Zerogee
Clencher's Bogleman
For far too long now, I've been in a continuous state of starting things and not finishing them - to the point where I must have nearly a dozen locos and other pieces in bits around my office, workshop and any other available flat surface, where I've dismantled something to start, say, a decoder install - then something else goes "oooh, shiny...." and diverts my attention.
Well, in a sudden burst of enthusiasm I've actually spent the last couple of days getting some things FINISHED! So far I have:
1) Reinstalled a reprogrammed XLS decoder in my orange/cream 2095, so it has the proper sound files rather than the generic diesel it had before;
2) Finished off putting an S into the factory-MTS red and cream 2091 that I swapped with Mike well over a year ago (it came to me with an XLS used solely as a sound chip, which seemed a bit of a waste so that has been removed for re-use in something else!), and put the loco back together;
3) Finished installing an LS into my green Dingler Ts3 - a pig of a job because there's no room inside it due to the brass construction and all the lead weights (which is why it's so damn heavy!), which is why I'd been putting it off for months - but a lot of fiddling, swearing and cursing finally saw it back together and it all works! Unlike my DR black version, this time I didn't even burn out the lights....!
4) This one isn't quite finished yet - I'm working on installing an LS with a Powercap Micro buffer in a Fiery Elias steam tram - about three-quarters done now and going OK so far, I'm taking lots of pics of this one and will do a write-up once it's finished and working. Worst job was getting the LGB driver off his little pedestal at the side of the boiler, he REALLY didn't want to let go!
Next one after Elias is finished will probably be my orange Tm2/2 tractor, reassembling it with a S module and then finally fitting the lovely whitemetal Hiab crane that I got to go on the front platform. Then I just have not one but THREE "U" class (one black, one grey, one green) to finish chipping (they are all in various stages of disassembly), a little green Feldbahn steamer to finish putting an M and an S into.... oh, and the Piko railbus I got the other week, but I haven't got the chips for that yet!
Maybe then I can get back to the "not-quite-a-Lyd2" conversion using the 0-6-0 chassis and 2/3 of a V51 bodyshell!
Lessons that I should have learned from by now, but probably never will:
a) It's a lot easier (and quicker) to take something apart than to put it back together....
b) Don't take anything new apart till you've put the last one back together!
Still, there is a real feeling of progress over the last few days, so that has to be good!
Jon.
Well, in a sudden burst of enthusiasm I've actually spent the last couple of days getting some things FINISHED! So far I have:
1) Reinstalled a reprogrammed XLS decoder in my orange/cream 2095, so it has the proper sound files rather than the generic diesel it had before;
2) Finished off putting an S into the factory-MTS red and cream 2091 that I swapped with Mike well over a year ago (it came to me with an XLS used solely as a sound chip, which seemed a bit of a waste so that has been removed for re-use in something else!), and put the loco back together;
3) Finished installing an LS into my green Dingler Ts3 - a pig of a job because there's no room inside it due to the brass construction and all the lead weights (which is why it's so damn heavy!), which is why I'd been putting it off for months - but a lot of fiddling, swearing and cursing finally saw it back together and it all works! Unlike my DR black version, this time I didn't even burn out the lights....!
4) This one isn't quite finished yet - I'm working on installing an LS with a Powercap Micro buffer in a Fiery Elias steam tram - about three-quarters done now and going OK so far, I'm taking lots of pics of this one and will do a write-up once it's finished and working. Worst job was getting the LGB driver off his little pedestal at the side of the boiler, he REALLY didn't want to let go!
Next one after Elias is finished will probably be my orange Tm2/2 tractor, reassembling it with a S module and then finally fitting the lovely whitemetal Hiab crane that I got to go on the front platform. Then I just have not one but THREE "U" class (one black, one grey, one green) to finish chipping (they are all in various stages of disassembly), a little green Feldbahn steamer to finish putting an M and an S into.... oh, and the Piko railbus I got the other week, but I haven't got the chips for that yet!
Maybe then I can get back to the "not-quite-a-Lyd2" conversion using the 0-6-0 chassis and 2/3 of a V51 bodyshell!
Lessons that I should have learned from by now, but probably never will:
a) It's a lot easier (and quicker) to take something apart than to put it back together....
b) Don't take anything new apart till you've put the last one back together!
Still, there is a real feeling of progress over the last few days, so that has to be good!
Jon.
