Animals on your railway
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Kevi must say i have never noticed anyone saying they dont work you track will still get mucky but the Relco type units slow down the build up .
I have 2 gaugemaster ones i used when i was DC redundant now as they are no good with dcc.
I think how they work is they make the track less of an area for crap to adhere to therefore slowing the build up simple to fit little lights flash on them when you run locos
cheers Brian
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the relco did the job but i never just left it at that i still gave the track a good
old hand clean just not as often,yes they work.
thumbs:cool:
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It's all on the "to do one day" list
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I have 2 gaugemaster ones i used when i was DC redundant now as they are no good with dcc.
Brian - if those are still on hand and in need of a good home I'll be over in less than a month now.
I use one of the Gaugemaster units and am rather happy with it. Sure doesn't keep the track clean but it helps shift the dirt and causes the occasional spark as wheels pass over "gunk" and it burns off.
They can't be used with DCC as both rely on the 16Vac current which can only be employed for one function.
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cheers Brian
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Here's one of my blog entries with Birds. The avian sort.:It's a no no
http://www.modelrailforum.com/forums/blog/neil_s_wood/index.php?showentry=362
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I'm perfectly happy with what I have but if there are others which might be better I'd like to find them.
And a flock of Presier gulls dosen't come cheap.
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£3.80 for the gulls, £3.95 for the waterfowl and £3.20 for the cats. You can buy them already painted but it costs more. There was also a 'pick n' mix' tray with all sorts of pieces in which was fairly addictive! Engines, winches, postboxes, propellers, mooring bollards to name a few…
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Similarly, the geese are 0.9cm, so about 70cm scaled up. Wikipedea says a Canada Goose is 76cm to 110cm long, so include the neck and its the right size for an adult.
The gulls have a wing span of 1.4cm (with slightly swept-back wings) giving 1.06m scaled up. A Herring Gull, which is what you are most likely to see in the UK, has a (presumably straight) wingspan of 1.38m to 1.50m, so again this seems the right size. Easy to forget just how big these birds can be!
Oh great, I've got a coot (5mm long) stuck between two keys on my keyboard…
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The wingspan of most birds is approximately 2.75 times their body size making the figures offerred by wallreg only slightly over the top and unlikely to be of consequence in 00/HO scale.
Birdfacts gives the wingspan of a Herring Gull as 144cms and of the Common Gull 120cms which is again as close to the same figures as makes no difference.
The vast majority of British gulls seen commonly will be one or other of these; for the casual observer the most noticeable difference other than size is that the Herring Gull has pink legs while the Common has yellow.
I looked into those figures both as something of a "twitcher" and out of curiosity as they did seem to be slightly on the big side. British gulls are fairly large birds. The less common Great Black Back Gull is, at up to 71cms long and 158cms wingspan, approaching the size of the smaller albatrosses. Those are normally quite docile but being pestered for food by their slightly smaller relatives can be rather intimidating.
Our local Pacific and Silver Gulls here are much smaller and certainly don't scavenge as aggressively. They are also much quieter without the raucous call so familiar at British coastal locations.
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I would imagine you would need very small fingers and exceptional eyesight :hmm
So anyone with the above, can i place my order now
'Kev
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I think I had some of that back in my mis-spent youth. There's no way I could attempt modelling something only a couple of mm or so in size now. I have trouble some days getting wheels onto rails and that's with the close-up glasses on.
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:hmm Although perhaps not in a 12ft x 10ft bedroom :questionGo G scale!!!
mikey
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