Georgeconna

Happy Easter Folks. y

where do you get your boards jack?

Hope u are OK Jack. Nice pressie to cheer you up as well. Hope u will recover ASAP. Looking forward to the next installment.

Would save me from regauging them

Been working on this personal project for a while. As I have a lot of irish outline and jealous of you boys and your irish layouts I decided to re gauge a MM 121 so I too can have some fun. Wheels and gears were sourced from Wonkywheelset.de in Germany and were a simple pop in. The frames hide most of the change really so the gauge difference is not really noticeable. Runs quite well until it hits the tunnel mouth.

thats your rewards gone lad!! LOL!

Some night running with the last 2 departure ready to roll back down the mountain

I always thought those big retailers sunk quite a lot of the smaller shops TBH. Good Pricing but the smaller shops are up against it. LOL Locked, some forum that is. I was enjoying the meltdowns, Everything wiped.

Lastest installment. I have no words to decribe what this man has recreated in Miniature and this is only the start. This is like a phoenix rising from the ashes. Almost Emotional modelling really. It cannot get much more real than this. I am in awe. Superquick will never be the same.

yep, Priced at what they think the market is willing to pay and FOMO playing a big part. I just sit back now, Been burned big time with FOMO. Last one was the EFE Booster, bought at full price and now is still being discounted. A look at rails site shows quite a lot of bits being marked down, every day I get a sales email from Rails, German Model shops, Plastic model shops so are these yokes being overpriced at placing them on the market? A great example was Airfix Buccaneers 1/48 retailing @ €84.00 notes. Simply not worth it. A year later picked up 3 for €75. Result. Missing out wont change my life TBH. The big pull in was the Rewards and Bundle % off really. You wont get that from the Shops. I rarely go into the City now. If I Dublin I call into Greenouge for a chat and a look around, pick up some paints etc. don't be long adding up a bill!! One went back as it was like your broken in the box, Valve gear off despite me asking the UK shop to double check the loco. They did not. It came back and the gears dont mesh not, Zero traction, Sitting in the display case. shame as they are quite lovely Frankly not even bothered now running the 2nd one at all if indeed it does at all.

It would be interesting to see how many locos from the Heljan Stable people have bought on this forum, will it really hit the shops big time? I have only 3 OO Gauge ones Class 33 - Lovely runnner, cant complain Met underground loco my Dad bought for me, Zero interest in it personally but was admiring it in Cheltenham model shop and he snuck off and bought it for me, bless him! Class 15 bought on a whim and cant it get rid of for 100 notes and equipped with decoder and 2 009 Lynton and Barnstaple disasters that never ran and could not get them repaired so did not tip my toe back in that scale again.

They are all 12V Led Tony. €5.90 a pop.

Added in the street lights this evening

expect that will be on the cards surely. time to get rid of all the "old" stuff......

O gauge Locos are pretty cheap, Good draw in, then when you look at the rolling stock! That's another matter.

leaving stuff outside the door is par for the course now. Gotta keep a sharp eye out.

add another 100 quid to the price as well but the looks of it. Got caught with a UK purchase of some nice Austrian Narrow gauge stuff. When it came to paying it doubled the price to the point a new set would be the same cost. Nuts.

Kettle will be scheduled for boiling @ 1915hrs so.

Lovely to see simple layouts like these take a gong away. You dont need massive boards, Tons of stock, Just tons of delight...(2) Facebook I need to work on some pelmet for overhead lighting next I reckon. https://youtu.be/KtRzCoTg8KY?si=uhI_-t0cqfMQO9Yy

ah they were working on it back in the day so Darius could plonk one there....

The ol Airfix Gazelle still makes up a lovely model. Looking good sir. Lynx a bit too late?

Hi Tony, I have gone through various DCC controllers, Hornby select years ago for starts, Then Bachmann Dynamis which I really liked but did not have the amount of functions needed for modern decoders, Then an NCE powercab which I sold off pretty quickly and finally settled and very happy with the Z21 (white). Pretty easy to use. Have a hand set but mostly use the phone / Tablet and dead easy to program really

Delivery today from Germany with some bits and bobs. Finally completed the platform lights so nicely balanced. Also set up a simple consist with the two Eloks using the close coupling bar. Looks great. Slight mismatch in speed a one is sound and the delay leaving off the brake causing the delay. Up to speed tis fine. VID_20260323_165040.mp4 VID_20260323_233408.mp4 VID_20260323_232923.mp4

its a pretty basic system really, 20 years old. Switched to a Z21, option to use handset and tablet. will never change. So simple a 10 year old kid can use it.

Back from the show, lovely reception from the public. Lots of questions asked, some kids got to have a drive as well. Made their day. No major bugs, just one cobalt issue where the fulcrum point moved downwards causing the blades not to move hard to decipher due to the ambient noise. Last train tonight and fingers crossed Wexford will be the next outing. See you then.