Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

[Johnnie1000]

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A bit scruffy now — but it’ll look OK when it’s wiped down, touched up and varnished (and viewed from a distance)[/size][/b]

As are we all. They look excellent.

[BertieB]

It's a bit silly. More to come...

I spent a couple of days digging the weeds and tidying up the permanent way, while the shunter trundled round (for the first time) at very slow, scale speeds —without incident, until I decided I should film it for a few minutes.

Of course, this has been grossly exaggerated in the resulting video, which has become a brief taster for the forthcoming epic (which I haven’t done anything about so far).

[Lonsdaler]

Most amusing! I hope nothing was damaged

[FWLR]

Brilliant, laugh first thing in the morning is what the doctor ordered..


Love the colours and finish on the loco too.

[Phil.P]

In the garden, something stirred..

I watched this, as the latest 'use the train' ad was playing on the TV...
The music was quite appropriate!


Phil.P

[BertieB]

Thank you. It was all OK. I grabbed both, as the loco collided with the phone, fearful something was going in the pond. I may have had Lonsdaler’s gravity train, pond story at the back of my mind.

[ge_rik]

Thank you. It was all OK. I grabbed both, as the loco collided with the phone, fearful something was going in the pond. I may have had Lonsdaler’s gravity train, pond story at the back of my mind.

I did wonder about the significance of the sound effect which ended the video .....

Rik

[Lonsdaler]

Thank you. It was all OK. I grabbed both, as the loco collided with the phone, fearful something was going in the pond. I may have had Lonsdaler’s gravity train, pond story at the back of my mind.

All's well on that front - still works over 12 months on! I must let Chris Rennie know that his gravity train is submersible

[BertieB]

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Cheeky tank engine and coaches. What more could I want?

Now posted to 'Videos' is Semi-scale BR: the fantasy, Southern Region branch line, again, a few minutes with the coaches that began this thread, being pulled and pushed round the garden by most of the (battery-powered) steam fleet, at last.

Here's a GIF to promote it.

Cheers!

[BertieB]

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It goes!

I’ve stuck a couple of large lead ingots over the bogies — and it runs pleasingly smoothly.

It was time to finish wiring up the 33 and give it a go. Switching it on and fiddling with LocoRemote, you can imagine my surprise when the front, directional lighting glowed bright red (and I haven't done any rear lights). This is despite having retrieved the LEDs from an envelope clearly marked (in my own hand) ‘3mm, 3v clear white’…

Here’s a picture (below) but as you can see, the red LED doesn’t show red in the photo. But they have before. Weird, huh?!

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[FWLR]

Fantastic..


No idea about why your led is a different colour, but it does run great.

[ge_rik]

It does look good. Nice idea to make it an animated gif

Rik

[BertieB]

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Thank you.

And at last, the Class 33 makes it round the garden (with wagons), though without functioning directional lighting at present (see above*), in another noisy video, now posted in Videos > Semi-scale BR: Class 33.

https://gardenrails.org/forum/viewtopic ... 24&t=14387

*It WAS me who mixed up the LEDs and labelled them all incorrectly, of course.

Cheers!

[Old Man Aaron]

On a barely-related tangent..
This reminds me of the time my father fitted red LED tail lights to one of his R/C cars. He switches it on: It's pink! We didn't know they even made those.

[BertieB]

Branch line, BR Standard mogul revisited

Please excuse the self indulgence here. I’ve been toying with this for years, and now an opportunity has presented itself.

Here’s the short BR 2-6-0 sequence from the recent ‘branch line steam’ video (see ‘Videos’) with previously abandoned shots reintroduced (there were mismatched frames-per-second, ‘jerky’ editing issues). But now it features a glorious Bach soundtrack, turned up to 11 in celebration of, erm… the magnificence, the grandeur… of the garden railway experience, I suppose. Cheers.

You could also see this on my website, where you won’t get bombarded with tiresome advertising ('...it's taking the UK by storm') or get ‘profiled’…
https://www.toytrainsinthebackgarden.co ... ml#issue/2

Refresh the browser, if anything doesn't load. Looks best on a tablet, I'd suggest.

[Phil.P]

For some reason, it does not work on the Smartie-Phone?

Phil.P

[FWLR]

Nice clear video that Bertie, although I am not a lover of music being played when people do videos of their loco's, I turned the sound down, but then I lose slightly the sounds coming from the loco, but it was still a very enjoyable video.

The yellow flower that was hanging by a spiders web looks just like a fairy, would be great in our Fairy Wood line.

[BertieB]

Uh-oh. What doesn’t work Phil?

And thanks, Rod.

[Phil.P]

Uh-oh. What doesn’t work Phil?

And thanks, Rod.

Followed the link, to a page of numbered entries/videos..
Clicked on 17,and it opened a larger version of the thumbnail. But clicking the 'play' icon did nothing..

A download of the mp4, did allow me to watch it though.

I blame the Chinese, and the Smartie-Phone!

Phil.P

[Lonsdaler]

Hi Bertie, I had issues viewing it from your website too. Using a Samsung Galaxy A8, I can get about a minute in and then it just locks up! Fortunately I was able to download it and view it direct - great stuff! Very stirring