legomanbiffo

My congrats - its hard to impress me, but after that I was..... Many thanks for that David. After hearing some mundane and other frankly poor commercial offerings I decided some time ago to go my own way. I bought a Lokprogrammer and I've never looked back. It's good to have complete control over the sounds and loco performance. Recording your own sounds is just another way of going out and having fun on the railway. I've been pleasantly surprised with the co-operation I've received from everyone I've approached to do them. I borrowed my Dad's video camera and video'd the first tranche of projects which I'm posting bit by bit (see below). I'll borrow it again and post the rest of the stuff I promised asap. I was minded to offer a service for bespoke sound projects but I'm not sure whether there would be any interest. Anyway, here's some more stuff to whet the appetite... A demonstration of the neutral section I've incorporated into all my AC electric projects (81, 86, 87, 90, etc) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC-eEPD4JXE& Class 56 with custom bass reflex speaker and custom sound project. I'm interested to hear what people think of this in comparison to Hornby's offering http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47a_ECwLHwc& Class 25 with custom bass reflex speaker and custom sound project http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LZIr7twprc&

Well, here's my first post on You Tube & RMWeb; A Hornby Eurostar fitted with Loksound chips in both power cars, featuring sounds I recorded myself at Temple Mills. There's a fairly comprehensive description of the sounds on You Tube so I won't elaborate here. Regarding the modelling; it uses the standard Hornby motor pushing from the rear. I had intended to remotor but having tweaked the motor setting CV's it's remarkably good and the gain would hardly be worth it. I've added head and tail lights, retaining the standard Hornby lens unit. The eagle-eyed will notice the non-standard coaches - the Cafe Bar and Train Manager's coach - both converted from the Hornby supplementary coach pack using the Hurst kit. The real thing has two of each of them and loads more articulated coaches but I'm getting there... I'll upload parts 1 & 3 (startup and shutdown sequences) asap. There'll be more one, two and three-chip videos to follow (Voyager, Pendolino, APT, 91 + DVT etc) when I can find time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mrQq3NPOsM