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Project 1 was built without much thought and as a consequence ended up way too tall! I had the pipes sticking up (so I have now rotated the load so they point down) and it had tall support structures on top of the bogie beds (so I hacked it up and remade them {shorter}. My skitt with project 1 has now been re-assembled with lower brackets. I guess it looks slightly better, but is still 3mm too tall for my bridge! lol

The special load is now complete (ish), I may do some tweaks to the angle of dangle of the wings......

Not much to report on, but a few more guides have been added, two special wagons for oversize loads that I have created are done and I will upload pics very soon. On a recent holiday to Turkey, I accidentaly discovered that I was very near to a great train museum! Çamlık Steam Locomotive Museum is an outdoor railway museum at Çamlık village of Selçuk district in Izmir Province, near Kusadasi in Turkey. It is the largest railway museum in Turkey and contains one of the largest steam locomotive collections in Europe (33+ engines) Wikipedia I only spent 2 hours there (in scorching 35 degree heat) but took lots of photo's and have uploaded them to Flikr You can clamber into all the cabs (your allowed to), I was the only visitor at the time, it was basically deserted. Pretty good write up here I took a load of video (mostly inside the carriages) that will take some time to edit and I will eventually post on youtube.

Thanks for pointing out the broken links! I have added packing cases and thus have made a new page called shop for future additions and in the process the page names had changed. Let me know how you get on.

Still waiting on some feedback as to if theses are any use? Has anyone printed any? Found them useful? I would be happy to configure more if you feed back what you want!

Layout has taken a slight backseat, while I do two projects as a competition (it's justs a bit of fun, mostly a good spur on to get something finished) on another forum. I have chosen to make two special load wagons. Totally freelance scratch build, Lumsdonia style (no prototype to follow). Project 1 is still in pieces, so will show later, Project 2 is nearly complete except for the load, it's loosely based on a schnabel principle, as the load forms the middle connecting section.

Thanks Kev Nice to know the site layout is working well I originally created a spreadsheet many moons ago to store all the collected useful weblinks I had found, not trusting the favourites of a webbrowser program, as I have gone through half a dozen PC's over the years and things like that tend to get lost. I recently 'shared' my list as a webpage on my website for the benefit of others. I had to tidy up the contents and formalise the content so it made sense and was factual and up to date before I went live. Thus only those I had verified and fully expanded, made it to the site. Prompted by a forum member, I noticed signage was not a category in the links page and on checking my spreadsheet, I noticed there was a category but with only one lonely link! So, I have done some research and compiled a more realistic list, which I can now share with you. LINKS When I originally did my research, I noted that none of those available, are 're-sizable', therefore those modelling Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch may have a problem fitting the name in , plus the top and bottom areas are not populatable! Thus I produced my own excel spreadsheet that overcomes these problems, I may yet tidy it up and publish it one day

Two more "How to's" added, the list is growing and there are a lot more that need writing up that will come soon. Buffers Coach Lighting Gate crossing (New) Industrial Lamp shades Lamp post base (New) Post spike UTP How to clicky

Cheers SHMD I have bit the bullet and started a new thread in "Websites" http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/133256-lumsdonia-website/ Hopefully might get some feedback this time!

I am an Electrical Design Engineer with a large house and a departed family, heading toward my twilight years, I am re-invoking my long lost hobbies of electronics and model railways. I built my first layout in the 70’s in a shed in the garden, a 6ft x 4ft effort that started the ball rolling while i was at school. The second incarnation was an end to end affair some 15ft long by 18ins wide in my friends loft. The third was a rehash of the seconds boards in my siblings house. There was then a pause for the fairer sex, marriage and a family. Next came the resurgence in the form of a new layout at my current abode, with some influence that it was for “the little ones”, a 16ft long by 30in wide board was erected. The little ones became big, and I was persuaded to relinquish the spare room for teenager “personal space”. Eventually they wanted “personal space” and moved out! The room once again became the train room and soon a new 10ft 6in by 4ft layout was constructed, on the premise it was for the “little one”, a later addition! That was 8 years ago! Work away from home has given me little time to indulge my hobbies at home, but has been a means of giving spare time to buy huge quantities of stock and materials to create a monster layout! Recent events have allowed me time to design phase 2 and I have started documenting it in my website LUMSDONIA HOWEVER, my involvement in another forum and my unusual (for my age) dexterity with PC's and the web (I have had a website for 20 years) has led to the development of a website for my musings and general spasmodic updates about my layout. But over the last year or two, it has rapidly become a Model Railways resource of info! I also have a complimentary Youtube channel, mostly about investigating new animated features for my layout. Sections include my layout, guides for beginners, ever expanding "How to's", tips, glossary and guides and even a shop section of FREE downloadable pdf's Happy to field any questions comments good or bad.

I now have a 'How to' section , on my website Lumsdonia. with 3 more pages for your delectation. I am beginning to to think it's not worth posting on this thread, as I have got no response from anyone for 3 years!

I now have a tips section 700 of Scratch building, on my website. Having got my head around the Arduino language and written a fairly sophisticated program for a 4 barrier level crossing, I was so pleased with my attempt at programming, that I thought I would share the functionality as a video in the form of a simulator on my PC. The actual barrier is well under way in construction and will soon debut as video in the near future. Don't forget to give me some feedback and any tips or nuggets of inspiration are always well received and may well make it onto the Lumsdonia website.

Finally got round to writing up all the data on coach lighting. When I finally get round to making my own (DCC anti-flicker with LDR), I will document the process, release the circuit and maybe make a video. I have a few more experimentations to do to the final circuit, before I start the mass conversion of my stock! New webpage in guides called Coach lighting

Not sure how to progress on the forum? Should I start a thread in "Layouts"? or can mods move this out of "New members"? Also noticed there is a "website" category, would it be OK to start a new thread on there, to plug my website Lumsdonia? (I don't sell anything) I am not sure how many "New modellers" use this forum, but my website was originally for my musings, but has rapidly progressed into a repository of reference data and useful stuff for beginners and old hands alike!

There is now a snazzy new picture slide on the Lumsdonia front page, with some never before seen piccies to wet your appetite! Have I not mentioned my YouTube channel until now? I have recently added an intro vid, hopefully displaying my humorous side and dont skip the credits if you hate missing out on all the treats!

Another update done to the Lumsdonia website and now have most of the links page populated Transfers, Turntables,Tutorials,Video/DVD, Wagon kits, Weathering Links now all live

That's very gracious of you Allen, thank you, but i dont think "Printing tarps" will become a best selling thriller novel!

I believe canvas is off white/beige if undyed. My research shows that soot is involved with oil to make them black/waterproof! I can print any RGB colour! What shade of grey would you like Sir? I will maybe add a complete set later that are dark grey The ECC tarps really were light blue, way back before the invention of plastic ones!

Using a laser printer is a nono! They come out shiney and when scrunched, the ink cracks and shows white! I use a standard (home) colour inkjet printer (HP) and ordinary paper. Use best print quality, it will put more ink on, so will make the paper '"wet", but it then sinks in, and when scrunched hardly shows any white.