I just bought Three Model Powers smoke generators and smoke oil, with the intention of fitting it to a few loco's, but when I got indoors, I thought - wait a minuet, this would make a great animated effect for my sawmills chimney. So I set about making a chimney out of brass, painted it, then installed the smoke generator into it. Coupled up a 6volt transformer and switch - put a couple of drops of smoke oil into the generator and flicked the switch. WOW, I now have a sawmill with a smoking chimney.Now what other uses could I put this smoking object to Hmmmm.
I love to see animation on a layout. There is a local N-Trak club that in one module, there are several things that are animated. <UL TYPE=SQUARE><LI>A broken down car in the road with the hood up. A smoke generator underneath puffs steam from the radiator. <LI>A fork lift moves in and out of a warehouse door. <LI>A cement truck rotates it's payload. <LI>Roof turbines on the buildings are rotating. <LI>A back hoe is working in a pit. [/list] I really wished I knew the modeler's name so I could give him credit, but it is an outstanding eight square feet of modeling!
I would love to see more N-scale animation applied to layouts (including my own). HO scale has enjoyed animation, as well as lionel, for amny years and some of their concepts should be applicable in N scale. BTW, on the same topic, a beautiful layout with nice animation is The Choo-choo Barn in Lancaster, Pa. It is 2 blocks west of the Strasburg RR and I highly recommend it. It has literally hundreds of animations. Russ/NYC The Hoffman Valley RR NARA member#28
OOOPS! I said it was N scale, but the more I think about it, the more convinced I am it was an HO module from the Orange County Module Railroaders. I can't find the disk that had the photos, but I'll keep looking...
I am planning on having animation across my layout . I hope to have a intermittent flashing blue light in the roundhouse making it look like someone is arc welding inside, an intermittent red light in a barrel with folks standing around the "fire." I hope to get hold of the Walthers refinery, which can be animated with smoke, and the new Walthers oil pump well heads can be animated with their motorizing kit. There will probably be more, but they will come as the scenes I am building unfold. Happy Modeling!! John
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Catt: Ed,do you have any pix of these modules?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> [ 26 February 2001: Message edited by: ten87 ]
i like animation and sound so i have the well pump, log and coal dumper, carnival set, flashing crossings, flashing signs, a box car on fire, rotary beacon, a lift bridge, and i love to decorate and light up the inside of buildings. When i was at the Supertrain 2001 CP Rail have an animated model layout of things not to do around a railway, and one of the animations is a train running into a truck at a crossing. The use of tortoise switch machine moved the truck and engine forward and back. i like the smoke idea and will have to incorporate it into the layout
7600EM-1 Here, I got a question for you all.... How many has actual Cars running up and down the roads of their layouts?????? I'll love to hear from ya if any do! I do lets say that right off the bat, but you ask how???? well when I here from you i'll try to explain to you hows its all done and in multiples too I got like 4 cars runing in the same dirrection and 3 runing the opposite way on just one road and more than that on my highways! even truck (18 wheelers)! I can't wait to hear what is gonna be replied to this one, but thats amimation right? so be it then... P.S I have smoke generators inside 70% of the homes and 40% of the bussinesses on my layout already. Plus to add to the smoke generators I have small funnel type aluminum things that collect air from a small 12 Volt DC motor to produce the smoke to "flow" and all the voltage is cut down so it don't blow the smoke to a point that you can't see it but to make it have alittle movement but not to much just enough to represent the wind blowing out side. E-mail me guys with questions at yellowstone10@hotmail.com and i'll help you aminate your layouts even more! -John.
Anybody have a recommendation on what brands of smoke units operate the best. I have seen a couple, and I none to my likes. I once watched a lionel-027 that sent up little clouds, which looked nothing like "real" locomotive smoke. I mean, Iwant smoke like that in the pics of the 2-6-2 and the 2-8-2 double header posted in one of the other forums, and I want it to disapate completely at a scale height(I don't want to gas everybody or turn the layout room into a smokehouse). Now just how can we get the quality of that WD-40 without the smell? Any chemists out there know? Thanks.
Benny, I replaced, or installed new "Seuthe" smoke units, with momentum controls you should come close to what your wanting in realm in smoke bellowing from your stacks. The momentum control simulates the speed control and slows the electrical flow to the smoke unit and that in turn slows the process and in down grade running it will produce a decent amount but in a less dense quantity. But in the avent of the starting an upgrade the momentum contributes more power to the loco and then the smoke unit gets more power so that gives it "that" apparence of an full scale working loco. I know this because all of mine perform like that so give it a try and see what you get.... ~John
