Absolutely awesome effort. Congratulations on your achievement and for sharing with everyone along your journey.(y)
Nice work as usual Mr Ray. Do you just use one pair of feeders per track for a module or do you use feeders for every section of track in that...
Jim. Your paint-jobs are absolutely amazing!
Could see a mini spot welder being use to weld tabs to the bottom of rails for feeder points instead of having to solder wire directly to the...
I drew up the decals using Inkscape (free SVG file editor), converted the file to PDF and sent it to a local decal printer here in Australia. I'm...
My first attempt at an AZL loco re-paint. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Quite happy with the result apart from one of the number boards being slightly crooked.
Also those motors are only 6v. They do sell the 12v coreless 7mm motors further down the page which shouldn't be too difficult to adapt to their...
AZL GP38-2 comes with spare truck to use when mounting provided pilots. Remove the two traction tyre wheels from locomotive axles and replace with...
Main issue I can see with overhanging building would be it getting damaged when the modules are apart and being move around. Maybe make the end...
Can't say for the RS3 but that is exactly what I did with an AZL GP38-2 and it works perfectly.
Starts towards the bottom of this page: https://www.trainboard.com/highball/index.php?threads/the-old-port-shop.125242/page-10 and an article...
Painted the shells. This is my first attempt at custom work on a loco shells and first time use of an airbrush. Reasonably happy with the...
Seems like everything you may need is available from ebay and your local hardware. You could even use a clothes iron instead of a laminator. The...
In depth tutorial about how to use the kit. Video here: [MEDIA]
TCS Z2 decoder fits under the coreless motor - just. Plenty of room for wiring. Milled small grooves on both sides of chassis to run power and...
Still waiting for the decoders to arrive. In the meantime I have run the F7 for about 10 hours now - mostly pulling 22 40foot cars. Motor never...
I have a couple of TCS Z2 decoders that should be arriving this week. I reckon one will just about fit in the space under the motor. The F7...
A video of one running Here: [MEDIA]
I've had 2 old beater MTL F7's for a few years now and have finally decided to do something with them. First up was wheel wipers. Handcut from...
