Highgate High Level Open At Last

Hi

Glad you like it

You've got good eyesight to spot the ad. It's quite good for helping to date the layout, 'cos the ad reads ' coming in 1964'

They don't show in the video but I've got a couple of the Hutchinson underground maps on the waiting room walls, and that helps with the dating too

Not the easiest of kits to make but the job was made a bit easier using Roket Glue - without it, the corners would be impossible, as I did away with the tabs and just did 90 degree corners

Still to come - a BR island platform, footbridge and a Holden booking office

I'll keep you posted (no pun intended)

Here is another youtube video of our layout progress with more shots of Highgate and a glimpse of Gilwell Park

At last I have fitted DCC chips to our EFE trains it shows them running in DCC

I used one chip per train both teshendo bogies are in the NDM car in each train and it looks like it works. I used the Lenz chips in each train the chips can output 1A cont 1.8 peak I think 1A should be enough to run 2 chips

I found the trains ran better under DCC but that might be 'cos I put a drop of oil on each gear set as I had the motors open to fit the chips

Hope you like it



As i write this the video is still uploading so the link might not work for a while

Very nice. Just one little suggestion though: infront of the tunnel, you might want to add another switch going the other way.

In the current track layout it seems that the underground trains, regardless of their direction, can only run on one track.

Interesting idea. I like it.

Looking forward to future updates. And you just gained a subscriber on Youtube.

I see you've posted a video of that occurrence as well.

Hi All

Here's our latest video. This time it's a 3 in 1



Have you ever noticed that LEDs are often far too bright ? We found this with our point control board, they were so bright, they hurt. We found an inexpensive solution though - an in-line dimmer. Including postage, less than £10, fitted in 5 minutes

Shameless plug here. I got it from www.microminiatures.co.uk/acatalog/led.html. It's called a LED and Filament Bulb Slide Dimmer

We've been looking at layouts on YouTube and a lot of them seem to have LEDs which are way too bright in the buildings. We saw a station entrance and platform which so dazzling it could have been a stage at a Pink Floyd concert. And signal boxes so bright, the poor signalman would need to wear dark glasses to do his work


Now that it's not so cold, Lyn's been working on her country scene. The church bit's obviously not finished yet but you can get an idea of what she's done in the 'Green Rover Day Out' section

Lastly I've been working on the Scalescenes north light engine shed. You can see the side walls of it on the last section of this video

Hope you enjoy it

Lovely videos, very nice.