What a wonderful piece of work realy looking good,the detail is amazing. Realy looking forward to seeing it at Chester. What is the t.v. show Pete Waterman is doing that you keep mention I.e. The Station.Thanks Dave for the video.
Hi there from the other side of the equator. Albeit that I'm a 9mm/ft NZR and O scale US modeller, I've been following the progress of the latest layout extension, enjoying the banter as well as the sharing of technology and techniques, these being applicable to any scale of course. The level of detail being built into the layout modules, particularly as it's a transportable exhibition one, is simply exquisite along with the technology being used to effectively both operate it and at the same time allow viewers to benefit from the realism it provides. One question I do have, acknowledging I may have missed it in one of the YT clips, is how, and from what, are the catenary wires produced (ie that between the posts on which the pantographs pick up power from)? Thanks and keep up the videos, they are great to watch over a cuppa or two. BRgds from NZ
Hi Brent - great to hear from you on the other side of the world ! The copper wires are mostly preformed from Peco or Aron makes customer lengths and types to match the real world. Our wires don't carry any power - that comes from the track - but the pantographs do touch the wires and move up and down to accommodate the varying height of the wires - so hopefully it looks pretty convincing ! Chris.
Probably too late to help, but to quickly remove sprues from 3d resin prints, warm them in hot water or with a hair dryer which softens the sprues and then slice through the sprues in one go with a wide walpaper scraper blade if you use fairly thin supports they will pop off with little evidence they were ever there, much more effective than using sidecutters
Hi David, thanks for the suggestion, after a few cars with the snips we came up with another idea and used the band saw to cut off the bases and then it was a much easier job to scoop out the spruces. Using the saw has saved about 10 hours ! All done and cured now so onto the massive job of painting them. Chris.
Hi. Would it be possible for whoever made the transformer and adjusters to sell the bits needed to build it. They would sell like hotcakes as Peco are not going to make them. Thanks
Its quite time consuming to make the various parts for the tensioner assemblies as it requires the use of a lathe and a milling machine with a rotary table fitted on just to produce the pulley wheel alone. the rest is cut from brass sections and flat sheet. The booster box ( not a transformer) is 3D printed by Phil, I don't know if he will be printing any to order.
@@fatwalletboy2 I have shown the modification on RMweb under the Heljan retooled class 86 thread . I hope to do some sort 'how to' tutorials about the catenary and that could include pantographs as well when Im not so busy.
The catenary is an absolute work of ar, not to mention Phil's work on the electronics. Mind blowing!!!!
Once again many thanks for an absolutely superb vid Dave. The quality of the build is jaw dropping.
Kind regards
Amazing work on the catenary.
The build is brilliant so far, very inspiring to see how items are being built. I shall defo be looking forward to seeing it at Milton Keynes soon.
Incredible work with the catenary !!!. LOVE to see layouts with OHLE !!!
As always another fabulous update incredible detail just keeps getting better
Booked our hotel to go see this in late July Going to be amazing 😊
Very Impressive !
What a wonderful piece of work realy looking good,the detail is amazing. Realy looking forward to seeing it at Chester.
What is the t.v. show Pete Waterman is doing that you keep mention I.e. The Station.Thanks Dave for the video.
Hi there from the other side of the equator. Albeit that I'm a 9mm/ft NZR and O scale US modeller, I've been following the progress of the latest layout extension, enjoying the banter as well as the sharing of technology and techniques, these being applicable to any scale of course. The level of detail being built into the layout modules, particularly as it's a transportable exhibition one, is simply exquisite along with the technology being used to effectively both operate it and at the same time allow viewers to benefit from the realism it provides. One question I do have, acknowledging I may have missed it in one of the YT clips, is how, and from what, are the catenary wires produced (ie that between the posts on which the pantographs pick up power from)? Thanks and keep up the videos, they are great to watch over a cuppa or two. BRgds from NZ
Hi Brent - great to hear from you on the other side of the world ! The copper wires are mostly preformed from Peco or Aron makes customer lengths and types to match the real world. Our wires don't carry any power - that comes from the track - but the pantographs do touch the wires and move up and down to accommodate the varying height of the wires - so hopefully it looks pretty convincing ! Chris.
Don't want those overheads coming through your window😂..worked with Aaron at piccadilly...
Probably too late to help, but to quickly remove sprues from 3d resin prints, warm them in hot water or with a hair dryer which softens the sprues and then slice through the sprues in one go with a wide walpaper scraper blade if you use fairly thin supports they will pop off with little evidence they were ever there, much more effective than using sidecutters
Hi David, thanks for the suggestion, after a few cars with the snips we came up with another idea and used the band saw to cut off the bases and then it was a much easier job to scoop out the spruces. Using the saw has saved about 10 hours ! All done and cured now so onto the massive job of painting them. Chris.
Hi don't suppose you can share where you got the 3d files form the cars? or the print ready stls?cheers@@CheshireLines
@@Trains4Ages Sure - they are off Thingiverse - search for stunner2211 Hope that helps, Chris
good bricky i can not see any tumblers or tipplers on the station
Hi. Would it be possible for whoever made the transformer and adjusters to sell the bits needed to build it. They would sell like hotcakes as Peco are not going to make them. Thanks
Its quite time consuming to make the various parts for the tensioner assemblies as it requires the use of a lathe and a milling machine with a rotary table fitted on just to produce the pulley wheel alone. the rest is cut from brass sections and flat sheet. The booster box ( not a transformer) is 3D printed by Phil, I don't know if he will be printing any to order.
Has that 87 crossarm pan been tweaked to stay level?
No, it has the springs supplied with the kit, just had improvements to its mechanical operation.
@@dmu156?any chnace of a tutorial on the modification (granted youre mega busy now but maybe in the future?
@@fatwalletboy2
I have shown the modification on RMweb under the Heljan retooled class 86 thread . I hope to do some sort 'how to' tutorials about the catenary and that could include pantographs as well when Im not so busy.
Wot no Pete 😂