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philipy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 12, 2018 7:47 am Fabulous Greg. It's all good but I particularly like the bit at 1 minute where the train is running round the edge of the cliff.

Thanks Philip. It's my favourite scene too - something I could never get without the drone. I have tried on a tall ladder but I can't move it along with the train!

DRONE FLIGHT 2 Here's the 2nd video using footage taken from the drone. This time I've excluded all views of sheds and people where possible and blanked them out (blue-screened) where not. It's supposed to be a 'documentary' on how a helicopter was used to make a movie to attract tourists to the Sa...

Very nicely done.
Always best to get the basics working first then to fine tune the speed or whatever.

Going uphill is not the problem. Remember, unlike full-size our little trains don'the (usually) have brakes. Here's my chance to learn something about live steam. I would have thought that if you shut off steam to the cylinders, then that would be a sort of brake. And if not, then couldn't you chan...

I don't run live steam, but my battery powered trains climb my 1:25 OK. Here's a couple of video links showing visiting live steamers climbing the 1:25. The first one is Terry's (Mr slo-mo himself). Terry likes running VERY slowly. https://youtu.be/M4C0yLB3R-M?t=181 and this one is a less modified B...

This is a great topic and bringing out useful ideas. It shows that different people have different requirements and solutions and also different ways of 'having fun' with garden trains. I seem to have progressed beyond enjoying just running trains, to enjoying being able to photograph or video them ...

Great video in a beaut garden. A pleasure to watch.
But the still pic is the best!

Will you have to alter your computer program that allocates wagons now that you have 2 new industries at sawmill and watermill?

I see your point Greg. It does improve that shot tremendously but that illustrates what I was trying to say earlier. It does look good in a still photo but in a long banner type shot the perspective would possibly go wrong unless you were either very lucky or able to choose a picture with no real r...

ge_rik wrote: ↑Fri Jun 08, 2018 8:15 am Now that's what I call a backscene (Beeston Castle )
Rik

Eagle eyes!

Thanks folks Quite relieved that job is now off the list. Trying to decide whether to make a backscene for this corner. What's the consensus on backscenes in the garden? Rik I think there might be different reasons for wanting a backscene. I've always wanted to try them just for photography reasons...

FWLR wrote: ↑Wed Jun 06, 2018 8:02 am Brilliant way of doing a connection between our two countries…Love it.

Sort of like doing "Sister Cities" (or do you call it 'twinning"?
Since the PLR is near the Sandstone Trail and I have a Sandstone station, it was a natural idea to join them.

Wonderful video, Greg. My favourite shots are where your big diesel departs Melaleuca across the big trestle and the 4-4-0 leaves Ti-tree. Good to see the horseshoe on the Termite branch from a different perspective as well. Some clever flying there, especially among the trees. I've never done any ...

Here's another 2 pics to round off the 'recent' activity. There's a crowd at the end of Sandstone station. (You'll have to watch the video to see why..) I wonder if Rik can read the sign under the station nameboard. (after all our railways are only 13k km apart) sands.jpg Loco 24 is a 4-4-0 built on...

VIEWS FROM A DRONE A friend-of-a-friend is a professional drone photographer. He offered to come around to my backyard and see if he could dodge all the trees and get some videos of my railway. As you can imagine it is a difficult assignment to fly the drone in 3D as well as operate the camera in 3...

I like to see the traditional Aussie architecture of the houses and pub. Ti Tree station is a beauty too. With lights in the station building looks like you are set up for some night running! Thanks for the comment. Partly as a test of posting 2 pics, here's a night time pic of Ti-tree station (whe...

Greg, is this what is happening to you when adding attachments? https://gardenrails.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=11852 If so I will implement the fix if it's becoming a common problem. Seems a similar problem that Rik had. All I know is that I 'previewed' it and both pics and text were OK. Wh...

WHO KNOWS WHAT GOES ON WITH ATTACHING PICS. Here's the other Hunter-Garratt - "Big Blue"- sitting at Melaleuca. bigblu.JPG Big Blue is based on two Bachmann big haulers, cut down to 2-6-0s. RC and LiPo battery in boiler. Sound systems in each tank. and a smaller loco, Ernie, shunting coal...

Looks really perfect in situ. It will generate a lot of traffic for the line. I hope there's a big forest somewhere. Lucky it's the 1930s so no Greenies to complain about logging. I like the way you let your sidings 'splay' out. Too many of mine (and others) are always in parallel. Yours give a much...

Thanks for the comments. Showing my ignorance here, is a Hunter-Garratt a real prototype or your take on a Garratt? Rik I'm indulging my fantasy, assuming that my hero, HW Garratt, licensed the SaTR to build Garratts as he did Beyer Peacock et al. And since I designed and built them, they are Hunter...