@AndyRA That's phenomenal. I've just had a very pleasant lunchbreak watching that!

Wow - absolutely spell binding Andy, fantastic modelling, filming and sound. At 17.00m the video shows what I call the "Bushey Arches" with the road sign to Northwood and Pinner (A4125) and Bushey and Watford (A411). I was born in Bushey and lived in Northwood Hills betwixt Northwood and Pinner until I got married. A trip down memory lane indeed.

Cheers,

Tim

I loved that too tim

The arches and the curve leaning into Watford coming from the south

Stunning work

Quote from: Moonglum on December 11, 2023, 01:49:29 PMWow - absolutely spell binding Andy, fantastic modelling, filming and sound. At 17.00m the video shows what I call the "Bushey Arches" with the road sign to Northwood and Pinner (A4125) and the Bushey and Watford (A411). I was born in Bushey and lived in Northwood Hills betwixt Northwood and Pinner until I got married. A trip down memory lane indeed.

Cheers,

Tim

Thank you for those kind words Tim. Hopefully I will be doing another compilation video which will probably be ready just before Christmas with any luck.

Andy.

Quote from: Foxhound on December 11, 2023, 12:52:37 PM@AndyRA That's phenomenal. I've just had a very pleasant lunchbreak watching that!

Thanks, another video will probably be coming just before Christmas.

Andy.

Thanks we look forward to the next video and happy memories Andy. Yes Tim,  totally agree I'm spellbound too. As a 70s / 80s modeller it's inspirational and worthy of a discussion next time we meet

Chris

I decided to resurrect a 8115 Farish Poole Class 40 (purchased second-hand many years ago to provide a chassis for an Ian Stoate 'Peak' kit which has never been built!). On test it had no split gears, so it got a coreless motor on Tuesday afternoon and today it was running around the layout (motor not as noisy as Farish, and at a nice constant speed) - just need to renumber it now. I've already given it full yellow ends. Quite a nice addition to the running fleet.

Today - finish building a replacmeent PCB for signals WL50, WL55...



The LHS (for signal WL50) was built Wednesday afternoon, the RHS (WL55) was finished today. All I have to do now is find the inclination to go underneath and rip out the old board/s and wire in this one!

Two signals built today to replace old ones... the original WL50, WL55 were built in the 1980s using 3mm LEDs (the red LED has a resistor which gets VERY hot!). The new ones use 2mm LEDs from China(!) so look much better. The 'heads' complete with LEDs and resistors are available in sets of 10 (cheap). Search eBay for '10 sets Target Faces With 3-LEDs for 1:150 Railway Signal N Z Scale 3 Aspects'. The posts are Evergreen 3/16" plastic tube. The red aspect is 35mm above ground level. 4 wires go down the tube; one 'common' insulated black wire plus 3 enamelled single copper cores.

Unlike the old ones, these signals have common cathodes which simplifies the wiring. I'm going to use my own resistors (2K2 in R&Y, 10K in the G) which are already on the PCB I built.. these values 'tone down' the brightness to an acceptable level.

Looking really neat Kevin. @KevTheBusDriver are you sourcing a ladder for those please?!

Maybe a small black id plate to identify the signal would be a nice touch

Chris

Quote from: crewearpley40 on March 09, 2024, 12:12:04 AMLooking really nest Kevin. @KevTheBusDriver are you sourcing a ladder for those please?!

Maybe a small black id plate to identify the signal would be a nice touch

Chris

Thanks Chris!
I've got some brass ladder somewhere and yes, the ID plates (which are black-on-white - 1970s) will probably come from the old signals. WL50 was actually installed at 09:00 today and works(!). More progress tomorrow, I hope...

Quote from: KevTheBusDriver on March 09, 2024, 08:25:27 PM

Quote from: crewearpley40 on March 09, 2024, 12:12:04 AMLooking really nest Kevin. @KevTheBusDriver are you sourcing a ladder for those please?!

Maybe a small black id plate to identify the signal would be a nice touch

Chris

Thanks Chris!
I've got some brass ladder somewhere and yes, the ID plates (which are black-on-white - 1970s) will probably come from the old signals. WL50 was actually installed at 09:00 today and works(!). More progress tomorrow, I hope...

Quote from: KevTheBusDriver on March 09, 2024, 08:25:27 PM

Quote from: crewearpley40 on March 09, 2024, 12:12:04 AMLooking really nest Kevin. @KevTheBusDriver are you sourcing a ladder for those please?!

Maybe a small black id plate to identify the signal would be a nice touch

Chris

Thanks Chris!
I've got some brass ladder somewhere and yes, the ID plates (which are black-on-white - 1970s) will probably come from the old signals. WL50 was actually installed at 09:00 today and works(!). More progress tomorrow, I hope...

Kev

Hi . Where did you source your signal ID PLates please?

Thanks Chris

Quote from: crewearpley40 on March 09, 2024, 08:28:32 PM

Quote from: KevTheBusDriver on March 09, 2024, 08:25:27 PM

Quote from: crewearpley40 on March 09, 2024, 12:12:04 AMLooking really nest Kevin. @KevTheBusDriver are you sourcing a ladder for those please?!

Maybe a small black id plate to identify the signal would be a nice touch

Chris

Thanks Chris!
I've got some brass ladder somewhere and yes, the ID plates (which are black-on-white - 1970s) will probably come from the old signals. WL50 was actually installed at 09:00 today and works(!). More progress tomorrow, I hope...

Quote from: KevTheBusDriver on March 09, 2024, 08:25:27 PM

Quote from: crewearpley40 on March 09, 2024, 12:12:04 AMLooking really nest Kevin. @KevTheBusDriver are you sourcing a ladder for those please?!

Maybe a small black id plate to identify the signal would be a nice touch

Chris

Thanks Chris!
I've got some brass ladder somewhere and yes, the ID plates (which are black-on-white - 1970s) will probably come from the old signals. WL50 was actually installed at 09:00 today and works(!). More progress tomorrow, I hope...

Kev

Hi . Where did you source your signal ID PLates please?

Thanks Chris

A lot of my 'tiny signs' I make myself; I use paint (!) to produce all the signs I need, then get a 6x4 print of the image at the local shop. Then it's just a case of cutting them out and glueing 'em on. I'll see if I can put one here...

that didn't work., I'll put one on a sep. post!

That's OK Kev. I can envisage how you make them. Hope works is progressing!

hopefully a typical paint file of little signs...




another tip - if you leave a bit of the cut out photo in water overnight, it is possible (with care) to remove the backing paper to leave a very thin version of the pnoto... not as good as a transfer, but good enough for me.