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serotta1972

Wow, you're freight yard is coming along nicely and I love the International flavor.  

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serotta1972
On 7/1/2018 at 6:28 AM, bill937ca said:

A quick spin around the layout early on a Sunday morning.

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That's what my van looked like this morning, ashes is getting blown out to the bay area from fires up north.

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2 hours ago, serotta1972 said:

That's what my van looked like this morning, ashes is getting blown out to the bay area from fires up north.

 

That's also what my car looked like, but for a very different reason: Pigeons.

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Pauljag900

Freight yar D549C54B-07A8-4E45-A0DB-133F35A621E3.thumb.jpeg.ac05a0c88d7cebd8f4955626a753128d.jpegcomplete freight yard complete except for some detail parts yet to arrive.

also moved the point control switches to an easier to operate position in front of the freight yard.I used foamcard and tarmac effect sheets to conceal the wires and will blend this into the groundcover on the yard

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4 hours ago, Pauljag900 said:

Freight yar D549C54B-07A8-4E45-A0DB-133F35A621E3.thumb.jpeg.ac05a0c88d7cebd8f4955626a753128d.jpegcomplete freight yard complete except for some detail parts yet to arrive.

also moved the point control switches to an easier to operate position in front of the freight yard.I used foamcard and tarmac effect sheets to conceal the wires and will blend this into the groundcover on the yard

 

Those giant UK electric plugs bring me back. They look so huge and strange to me now. US plugs looked flimsy and 'third-world' to me for the longest time. Now I'm used to them. Those things really are insane. They're enormous!

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13 hours ago, gavino200 said:

 

Those giant UK electric plugs bring me back. They look so huge and strange to me now. US plugs looked flimsy and 'third-world' to me for the longest time. Now I'm used to them. Those things really are insane. They're enormous!

 

 

Can't beat the safety of an earth connection and a fuse 😄

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On 7/2/2018 at 11:51 PM, serotta1972 said:

That's what my van looked like this morning, ashes is getting blown out to the bay area from fires up north.

 

Residents of Kagoshima are used to it.    Ash has been spewing from the volcano in the bay since like the 1970s or some such thing, and when we were there, each morning the cars had a fine layer of ash and shopkeepers all swept the sidewalk in front of their stores of the ash.

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Going for a spin on the outer track.

 

 

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valkyriepm

Hey guys! Slowly working on the building for the industrial layout. Received Tomytec abandoned factory and warehouse these days and make some weathering on them. These layout will get bigger than I thought....

 

Martin

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3 hours ago, valkyriepm said:

Hey guys! Slowly working on the building for the industrial layout. Received Tomytec abandoned factory and warehouse these days and make some weathering on them. These layout will get bigger than I thought....

 

Martin

 

 

Great weathering! Nice and subtle. Not overdone. 

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Pauljag900
22 hours ago, valkyriepm said:

Hey guys! Slowly working on the building for the industrial layout. Received Tomytec abandoned factory and warehouse these days and make some weathering on them. These layout will get bigger than I thought....

 

Martin

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Weathering is a real art and one I ve yet to master but I guess it’s only practice,but to get it just right is very dificult.

yours are superb mate,as Gavin and Jeff quite right,y said,it’s just right👍👍😀

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Short afternoon running session breaking in an Arnold Bochum Duwag GT6 after I lubricated it.  Its a power hog but its running pretty good. With the rooftop advertising sign in the way I haven't been able to unlock the pantrograph.

 

 

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Expanded my rail yard. Running EF60-0 and DE10 with my colorful kokis. Put my tomix kiha 11 set on too.

 

The blur zooming by is my temperamental kato 113 series. No trouble going over turnouts today on the clockwise track. Nice to see it behaving. This other post will describe that saga.

 

 

Over all the new yard on the inside main line is doing good. Can have up to four trains staged. I have added a bypass on the outside track so I can have another 8 car set staged.

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On 7/6/2018 at 1:26 PM, Drunkenclam said:

 

 

Can't beat the safety of an earth connection and a fuse 😄

The Americans do do earth connections, but they seem to be quite rare.

 

What gets me is the black marks around sockets. I guess that’s a result of the thin plug prongs and twice the current...

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23 hours ago, bill937ca said:

Short afternoon running session breaking in an Arnold Bochum Duwag GT6 after I lubricated it.  Its a power hog but its running pretty good. With the rooftop advertising sign in the way I haven't been able to unlock the pantrograph.

 

 

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So jealous!!! I have one without adverts...

 

It seems OK wrenching its ways around 150mm curves, can it do 140mm curves?

 

Does it do Tomix 140mm points?

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30 minutes ago, AllScales said:

The Americans do do earth connections, but they seem to be quite rare.

 

What gets me is the black marks around sockets. I guess that’s a result of the thin plug prongs and twice the current...

 

In Japan (100V 50hz in most places, same plugs as US) most sockets DON'T have a ground /earth.  If you need one there is a wire hanging off your cord for you to hook to the screw in the plug facing, which should be hooked to ground.

 

A lot of US stuff has a ground/earth on the plug.  Some stuff doesn't.  Most electronics do and most bigger appliances.   Wimpy things (and hair dryers 😞. ) seem not to.  At least all the houses are wired for them.

 

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8 hours ago, AllScales said:

So jealous!!! I have one without adverts...

 

It seems OK wrenching its ways around 150mm curves, can it do 140mm curves?

 

Does it do Tomix 140mm points?

 

Yes, the Arnold articulated strassenbahn trams operate around Tomix 140mm curves quite well.

 

Rich K.

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Today I did some magic!

I made my layout disapear!

 

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It'll come back. But the space is still our livingroom. And that big TV doesn't watch itself, now does it?

 

 

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