Moley48

Hi all, We have come to a stop on our layout and really need some help regarding the making of a believable scene on a certain area of the layout. The area in question has a double mainline that passes very low over a single track (branch line). There is also the heritage line which is nearby but is not really of concern. I guess I'm looking to find somewhere in real life that we can semi-replicate that has the two mains over a very low brick/stone tunnel mouth. I'm half expecting I need to make a mess and cut the baseboard for the branchline and set it lower but I'm hoping someone might have a better solutions. PS. I noticed Heaton Lodge has something similar to this but at an acute angle. Our main lines pass straight across the branch at almost right angles. Thanks in advance. David

I had a chance to run the loco in this morning on the rolling road as instructed in the manual and it runs lovely and smooth on the track. Very happy! I could hear the gearset /motor smoothing out as it was running on the Rolling road. So anyone who is having poor running I urge you to try Rapidos running in procedure first, if you havn't already. :)

Got too much going on at the moment to concentrate on the railway and trains but I'm happy with the 15xx I have recieved. It's as clean as the Accurascale manor we have with only very minor glue blemishes in one or two places tops even under close up inspection. It's a good little model and I will be buying more rapido locos in the future.

It's only because it's of no interest to him. 😜 I don't want one so nobody can have one. In all serious all ideas are valid ideas and it's up to AS what they do next. 🤣

I'm not sure if something is missing from our 1501 but the firebox glow just looks like two LEDs poking through the firebox opening. EDIT: Nothing to see here. Good loco. Issue with the thing attached to the end of the controller.

Agreed. It protects the box.... And I like a tidy box. Ooh err missus!

Bagnall 0-4-0st Alfred and Judy. Would look great pulling a couple of modified mineral wagons with wooden bench seats.

Fitted the sound decoder to our manor yesterday evening. It's a little better than I expected @Harlequin Given the size of speakers. It could do with being a little louder but not by much. However what is not so ok is the vibration transmitted from motor at very low speed to the driving wheels. It ruins the immersion of the train pulling away. I don't want to send it back instead want to ask if anyone else has had this issue and did you manage to solve it? I don't mind tinkering.

You just beat me to it.. Same here!

I'd like to see something like a 317, 321 or maybe even a 310. Would be nice to see AS produce an EMU of some description.

Thats ok. However I think the bottom pic was 1994 or slightly earlier. The top pic I've just realised is from a batch of photos when I was about 7 or 8 which would be 89/90.. I loved visiting Didcot as a kid. Different times even then. Burton agnes Hall, Duke and always said hello to Bonnie prince charlie :) My dad is the real railway guy. His dad was a signalman at gleneagles and lived in a house right at the station for about 5yrs.

Sorry Captain Kernow and melmerby. My post was a little insensitive.. and Captain, I fully agree with the proportions on the AS Manor they really shine in that department. .....and now for something Manor related. This must have been early nineties at didcot. Gives away my age a little. We could have looked happier I know..

Sorry, I meant Fusion 360.. Not fusion3d. 🙄 This is a pic of a pannier I was working on last year. Still to finish but something like this is achievable for the amateur "cadder" like myself using line drawings of the real thing and learning a few tools within the cad software. Printing it successfully on the other hand. Might be a little trickier.. Also keeping with the thread I have to say accurascales manor and the 37 take the best photos of anything in our loco fleet. The proportions and dimensions are so close now. As someone who is looking forward to photographing on our layout come the time I can only look forward to more great scale models from AS.

3d printing is so accessible now that for the price of a new model loco, you can have a 3d print setup that will replicate what Sam has produced. You can buy or produce your own items if you are prepared to learn a new skill. It's not difficult and the software is free. I use fusion3d personal edition and I think Sam used SketchUp. I'm self taught in CAD and even know how to orientate an object like an open wagon so it doesn't sag during printing ;) It's all easy stuff with plenty of knowledge on the subject available. It's just another avenue of model creation to go down.

This will be our first steam loco with sound. Once the sound decoders arrive.. I'm not convinced sound is worthwhile on steamers but gonna give it a try. I hope to be proved wrong. I personally think It needs the space in the loco for two speakers one being an em2 to add the big sound of a larger steam loco and space constraints dont allow this @ OO. We have a class 68 with coastal DCC's sound file and an em2 which produces enough bass to vibrate the whole layout and without distorting which is a bit of a mind game when you hear this little thing thumping round the track. Although I had to mill the chassis down quite a bit to install the EM2. It would be great to find something equally as impressive for steamers at this size but I doubt its possible and know that accurascale would have done their best they could with the space available.

That is along similar lines (pardon the pun) to what our layout should look like. Although we have our mainline up on and embankment with an access road between that and what will be out preserved railway centre.

It certainly would! We might even be extra greedy and have a narrow gauge running somewhere on the layout too!

Although by no means strict policy. Our layout should allow for quite a broad range of locos without looking out of place. Our preserved railway will have a didcot style engine shed and lots of track work to hold a fair amount of stock. The network main line will host operations from 80's to mid 00's also without looking out of place (well that's the plan). Mainline station is loosely based on Grantham station with an NSE flavour. Ultimately we are not too fussed about what gets run.

Looking forward to receiving 1501. I've been behind this engine a few times at SVR. There are so many nice new locos popping up lately I've given up trying to run a specific era or region.

Just an update - did a reset on the decoder and have ran the loco for over an hour so far. Super smooth and no large spikes on the ammeter. Strange how some ordinarily innocent CV tweaks might have caused an issue. We only changed the start voltage to 2, lowered the volume to 90. Then I just changed the acceleration and deceleration values to something more our taste.

Absolutely over the moon with this model.

Saint class? We need a Lady of legend on our layout :)

Absolutely love this Model Loco. It has been running perfect for the last couple of days but now it has developed a random surge of speed. I'm going to try the decoder reset in the hope that it makes everything OK again.

Two incredible Accurascale locos in the space of two weeks. 7808 is looking flawless can't wait to run it! I wish we ordered the sound version straight away,though. Nevermind only another week to wait for that, hopefully. I need to get our heritage line built along with a Didcot style engine shed to hopefully do this engine justice.