I used to buy old /damaged/badly painted stock too, just to practice my skills on (or lack thereof). Most of it has been passed on, usually at a profit 😁, except for a few old teak coaches and Hornby Mk1s plus some Mainline wagons I've re-liveried and kept. Nice update. Cheers and Happy Holidays from Australia!
Nice progress. Have to crack on with my own supplementary wiring and MPC control boards positioning which I hadnt really planned alongside the overall build!
I'm starting to wish the wiring panels were a bit larger, most are 24"x12", wishing I'd gone at least 18" deep here good luck with it and thanks for watching
Oh wow! I'd been regularly checking here, or so I thought, for content, since we'd already been exchanging quite a few messages around your plans. I had entirely missed all of this though until YT kindly recommended one of your videos yesterday and I thought, 'I know that name'. I then sat yesterday evening and caught up. Obviously I'm more interested in the technical aspects and I'm already looking forward to the longer explanations - how you have it all programmed etc. The electronic explanations are good and I may well note a few of those boards down (although to be fair I'm pretty sure you've recommended them to me already) - especially as a replacement for the barebones shift registers on my layout, which are by far the weakest link. Must have been great to have that noise of trains running around constantly, hope you're taking time to sit back and just enjoy it, something I find very difficult to do. Subscribed, obviously, and looking forward to more! Regards, Chris
a good chunk of the inspiration for all this came from your videos showing what was possible, which intrigued me. I have been asked by a few for more on how it works in simple terms and in more that a few cases "for the love of %$$^&* why!". those PCF8575 I/O chips are good, mostly because they will tell you when they have something to say, also just two data lines as well as being able to work input and output, not quite as simple to use and yes very much enjoying, especially now the track is able to support higher speed I can dare to run at medium speed and turn my back and just listen.. mostly. many thanks for watching :)
I had a couple of those painted Graffar coaches, I did resell them as they were a bit bodged, I did pick another couple this year at a fair which are factory finish.
Nice video have a good Christmas all the best Colin from Mossend railway oo.
I used to buy old /damaged/badly painted stock too, just to practice my skills on (or lack thereof).
Most of it has been passed on, usually at a profit 😁, except for a few old teak coaches and Hornby Mk1s plus some Mainline wagons I've re-liveried and kept.
Nice update. Cheers and Happy Holidays from Australia!
I do plan *eventually* to repaint the lot, possibly with lighting too
Happy Christmas all the way down there :)
Nice progress. Have to crack on with my own supplementary wiring and MPC control boards positioning which I hadnt really planned alongside the overall build!
I'm starting to wish the wiring panels were a bit larger, most are 24"x12", wishing I'd gone at least 18" deep here
good luck with it and thanks for watching
Oh wow! I'd been regularly checking here, or so I thought, for content, since we'd already been exchanging quite a few messages around your plans. I had entirely missed all of this though until YT kindly recommended one of your videos yesterday and I thought, 'I know that name'. I then sat yesterday evening and caught up.
Obviously I'm more interested in the technical aspects and I'm already looking forward to the longer explanations - how you have it all programmed etc. The electronic explanations are good and I may well note a few of those boards down (although to be fair I'm pretty sure you've recommended them to me already) - especially as a replacement for the barebones shift registers on my layout, which are by far the weakest link.
Must have been great to have that noise of trains running around constantly, hope you're taking time to sit back and just enjoy it, something I find very difficult to do. Subscribed, obviously, and looking forward to more! Regards, Chris
a good chunk of the inspiration for all this came from your videos showing what was possible, which intrigued me. I have been asked by a few for more on how it works in simple terms and in more that a few cases "for the love of %$$^&* why!".
those PCF8575 I/O chips are good, mostly because they will tell you when they have something to say, also just two data lines as well as being able to work input and output, not quite as simple to use
and yes very much enjoying, especially now the track is able to support higher speed I can dare to run at medium speed and turn my back and just listen..
mostly.
many thanks for watching :)
@@aleopardstail Ha, I get a few of those. As politely as I can, and in the infamous words of Billie Piper, the reply is simply, 'because we want to'.
I had a couple of those painted Graffar coaches, I did resell them as they were a bit bodged, I did pick another couple this year at a fair which are factory finish.
Graffer did nice ones, these are very certainly Triang ones home painted with what appears to be enamel which I hope I can remove