Somewhere SW of London. Somewhen before today

A complete and utter pita. BUT you are getting their Rick  :thumbs

Cheers

Matt

Barchester wrote:

A complete and utter pita. BUT you are getting their Rick  :thumbs

Cheers

Matt

A complete and utter pitta wouldn't go amiss.  Preferably stuffed with lamb doner meat and surrounded by chips and salad 

Models are often a right royal pain in the posterior though are they not?  Who hasn't felt that at some time?  At least things are moving forwards.  And backwards.  And can now take the required route as directed from the panel without any need for the Hand of God in the yards!  

A few more uncoupling ramps to install and I can then perform arrive-uncouple-runround-shunt and recouple moves all on DC without intervention.  

Well done!

A couple of accessories arrived in today’s mail
 
A BR pattern lever cloth as used by signalmen (ok, signallers for those in the 21st Century), and an Acme Thunderer whistle - on a buttonhole chain - inscribed BR(S).  

 Both are of course 12”:1’ scale but both will find employment. The rag will be my lever rag (what else?) and the whistle will adorn my work uniform though cannot be used in anger until the pandemic has eased a bit more. 
 
Apologies if these show sideways. All the system upgrades have not yet resolved the issue of iPhone images refusing to rotate. 

I didn't know whistles were regional Rick.  Does that mean the LNER ones were much larger and blew faster ……….

[user=6]Petermac[/user] wrote:

I didn't know whistles were regional Rick.  Does that mean the LNER ones were much larger and blew faster ……….

It means the ScR ones whistle with a distinctive accent. 

After an extended wait and three missed delivery dates my voltage step-down unit has finally arrived. Mysteriously on the very day when I could have claimed a refund had it not turned up. 

Now I can wire up the signals and lighting which should run better on 9V than 12V. 

Only £5 but an important little piece of the jigsaw. 

Tell me more Rick …….

That looks like an interesting gadget.

What is it, how does it work, where from and what voltage ranges are available ?

Petermac - a voltage regulator
What is Voltage Regulator and How Does It Work?

Thanks Sol - I must have missed it earlier .......

The first signal is wired and working 
https://gwiwer.smugmug.com/ModelRailway-1/Waddlemarsh/n-w7M85z/i-3s6hSNp

After another session connecting tiny wires beneath baseboards all the signals currently instelled are now working. Maybe not as smoothly as I’d like just yet but that comes with a little learning on the panel. And as noisy as ever for the Dapol signals.  But they work despite all the clutter!!!  It will look better soon I promise 

https://gwiwer.smugmug.com/ModelRailway-1/Waddlemarsh/n-w7M85z/i-tKWSmWg

Little bits of fiddling don’t seem to achieve much at the time but they add up. Recent fiddling has seen the girder bridge assembled into one piece and the roadway laid and painted. The footpath is yet to go down and a small gap remains to be filled in the side girders caused by the slight angle between the two spans. The latter is cut and painted but awaits the paint drying before fitting. 
This isn’t in its final position of course but there is nowhere else I can place a long rigid object to work on it. 

And a start made on the lengthy and intricate task of weathering the rails. 

And the footpath goes in. Metcalfe self-adhesive pavers which I find require a dab of glue to adhere reliably 

Nice track weathering Rick - what did you use ?


Regarding the Metcalfe pavoirs, I find them a bit too "hefty" for my tastes.  They may well be the right size - I've never measured them so don't really know - but the joints look like crevises.  I think they're just too thick and much prefer the Scalescenes version…………………..just my opinion.  :cheers

[user=6]Petermac[/user] wrote:

Nice track weathering Rick - what did you use ?


Regarding the Metcalfe pavoirs, I find them a bit too "hefty" for my tastes.  They may well be the right size - I've never measured them so don't really know - but the joints look like crevises.  I think they're just too thick and much prefer the Scalescenes version…………………..just my opinion.  :cheers

The track weathering is Woodland Scenics black mixed with Railmatch rust. For the check rails I painted them with just rust first before the top coat. That was a different mix to the running rails using a greater proportion of rust to black 

Those paving slabs are a bit chunky but they stand about a scale six inches above the road surface which looks right. The gaps are quite noticeable but this can be eased when weathering powder is applied as that sits in the cracks. One benefit of using individual pavers is they take on the slight curve along the length of the bridge. 

[user=1753]Gwiwer[/user] wrote:

And a start made on the lengthy and intricate task of weathering the rails. 

Hi Rick,

Is this a test to see if we're staying alert? I spy an insulfrog here when AFAIR even in your fiddle yard you use electrofrogs.

Regards

Colin

[user=2170]Colin W[/user] wrote:

[user=1753]Gwiwer[/user] wrote:

And a start made on the lengthy and intricate task of weathering the rails. 

Hi Rick,

Is this a test to see if we're staying alert? I spy an insulfrog here when AFAIR even in your fiddle yard you use electrofrogs.

Regards

Colin

Not a test, Colin, but a means of eliminating persistent shorts. A few points were exchanged with insulfrogs after I could find no reason for shorting. 

Oh yes, I remember now