Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 3:05 pm Post subject: Does size matter?
Who says everything is bigger in the Sates? Even without my glasses on or the aid of a tape measure, the British Pacific is much bigger than the US one!
You can see it running here (thankfully a re-railer was included - it's near impossible to do it manually!)
Next step, design and build a tiny railroad... _________________ OK, so now what do I do?
I'm planning on making a simple, tiny layout just using the oval. So I'm on the lookout for 'interesting' features I can add (including a small trestle bridge). _________________ OK, so now what do I do?
The Top picture makes the Duchess look like 0 gauge or maybe even gauge 1, good look with it all, how long is the locomotive by the way Tom? I Like the idea for the layout, maybe you can use that free card kit that Pol gave a link to in a nother thread. _________________ Please visit
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When you see how expensive smaller gauges are E.g: N, Z it makes 00 look really cheap for what you get, 00 Z and N seem to pretty close when it comes to price, the only difference is 0 which is about 3-4 times as expensive as 00, which is weird. _________________ Please visit
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Hi Tom,
There's a workaround for your "lighting problem":
replace the factory built-in light bulb with an SMD warm-white LED + resistor.
I did this in one of my N-scale E-8's made by LifeLike. Headlight is now fully visible at speeds as low as 10 scale mph in analog mode.
However, I'm not very good at soldering SMDs and so I messed up 3 of them before I got it right
Erhard _________________ Modular Railroading in N-scale
Well, let's put it this way:
As soon as I started to use the magnifying lamp, it worked pretty well. Doesn't pay if you think you still have a good eyesight in your mid-fifties and don't use your glasses
Now all my engines are equipped with these warm-white LEDs. Simply looks beautiful and a lot better than the blue-white LEDs which give a cold light color. I don't remember any engine that was equipped with neon-lamps as headlights.... _________________ Modular Railroading in N-scale
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and runs incedibly well - even at scale 20mph speeds.
