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A Merry Christmas to all you fellow modellers out there. Hope you get many wonderful gifts that would help grow the hobby and enthusiasm more and more.
Hopefully Father Christmas will bring me some track to start my new exhibition layout in the New Year. This one I'm really looking forward to make.
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My replicas of the original Annie and Clarabel could do with some upgrading. So while I'm keeping my old ones as spares, I'm making up a new set. The sides and ends are 3D printed. The base is being designed now to fix them on and the bogies/buffers have been ordered off. With luck they should be ready before my layout's next show in April.
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I'm sorry to report that further progress on my club's replica layout, the North Western Region, has now been discontinued. Whilst some members of the club are disappointed that the layout is not to be continued, it has given some the chance to think of new ideas for layouts to build. The track and boards are currently being dismantled and reused for other projects.
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Giving my replica of the original Thomas model a repaint into the livery the model wore when first made in the late 40s.
The original motor has been replaced with a new one as the original had some running issues. I just need to do the lining on the other side, add it's rear buffers, safety valves and crew and that should be it ready for service. I have another Reidpath engine that I'm currently painting up to show the model in it's later years where it went through a repaint and had some additional parts added. That model will be working the MrkII replica of Ffarquhar Branch. A Spare Thomas replica, made from a Tri-ang Jinty, is also in the making but will take time before it's ready.
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Question: Am I doing this correctly?
Recently fitted this Tri-ang Princess chassis with new wheels from Markits. However it appears to be shorting out. One side is plain while the other is insulated just like the original set up. There are PECO fibre washers on all the axles, though I'm wondering if it's the crank pins or the valve gear that's causing the short.
I'm still trying to learn my way around of converting older Triang loco stock to work with Markits wheel sets and with very little clear guidance or videos on the correct procedure on doing this, I have to try and solve this myself.
Would someone inform me if I'm doing this conversion correctly or is there there supposed to be a different approach with this?
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I want to replace the capacitor on my Hornby L&Y pug to one that would allow it to continue running while on DC control over dead sections like Insulfrog points. Whats the best capacitor to use for DC control only?