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Pricom (USA) make a versatile little unit that does what you want with a jack plug for a speaker. There are a couple of models, the more expensive allows you to have trigger/switched inputs, so a motion sensor on a track bed will interupt the background sound to play (for example) that there is a tr...

My Thomas layout.. the HS-II shunting layout... My loft layout... My garage layout... my big(!) layout... The layouts will constitute far more of a problem if someone is left - many, many years into the future, long life to Dad-1 - to deal with them. Perhaps first addressing what's a priority for r...

It's what makes you happy. There's nothing wrong in having a massive collection. It's common across all hobbies. Airfix modellers refer to the stash. I've been adding all my locos to the roster on my ecos, including some that haven't run in years and it gave me great pleasure seeing them spark into ...

There are a few more comments about the derailing IEP here too:

https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index ... p/page/15/

Haha. You've already been handed plenty of fine places to visit. I live in South Wales, 90 minutes from the Gower coast. The other weekend I was down there (Port Eynon) and it rained all day. I sat in the camper van, mug of tea in hand, watching the white horses crash on the beach, listening to the ...

I think it's a case of toys and 'boys toys' and what LD was trying to get over was that in the recent past, Hornby have not really understood and blurred the two.

Something I found interesting was the recent approach of bachmann. We've seen the drifting upwards of prices for some.time and the usual baseless explanations for this are trotted out. The cost of 47s 37s and 66s now have a srp of around £150. And then out comes Hattons with a all new duplication of...

See, that's the problem with criminals - they often come from seemingly perfectly good homes

Oh, he got caught plenty of times but because his crimes were what you might call "minor", he did a couple of months and was out again. What these guys wish to avoid are a-cat prisons because these are where the hard nuts and radicals live. Keep your crimes to a lower level and you'll spen...

I'm not so sure about that. I've worked in the prison service for over ten years and view a system of gangs and cultures that learn from one another. Imho, better to dispense justice swift and briefly. Interestingly, I once had a long chat with a con who described his life of crime. He came from a r...

Good luck with that. You'll probably find he has no assets. A recovery order may be a £1 a month after all his education, domestic and travelling expense have been taken in to account. I wouldn't hold your breath for reparative justice.

The other thread worth reading is the Accurascale 92 thread, particularly the bit where the owners confirm that they have had a surge in orders last night for their 92. Doubtless this is people writing off their deposit on the DJM version and jumping ship. DJ should have been contacting these crowdf...

I spoke to Magnet about how to be 'safe' with a claim, as it struck me that i could say anything. Their advice was - Keep an inventory with receipts if possible. Photograph your models on your layout with details of your name and address and policy details on a sheet of paper in the background. I ap...

Indeed. But to save anyone else reading the rather rambling link, he goes on to say that he believes registering the design of a loco as intellectual property will stop any other manufacturers duplicating that model. He seems to think this is a good thing for the hobby. I fear he may be wrong on a c...

Dj models have made an interesting announcement about his plans for the future of model railways.

Link below.

https://djmodels.co.uk/news-2

Well worth reading the reaction in the other place