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Hi As with most Accucraft loco's you can add a servo to the regulator. Just get an arm that will replace the knob and that will give you the top linkage. As for the servo, you "can" put it in the cab, but I found it more eye pleasing to put the servo under the cab floor and just drill out / dremel a...

PS - The cost per item is more for ten than for one.... Presumably, the income for that comes from the postal costs..... I don't know if it is still the case, but a few years back the Chinese government subsidised the postal costs for these small exporters which is why the post costs always seem so...

Looking great so far. I have to agree about those wheels looking undersize, a quick fix I am sure

Does anyone happen to know what chip this is? Hard to tell, since the manufacturer couldn't be bothered printing their name and a model no. on the pcb. The soldering is nothing to write home about, so it may be a DIY kit. It's a standard NMRA DCC 9 pin socket and the size looks like a fairly generi...

Does anyone happen to know what chip this is?

Thanks

No idea, but I love it

This is the build for my double fairlie if you fancy using it for some help?


LINK HERE

Not sure it will be of any use to anyone, but I have found that Vallejero do Violet Red which is the same code as RAL3004 but for them the code is VAL70812 (70.812). I managed to pick up 3 bottles of this for less than £10 posted which I can directly airbrush straight out the bottle. Many thanks to ...

The two finished kits look great :thumbup: What kit is the fairlie, or is it a scratch build? As for the micro layouts, I believe one of the micro layouts was Mark Sayer who is quite a prominent poster on FB and I know him quite well. He prints most of his own locos now, all done on a resin printer....

I am looking to airbrush a loco in RAL3004 paint. I am struggling to find a supplier of paint in airbrush acrylic in small quantities without paying through the nose for it. Any ideas anyone?

Peter Butler wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 17, 2023 4:27 pm

I like it a lot Steve, a nicely weathered and tired looking loco, not too heavy on the rust, as might be the case for military equipment.

Thanks Peter, I think he has done a wonderful job of it I must admit he does like doing military stuff, maybe hence the inspiration.

I had some 3D printed parts to the above loco. I added a few parts to get it running as the cranks, wheels etc were not there.I built it and never got around to painting it. A good friend of mine offered to do a weathered paint job on it for me and I took up the offer. I got it back today and I have...

Rod

I just love those 90 degree jig brackets that you use for making things square. I will be printing myself a few of these off. Thank you very much for the idea

A 2-10-2, certainly won't go around my track, lol

No - I put the second speaker in the cab of the other loco. I've tried feeding two inputs into one speaker in the past and it doesn't work - the original volume reduces. Rik I thought it might as I had a similar issue when I tried a similar sort of thing, hence the question about it. Great in a dua...

ge_rik wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 10, 2023 8:35 pm

Now added a second card for the horn - triggered by an output from the Deltang Rx61b (old technology but still does the job)


Rik

Did you use the same speaker for the second sound card?

I am having good success with the sound card MP3 players and have sorted out the files for this thanks to Rik. They work pretty well and cost less than a fiver if you buy in bulk from china, for me this includes a regulator set to 4.8v, just to be on the safe side. The speaker tends to be the most e...

Just some pictures of the boxes I make for my locos. Sometimes you can incorporate the rolling stock in there too if it's small enough. These show how the box opens. Simply build the box with screws, then unscrew one end panel, and use 2 cut off screws for the bottom location and use a drilled out h...

Here it is at last. The track is being redone at the moment so I only have a semi circle to test on, but it ran perfectly.

If you can make a box, why not make one with a perspex side so it can be a display case as well? No real need for foam unless during transport it will get tipped over and knocked about. I recommend this method as it's what I do for all my steamers. My smaller electric models I put in under bed stora...