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Thank you both very much for answering my questions. I saw a solenoid specific decoder for solenoids also from DCC concepts, I have also used the NCE ones on Squeezebelly very successfully. Currently none of the solenoids are powered by the bus (obviously) and I did the main wiring about 5 years ago and don't have a burning desire to revise it, I will have to price up the point decoders. Any recommendations? I have numerous regulated power supplies to power the control side.. The panel will be no problem, I have nearly everything I need and I have all the responses from the last time I tried to grasp the particular nettle so I can get on with that. Kris helped group my points for me so I am planning on setting the mini panel to do several points at a time, as there's only two platform faces and the run around loop, plus yard, all is which will be better set up with one button to set routes. I will cross that bridge when I come to it. It seems that for NCE users the Alpha is completely unnecessary!

Having recently resurrected my NCE power cab and considering sorting out my control system for Kingsbridge once and for all, I saw this and thought it might offer a solution. I have one or two questions that I couldn't see fully answered in the rest if the thread. I have 14 points to control, all wired with electro frog and Seep solenoids with switching. I got totally stuck trying to work out a control panel that I could wire, was logical and had a simple plug/unplug. I am not very bright, so wanted a solution that didn't involve a million wires. My questions, in the light of that are- 1- What does the DCC concepts product offer me that the NCE mini panel doesn't? 2- Where do either of those products go, under the baseboard or in the control panel? 3- If they are in the control panel is it just a matter of running an RJ 11 lead of the correct pattern into the spare cab slot on the NCE board that you get with the powercab? 4- My layout is N guage, with a max of 2 locos moving at any time, will I need a booster? I should also echo other people's thoughts on the information available from the manufacturer, I found it hard to read and not particularly enlightening. Can't seem to fault the quality of the actual item and it's great they are now in the UK.

Good luck! Will drop by this summer when I am there.

It is, I just haven't finished it yet..... Exquisite pictures as usual, thank you!

Can't believe it took so long for me to guess! Those large scale figures take a lot of painting. I did a 1/24 napoleonic calvary soldier for my mother in law, it took about 30 hours to complete. I am starting a 1/48th scale T34-85 today.

Very nice! The only bit you might need to add is to paint the diagonal strapping chipped and bashed white on the end with the door. This measure was introduced in 1943 for all minerals with end doors. I like acrylics for this type of work, I think they produce great results. The chassis detail looks really good too

The Rocketeer! Where is he going to go?

Looks like the aftermath of my first attempt at soldering white metal!

Or Metalcote gunmetal dry brush?

Look perfect to me, the heaping is excellent and the grading works very well.

Glad to help. Perhaps some pictures of current or previous layouts in a blog entry next? RM web is generally fairly easy to use and full of technophobes to help if you get stuck!

A riveting read, thank you. The detail is very good, I can see its going to look amazing when done.

Cutting and pasting from another blog site is responsible for your code errors and loss of pictures. If anyone wants to read the full entry, which is quite interesting, the last link on the page that says "source" will take you there.

As above! I gave up trying to glue the Airfix plastic, nothing would stick it.

Glad to hear you have had some success with this problem at last! The row of terraced houses looks good too. Remember that without the half holiday league there would be no football.....

I even put up the link or you! Here is the best place for this particular question, http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/forum/72-uk-prototype-questions/ The reason Mr Mod here is back is that blogs are used by most members to describe a project or model they are working on, either as a series of entries detailing a particular build or a single entry showing a part of their project. Otherwise we use the forums, click the forum you think fits your topic best from the list on the forum page and off you go. If in doubt modelling miscellaney covers most things. The reason people get hacked off with questions in blogs are that often a blog entry will be the result of hours of work and writing up and every new entry on the blog page bumps you further down til your entry disappears off page 1! Good discussion here about blog posts, http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/47303-blog-quality/

I just checked my coal stash and you were right, I was looking at the smokeless stuff! I guess the answer to the shininess is a coat of varnish on the loads that need it.

50 shades of black sounds like a Goth convention! I have used lots of different coal too, often scraped from the bottom of my coal bucket or the bunker and then put it through two sieves to get the grades. The size of coal varied according to its use, as you have deduced and Anthracite is usually more "shiny" than coal. A firemen could probably tell you which coal came from which coalfield too. I think the loads you have set up look pretty representative of different types, one thing someone here might know was wether BR coal trains were of a block type, i.e. from one pit/coalfield to one customer or were there different types of coal for a variety of customers grouped into big trains.

The forum you require is right here, simply click on the blue link! http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/forum/72-uk-prototype-questions/ There are two books about the exchanges, Written by Cecil J Allen, and published by Ian Allen, the titles are: "The Locomotive Exchanges 1870-1948" and "New Light On The Locomotive Exchanges".

Sorry to hear about your mishap, hope the P4 hammer didn't effect the guilty operator!

Great stuff, looks like it belongs in that photo!

My back garden, 2013 (N!) Weathered from the photos on this thread, thanks chaps!