RailwaySleepers-James

Railway Sleepers’ Planet XVI is currently undergoing maintenance to allow it to be split into three sections, for ease of transport, and will be exhibited in next year.

That's amazing news.   I have voted.

1 hour ago, JohnR said:

 

Where are you getting those numbers from? On the official BARB website, "Inside the Cockpit: The Concorde Crash" is 15th that week, with 824,902 viewers.

 

https://www.barb.co.uk/viewing-data/four-screen-dashboard/

Thinkbox has S2E5 in 21st place with 658k veiwers.       interestingly Live viewing was massively down, to 256k.

https://www.thinkbox.tv/research/barb-data/top-programmes-report/?tag=Channel5

22 hours ago, hicksan said:

I would like to know more about how you did the laser cutter stuff. Presumably you did it yourself rather than buying in commercial laser cut products? Did you bring the machine physically with you to Fawley or was everything cut off site? Were the designs yours or were they downloaded from an online library? If yours then might you make them available for others to share by uploading them somewhere, or selling them commercially? In short it was all very impressive. Any other heat, with techniques like that, you would have won hands down.

Hi Hicksan,

The laser work was all to our own designs.     We created kits prior to the show, and assembled them on-site.

A few of the designs are being worked-up and will be commercially available in OO or N.

James - Railway Sleepers..

25 minutes ago, Professor Yaffle said:

However what the rest of us were unaware of (we probably didn’t read the blurb properly) is that the ‘audience’ allowed wasn’t the quite the friends and family we expected. This would have been a major problem for one team member and from a personal point of view awkward and disappointing for myself. I had ‘assumed’ (we all know what that means) that kids were ok on the judging day, as that is surely a major part of the target audience in itself? That bubble was burst a few weeks away from filming and there was genuine moment of horror within the team as the news spread. We looked at episodes of series one - no kids could be seen. What would happen? But to be fair to the production company once contacted, the situation confirmed and explained, they went away and sorted it out. Many, many thanks to them! - Lots of brownie points. All we had to do was sign our childrens' souls away to the gods to TV, nothing too awful.

 

I hope that explains why you saw our sprogs on Heat 5. It was a proper delight to watch the older ones cowered in embarrassment and the younger ones yelp with glee as they appear on TV on Saturday night.

 

it's disappointing that KBG weren't a little more consistent with this.  We were told the audience was 18+.  My two daughters are train-mad, and would have loved to have attended.  if fact they've a big part of the reason i applied to be part of the show in the first place.

1 hour ago, Professor Yaffle said:

Yes we noticed that too. Hope your layout has found a nice home it was fab.

Yes - Planet XVI was saved from the skip... 

It is most of the way through a slow restore with portability in mind.   including running the LED billboards off 12v power supply rather than 9v batteries. 

... and we aim to exhibit it somewhere, at some point in the future.

8 hours ago, LNER4479 said:

Well, as a die-hard LMS fan (despite my Grantham inspired user name), with the 'Duchess' type being my all time fave loco, it worked for me every time. Although you don't get much time to admire other teams efforts, I did notice that the coaches had been repainted in the same colour scheme. When the space city buildings were (eventually!) brought in, the overall effect was most striking.

thanks, the galaxy express coaches were ones in used on my childhood layout, 35 years ago.   A BR mk1, LNER sleeper and LNER brake.   Airbrushed silver with blue stripes to match the main stripes on the Queen Elizabeth.   The coaches were upgraded with sitting passengers, and coach lighting.       The overall colour of Blue and Silver matched the white and blue of the city, and even the blue and white of our team shirts.

The loco was chosen because of its sleek ‘futuristic’ overall look and it’s bold colour.

11 minutes ago, noiseboy72 said:

We scored more points than the winners of Heats 1 & 4,

... so did we.  

in fact, if you take out the scores from the much-maligned scratchbuild challenge, then the Railway Sleepers would have had the second highest points across all heats. :p

On 07/10/2019 at 09:17, Professor Yaffle said:

 

Only one layout was Mars, MGNR, and the other was Planet XVI, not quite sure where that was exactly. I'm sure the Railway Sleepers can comment on that. I understand we did have to submit our ideas for approval.

Chris

MGNR

Hi Chris,   

Planet XVI was not meant to be Mars, or any other particular known planet for that matter.   Instead it was a random generic sci-fi planet. 

In our early planning we settled on the sci-fi elements of the heat's theme "The Sky's The Limit/To Infinity And Beyond/Space Race" - just unfortunity the theme was truncated to just "the sky's the limit" on the day.

James (Railway Sleepers)