Craigs Hornby Upgrades

Turbomotive Conversion

11 hours ago, atom3624 said:

I was just thinking that that floor's spotless - good job!

Is the cab lighting really that 'red' and no flicker?

Looks an interesting locomotive.

Wheelslip with 4 carriages, even if they were Pullmans - is traction a limiting factor?

Al.

Yes the cab light as fitted is really that red. Traction is quite poor around the bends. I was thinking of adding some liquid traction tyres on one wheel each side to improve it without compromising the pick ups.

10 hours ago, paftrain said:

Ok, I’ll bite - what sound decoder have you used? It sounds very similar to a Hornby Class 66 TTS that I fitted to my Bachmann 66.

Absolutely correct, closest I could think of that had a whine close enough to a Turbine.

15 minutes ago, sandwich station said:

 

Don't think they had flashing tail lamps in those days.  

Endulge me !

Heres mine, out the box and fitted with Hornby TTS.

Don't know if you have all seen this old photo. A great image of the GT3

Here we go, an update to my "GM" GT3. The directional lighting with matching sound when changing direction. Just pleased I didn't run it off the end of the kitchen unit.

Class 66...sound is good enough for £46 and to be honest the horns, whistles and other sound files are better than the loksound 5.

Brilliant, I just read all 91 pages, well actually from 73 onwards. You all are certainly an entertaining bunch. Nothing wrong with passion, but as one of the other members mentioned, we are talking about models here. So play nice. I joined because I was one of those who bought direct from KR Models on ebay, one of those left overs. So despite all the valid  comments I love the engine... I had a Hornby TTS decoder sitting around so bought a 21 pin to 8 converter and installed it.  I did a video on YouTube, see the link below. Now since then I have added a capacitor stay alive to the TTS to overcome the drop outs and it's working lovely.. I actually quite like the lights. But thats just my personal opinion.