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The screws are temporary, until ballast is added. Then they can be removed and the hole filled with ballast. It allows for changing track layouts in the early stages when changes happen and doesn't damage the track:thumbs:
 
Yep.. Digital control. my last layout was computer controlled and all automatic if I wanted it to be. It didnt have sound thoughPSX_20171014_170750.jpg

The lad done well.. 2 wagons finished to my part complete brake van!!!
 
One problem I have is that all my trains got stolen years ago and I've never replaced any. So there is no point making wagons without something to pull them!!

Really, this is just an excuse to post a picture of a nice model!!! Soon to be mine :)

Wainwright C Class

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A friend came round with some noisy trains :D:D

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We used to do our own noises, a vital part of any layout. I had the sound of a class 33 idling at the platform absolutely nailed, and my class 37 powering away was pretty good too. Never could manage a decent attempt at the scream of an inter city 125 paxman-valenta power unit, that shit was difficult. Kids got it easy these days.
 
We used to do our own noises, a vital part of any layout. I had the sound of a class 33 idling at the platform absolutely nailed, and my class 37 powering away was pretty good too. Never could manage a decent attempt at the scream of an inter city 125 paxman-valenta power unit, that shit was difficult. Kids got it easy these days.

Could you impersonate the standard "Fart" horn of a 4EPB set , - though the "tung-tung" of a SR bogie going over jointed track was easy. ?
 
We used to do our own noises, a vital part of any layout. I had the sound of a class 33 idling at the platform absolutely nailed, and my class 37 powering away was pretty good too. Never could manage a decent attempt at the scream of an inter city 125 paxman-valenta power unit, that shit was difficult. Kids got it easy these days.
I think the rot set in at the end of steam. Doing steam engines was always going to be easy, but it got trickier with the advent of diesel. Fine when it was low-speed diesel engines with simple exhaust systems, but when we started getting high-speed engines with blower systems, kids were starting to spit out teeth. Inevitable, then, that some other means of providing the sound effects had to be found.
 
I think the rot set in at the end of steam. Doing steam engines was always going to be easy, but it got trickier with the advent of diesel. Fine when it was low-speed diesel engines with simple exhaust systems, but when we started getting high-speed engines with blower systems, kids were starting to spit out teeth. Inevitable, then, that some other means of providing the sound effects had to be found.

I agree - though a friend could do a great impression of a 1959 tube stock accelerating away , with a vent of exhausting air from the self lapping air brake .......
 

As a mid life crisis reborn modeller I've been doing a lot of weathering in the last couple of years. Mainly tanks and aeroplanes but there's some really easy methods to make shit look real. There is so much available off the shelf. Washes, filters etc. The most effective I've used so far is oils weathering, very easy when you get the hang of it.
 
As a mid life crisis reborn modeller I've been doing a lot of weathering in the last couple of years. Mainly tanks and aeroplanes but there's some really easy methods to make shit look real. There is so much available off the shelf. Washes, filters etc. The most effective I've used so far is oils weathering, very easy when you get the hang of it.
I've done a very little bit of weathering with airbrush.. Never got that far with things before it all got stolen. Always open to tips!
 
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