Horatio
Member
Hi, here is the introduction for Horatio. Why Horatio? Because a picture of Nelson was opposite me when trying to think of a user name.
I have been collecting O gauge locos and rolling stock for about 20 years and started but didn't finish two outdoor layouts, one in Cyprus and the other in Portugal. I live in Portugal most of the year and moved house in April, which has meant little model railway activity since January. The Portugal layout is being dismantled over the next few months. I have been using DCC for about 5 years
Two years ago I bought a couple of the San Cheng Gauge 1 locos and Gauge 1 is now the focus of my activity
I am very interested in battery power radio control BPRC (too much track cleaning otherwise) and successfully converted a few 7mm locos to this control method using Deltang equipment. The problem is that this equipment, (and as far as I am aware all the others), does not provide BEMF control and sound. As a users of DCC decoders I now expect this. One solution is to link a DCC decoder to radio control equipment and it is available in the USA but using radio frequencies that are illegal in the UK. BUT, last year Games on Track - http://www.gamesontrack.co.uk - , a Danish company, released a radio module to control DCC decoders. I have successfully installed a fully functioning battery powered radio controlled Loksound XL V4, in the tender of my G1 Black Five.
I have reached the age where I think some mild eccentricity is acceptable so I have started a project to build an electric powered 1/32nd scale LMS 4F (to go with my San Cheng locos). I have never built an etched kit, (although I do have a few on the shelf!) so this is a leap in the dark. I have assembled the first draft tender etchings and have some sample whitemetal castings created by masters from 3D design and printing. I intend to run a thread on this project as it progresses over the next year or so. I am no engineer and have never used a lathe so I hope this project will give some encouragement to the novices and allow the mentors to give me some advice
Today I am working on the artwork (Coreldraw) for etching a 1/32nd scale LMS diag. 1802 5 plank goods wagon to run behind the above. Yes I am that confident the loco project will be completed
I expect (hope) that some readers will want to know more about my activities. I know you like photographs, but I am sitting in Sussex and my railway is in southern Portugal, 1000 miles away, and I won't be back there until mid September, so some photos may have to wait.
I have been collecting O gauge locos and rolling stock for about 20 years and started but didn't finish two outdoor layouts, one in Cyprus and the other in Portugal. I live in Portugal most of the year and moved house in April, which has meant little model railway activity since January. The Portugal layout is being dismantled over the next few months. I have been using DCC for about 5 years
Two years ago I bought a couple of the San Cheng Gauge 1 locos and Gauge 1 is now the focus of my activity
I am very interested in battery power radio control BPRC (too much track cleaning otherwise) and successfully converted a few 7mm locos to this control method using Deltang equipment. The problem is that this equipment, (and as far as I am aware all the others), does not provide BEMF control and sound. As a users of DCC decoders I now expect this. One solution is to link a DCC decoder to radio control equipment and it is available in the USA but using radio frequencies that are illegal in the UK. BUT, last year Games on Track - http://www.gamesontrack.co.uk - , a Danish company, released a radio module to control DCC decoders. I have successfully installed a fully functioning battery powered radio controlled Loksound XL V4, in the tender of my G1 Black Five.
I have reached the age where I think some mild eccentricity is acceptable so I have started a project to build an electric powered 1/32nd scale LMS 4F (to go with my San Cheng locos). I have never built an etched kit, (although I do have a few on the shelf!) so this is a leap in the dark. I have assembled the first draft tender etchings and have some sample whitemetal castings created by masters from 3D design and printing. I intend to run a thread on this project as it progresses over the next year or so. I am no engineer and have never used a lathe so I hope this project will give some encouragement to the novices and allow the mentors to give me some advice
Today I am working on the artwork (Coreldraw) for etching a 1/32nd scale LMS diag. 1802 5 plank goods wagon to run behind the above. Yes I am that confident the loco project will be completed
I expect (hope) that some readers will want to know more about my activities. I know you like photographs, but I am sitting in Sussex and my railway is in southern Portugal, 1000 miles away, and I won't be back there until mid September, so some photos may have to wait.
........complete no brain'er for me having used both methods. 
