Longthorpe, Castor, Ailsworth, probably Sutton, to Wansford and beyond. 310 service to Upton just off A47 http://www.sct61.org.uk/ec189 http://www.sct61.org.uk/index/operator/ec http://www.sct61.org.uk/

can you really say that

A right proper man cave, yeah I'm jealous That old sectional garage just wouldn't have cut the mustard however much you'd tried to patch it up and insulate it.

Thanks Jock. I just thought there might still be a few fuzzy heads about today that needed a bit of guidance