Mattxjs

On 04/09/2021 at 22:25, njee20 said:

i have got a bottle of the Anycubic Craftsman to try at some point, but have yet to do so. 

How've you got on with the craftsman resin? I used it to print some erm... funny world leader busts and it worked admirably this was using the apricot colour. Printing heavier, model railway related items however with the grey colour, it was utterly useless - my results were similar to the Amazon reviews for it - fine for small items, useless for heavy items. 

While cleaning my resin vat by just exposing the screen for 30s, the cured resin seems incredibly flaky compared to normal anycubic resin, I'll certainly not be using it again for any model railway related items, that's for sure. A lot of people say that you need to up the exposure time for it, but my anycubic standard resin settings worked fine for apricot, but the grey was just completely unusable no matter what settings I tried. 

I absolutely adore this layout, I can't quite put my finger on it but it just has that wonderfully captivating feel and environment to it, a perfect balance. Not to mention, it being Swiss goes a long way! Would love to create something like this in the future and even just capture half as much of the atmosphere you seem to have been able to get 

Matt

I can't believe it's been almost 4 years since I posted this. Since then it's been a fairly rocky time for me, dealing with various mental health problems, and then of course the pandemic. 

In that time I've been experimenting with 3D printing, vastly expanded by knowledge on DCC sound fitting etc, and made a couple of (not very good) dioramas to get me ready for doing some scenery. The layout has gone through a couple of relatively large (for it's size) changes, with the expansion of the baseboard it is now around 2'7" wide, allowing the space for a double track station with nice sweeping curves on the visible part of it. I've assembled a somewhat collage of the progress. Hopefully anyone who sees this enjoys! 

Matt

I've just finished installing DCC Concepts Cobalt IP point motors, which are being used for polarity switching.

As you said - my main goal here is to practice skills and use up some old buildings, nothing more than that!

Matt

 

I don't quite get what you're saying about the points, as generally Electrofrogs are more likely to cause shorts: they need careful wiring up to avoid this. However, Insulfrogs will cause a lot of locomotives to stall - maybe this is what's happening to you? 

 

Firstly thank you for your compliments - actually in real life it it looks a lot better than on the pics, they really don't do it justice.

I plan to do all of the things you listed and infact already have things like the fencing which will hopefully be put in by next weekend

What I meant by the insulfrogs shorting is when a large loco like Tornado went across them, it would short in the area highlighted in the picture, and also my small engines would stall on them.

However today I have fully installed the electrofrogs and have no more shorting or stalling which is excellent!

I will hopefully have another update for next weekend with re-ballasting and weathering complete!

Regards, 

Matt

Hi everybody - I've made a topic with my little layout, my airbrushing efforts are shown in the pictures. Once again thank you for all the help!

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/126691-4x2-fictitious-n-gauge-anything-goes-layout/

Hi everybody, as funds have suddenly allowed me to make some progress on my N gauge layout, I decided to make a topic on here to get a few tips and tricks. Firstly, a bit of background info on the layout. 

The baseboard was originally constructed a few years ago, when I was around 10 ish for me to nail some track to and have an attempt at making a layout. Well long story short 8 years later and I'm finally making it happen thanks to funds becoming available. I've had about 3 starts and failures of making it but I've finally settled on a track plan, wanting to have around second radius curves I opted for just a single track around to operate small locos on. It's not meant to be prototypical at all, just somewhere I can run a few locos about with some decent-ish scenery. The layout is DCC controlled with a couple of engines recently being sound fitted. This brings me nicely onto why I'm about to rip the points up. The layout currently has insulfrog points, however due to my recent sound conversions and acquisition of a small farish pannier, I have decided to change the points to electrofrog as I've had some short circuiting when some of the engines go over the points I do not want this to happen with my sound locos and fry them. The reason the layout has insulfrogs at the moment is due to my lack of confidence with electrical wiring and to be honest not really understanding how electrofrogs work, but now after a bit of research on the benefits and realising how they work, I thought that the switch would be a benefit to the layout. It's a bit of a pain I've decided to do this now as I've just weathered the track, however I'm sure the change will be worth it. The buildings are either Hornby lyddle end or metcalfe kits I've built over the years

Thank you for reading and I'm very open to any tips or tricks you may have! 

Hi everybody, I decided to go for a AS186 compressor which came with an airbrush which I will probably replace in the future. Thank you all for your help as I have decided in the future I will get an airbrush with a trigger as I agree they look a lot nicer to use. Sorry for not being very clear in my initial post and thank you all once again!

Thanks for you help guys. Sorry for being more specific - I hope it's not too late to say now. I am a beginner, mostly doing track and loco weather for N and 00. Honestly I don't know too much about airbrushes, but have had a read up on some websites about the different properties of them. For my situation I think it would be useful to get one with a variable nozzle (?) to suit the smaller size of N and the larger size of 00. Once again thank you for all your help, it is certainly very useful for me.

Hi everybody, I was looking for some recommendations on a good airbrush and compressor bundle, preferably dual action. Looking for one less than 150 quid ish. I don't really have any brand preferences I'm just looking for something which someone on here has possibly had experience with which is both cheap ish but reliable and good quality. Cheers