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philipy wrote: ↑Sun Mar 18, 2018 6:58 pm
Very nice Tom, good to see that low speed.
Needs a driver though, that big open cab looks awful empty.
It amazes and infuriates me to see so many live steam locomotives without drivers in their cabs. I thought the whole idea of live steam was to enhance the realism
of the model? Without driver figures they are just runaways!
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tom_tom_go wrote: ↑Sun Mar 18, 2018 8:37 pm
Is that all you took from that video I bothered to produce?
Not at all Tom, I fully appreciate the effort you have put into creating a wonderful model which is superbly controllable at slow speed. My remark was not directed at any particular individual, just that having spent time watching so many youtube videos posted by proud owners of beautiful locomotives, steam or otherwise, so many are let down by the lack of footplate crew. Strangely these same people go to extraordinary lengths to place figures at stations etc. but the image of the incomplete locomotive is striking.
The best things in life are free.... so why am I doing this?
Depending on the loco, there often isn't room in the cab if there's RC servos in there as well. In my own case, driving manually I've got to get very over scale fingers in there, so "guilty me Lud".
Grant.
Well Tom I love it with our without a driver, but I do get Peter’s point and I don’t think he was pointing any fingers, just making an observation about others.
More videos please with or without crew, preferably when it’s not has cold....Brrrrrrr
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Cracking viewing but you call that snow...we have huge 3 inch drifts! The wind has been, and still is, a bone chiller so credit to you for getting out there.
I wish the leaves in my garden were so well behaved. They just won't stay still for a photo to be taken.
Or are you using some mysterious Leaf Glue ?????????.......
Bit of sunshine does get the juices flowing, did some weeding yesterday and actually steamed my Willi. I even set to on a small shed this morning but didn't allow for the thickness of the wood when gluing the back. Think it is time to resuscitate Fairway
PS love the Cricket, mine is rather drab in comparison and the wrong scale!
I am very pleased with Cricket. It was second hand and apparently received a Royal Mail handling service although I reckon the seller sold it because it had taken a tumble.
When I got it I removed the archaic R/C system and fitted a Deltang set up with a new battery and sound. It has now become my first runner before my live steamers (and can even pull a dead steamer!).