Rich
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Dec 23, 2017 14:43:36 GMT
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Rich
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Club RR Member Number: 160
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Dec 23, 2017 14:56:06 GMT
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Found a quick vid of the police car and fire engine.. And also a pic of the illuminated carriage. But more recently, I've bought this.. Playmobil 80's DC garden scale train. I plan on starting a narrow gauge garden railway over the summer and this seemed a good way to get into it. Bought more track and wagons. But I've been looking at the loco for a while and something is bugging me about it. The funnel is in a weird place on the smokebox, so much so it's pretty much on the boiler. I bough another boiler and smokebox door from germany to have a bash.. More as it happens..
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Rich
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Dec 23, 2017 19:11:35 GMT
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Started the kitbash of the boiler, started by cutting out the headlamp and funnel mount and flipping them. Placca welded in place. Filler. JOY. Smoothed and in the booth. New headlight made up and fitted, a piece of biro tube bonded into the door. Just waiting on the plastic primer to dry now.
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Rich
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Dec 28, 2017 18:04:16 GMT
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Got the boiler all painted and refitted. Blends well with the paint but i'm going for a full OG colours repaint on the loco. Christmas duties. Delivering presents to the sofa. And a Christmas gift from a good friend, he lettered and weathered it himself so we are going to do all the wagons now so it blends in. I'm so happy with this, I had no idea he was doing it.
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PHUQ
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Dec 28, 2017 19:02:49 GMT
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Hadn't spotted the rejigged chimney on the Facebook pics, very neat.
That tanker is ace, Corbs' handiwork I presume?
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Rich
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Dec 28, 2017 19:33:13 GMT
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Hadn't spotted the rejigged chimney on the Facebook pics, very neat. That tanker is ace, Corbs' handiwork I presume? Yea, chimney looks loads better in its new position. Headlight looks much more 'prototypical' too. Tanker is indeed Corb's handiwork. Looks great but puts the rest of the rake of freight to shame as its all clean. Need to sort that soon. I've got some odds of Peco G track here, do you want it even if just to sit your loco on to display?
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Rich
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Club RR Member Number: 160
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Dec 30, 2017 19:32:27 GMT
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Rich
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Posts: 6,227
Club RR Member Number: 160
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Dec 31, 2017 11:46:55 GMT
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Roof and doors fitted Underframe painted, primer, followed by matt black. Back on the frame Moving parts greased lightly and the wheels refitted along with the brake handle. Ready to go off for weathering now.
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Rich
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Club RR Member Number: 160
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Done a few more bits, stripped down a coach and started the rebuild.. Need to do the underframes next but I want to make a new handrail for the missing one on this coaches gondola.
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Davey
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Why this has so few responses i don't know!
Love all of it and that playmobil stuff is surprisingly less childish than i assumed it would be.
Very much into OO stuff and this is right up my alley!
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skinnylew
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Love it Rich, although disappointed to see that none of the Landrovers are realistic.......all missing chequerplate wing tops
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Rich
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Jan 13, 2018 17:11:30 GMT
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Love it Rich, although disappointed to see that none of the Landrovers are realistic.......all missing chequerplate wing tops Well, Seeing as the land rover would only really be a year or 2 old at the time I can excuse it for having no 'landrover gold' attached to it Coach is done ready for weathering so that is now on the cards
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Jan 24, 2018 12:48:11 GMT
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Great work on this thread, I’m enjoying reading it (so please keep updating it!)
My son has some playmobil pirate ships that he takes in the bath, they’re bloody good toys, well made and durable, I bet the train is fantastic, is it radio controlled with a battery in the loco?
Also the n gauge layout - brilliant, I’m in the process of building one, I have been for a number of years, but it never keeps my enthusiasm for too long! One day I will finish it but it doesn’t help when I approach it piecemeal!
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Last Edit: Jan 24, 2018 12:48:44 GMT by fuldatramp
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Jan 24, 2018 13:15:06 GMT
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looking forward to getting tips from the garden build, I'm going down that route in spring - hopefully before my son goes off trains!
