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I am looking forward to Philip making the video for us all to see how the sound is in his loco Your wish is my command, Rod! :lol: The video is over on my Gmeinder loco build thread. I did actually get it finished last weekend as I had hoped, and did a short video, but then discovered I had made a ...

Well here it is. https://youtu.be/ZQ2kqpcGWYQ In the end I painted it in standard early 1940's "Panzer grey", which is currently RAL 7021 and as far as I can tell was also used for Luftwaffe ground vehicles. I decided against the red embellishments since I'm not sure if they are correct ( ...

Well... it's .... errr... different!
Be good to see how you finally finish it.

Looking excellent so far, Zac

Is this the sort of thing you are thinking of, Phil? ( as a f'rinstance)
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3401354

Give us some dimensions and I'm sure one of us can come up with something to suit.

It’s strange that Martin (of Atropos) states it on all the build instructions as he’s so particular and precise (in a good way), if people cannot determine what it relates to. Even if it was an historical measure, I’d have expected to find some reference on the internet! A new one on me too, I've b...

Thats looking good, Don't forget to show us the result of painting her.

I'll echo what the others have said, it is lovely to see a train going somewhere!

drewzero1 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 4:43 am
Sorry for the delay! I've finished it- see HOW TO: Gif-izing a video

Thanks Drew.
Although I managed to do a very simple version for my coupling gif, I never managed to work out how to get the resizing etc to work, so this looks very helpful.

Coming back to my loco, I'm open to thoughts on 'red'. As I mentioned some while back, German railways are well known for red wheels etc. I kind of had it in mind that in military service this wouldn't have had that embellishment and the red axles boxes, etc, in the original photo could have been pa...

Yes, it is a fascinating location. What really struck me though, was the speeds they were running at. More like a lot of toy train layouts than a proper railway! They obviously don't pay a lot of attention to 'elf 'n safety, 'due diligence', 'risk assessment', etc, either.

Rod, I think the whole point of a thread like this one is that at the end of the day, between us we've worked out what is and isn't doable, so that you don't need to understand the technicalities, just follow the final "recipe". I'm hoping that this weekend I will have the whole loco finis...

It has been so wet here that Dinah has only got 2 of her beds ready to plant, and one planted up. Much the same everywhere I think,Trevor. We certainly haven't been able to get out and do anything more than a bit of pruning of last years die back. Still, it's good to see the railway is still making...

Love it, Sir! You do have a gift for posing a story.

You had me going there for a minute, until I scrolled back up to the top!!!

Thanks Rik, I wouldn't argue about that. Either way it isn't part of the loco, so I'm not too fussed as to what it actually is.

You may remember a few weeks back we had some discussion about what the red blobs are, by the blackout headlight in the original photo. Well, this morning I was looking at the pictures to get the correct position for drilling the headlight mounting hole, when I realised that there are no red blobs o...

Thorough as always, Rik, thanks.

I have glued a piece of expanded neoprene rubber in front of the speaker. It is like wet suit material, and sold for gaskets. It has reduced the sound level - to my ear to an appropriate level. Reasonably loud when the loco is near me but as it goes further away the volume diminishes until I can ju...