Vale of Fairway

[philipy]

Nice Wysteria AND Rhodedendron... Oh and the train is nice too!

A small piece of string would solve the Rhode problem without the need for chopping, I'd have thought?

[bazzer42]

A small piece of string would solve the Rhode problem without the need for chopping, I'd have thought?

Simplest ideas are the best...consider it done, tomorrow!

[FWLR]

“The Hearse” is a fine looking loco Derek, love the slow running and the way it just head butted the flower….

[bazzer42]

Typical, you master posting videos and your battery dies. Unlike Tom Rolts experience of riding over hidden rails my moss riddled section was too much....

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[bazzer42]

Seemed a shame not to use that spare shed end. Split it down the middle and hey presto a little bothy/shelter. The sides might be lined with scored ply as they will be visible. The width will depend on the corrugated offcuts I have being a tightfisted old so and so.

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[tom_tom_go]

Very authentic looking line there!

[IanC]

The width will depend on the corrugated offcuts I have being a tightfisted old so and so.

Nice looking shed/bothy. Nothing wrong with being a tightfisted old so and so. I suspect it's a big club. I seem to have become one,

Ian

[ge_rik]

Lovely looking little loco, Derek with great slow running capabilities. Have you thought about rc or sound?

Rik

[bazzer42]

Lovely looking little loco, Derek with great slow running capabilities. Have you thought about rc or sound?

Rik

There is a rudimentary rc system using an mtronics speed controller and a cheap turnigy FM controller and receiver. I keep thinking about deltang but when you have all the bits in stock it becomes the cheap option.

How big is a speaker? I wouldn't want to go down the trailing wagon route I recall Tom singing the praises of myloco soundcards. I assume there is a sound fitting tutorial on your blog?

[ge_rik]

How big is a speaker? I wouldn't want to go down the trailing wagon route I recall Tom singing the praises of myloco soundcards. I assume there is a sound fitting tutorial on your blog?

Hi Derek
The MTroniks Digisounds card is probably the best for the money - http://www.mtroniks.net/prod/Sound-Syst ... d5mSDT.htm
I've started using these speakers from Rapid: - https://www.rapidonline.com/rvfm-abs-22 ... gs-35-0293
Cheap(ish), include an enclosure which improves the sound quality and fairly small (smaller if you cut off the lugs) - 57.5 x 23 x 14.85mm

Dead easy to fit - two wires to the motor, two wires to the battery, two wires to the speaker. You can also connect a wire to the ESC if it has a 0v triggered output for the horn and engine start/stop - here's a video of the card in action


Rik

[bazzer42]

Thanks Rik, think I will give that a go. Given I didn't plan ahead (not a first!) Would I get acceptable sound with a few holes in the footplate under the bonnet??

[bazzer42]

When I fall in love, it will be forever... found this barn in the next village complete with oil/diesel tank. If that side extension was a lean to with a track in it, it would be perfect, in my simple eyes. The next build has to be homage to this beauty.

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[ge_rik]

Thanks Rik, think I will give that a go. Given I didn't plan ahead (not a first!) Would I get acceptable sound with a few holes in the footplate under the bonnet??

I'd have thought so. I tend to fix them to the underside of the cab roof - amazing how the eye ignores them - but plenty of room for the sound to escape. (No good for an open cab loco though, so on my half-cab Black Hawthorn, I put it behind the firebox door and made the door openable )

Rik

[Peter Butler]

When I fall in love, it will be forever... found this barn in the next village complete with oil/diesel tank. If that side extension was a lean to with a track in it, it would be perfect, in my simple eyes. The next build has to be homage to this beauty.
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.....and why not?
Whatever style or period of construction you like, there is a prototype out there somewhere.

[philipy]

Will you build it with the same lean to the right, or level it up?

Seriously, although I can see the attraction of the brick building for an industrial type setting, its the earlier stone one that catches my eye. However as, Peter said, whatever takes your fancy....

[FWLR]

That would be a superb build Derek, it will look brilliant when you have finished it we are sure.

[tom_tom_go]

Go for it Derek, that's my kind of lineside building.

[bazzer42]

A climbing frame project got in the way of railway time this weekend but managed 10 minutes of poor running that led me to decide I need to manage the level of under growth and hidden ballast movement. No real maintenance so far this year so who's to blame? A few shots of parked in the yard on a sunny Sunday.

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[tom_tom_go]

The undergrowth looks brilliant though so don't hack it back too much.

[FWLR]

Never fail to love your line Derek. Love the undergrowth too.