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Rich
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Jan 24, 2018 18:26:58 GMT
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looking forward to getting tips from the garden build, I'm going down that route in spring - hopefully before my son goes off trains! If you want easy to maintain, look at the playmobil RC trains, plastic track so no need to keep track clean. If you want a bit more 'realism' Piko do a great range of RC locos and cost efficient track (probably more cost effective than playmobil in fairness) The brass track is a bit spendy, and requires maintenance. But it's very durable, you can drive a car over it. I'll be laying the track on a 'bed' of plastic composite decking board set into the garden so it can be secured, then ballasted with sharp gravel. Great work on this thread, I’m enjoying reading it (so please keep updating it!) My son has some playmobil pirate ships that he takes in the bath, they’re bloody good toys, well made and durable, I bet the train is fantastic, is it radio controlled with a battery in the loco? Also the n gauge layout - brilliant, I’m in the process of building one, I have been for a number of years, but it never keeps my enthusiasm for too long! One day I will finish it but it doesn’t help when I approach it piecemeal! The loco I have is track power, the later locomotives are RC power but they lose features like the lights, and certain models weren't available in RC, like the track maintenance train which id like one day. My n gauge is still not finished, I'll make more progress with it at some point
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Jan 24, 2018 21:33:16 GMT
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looking forward to getting tips from the garden build, I'm going down that route in spring - hopefully before my son goes off trains! If you want easy to maintain, look at the playmobil RC trains, plastic track so no need to keep track clean. If you want a bit more 'realism' Piko do a great range of RC locos and cost efficient track (probably more cost effective than playmobil in fairness) The brass track is a bit spendy, and requires maintenance. But it's very durable, you can drive a car over it. I'll be laying the track on a 'bed' of plastic composite decking board set into the garden so it can be secured, then ballasted with sharp gravel. Great work on this thread, I’m enjoying reading it (so please keep updating it!) My son has some playmobil pirate ships that he takes in the bath, they’re bloody good toys, well made and durable, I bet the train is fantastic, is it radio controlled with a battery in the loco? Also the n gauge layout - brilliant, I’m in the process of building one, I have been for a number of years, but it never keeps my enthusiasm for too long! One day I will finish it but it doesn’t help when I approach it piecemeal! The loco I have is track power, the later locomotives are RC power but they lose features like the lights, and certain models weren't available in RC, like the track maintenance train which id like one day. My n gauge is still not finished, I'll make more progress with it at some point Afraid I’ve gone complete opposite and delved in at the deep end with the steam Johnson’s rocket that was on here. Think I’ll need to swap the plastic gas tank with a metal one but apart from that I’ll see how it pans out. I have loads of sleepers left from my pond build so planning to submerge those into the ground as a base to lay tracks on. I’ve been watching the Dick Strawbridge series and saw the plastic track underlays on there too.
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Rich
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Club RR Member Number: 160
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Jan 24, 2018 22:02:25 GMT
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If you want easy to maintain, look at the playmobil RC trains, plastic track so no need to keep track clean. If you want a bit more 'realism' Piko do a great range of RC locos and cost efficient track (probably more cost effective than playmobil in fairness) The brass track is a bit spendy, and requires maintenance. But it's very durable, you can drive a car over it. I'll be laying the track on a 'bed' of plastic composite decking board set into the garden so it can be secured, then ballasted with sharp gravel. The loco I have is track power, the later locomotives are RC power but they lose features like the lights, and certain models weren't available in RC, like the track maintenance train which id like one day. My n gauge is still not finished, I'll make more progress with it at some point Afraid I’ve gone complete opposite and delved in at the deep end with the steam Johnson’s rocket that was on here. Think I’ll need to swap the plastic gas tank with a metal one but apart from that I’ll see how it pans out. I have loads of sleepers left from my pond build so planning to submerge those into the ground as a base to lay tracks on. I’ve been watching the Dick Strawbridge series and saw the plastic track underlays on there too. Stephenson's Johnsons Rocket is a type of lettuce. I saw that advertised, very rare thing it is too. I've often spotted them at fairs, I assumed they were solid fuel but it's gas powered? Interesting! What gauge is the track? I've got 32MM in my head. An update you say? Kind of.. I've been busy starting to paint the loco parts now. And start to reassemble. Got a bit more detail to add but I got a bit bored of painting so I started building a control system that was wireless but still DC track power and also PWM not resistance control. This means more power for the motor to run at lower speeds. Started with one of these. Everyone had one of these. Plenty of power over the Playmobil controller transformer. Then one of these. Power buck to drop the voltage to 9.9V. That's required because the 25V (far more than what is on the transformer) is too high for this. Electronic speed controller and receiver. And it's all controlled by this eBay bit of bling. Flight controller, useful because it has a static gimbal that isn't RTC, so the loco can be set running without the controller being held. Proof of concept shows it works well. So start bunging it all tidy in a box. And done. tidy, and was fun figuring it all out. With a bit of help from jrevillug on the transformer side of things
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Jan 24, 2018 22:31:48 GMT
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Glad it’s just a lettuce! Don’t know where that name came from! Lighter fluid is the fuel and track is 3.5”. I dare say I’ll post up a thread when I start.
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Fantastic, those speed controllers (hobbywing quicrun 1060) are great too I have 3-4 of them fitted to various radio controlled cars, I guess another advantage to this setup up is that you could fit servos on each set of points and be able to remotely operate them from your controller, it looks like you have a number of spare channels!
On my n gauge layout I was thinking of powering it from a Lipo RC battery - then I don’t have to worry about trailing cables over the floor(the kids always trip over them) a 3s Lipo is 11.1v so it should be good enough to power all my needs & I have a drone that uses 3s battery packs, I thought that each loop of track could have a separate speed controller, then I have buck dc voltage convertor (~£1 on eBay!) to drop the voltage to power the LEDs in the buildings, I was just struggling with the 18v ac I would need for the pico points motors, but Ebay has turned up another gem, a little power supply that doesn’t automatically do 12vdc to 240vac but does 240, 380 and 18v, because I don’t have any massive power demand I should be fine!
If your planning on leaving you train running for a long time (ie in the garden whilst your occupied) you could replace your receiver with a servo tester, this just has a dial where you can adjust the set point, I used one in my sons track master ‘spencer’ that I converted to Lipo power.
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Rich
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Jan 25, 2018 10:16:33 GMT
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Servo tester is a good idea but the non return to centre gimbal has that covered. My plan was to play with the spare channels and servos at a later date, I have a signal but no points yet, they will happen after Feb when our new kitchen is in. Apparently maintaining the house is more important than trains 😂😜
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