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I am finding it difficult to understand how I should fit my WM1 adapter. The instructions are very thin, it's not helping me.. I would be grateful if someone could help me.

Greetings RMweb folk, I haven’t managed much railway modelling recently, but I treated myself to another grounded van for a farmer in Aberaeron. I was surprised that a floor for the van wasn’t in the kit, so I built one with plasticard, to ensure the van was square. As it will become a farmer’s shed, I used an unused station barrow crossing to be an easier ramp from the field to the van, using model filler to strengthen the joint. I painted the walls of the van with Vallejo neutral grey and decided to weather the roof with black painted paper representing roofing felt with the corner turned over, revealing the Vallejo medium brown representing the timbered roof. Further weathering added dirt and rust to the van then weeds and grass were added to the ground level and onto the roof as well as bird droppings, (lots of seagulls on the Welsh west coast.) The early build of felt being blown off the roof. The Finished build, although it might be enhanced by evidence of water flowing down the van sides. I hope the above isn’t too boring. No matter how fast technology advances, the world will always find a more advanced idiot.

We should follow the reasoning that exists in France, where parents are liable in law for being responsible for their children's actions. Unfortunately, when a head teacher, I discovered that many parents lost interest in their children at the moment of conception.

I have another picture of 5541, which I failed to post yesterday! Having crossed over onto the down line loop, the fireman has switched the turnouts back, ready for the next arrival of an up locomotive, 5541 moves gracefully in reverse to re-join its carriages. Today I have managed to build a grounded coach for worker’s tools and miscellaneous items that might come handy one day. I’m not sure whether I have gone too far with the weathering though! “They turned to look at the engine, which had come to a stop in a kind of human way, not all at once, but settling down like an old lady making herself comfortable in a favourite armchair, except that at that moment Iron Girder, the locomotive, blew out a hissing stream of shining water vapour, which does not normally happen with old ladies, at least not in public.” Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett

Greetings, RMweb folk, I have made little progress with Aberaeron, but I took my convalescent wife to visit the Forest of Dean, (which was painful for her on the terrible road surfaces). We visited the Forest of Dean Railway emporium in Norchard Station, seeking inspiration for my next layout. We heard the sound of 5541 lurking by the station and I managed to get a few photographs. 5541 waiting for the guide’s whistle. 5541 gently accelerating towards Parkend. We followed the sound of the train and caught up with it at Parkend. Having uncoupled from the carriages, 5541 gently crossed the level crossing. I hope my post is welcome. “There are two ways of doing things; The Great Western way and the wrong way, because one of mine will pull two of their bl**dy things backwards!" George Jackson Churchward.

Hi RMweb folk, my modelling has been put on one side, because two weeks ago my wife had five hours of surgery to remove a second bout of breast cancer and we have been a couple of crocks! I have managed to add a few items however. Based on a photograph taken in the 1920’s, I added a pile of spare ballast opposite the signal box, near the river Aeron. I have added Liquid Gravity to some wagons then covered them with a load of coal I hope that normal conditions will arrive soon! “Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom” Terry Pratchett Clearly not Railway modellers!

Thanks to cravensdmufan and Gilbert, I have been able to enjoy all of the sounds chipped in my loco’s. I have started to weather my kit built vans and wagons and added coal to some. A birds-eye view of my overcrowded station I re-painted Friesian cattle, to resemble early 19th century Welsh Black and ancient strains of Banded cattle, although the conformation is different; Friesians being built for milk production and the Welsh Black and Banded cattle are meat producers. I don’t think it is a real problem as they are grazing at the back of the scenery, behind the station. The farmer was keen to test the new Field Marshall Tractor which was delivered to Aberaeron by train. Railway modelling has been a great help to keep me calm after my heart attack. “Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.” “I come from a very old military family. One of my ancestors fell at Waterloo . . . someone pushed him off platform nine.” Eric Morecambe

I am delighted with the help and advice that the members above have posted for me. I am now able to use all of the sound Functions of my locos. I am also about to post the NCE registration. Many thanks to you all, you have made an old man very happy. "There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful." by Paul Simon An apt quotation, now I can hear all my locos with sound.

