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Driving that little beauty at Wycrail is the reason I have a saved search on eBay myself for one of these

Is that the same 8F who's brakes I examined at Wycrail?, nice loco anyway and smashing pic as always Chris, your tall weeds by the coal pile are still way better than my efforts

Tony, Will, Ian, Nigel, and Nick.

 

Thank you very much for your replies, they are all VERY useful.

 

Nigel, that is a really good solution and I think that would be the best option for the railcar. I will have to check and see if I can get hold of some surface mount diodes that will suit that idea. Although the TCS MC6 chip I have has plenty of functions, it is slightly too large to fit the railcar without having to chop away more of the body so a smaller chip with less functions would certinaly help. What chip would you recommend? Obviously the smaller it is the better!

 

Thank you again.

 

Missy

Hi Julia,

if you can adopt one of the arrangements that don't need more than 4 functions try the TCS-M4 http://www.bromsgrovemodels.co.uk/TCSDecodersM2.htm. It's a lot thinner than the MC series as there's no harness plug and it's a bit smaller as well.

A very neat solution I think. Painting behind those drivers looks to be a pain though!

Ah, but that's the whole point, the brakes are easily removeable, so that the wheels come off ready for a quick waft of Satin black spray paint

Hi Missy,

I agree with Will, you will need all 6 function outputs to get the effectively 3 pairs of forward and reverse lights, that doesn't leave anythinf spare for the interior lighting

Could you not compromise and have [A] and on at the same time? then it would be easy .....

White wire - [A]+ #1 end - CVs as standard on F0

Yellow wire - [A]+ #2 end - CVs as standard on F0

Green wire - [C] #1 end reverse - CV51 value = 16, CV35 = 2, mapped to F0

Purple Wire - [C] #2 end reverse - CV52 value = 0, CV36 = 1, mapped to F0

Brown wire - interior lighting - CV39 maps it to F1

By the way, there's a layout in this month's Hornby Mag that has an O gauge "Elvis", might be useful for detailing shots?

Cheers Chris, you too! - I guess that's the power of the forum, if I take a pic as I'm doing a task and post it here, when the question comes up in the future it's a 2 min job to link to my blog B)

Does it work?

I'd do the loo too, especially if the roof will be removable, this build is going to be something to show off for years B)

Really fantastic work Julia, great to meet up at Wycrail and get my hands on this lovely bit of work, I'm sure a TCS-Z2 will fit in, you only get the forward and reverse lighting with that one though (yellow and white wires) if yuo can fit a TCS-M3 or even 4 in you will have an extra lighting function (or two!)

http://www.tcsdcc.com/Customer_Content/Products/Decoders/HO-Scale/M-Series/M-Series.htm

It will be ex-works as it happens, the works plates will say "Built 2010 Mansfield"

Thanks for that Dave, of course I can do what I like on this build I'll see what it looks like in all black and take it from there.

must be your camera skills Chris.

That's not doing Chris' modelling skills justice there sir

I'm just glad that the bodyshell I had gathering dust on a shelf is seeing out a new life, and in what style too!

 

Every update makes the class it portrays seem "more real", if that makes any sense!

Not a lot left of that shell now still, I couldn't have started the project without it - cheers

Ta,

of course the deflectors are not fitted yet, I will spray them seperately and fit once the loco is painted. Handrails and knobs were soldered with 188 deg and the rest if the fittings with 145 deg solder.

Round as per Britannia

errr, no.

and before anyone notices, I know the handrail is too short in the pic above and should project forwards to beyond the "nut" of the ejector - Already corrected

Added the whistle last night too! Looking at the Comet front steps today

it's okay B)

Mind reader Geoff, I have set it higher than "scale" but yes, it needs a quick test ....

Sad thing is I know what most of them are for! - it helps to know what goes where and why in my mind at least

I won't at th moment, can't see the pics at work

Ooh that's looking lovely - some great quality castings you're taking advantage of there! This still the 2-8-2 project?

Yes, this is the part of the project where it goes decidedly Britannia rather than 9F. This site has just about all you need for Brit detailing reference photos. The detailing pack is Comet Models

hmmm, man with wheelbarrow, a few weeds, overgrown, buffer blocks fixed to the side of the coaling stage, oil tanker chassis (left over from the water tower) leaning against the back of the coaling stage "stored" for future use as a flatbed perhaps .....

Hi Jim, what you maybe don't realise is that there is a baseboard joint on the gridline immediately to the right of the new point, nice thought though, I'll have a play ....

fair point Jim, my main concern is that it would look too contrived, difficult to say really would be nice to have somewhere to show off the wagon though .....

Lets see if one of the traders at Sheffield this weekend has an SL-E191 .....

and a pack of PL-9 point motor bases (only need one) and some Dart Castings point levers (only need one!)