Hi all started working again after the Medford show. A new module is in the raising before our ZMOD show in September.
The mainline and one siding are laid down tonight. Have to make a couple off bridges before I can finish the last sidetrack over the river canyon.
That is an outstanding idea for a "Junction" or Interchange module. The 2 track mainline that Zmod uses really allows more flexibility than our double mainline modules (2 tracks, each side). I was wondering where the track would go from the earlier pictures. Now it is clear. Super ! .
I also hope to finish my new module for the ZMOD show. My new trestle are soon ready to be finished. Check out the projectblog here: http://www.platelayer.com/project-blog.aspx
I installed my Rampmeter into the side of my end module. The green light shows there is DCC, 14.1 volts AC and 0.00 amps. I tried the Challenger with sound on and running and could only get it up to 0.02 amp draw. Two AZL GP-7s running only pulled 0.01 amp. Sent in Don F. and my controllers and RB02s (wireless antenna) to NCE for internal upgrade, and wireless upgrade on Tuesday. Have to wait to get the controllers back to see how much other engines draw. I imagine Markiln/F7s will draw the most. It will be interesting to see how much 8-10 engines will draw when running trains at a show.
Nice work on that trestle Sven. Did you do it all in one go? It looks like one of those projects you have to walk away from sometimes and come back to later!
Thank you. It takes some evenings/nights and using white glue on some parts need time to dry, but where I used CA it was much faster. The development of the actual module has been fast, but I guess it will take time to finish the terrain the way I want. But I need to be able to run trains on it in 4 weeks, because of the Zmod show we will have. Check out the projectblog below to see the progress.
I used an old version of Pinnacle to create the video and it is one of the default background music themes form that package. I dont not know any details about composer, but I guess my intention was to give it a "western feeling", I and guess I was right with that, because you ask if it's from a western movie.:tb-biggrin:
I've been mixing some hobbies together. I recently watched German film "The Red Baron", 2008, and wanted to build some WWI Airplane models. Too bad no one makes 1/220 airplanes, so at first I just scaled down some paper models with somewhat decent results. Then I found a company in the UK called Helmet Historical Aircraft that makes a wide range of 1/200 scale white metal model airplanes, many of them in a kit format, so I ordered a bunch of random kits. I also ordered some 1/285 aircraft from GHQ. 1/200 is much closer to Z scale, but the 1/285 could be used for for a background scene. None of the kits come with decals. Many of the GHQ aircraft don't have landing gear, but all the 1/200 scale kits have them as an optional part. My first paper model, and in 1/220 scale. My 1/200 scale WWI Sopwith Camel and Fokker DR1. Other Kits: Back Row: 1/200 P47, P40, and Spad XIII. Front Row 1/285 P47D, O-1 Bird Dog, and Russian I-16. One of the WWI kits: Sopwith Pup Both companies produce excellent castings which are very close to their advertised scale. For the 1/200 scale kits I had to make my own decals. I printed them in white decal film and used 1/4", 3/16" and 1/8" hole punches to make the round decals. -Curn
Myself I've a few 1:200 airplane kits that may find their place on my current as well as on my future layout.:tb-wink: An Hasegawa DC3 wearing a current american paintscheme I don't remember which one. That kit will find very easily its place.:tb-rolleyes: More difficult, an Italeri USAF Lockheed C141B Starlifter (anyway, beeing quite obvious performing paradropping over western desert country). And far more difficult, an Italeri Tupolev TU95 "Bear". That one I'm not sure how to make it appear on an US layout, as well as on my future mexican layout (had not Leon Trotski been killed by a NKVD-hired desperado in Mexico city in the Thirties I could have asked him...:tb-biggrin. Dom
Yeah a Bear over American soil would be a bad day. Me... I'll have a B787-800 (Dreamliner) flying over my layout. Also a McChord C-17 from Gemini Jets when it comes out. :tb-wink: Maybe a pair of F-15s breaking the sound barrier with Obama in town. (Inside joke) I sure would love to have a scene on my layout to load and unload Boeing parts with a few airliners tied down. :tb-biggrin:
Indeed an Hasegawa 1:200 B737-800 fuselage and a pair of 89' flatcars can fit. I guess I remember a fellow Zscaler already did it. Dom
Where can I find photos of this Z scale build? I'm building my own Boeing flats with B737-300 loads as we speak.
Curn, These are SOOO cool! Would be a great small WWI layout with trenches and an early Germany train transporting troops and equipment to the front and wounded to the rear. John
