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You, my friend, are amazing! 😊 I looked again and you are correct Thanks for watching so carefully

I wonder what we’ll get up to in 2025? Ha! 😊

Thanks. I like it! I’ve no idea where I got it (possibly in a box of bits or something). I’ll look out for it in future - the next time I’m in a model shop.

Thanks! ‘Father Christmas’ left me a few bits and pieces so we’ll be having some fun over the next few days. Thanks for watching.

Yes, it is! …and a wonderful place to spend an afternoon. 😊

Thank you. Happy Christmas - looking forward to what comes next.

LOVE hitting a good ‘stop’ point in time for Christmas. Family and friends want to see the trains and a “work in progress” upside down with tools everywhere look isn’t what they mean I don’t think. 😊 Lots of time off for a while so will doubtless get on with projects and as you say, enjoy the process. Have a great Christmas. I guess I should make a Christmasie video next!

Thanks 😊 It’s been a while since I had time to spend on the railway. I’m finding things I must have done and can’t remember why so this is going to be a fun journey. Happy Christmas to you. Ian

@@trainsofthought5071 And a very Happy Christmas to you too.

Thank you! Let me know what you want to see. 39 was inspired by a chat with someone in Australia less than a week ago. 40 is me messing with lights and wires but after that … I’ll just keep plodding on. Happy Christmas to you too.

Agreed. ‘Back then’ is a thing isn’t it? I think our imagination would have been stretched to the limit if we could have known what the years would do to the hobby. DCC where you can easily park trains on the same track? Wow. Fans that turn then fans that are motorized? Seriously? I mean some of the things that can be done these days is nuts. … given time and money! Thats the thing - time and/or money. Being content to imagine sometimes has to do.😊

Very versatile units. We used to go off down to the Dover Marine Station to watch the trains long before it closed - always something interesting to see there - but access to the ferries and the REAL fun operation was restricted of course. We’d get glimpses only and on the rare occasion we’d be riding the boats we’d hang over the side watching the trains. Fun. The tunnel was the end of all that of course. ‘Progress’ and nostalgia doing their usual dance.

thanks. for. the thoughts and tips. appreciated! 😊 I’m a bit of a butterfly/scavenger - i flit from one thing to another and use what I can find without spending a fortune. yes, the cable things are a poor choice. the one advantage - I have them! I’ve worked on electrical and electronic projects in the past and so have a bigger ‘junk’ box than most. Sadly very few model shops around here that are well stocked, ‘making do’ or waiting ages is how things tend to be.

@ I completely understand and you are right regarding the model shops you’ve gotta take what you can do and as I’m starting to discover more and more of the build, I just have to knuckle down and build it myself and let’s be fair. There’s a reason I never built my own house. Stay safe and keep enjoying the journey. I look forward to seeing that progress.

@@josefbuckland thanks The guy running our ‘local’ model shop (it’s almost an hour away) is down to very little left and I think he’s really wishing it was gone. It used to be that you could walk into places and ask how and they’d tell you and sell you the bits to do it.

@ same here ours is only open for a few hours a week and just can’t get stock in to which I’m going to do a video on soon. Australia has still not had woodland Scenics delivery to distributors since who knows so I bought all the last light hubs from every model shop in Australia and now I just buy direct from WS in the states but that means IE a box of 4 light hubs for $20 each so 80 usd and then some 150 to send a package half the size of a box of tissues I’m paying about 300 Australian dollars. Locally my supplier can sell it all to me and I will get change out of 100 (if they had stock) but like you say it forces us to be creative. I find it heartbreaking that in the year 2024 with all the knowledge and technology that we have why does walking into a model shop some 40-50 years ago seem so glamorous. Stay safe.

The lighting side of things (as well as electronics) I don’t have trouble with. I worked in electronics for a long time and although things have changed a lot - they really are simple(ish) these days. I just found “micro LEDs” readily available and they are so small you can sneak them in just about anywhere. one of the next videos I’ll do will show me messing about with that (and getting glue everywhere) Ha!

Thanks. I haven’t found ‘z’ locally but it seemed to be smaller than it needed to be but if it works I’ll try it. I’ll give it another go of course. Thanks for the encouragement. Nearest model shop a way away - it’s a Treck. Maybe will get there later this week.

I’m going to get back to that whole thing in the next few weeks. SO many projects. 😊 I’m loving that the underground is finally reasonably represented with ready to run.

You have to bend down the end of the rail and you have not gluded some of the pots to the sleepers down all the way you can see on the video. Middel rail don't use pots glue down file back of rail and scrach sleepers to key the surfaces and l used the supper glue spray 😊. You should have a 1mm gap it's good not to use the spacers, it's a hard job to do but it's worth it. The only job harder is point rodding, All the best Colin from Mossend railway oo.

@@colinwarrior I’m going to give it a try. Thanks for the advice.

Thanks. 😊 I’ve been around a while with the railway but only recently decided to really pay attention to sharing the journey as it were.

@trainsofthought5071 I'm 54 years old, my dad was a model railroader his entire life so there was probably a train in my hand the day I was born 🤣

@@XBOXShawn12thman I grew up in England. Trains very different there. Fascinated by them but don’t know when it started.

More to come - thanks for watching. 😊