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Very pleased with the undecorated 321.  Now to decide if I tackle the Greater Anglia livery myself or outsource to a professional.

Many thanks for the reply Bernard.  I see from your website a customer has created a Cl.48 from the old Farish mold which does show it is worth a bit of effort to update to model.  

I have an old style GraFar 57 (57011 in Freightliner Green Livery) that I am due to repaint into DRS livery which fits more with my layout time period.  It was picked up off eBay several years ago relatively cheaply and so I am using it is a learning tool for modifying my stock.  I have already undertaken the DCC conversion.

I appreciate it is quite a simple body and so will never match modern versions, but I think I can make a few improvements.  

The bogies however appear to be a bigger issue as they are very simplistic.  I have searched the internet and RMWeb but cannot see that anyone else has attempted to modify one of these models?  

If anyone has any experience, or has seen someone else undertake this, I would be grateful for links to any posts etc...

Thanks.

Embarrassed to post this but does anyone else have a layout looking like this!  

The frame was put together over a year ago but since then has become a storage for shelf for all manor of detritus. 

You can at least see why the layout is limited to 4m, that being the width of the room.  As a result the track plan is not a true model of Ipswich which needs nearer 5 meters in length and more depth to create a true scale replica.  I have needed to compress the track plan to fit the space available but hope Gippeswky Road will still be a pretty close facsimile.

Very useful information, thanks, and I note that the exact RAL colours can be ordered pre thinned from Zero Paints.  

But, does anyone know the RAL paint code for the red doors?  I have 10 MK3's, a 156 and a 321 to repaint. Nothing appearing on a google search.

Thanks for the replies.  It will be kept as close to reality as possible with stock based around actual movements in the mid 2010's, although the occasional fictional steamy might make a visit. 

I have a collection of location appropriate stock,  quite a few 66's, 70, 86, 90s, 92, 156, and a 350 that will be converted to 360.  I also have a 321 on order from Revolution Trains. 

The passenger stock will be repainted to the white/red Abellio Greater Anglia livery accept the 360 which will be in the blue with white stripe.

The first stock was acquired 5 years ago but as always work and life commitments kept me busy, but I am now, finally, in a position to actually build something!

After much delay I am now pleased to present the start of Gippeswky Road, an N Gauge layout based on Ipswich station and Freightliner depot and set around 2015. 

The layout is a 4m by 1m tail chaser with the fiddle yard hidden under a scenic hillside replicating the landscape of the real location.   

DCC Train control and accessory electronics are with MERG modules (https://www.merg.org.uk/) and the layout is intended to be fully automated via JMRI on a PC.  Sound will be provided by external room speakers using JMRI Virtual Sound Decoder.  

I will update here as the build progress and if I film anything that might be interesting I'll upload to Youtube.

The track plan:

The real location:

Re-opening a old tread but though it best to keep everything JMRI VSD related together.  I am building a new N Gauge layout based in East Anglia set around 2000 to 2010 and heavily influenced by Ipswich.  

I will be using the JMRI virtual sound decoder system to provide sound for the 15 or so locomotives as it is impractical to fit sound to each of them.    

Very early days but I have started to learn how to create new sound files, the first being a Class 66 using samples taken from various YouTube videos - results so far here - 

I have tried to place a pre-order but it is telling me "Warning: Payment method required!", but there is no payment option?

I have been following this thread with great interest since I am about to start signalling on my own N layout and have been weighing up the cost of off-the-shelf vs scratch built vs 3D printed.  

It has been mentioned before but can I ask if you would be open to releasing the models publicly on Shapeways?  

Perfectly understandable if you wish to keep these private but thought I should ask before I started a on new model and reinvented the wheel!