St James's Station

Kimbo wrote:

If those figures were in OO I be snapping them up!!
There is such a shortage of good quality OO figures on the market.I was searching today and its amazing how many shops try and sell the 1:86 Prieser figures as being OO.I bought a box of unpainted Priesers in Germany once. They are so small and thin compared to the real deal. Its like having a population of anorexics.Dapol even have a set that is HO, and they try to flog it off as OO. C012 ( http://dapol.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&path=177_62_155&product_id=514 )
It's an old airfix tooling I think. Anyway I digress........

 

Kim and other O gaugers have you seen this website?
http://www.modelrailwaysdirect.co.uk/O-Gauge/

 

SMR CHRIS wrote:

Yes it looks quite good. I am a big fan of Hattons though.

 

Righto, so finally I get around to uploading some photos of the progress made on the layout.
Last week I downloaded the Scalescenes Wharehouse and built a couple of those. I used sticky sided foamboard for the backing and have to say it is very very easy to work with.
Today I was able to lay down and glue in place the Scalescenes roads.I also made a couple of pedestrian crossing signs, the Belisha Beacons will come later once I've made them.
I flew to Perth on Friday night and went and stayed at Kims house and got to play with his brilliant LSD layout again. While I was there I also got him to fit a 9F and a Q1 with Zimo sound decoders.
I had a spare hour this afternoon before dinner so I used on of the now spare TCS decoders to fit a flashing LED to one of the little police cars. It was surprisingly quick and I plan to do another couple tonight on the ambulance and the firetruck I think. The great thing is the decoder will be able to run quite a few of the LEDs so I will be getting good use out of the decoders.
I also ordered 8 Zimo Sound decoders from digitrains.co.uk , with the Aussie dollar being so strong against the English Pound it makes it very very affordable for the first time in years.
Anyway, enough typing, here are the photos.

 

And a link for the 5 second video on youtube to show the Police Car Flashing Beacon.

 

ianvolvo46 wrote:

Thanks Ian. I have so many people and other trinkets to put on the layout, but up until now they have had to sit in little packets waiting to be used. I have these fantastic resin fruit and vegetable crates that I bought and painted years ago. They are from a company called BlackDog and will look great next to the Wills Fruit wagons. A real market area around the statue is what I'm aiming for.

 

Yeah they are great aren't they. limited only by our lack of imagination really

 

ianvolvo46 wrote:

Yes that would make a nice addition to the layout.The Townhall that is, not the headless chicken.

 

Gary wrote:

Nice one Gary, you've really plucked a good one out there. I love a good Chicken Pun.

 

StevePower wrote:

Here's a picture of the BlackDog crates. These aren't mine but they are pretty close to what I have painted.