Dave

Ehhh, Nope!

Looks great Patrick

Ahh, I see

Welcome Jim-Jim! Try this site is very good for track plans http://www.freetrackplans.com/

He wants £20 stg for postage within Ireland! Should only cost about €7

Fan bleeding tastic! They look the dogs

Just put cling film over the bridge, ballast over it and trim the cling film after it dries

Hi Timmy, Welcome to the site. May I suggest going to a 10' x 4' 6" layout, this will take the train set look away from the layout and give you some long straights and room for expansion. As your model railway is in the early stages I would suggest you switch to DCC (Digital Command Control) here's a few links to explain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Command_Control http://www.dccconcepts.com/index_files/DCCtenreasonstogo.htm You can get a basic DCC controller cheap enough, and your locos will need a decoder chip. You will get plenty of advice here on the forum. Post some pictures as you go

Hi Cogeyl, DCC is the best way to go. You can fit decoder chips into your locos and hard wire DCC decoder chips into older ones. Cost would be around €20 per loco. A DCC controller can set you back anything from €100 to €1000. The best piece of advice I can give you is to choose your DCC controller carefully, I am planning to change mine to the NCE Power Cab 5 amp system. You can get an NCE Power Cab starter set for £136 stg and its a great system offering all the functions and easily upgradeable to the 5 amp system as your layout grows. I found this link good http://www.dccconcepts.com/index_files/DCCtenreasonstogo.htm The big advantages to DCC is constant power on the track, so locos can have lights on while stationary, you can run multiple locos on the same track at the same time at different speeds. You can fit sound to your locos. You can double head. The list goes on. Good luck with the changeover

Just stunning I'm in awe of your work, well done

They look great Tommy,

Some nice stuff there, some a little pricey though.

Cracking looking loco

Great day today, good to put some faces to the names

Its very expensive, god loves a trier!

Cracking video

Yes it's on Sunday

Great find Richie

I have dug out my Hornby I'll be getting the black spray out tomorrow!

Brilliant! Well done, looking forward to seeing them painted up:tumbsup:

The grey is very drab, much preferred the black and silver. Bring back the Super Train livery I say

Lovely job, must do that to my class 08, where did you get the transfers?

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That's a very big gap, can you slide the rail closer? The baseboard can play a big part in expansion, if you use soft wood and ply the soft wood will expand and contract quite considerably. I use MDF as it is very stable and doesn't move very much.

`My plan is to control the points separately from the DCC controller, I haven't decided on the JMRI and a Sprog or analogue yet. I'm deffo going for the NCE power cab pro 5 amp system, after using Anthony's I really liked it, so easy to use.