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Looks good - but why does it remind me of a sausage dog wearing a bobble hat?

Rik

Wonderful atmospheric shots, Grant.
I find the motion of a Shay mesmerising. I'll bet this is no exception.

Rik

I've had the same problem. When I came to paint my de Winton, I popped along to my local Halfords and was horrified to find no Rover Brooklands Green - in fact no Rover colours at all! I found they do have a Land Rover Brooklands Green listed but it's a totally different (darker) shade of green. I w...

Rik A very interesting development! I have a plan to fit signals to the "Railway in the valley of the mill", and have started by drawing out the Festiniog type signals, ready for printing. I have even started to work out how to programme Arduino boards. So your ideas have arrived at just ...

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4737023 Narrow Gauge 2-Wheeled Railway Trailer With Tools by Clarionut - licensed under theCreative Commons - Attribution - Non-Commercial - Share Alike license. 32mm gauge 16mm scale Designers note Some time ago I built a narrow gauge (SM32) Wickham railcar from an...

Petersfield wrote: ↑Sun Sep 01, 2024 6:35 pm ........Beside it is a honey wagon – honey starts with a bee, doesn’t it? *

Rik

drewzero1 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 31, 2024 11:52 pm For my second entry, a train beginning with B:
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Rik

Thanks Andrew. Praise indeed.
Not sure I can adapt the key fob into a ground frame but it's an interesting idea.

Rik

Hopefully, this time I will be able to equip and deploy every signal. As Greg has pointed out, I'll need to keep tabs on charging them.

Rik

I think the inspector should have a word with the motive power department. They clearly lavish far more TLC on their IC locos than their steam locos...... A travesty

Rik

Looking good Rik. Are there only 4 signals at each station? Will you have to carry 5 of those keyfob controllers around for the 20 signals? You'll have to glue them all to single 'carry board' ! I imagine you will just be at one station when you want to control it's signals. So worth thinking about...

Ten years ago I constructed twenty signals. I put four of them under radio control but then lost motivation as I couldn't figure out how to do the rest of them efficiently - four signals had to be hard-wired to a central RC receiver powered by 12v at each station. Recently, I came across tiny linear...

Strewth! They are amazing!!

Rik

Wow - and Diane looks so young.....
Congratulations to you both.

Rik

I missed the swivelling head on the first viewing. I was too busy watching the point blades slowly moving.
Excellent work. Watching the valve gear and chuffs is mesmerising

Rik

Scrat wrote: ↑Tue Aug 27, 2024 7:32 am We have a derailment at 1:04.

I've viewed it several times and can't spot it.

Rik

That lamp is a thing of beauty.
I shroud LEDs in my lamps in black heatshrink tube, which is equally effective.

Rik

I was just about to say, "Those tankers sound just like the TARDIS taking off" when ........

Rik

Peter Butler wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2024 5:18 pm

Old Man Aaron wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2024 2:49 pm Interesting just to see it in use outside of garden railways.

I like to think it was developed for garden railway use and adopted by the building industry.

A bit like non stick frying pans being used to protect spacecraft on re-entry

Rik

philipy wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2024 4:40 pm Very nice end result, Rik.

P'raps I won't bother finishing mine after all!

There can never be too many de Wintons in the world to my mind

Rik