Sean

now this is good news with such a small run, and recent ramblings around moar beer kegs, I cant help but think just what other P42 goodies might be on their way to us in the near future. and what about tiny little forkliftable bales of peat to go into our newly unveiled 48 ton variant?

I dont mind waiting as long as i know what im waiting for so im not out shopping for alternatives when an RTR is coming.

There's a magnetically fitted panel somewhere in the jacks that you have to pry off to reveal a 21 pin socket.

I thought that as well, and to be fair he made it abundantly clear that he was nitpicking because he could find little wrong with it, he was definitely a little hard on it in the performance categories and im sure if he had spent a little more time with it instead of rushing out the review to compete with all the other ones that are popping up he might have gotten the few little teething problems ironed out. Its the same standard of review that he gives to all manufacturers and to be fair he takes plenty of opportunity during the review to use this loco to bash the others for not even coming close to what accurascale have achieved with this loco. the carpet thing is just his solution for having a big layout without a whole lot of free space. I dont think its particularly bad, we get to see how the stock runs on less than ideal surfaces.

I built a reverse loop lately. Is it DC or DCC?

Very little has happened as I have been unwell. However I did manage to get in and fix up some trackwork last night. Thought it was a bit of a waste using a curved point in a freight yard to I lifted it and swapped it for the point off to the wye. Now any point curves on the running loop are of the express type and things are running great. Now I just have to redesign that frieght yard! Not many trains have run as I have been deciding on whether to use DC or DCC on DC, leaving things in a half wired state as I have been evaluating what I want to do . Thankfully I'm waiting for a shipment of Lais decoders tomorrow so that issue will be put to bed and I'll be running fully DCC on DCC again. Will be nice as this has kept the terminus out of action in the meantime.

Vespa PK. who needs a model anyway?? Maybe theyll let me bring her down the Velorail. XD Another less fortunate one. Vespa LX this time. Outlived by the 20 and 40 year old examples above. as Piaggio build quality dropped DRAMATICALLY after the successful et2 and 4 line.

nah thats the high chime.

Hi again @johnfromoz cheers for the reply. actually found these decoders within the EU for around the price you listed from claudiodcc.com so have ordered a few to give them a try. just wondering are you using the keep alive "kung fu" version with the additional 2 wires soldered to the board or just the most basic version with "no keepalive"(860019) If using 860019, do the onboard stayalive caps on the A class still work? my instinct says yes and that they are the exact same decoder with the kung fu simply just having 2 extra wires soldered into a delicate area but i cannot confirm until mine arrive. Sean

I hear every time you press the horn button on the soundchip if you listen closely enough you can hear BoJo saying "Leave" at a very low volume under the horn sample.

thats kinda why i went for ballast instead of gypsum, but now i have a burning desire for a rake of gypsum in the back of my head.

071 is next....right.....RIGHT?

Should be sorted now

im far too stingey to buy anything at those hilarious prices thankfully

@David Holman I think this clip illustrates it well. in the parts where the guy looks down the trackwork, the first few glances i was like hey that looks a lot like settrack. and from memory this is the tightest sleeper density i have seen on any kind of railway. Us railroading videos have been fascinating me lately.the sheer size of the locos and consists are out of this world. literally.

It should still be possible to get one from Chris Dyer.

An observation I have made as of late suggests to me that the gauge difference isn't all that noticeable on modern track in real life between Ireland and the UK. I think sleeper density is much more important in the final look of the trackage and if the gauge looks correct or not. On the contrary to this, if I see videos from the us where the rails are packed full of sleepers in a similar density to that of set track I actually do think the track looks a lot more narrow gauge. Or UK heritage lines which still seem to have a lot of wooden sleepers. They also have this narrowing effect a lot more than a modern UK line with concrete sleepers. I feel like the track looks super wide in the barrack street videos and I think that's simply because the line is chock full of a high sleeper density again which seems to somewhat emphasise the gauge more.

When are the orange ones coming out? (or seperate bogies )

first go at the scalescenes station. Leaves a bit to be desired however as it's a low relief conversion I didn't follow the instructions so I'm quite pleased with how it did turn out and should perfect it on the next go. Also ran out of pritt stick and had to switch to PVA, which was not nearly as easy to work with but it got me over the line. It's actually mostly grand except for the roof! The low backscene is now annoying me but it's a nessesary evil in this loft room(slanted ceiling job)... I may be in a position to paint the ceiling sky blue which would help massively. This part im delighted with however. Peer through the window and see the top of the fire place through a set of curtains along with a painting on the wall 132 collects a small ballast load for a local job. 132 bonnet first with a rake of ballasts and no ploughs has quickly become a favourite of mine to run on the layout. Makes me half regret not getting 12 gypsums instead

good article that. is there any way to get a modern set of bogies under one without spending the earth? dapol maybe? ive gotten some bachmann 2a and want to do a few of the other mk2 varients to compliment them.

The big issue im having with the ebay ones is that by the time you pay for the coach, individual postage and another 6-10 pounds on the global shipping program tax its getting to be 40-50 euro per coach, very few sellers seem to want to even combine postage into the eu anymore. one guy has a load of them for sale at a good price but then he decided "im going to take off all the bogies and sell them seperately for a ridiculous price." I used to love ebay and "free UK shipping" to parcel motel. used to be able to grab loads of bargains that way. The bachmann ones, although perfect for what im doing I just cant justify spending what is being asked for them for a "my first respray" project. Thats ideal IM, pretty sure i had scoured the hattons site over the weekend and couldnt see that one.

An idea I have been toying with is taking a flat green screen and setting it up as a backscene for photographic shots. I might still do it as a "frontscene" that i can lift in and out of place as i please. the reason i mention it here is that your low down POV shots are really good and would make great use of such a feature if set up as you would be able to add whatever backdrop you liked after a photo was taken instead of say your kitchen for example. not sure if anybody has actually ever done that though.

Is someone trying to clone michael?

but A30 is still around at the RRP from multiple different retailers even if someone did order the last 35? I was a little sad to see the number pop up to 40 during the week. Prolonging my wait for shiny new toy announcements

looking for one of these coaches, preferably lima but Whats out there?