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This looks amazing! I'd love to know a bit more about how you made it?
It looks like you've got a few Arduino Nano boards there, is that what's running the handset? The display you've got on the little LCD there looks very clear and intuitive.
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It looks like you've done some amazing work here @snitzl . There are many people out there who swear by the Pentroller, and would love a way to get hold of a replacement.
If you're happy for others to make use of your design, I wonder if it would be worth giving your design a formal status (like Creative Commons, used by the Arduino circuit design, amongst others) to give an official recognition of the work that's gone into it, while letting others either produce boards themselves, or get some produced commercially.
I'm already wondering about converting the design into something that could be uploaded to one of the online PCB prototyping sites that will ship you a fully assembled PCB (or dozen) within a week or two?
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Amazing workmanship! The 310 looks particularly impressive - especially the hand cut windows. Was there any particular trick to painting the silver frames?
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This looked amazing - a very deserving winner! Will you be making the kit available? I'd love a few!
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Excellent weathering, as always, Jonas! Do you seal them with varnish before using the oils? Or only after?
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I think it's more that I just don't like inertia/brake generally, but I bought myself both the Blueline and standard types when I organised a batch of them for the club, but find myself always using the normal one. There are multiple options now for battery only, DC in only, both, and even panel mount etc. Andre is happy to give discounts for ordering a few at a time.
Didn't you have one (branded as Z-Line or something) on your test track Richard?
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This looks really good! I have plans to build a model of Clare myself, in time ...
I'm intrigued by the drawing you have in the background, it doesn't look like any of the ones I've found amongst the GERS Journal?
Its also very sad to see Clare looking so overgrown and boarded up. I'd heard that the council were trying to be shot of the country park, but I hadn't imagined things had got so bad
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You can get very N gauge nice laser cut wood barrow crossings and level crossing surfaces that give a very nice representation of planks from Blair Line in a wide variety of radii. 'N-Tastic shop\County Rolling Stock stock them in the UK.
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Hi Chris,
Its good to read a 'warts and all' account of 2FS chassis building! In the etched chassis thread I've mentioned some of the problems with my Jinty kit. I completely gave up on an earlier Fencehouses J72 kit after messing up the chassis so badly two of the wheels are not longer concentric, after so many attempts at adding, removing, and re-quartering!
It does seem a problem with etched chassis in general that its almost "one shot", as its so easy to distort things once you start removing and replacing components - I like your bracing solution! I think I might be able to get away without this on the Jinty, but I'll definitely try it if it comes to it!
I also like the thicker phosphor bronze for the springs. You said you went up from N gauge spring to DG wire, then back down a bit - to which diameter? The springs on my jinty are already, as you say, bent so much they can't be exerting much pressure anymore! Taking my chassis along to the MRC this evening, Tim and Mike were much less pessimistic about its running than I had been, and it was amazing to see the difference with extra weight added. They seemed confident that extra weight, and running in, would sort it out ... I'm not quite so confident but I'll persevere.
There is hope for us beginners ... I hope !
Justin
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Looks like you had a great holiday, and some good finds too!
The 'Dutch' dogfish did seem to have had only a very limited release, while there were endless variations of the black with regional lettering, and crudely weathered rust black, with endless variations in regional engineers lettering. Inevitably those got bargain-binned, and it seems like Dapol decided on the basis of that "Dogfish don't sell well, we won't make any more for a while". Typical slightly flawed decision making of the RTR manufacturers! That said, not many of the dogfish made it into Dutch, despite it being more popular amongst modellers. I repainted one Dapol dogfish into Dutch myself, but then got some Stephen Harris finescale etches for both catfish and dogfish - perhaps I should sell on my Dapol wagon!
The finish on the blue riband Mk1 coaches is so good it almost seems a shame to repaint them doesn't it? I got a second blue BSK from a certain Liverpool model shop for a bargain price of
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Many thanks for the details! It seems like its a ready made version of the effect you can produce with fine scatter type material hair-sprayed to pastiche or similar. It certainly captures the "openness" of a real tree, which I think is the key difference between a good model and a bad one!
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Truly stunning - captures the feel of the East Anglian byways perfectly! It also reminds me to get in touch with David Eveleigh again to get one of his 2mm etches for a J15 (and also to get a few other projects finished first!)
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Intrigued by the Mininatur 1:160 foliage! I look forward to seeing the results!
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I completely agree with Tim. Living in London, its basically impossible to get to a "real" model shop (the Engine Shed way out in Leytonstone is the only exception). Traders are really the primary attraction for most exhibitions for me!
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Fox transfers are very definitely water slide, and usually much finer than Modelmaster. The Fox carrier film is an order of magnitude thinner than Modelmaster (although some people seem to have been able to remove the film on these once applied). I've always started with a coat or two of high-gloss varnish, and using Microset, never had any problems :-)
Modelmaster are N gauge society only.
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Great looking wagons John! I'm afraid I was rather more "impressionistic" when it came to the brake gear on mine ... Fox do some rather nice Midland freight wagon transfers which I used for my pre-grouping rendition.
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Excellent job!
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Great weathering! Shows what you can achieve with washes and powders - did you bother to seal it with dullcote or anything?
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The Swedish N Gauge history page run by N-Modell.se (http://swen.nmodell.se/) recommends a Fleischmann BR91 as a suitable donor chassis for the model. I'm sure some cutting/filing work would be involved, but probably doable!
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I've seen a few of these on eBay, but never been tempted enough to buy one! I have no idea how accurate the bodywork is? The chassis is pretty shocking through - personally I would be tempted to either find a similarly sized chassis from a more modern locomotive, and see if it can be made to fit, or build a new chassis entirely from 2mm Scale Association parts! (i.e. to fiNe standards)
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Pretty much what I thought - I was quoted "around" £100 (plus VAT) by a company based in London Fields for a single sheet with geometric shapes and cuts all the way through, rather than engraving etc. Should be able to pick it up from there £39 (+ VAT) was the quote for the 9mm grade BB ply.
As you say Andy, I think its worth it relative to the swear-box contributions! I have in mind a few T-Trak modules (I've found it difficult to cut the small sizes accurately), and also a circular layout Mini-MSW style, if I can find a way to cramm it all on to a single sheet, all the better!
Justin
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Hi Bryn, this looks excellent! Would it be very rude to ask how much you paid for the CNCing? I'm very tempted to chuck away my own feeble attempts at woodwork and just go down this route ... Its hard to get an idea of whats a reasonable price and whats not though ...
Justin
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Your track is looking absolutely amazing - the fishplates really look good, and the weathering really brings them out well! I had been dubious as to whether I would bother, but they definitely look worth it now.
The grass is looking excellent too - the depth of colour is just right!
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Looking great Bryn! Is the Catfish a Stephen Harris kit too? I think I have some resting in my gloatbox, thats spurred me on to attempt them when I next get a chance to get the soldering iron out!
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Such a great series of blogs Anthony - really inspirational!