Weekend Update 8/17/14

[keeper]

Thomas , an SMD LED wouldn't generate any heat as long as it's got the right resistor in front of it. If you use a 1/4 watt and/or a high enough value resistor heat won't be a problem and you have tons of space for it in there. That will look awesome!

That's good to know. I'm using an IM F7B without a motor and my idea is to use parts of the PC board. So if I connect the LED with the board  I think there will be a big enough resistor on the board.

Thomas

[dnhouston]

That really looks like a great kit.  What is the roof material supplied with kit constructed from?

Bryan,
It's all wood, but the roofing and siding pieces are very thin detail sheets.

[garethashenden]

Not N scale, but I've finished an EM gauge Manning Wardle kit. My first adventure in commercial kit building. I think it came out rather well

I do need to get back to N at some point...

[Chris333]

EM gauge

That is a new one to me!

[glakedylan]

1:76 scale...got to like the track detail.
wow.

thanks for sharing
Gary

[VonRyan]

Not N scale, but I've finished an EM gauge Manning Wardle kit. My first adventure in commercial kit building. I think it came out rather well

I do need to get back to N at some point...

Looks great to me!
Seeing the layout in person was tempting enough to get me to look in 4mm, and now this? Looking into 009 is enough as it is. Next thing you know I'll be looking I to doing a 7mm layout 

[eric220]

Not N scale, but I've finished an EM gauge Manning Wardle kit. My first adventure in commercial kit building. I think it came out rather well

I do need to get back to N at some point...

Looks good! Just missing the animated face on the smoke box. 

[garethashenden]

That is a new one to me!

Britain has weird gauges. They started out with engineering scales, Gauge 3, Gauge 2, Gauge 1, Gauge O. Then they tried to make in smaller and went to half-O (HO). But electric motors in the '20s were quite large and British locomotives are quite small, so the scale was enlarged from 3.5mm/ft to 4mm/ft (OO). But, unfortunately, they kept the same track gauge (16.5mm). After WW2 some modellers wanted more realistic track including a closer gauge. EM gauge was established at 18mm and then grew slightly to 18.2mm where it remains. It is quite a popular scale amongst people who actually build models. The track is much better looking than OO but it is fairly easy to get it to work. The people who insist on everything being absolutely to scale tend to model in P4 with a track gauge of 18.83mm and much tighter tolerances.

[Lemosteam]

That is a new one to me!

Oh God, yet another scale for Chris to work his magic on!

[GimpLizard]

Britain has weird gauges.

Well of course they do. They're British. They're wired weird... right from the factory. (The British, that is.  )

[Mark W]

Free-moNebraska had our first full set-up this weekend!  22 module set up was a breeze and we ran trains for two days practically issue free.
10/10, will do again. 

[VonRyan]

Britain has weird gauges. They started out with engineering scales, Gauge 3, Gauge 2, Gauge 1, Gauge O. Then they tried to make in smaller and went to half-O (HO). But electric motors in the '20s were quite large and British locomotives are quite small, so the scale was enlarged from 3.5mm/ft to 4mm/ft (OO). But, unfortunately, they kept the same track gauge (16.5mm). After WW2 some modellers wanted more realistic track including a closer gauge. EM gauge was established at 18mm and then grew slightly to 18.2mm where it remains. It is quite a popular scale amongst people who actually build models. The track is much better looking than OO but it is fairly easy to get it to work. The people who insist on everything being absolutely to scale tend to model in P4 with a track gauge of 18.83mm and much tighter tolerances.

Now I finally know the difference between EM and P4.
I think I'll stick to 1:148.

[Jmwilson]

Hi Mark, where you guys gonna be on 10/10, I'm thinking about doing something like this but I'm having trouble finding anybody in the Kc area that is into the freemo thing in N scale

[strummer]

Completed a hybrid PRR K4.  Minitrix shell, Kato C55 chassis, Bachmann tender.  Credit goes to Ebit, who showed how to do this on the Atlas forum.  Still do not know Ebit's real name, so I was not able to thank him.



Is this prototypically accurate?  No.  Is it good enough for me?  Yes, until something better comes along.  Performance is smooth, even at very low speeds.

Jim Hale
just another spf

Nice job....very nice indeed.

Mark in Oregon

[carlso]

DKS - nice informative video about the snow blower. Thanks for posting it.

Carl