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Goodison Wood is Dead and buried - A lot has happened recently which has prevented me from working on a project of this size and scale, so I have taken the decision to break the layout up and place things on hold for a while until the outlook is a little better for me where I can then possibly resta...

Work has quite literally stopped dead in its tracks since I last posted. The rooms have been switched, so I now have a full bedroom for my layout, but with things coming up, namely my wedding (in 2 1/2 weeks) everything stopped to continue organising that. Since I last posted, the only thing I can s...

So far, I've got missing
4 pairs of scissors
A Stanley knife
A 4GB Micro SD card for my mobile.

No doubt they are all sat in plain sight, but I just cannot seem to find them!!!

I can only wish that I could have a 6ft long baseboard - On my 4ft board, my station will be able to manage a 6 car (power car(s) included) but a 6 car train would look rather silly on the layout of my size, so I'm restricting things to 3/4 cars max, that is unless I can get permission from the wife...

I can only dream about having a layout that size. I'm lucky to have a layout 42x29inches! Will definitely be keeping an eye on your progress.

Just a quick post to say work has been placed on hold for a few days as we are relocating the kids to a different bedroom (my train room - straight swap) on a different floor of the house (3 storey town house - they are currently on the middle floor and moving to the top of the house) At the moment,...

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Better update As I mentioned yesterday, most of the components for the control panel arrived. Today, the work started to put them together! It took me two hours to draw the diagram on top, ensuring it was centred and looked good enough to stay on there for a good while. It would have only taken 30 m...

I wish this post was constructive, however it's not! they are all constructive, i'd like to post on my thread everytime i look at my layout but i keep thinking no one would read my thread with all posts and no action, loved the frame work you made, as mine is consigned to the shed verticaly ive wim...

Hi My method is..... From actual switch body up towards the lever... Nut (1) adjusted up/down the thread to accommodate the panels thickness - Anti shake washer - Anti turn washer with tab upwards which locks into small off set hole - Panel material - Nut (2) - spare thread - lever. Shown on page 2...

Each toggle switch has a total of four other components to be used; two nuts washer with a lip on one edge and a ridged type washer toggle switch How are they secured to the control panel - or should that be, in which order are the various items secured to the toggle switch and the control panel ski...

Hi I think thats Masking tape? This is an example of the Pin Stripe I was meaning (this one is 3.0mm wide which would be ok too) .... Pin Stripe Car lining tape Or on ebay here... Pin Stripe tape on ebay (Not the first one which are shoes!) :D I linked to the wrong one- I had a few different links ...

Mimic track plan with the points can be easily made by using self adhesive car lining tape (pin stripe tape). I have used the 2.0mm or 2.5mm wide versions in various colours successfully . Last question on things to buy - regarding the above, is this the car lining tape you are talking about? http:...

I wish this post was constructive, however it's not! All the components I ordered over the last few days arrived later afternoon today. I now have the following to complete my control panel 12 Toggle switches 28 LED's (12v) 28 LED Clips 4 15 way solder leg plugs 4 15 way solder lug sockets 8 15 way ...

ORDER HAS BEEN PLACED!!! Thank you to both Flashbang and UK_Apollo for all the help you guys have given in the last few days - Without the help and advice, I probably would have bought the wrong things to set up the control panel of mine. I ended up buying the 9v 300mah AC/DC PSU from Rapid based on...