Thanks for the help cravensdmufan, just one question [for now!]:- Do the Functions remain as created above, in the Power Cab memory, or do I have to access the functions individually as I proceed?

I have battled to understand how to expand the Functions of my NCE Power Cab. The instructions in the reference manual hasn't enabled me to access the sound functions beyond Function 9. It is a waste of time buying expensive sound chips if you cannot use all the possibilities! The NCE web pages, like many companies have been written by experts expecting mere mortals to understand their gobbledy . I would welcome any advice from the fellows of RMweb.

"In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods. They have not forgotten this" Terry Pratchett

Bonjour RMweb folk, I hope today’s posting isn’t boring. This post is probably telling folk to suck eggs but my humble post may help someone! I am slowly attempting to add to Aberaeron. Kick starting myself; I searched my storage of planned kits to find a relatively simple item. I shuffled my layout baseboards so I could work easily with the two station boards. I decided to try and build the Wills level crossing; I cut the wooden planks between the track and the planks on either side into the correct sizes. I also cut the stone setts ramps on each side. My next task was to cut out two panels of each gate out and then glued the remaining three panels together. I bored the holes in the (plastic) stone setts for the gate posts, the hinged posts were kept free but the lock posts were glued to the stone setts ramps. As I had reduced the width of the gates there was no need to use the wire strengthening and the hanging post was shortened with the tops then rounded off. I painted the warning target discs with two coats of signal red gluing them into place, facing the road traffic in the centre of each gate. I have decided that the planks will also be placed next to the down station ramp allowing station staff to travel easily over the track onto the goods area. Unfortunately I discovered that the Wills kit didn’t have sufficient strength or significant depth of hinges to keep the gates in place! A friend of mine, a brilliant modeller, e-mailed the following philosophy:- “I have a feeling that I’ll be building my own gates but it’d never been my intention to have them operational. If I achieve a degree of realism, I’ll need at least the hint of a traffic jam on either side; how daft would it look if, when the gates opened to road traffic, nothing moved? Such scenes were characterised by something hardly less dramatic than the charge of the Light Brigade. OK, Lincoln is an extreme example but I’m never comfortable with even the bucolic scene of a solitary cyclist waiting patiently and still doing so through several openings and closings of the gates. For me, there’s a greater realism in permanently closed crossing gates, anticipating the next train to pass.” I sensibly glued the gates in place stopping road traffic across the track! Level crossing being checked for width. Why make life difficult when, with a little bit of thought, you can make it damn nigh impossible?

Bonjour, fellow model railway students and Dons of RMweb University. Crikey, taken to hospital with a heart attack on page 621 of “Castle Aching” and the parish publication had moved to page 640 after my surgery and returning home. Now I am struggling making sense of the latest iteration of the RMweb. I haven’t discovered a way to arrive at the post I last perused in each topic I follow. The current set up is so time wasting and eats into the small spare time available. Since my Coronary angioplasty I have found it hard to get motivated with my railway modelling. However, waiting up each morning I treat as a lucky bonus. I am grateful of the good wishes that RMweb parishioners posted to me, thank you all. I did manage to visit a model railway emporium in the Forest of Dean and cheered myself up with a flock of sheep. Although the pictures below are only a small improvement of my motivation I hope the pictures below aren’t too boring. A holiday excursion starts to leave Aberaeron “City of London” steadily gets up stream. The new flock of sheep seem oblivious of the train passing. As for me, except for my heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did. Robert Benchley (1889 – 1945) The worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades. Demetri Martin(1973 – )

Crikey, taken to hospital with a heart attack on page 621 and the parish publication has moved its records to page 640 after surgery and home. As for me, except for my heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did. Robert Benchley (1889 – 1945) The worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades. Demetri Martin(1973 – )

