Andy Whittle

Thank you for sharing these settings, I have been trying to figure this out for a while and the settings you have kindly shared gave me a really good platform to work from. Thanks Andy.

That's superb Nick and hope i have something similar soon, I believe we may have met a year ago. I was discussing the NCE controller with you. not sure if it was Warley or the Staffordshire show. Thanks. Andy.

Great footage Phil, Love the layout! Thanks Andy.

Thanks both for your advice, much appreciated. I may change the speaker, I've not had much experience with this type seem small for the area i have in the loco, although not too worried about volume more depth of sound i guess. Thanks Again.

Hi All, I'm hoping for a little help please. Last week i purchased a Bachmann Class 20 and ESU sound chip. Attached is an image of what i have installed so far, there are no instructions with the chip apart from the general CV instructions etc, nothing relating to installation. I've figured out how to fit the chip i think. Can i ask do i need to purchase a separate speaker or is the small cube connected to the two brown wires the speaker? If that's the case the wires are not long enough to reach the speaker housing, in addition i have red, black and white wires from the chip are these for additional lighting etc? Thanks and apologies if this is straight forward and i'm not looking at it properly. Andy.

Hi All, I'm after a little advice. Currently I have two cobalt point motors on my layout that work great but quite expensive when adding multiple points over the layout, I've been looking into the Seep SP1 and SP2 point motors, but with DCC I need to add a CDU, which from what I can see cost around £14 from Gaugemaster. This coupled with the motor itself results in pretty much the same cost. I've spotted quite a few alternative CDU's for far less but wondered if anyone had some experience with these. I'm planning on switching the points with switches rather than the DCC controller but wanted to power the points from the BUS wires. Thanks for your help, Andy.

Many thanks for your feedback, it's much appreciated. I have indeed visited some Model Railway exhibitions, that's were it all started to get complicated. I've inherited some 00 stock that i was quite eager to start a layout, then after visiting Warley and the Staffordshire exhibitions N gauge really took my fancy. The main concern for me is the skill level of creating a detailed layout, looks pretty damn hard but worth every effort from what i can see on this forum and the exhibition layouts. One thing that does put me off is working under a magnifying glass to undertake most of the modelling, is this the case or am i thinking too hard about the possible problems i may experience. I've been banging my head for months now knowing what to expand on, i didn't realise that this decision along with track planning could be so difficult. I'm a packaging designer by trade you would think this would be an easy decision to make Thanks again, much appreciate the time taken to respond. Andy.

Hi All. Being new to the hobby i'm after some advice on 2mm scale modelling. I've seen some really great layouts on the forum of which i'd love to be able to model. Currently i have a room around 8Ft x 7Ft, that i was staring to create something in 00 gauge, i do like the scale regarding handling but i have restrictions in the room i have, tight radius corners etc. N gauge looks quite appealing with the possibility of modelling something with more space. The advances in detail on new N gauge loco's really do look great. The advice i need relates to modelling the scale, we all have levels of modelling experience, me being a novice i'm concerned i may struggle with the finer details. I managed to detail my class 37 although ended up with eyes spinning afterwords. Track laying seems okay, i've soldered DCC to the fishplates that was fine. Any advice would be appreciated i've been changing my mind so many times, even my wife is getting fed up of me not making a decision I've attached a couple of images of my progress, as you can hopefully see my indecision in both scales. Many thanks in advance for any advice/help on the subject. Andy