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In the past, I bought polymer resin to make the buildings, it was great. But I didn't have a record of what kind of polymer. Recently, I bought epoxy resin and I was disappointed because when the structure is placed outdoors under the heat of ~ 80F, it became softer. The structure collapsed because ...

After 10 years, it took some courage to redesign the railway layout. I have been planning for many years, but no time to make it realization. In the past, the elevated system was separated from the ground level, two trains could run separately. But I rarely have two trains running at the same time. ...

philipy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 9:09 pm

mymodeltrain wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 8:07 pm
Spring in Nashville
Spring on Haruka garden railway.tif

Sorry, but we can't see your picture. Could you convert it to either a jpg or png and post again, please?

Spring in Nashville

BWLR has proposed: " Garden railways in bloom” for this quarter. Now I know that many of you have very nice gardens, so lets see some bloomin' good pictures! Rules as always, closing date for entries will be 10th June. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sprin...

I am building a water tower for my department's art show, which will be next month. This is my own design idea. The water tank is made of PVC material and the rest of the frame is made of metal pipes. I got all the raw materials from Home Depot. But I feel that I need a safeguard fence surrounding ...

Quite like that water tower. Looks sturdy too, can't go wrong. 8) I was also gonna say something like snake mesh. I used some for a railing around a mill chimney years ago, I just cut out every other square with side cutters and cleaned up the burrs with a dremel. 20431294_1654345477955768_31098106...

In keeping with the Home Depot repurposed materials theme, how about getting some square metal mesh of a suitable size ( garden mesh, or even a barbeque grid) and cuttting a strip which you then wrap around the gallery level of your water tower? That's a good idea; I will walk around Home Depot thi...

I am building a water tower for my department's art show, which will be next month. This is my own design idea. The water tank is made of PVC material and the rest of the frame is made of metal pipes. I got all the raw materials from Home Depot. But I feel that I need a safeguard fence surrounding t...

This is a good movie about sightseeing by train in Japan. Very pleasant and unique story.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/onde ... o/2068015/

I'm always horrified by the price of these (£40) - but then I suppose you're paying for the convenience of having someone to gather and edit the sound files and put them into the MP3 player. Being a bit of a cheapskate, I prefer to do it myself (for a fraction of the cost). https://youtu.be/OGV1m1A...

I think you mean http://www.modelsounds.co.uk? Also look at: http://www.train-tech.com/index.php/sound/sfx-sound-capsules Phil.P Thanks all for the information. I also found last night these soundboards from itt products (https://ittproducts.com). Overall, these sites provide us with more flexibili...

Big holidays are coming, so it's time to plan a few projects. I am making a jigstone building for my boss this year. I wonder if someone could remind me where to get the soundcard for scenic effects, like sounds from a train platform for animal sounds, etc. I usually bought these in the past, but I ...

The temperature was nearly 100 degrees (F) yesterday in Nashville. But I made this movie as planned several weeks before. Enjoy the movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SuksTUiUy8

I want to get a signal controller circuit for the railway. Please suggest to me a simple circuit for 12V DC. Thanks signal_railroad_final.tif It turned out that the Blocksignalling circuit is very well designed. It was delivered pretty fast for international delivery. The manual is very well writte...

Tony Bird wrote: ↑Fri May 27, 2022 10:13 am Hi,

https://youtu.be/x6Fmd7_KY9o

Take care Tony.

Very creative, thanks for sharing.

I want to have the circuit detect the train motion and then turn the lights on, with 3 colors red yellow then green. Ah. That's a whole different kettle of fish. You can quite easily construct and program something to do that with Arduino or Pickaxe, but that requires some knowledge of electronics ...

I want to get a signal controller circuit for the railway. Please suggest to me a simple circuit for 12V DC. Thanks As well as Rik's input there are a number of other questions that need answering before anyone can really give you definite advice. i.e. What sort of signals - colour light or semapho...

ge_rik wrote: ↑Fri Jun 03, 2022 5:31 pm Do you want it/them to be radio controlled or hard wired?

Rik

A simple hard-wired circuit is better for my situation.

I want to get a signal controller circuit for the railway. Please suggest to me a simple circuit for 12V DC. Thanks

ge_rik wrote: ↑Mon Apr 11, 2022 7:15 am Some great trackside shots there the aubretia looks really effective alongside the track.

Rik

Thanks, Rik, I saw your instruction on how to edit the movies, but I don't have time to edit so I decided to use my cellphone. I wish the movie is clearer.