I just thought these quotations reflected the times we are experiencing in this divided nation. Thank goodness for model railways to maintain one’s sanity. "Politicians are like nappies, they should be changed regularly for the same reason." Patrick Murray “It’s no good telling the politicians to go to hell because they’re building it for us.” Les Dawson

A happy new year to all the dons and followers of RMweb. I think I must be suffering with post following fatigue, my good lady thinks by looking at other’s posts I am wasting model railway time; perhaps a case of too many brilliant posts and not enough time. To prove that some modelling has occurred, I have a couple of pictures as evidence. The crew seem to have abandoned their pristine Dean Goods. Perhaps fed up with the muck of steam and jealous of the railcar staff. I have completed a number of fences; the one nearest the track was built with matchstick posts and 0.4mm silver plated craft wire. Drilling the posts to thread the wire was tricky with a failure rate of about10%, but I think it was worth it. Now the streamlined railcar has moved on, perhaps the goods can depart, as long as the cattle haven’t strayed again, or are the crew still chasing them? “They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance” Terry Pratchett

A happy New Year, to all the contributors to the wonderful world of Castle Aching. Following your roof truss conversations; the Guesten Hall roof, of the Holy Trinity Church, formerly in Worcester, [before the planning vandals removed it,] now kept safe in Avoncroft Museum might be interesting. The Holy Trinity roof in situ The Holy Trinity roof saved in Avoncroft Close view of the intricate roof structure I hope this post is of some value to somebody. He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. Bertolt Brecht “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” Terry Pratchett

I am appalled by the narrow minded teacher you have to suffer with. Unfortunately, speaking as a retired head teacher, (I’m alright now), I was lucky to serve when initiative and lateral thinking of pupils was cherished. Even in my day there were teachers who were very pedantic in their work, usually they were people with no imagination and frightened of pupils who thought differently to themselves. "Educational" refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger Terry Pratchett

I have recently purchased an NCE Power Cab, which is making playing with my trains easier than using my Hornby Railmaster e-Link, as I can wander at will along the baseboard. Among my stock I have 3 Locos with LokSound chips. It seems sensible, for me to change the Function Mapping of these chips so that they use the same numeric button for each command; for example that all sounds are switched on with the same button and the birdsong etc. are switched by other, individual buttons. I have spent a lot of hours perusing the LokSound User Manuals and all I have understood, is that I am well out of my depth. I would be grateful if someone could advise me, either with instructions or recommendation(s) of suitable information in something like DCC sound for dummies. No matter how fast technology advances the world will always find a more advanced idiot. [Me?}

Absolutely Exquisite model, I'm in awe!

Is that Long John Saliva?

Bonjour, fellow model railway students and Dons of RMweb University. I have continued to build more fencing either side of the river banks near the front of the layout. When dry, I weathered the fences, with my homage to the seaside timber damage and gulls! I drilled the position of the fence posts through the main baseboard, which will aid keeping the removable baseboard in position. It was a nuisance checking that the drill bit and fence posts didn’t damage the copious cables under the baseboard. Mort had never heard the phrase “Pre-Raphaelite”, which was a pity because it would have been almost the right description. However, such girls tend to be on the translucent, consumptive side, whereas this one had a slight suggestion of too much chocolate. (Mort) by Terry Pratchett [i 'm grateful for the Pre-Raphaelite fans of RMweb.]

Now that I have been able to re-enter the forums of RMweb University, (now that the upgrading has been completed), my first call was an explanation of my tardiness, and the second call was for the wonderful world of “Little Muddle” which, as usual was a delight, from Post Page 117 to today’s 130.Thank you KNP for taking the time to allow us mere mortals ,to view shots of a cleverly modelled railway and also helping aspiring modellers, by clearly demonstrating how such detail work can be achieved.

I couldn't get the post to place the pictures in the correct position. Can someone enlighten me as to where I went wrong. I would welcome a way to remove it and start again?