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Replied - waiting for the moderator to clear the photo.

At least - you found out before the layout was started, LC! As it would appear that the local lake is going to come here, to me, I've started building an amphibious plane - called an Icon A5, just waiting for some small parts, then I can fnalize assembly. (I know the tailplane is crooked, it isn't bolted on!). The yellow one is a Decathlon, an the fin, bottom left, is a KA8. /media/tinymce_upload/58917fdb722ee005d1547cfb79f45b6b.JPG

Nothing for the railway, but I'm pondering over whether to buy a petrol-powered high capacity water pump, or get my scuba gear serviced! It has rained for most of the day - again, and a new storm forecast for tomorrow!

I can't argue with you - all my trackwork except the points IS flexi!

Diamond crossing with a curved leg - that was me! I was referring to the 'express' range of points, but a grammatic slip-up caused me to type 'standard' when I was referring to the radii. I meant, of course, the 'express' range, and I amended that a few posts later. I think it was in the 'suggestions' thread.

Camping coaches were parked up in disused sidings, and never moved! :-)

Thanks, LC. I've got one from the Bach place on pre-order! As you say, nobody makes one yet!

An 009 Ffestiniog coach, to go with the two wagons on a Llanfair truck, I posted the pic of previously - one monor problem, the coach is longer than the long wheel-base truck that was going to carry it! - - plan B - (That's one of my r/c planes, in the background!) /media/tinymce_upload/870f9be053e9a3e94b01b06b394c5cbd.JPG/media/tinymce_upload/fbeedbbdac8bd6b6952168ad2d1da88b.JPG

Give Hornby a chance, Pug. It's only twelve days since you first asked - less Sat/Sun 5/6 and 12/13, so they've only had 8 working days. There won't be 200 bodies hovering by printers or phones, just in case someone calls, more like two or three, and they've been rushed off their feet with the Black Friday business. They probably have a stack of jobsheets two metres tall to work through.

I'm pretty sure that Hornby Magazine have been running a series of articles on what locos and rolling stock would you find passing (X) location.

Not really relevent, but two smashed fence panels and a piece of tree - in my garden - deposited by the wind! I wonder if the owner wants them back?

Two comments First, this question would be better in the E-link threads. Second, as it is still within warranty, send it back to Hornby.

On pre-order - the ICI limestone hoppers, from Oxford via Hattons. Also a set of white LED striplights from B+Q for overhead lighting of my railway, as room lighting is too dim for good video, losing too much detail. £15 for three sections that plug together, and total 28" (710 millipedes), with a wall-wart psu and a decent length of cable. I chose this method rather than a 12v 'railway' unit, for mobility - it makes it a multi-purpose thing!

A small forest of trees, from the recent discounted sale.

Probably loco driven, with a space in the tender for a sound speaker. (Daft grammar, try finding a light-projecting speaker!)

I put a post with a pic on here two or three days ago, it hasn't been released yet!

One half of a 12' model plane wing! I can't get the other half on, until this one is done! (Photo awaiting moderation) /media/tinymce_upload/d99cb2b31d5c56b28dd3e3fae7cc98cc.JPG

I have previously posted a couple of still pic's of my railway on here, but now I've made three short video's. The lighting isn't too good, as the dull outside light was still shutting the iris down on my Mobius camera, so the images are a bit dark. I'll have another go, some day, when the room lighting is better. There's a fuller explanation in the words under the vid's.

Huwsie - have a look on a different forum - http://www.aeromodellers.co.uk//forum/recent for a guy called Blackbird. He's in Cyprus, and USED to have a huge layout. I don't know if he still does. You'll have to join the group to message him, but it IS free!

Just sent for the rival company's Jubilee 'Falkland Islands', dcc ready - weathered.

If the motor switches off-load, but not when it is connected to the point tie-bar, then something is jamming, somewhere in the system. If the coil is getting warm, it tells me that A, you have power getting there, and B, the power is being left on too long! One amp is barely enough to drive a solenoid anyway. A solenoid requires a SHORT pulse of plenty of amps, to drive it to the 'other side'. A capacitor discharge unit (CDU) is normally used, and most of those require a 16v AC supply. First off, try slackening off the mounting screws a little, in case you have over-tightened them. If it is no different, try a few more amps, but ONLY in a brief 'squirt'!

Two weeks is nothing! Bear in mind a layout never gets finished, because you always find thngs to improve or update! It looks good, so far. I hope you are not planning a gradient to link the upper and lower circuits, because you simply do not have the room.

The function of the capacitors on the old loco's was to prevent the 'snow-storm' on your (parent's) tv when the loco was running, but as the old analogue tv's that were affected no longer exist, it is pretty academic whether the cap's are there or not, with dc - and with digital they are serving no purpose whatsoever, and can even 'confuse' the decoder if it reads the motor speed and load via back emf.

Thanks again SoT and Grassie.

Thanks, Grassy, I'm not quite as mad as I thought I was, then! :-)