Not strictly 'G-scale', but....

tac foley

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here is my Accucraft Fn3 [1:20'.3] scale K27 [aka 'mudhen'] running over at Peter Spoerer's beautiful 'White Horse' track in Narfok a while back. My excuse for not posting is that I've only just found the SD card....
Anyhow, his system employs a very easy-to-use TX21 transmitter the same size as a pack of cigarettes and has a whistle button, as well as a useful inertia start/stop facility. Practical running over at our track at Ramsey Mereside shows that the signal operates at well above normal ranges employed in the majority of layouts here in UK - I'm guessing that 2-300m is good. Battery life with the consist you see here seems to be about six hours - maybe more. After that I was running in near-darkness and everybody else had gone home...so I stopped and shut down. The controls for all functions are easypeasy to adjust, and trust me, the maximum volume is almost like being there.


Peter used my loco to make his own short video, showing the fit, but without the cars. He is naturally more knowledgeable about this system fit, though and I'm just another happy customer.


The two Accucraft passenger cars are supplemented by my scratch-built MoW car and a semi-freelance caboose/combine that never happened, but looks great nevertheless. My thanks here to Phil Dipple of Phils Narrow gauge.

Enjoy!

Well, if you like American NG, stuff, that is.

tac
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There's a few of us doing Fn3 - but your video says it's private, and won't play for me.
 
tac's trainsAccucraft K27 electricPeter Spoerer EngineersAccucraft K27 r/c and soundAccucraft K27 and train at White Horse track

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Sorry 'bout that. As you can see, I copied the 'who can see it' above, and it clearly reads 'public'.

Don't know what more I can do, me.

tac
 
tac foley said:
Sorry 'bout that. As you can see, I copied the 'who can see it' above, and it clearly reads 'public'.

Don't know what more I can do, me.

tac
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I managed to view both!:)
 
I personally think that controlling the regulator and reverser with levers on a steam engine - just like on the real thing - gives a much more authentic feel to controlling the model.

Twin lever (aero derived) transmitters also have the advantage of manufacturing scale, which makes for a more economic installation - more channels too, for whistles, drain cocks, lights etc.

Diesels? - well that may be a different story .... :)
 
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I personally think that controlling the regulator and reverser with levers on a steam engine - just like on the real thing - gives a much more authentic feel to controlling the model.

Twin lever (aero derived) transmitters also have the advantage of manufacturing scale, which makes for a more economic installation - more channels too, for whistles, drain cocks, lights etc.

Diesels? - well that may be a different story .... :)
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Please show us your set-up.

tac
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It came as standard from the Roundhouse factory with my Atlantic loco .... ;)
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tac foley said:
A Roundhouse Atlantic?

Please show us.

tac
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Hey! tac - your faith appears to be growing weaker by the post .... :)

Roundhouse 'Atlantic' ......
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..... not to be confused with a Roundhouse 'Argyll' .... :rolleyes: .......

Note the differences in wheels, smokebox rivets, sandbox bases, boiler bands, etc.
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.... ;)
 
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Ah, THAT 'Atlantic'. I was thinking of a 4-4-2 style of Atlantic, I must be honest.

BTW, I prefer the older version with spoked wheels, the later version is so obviously a cost-cutting version...

No point in putting emoticons in your post, though, I can't see them, except as little black rectangular outlines. You could be smiling, scowling or whatever, and I'd never know.

tac
 
tac foley said:
..... I prefer the older version with spoked wheels, the later version is so obviously a cost-cutting version...
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If you ever get the chance to compare the two together, I would urge you to do so and you might see that is certainly not "so obvious".

As any Roundhouse owner may tell you - part of their enviable reputation for quality is down to their policy of continuous product development and I'm confident that you might come to appreciate that more upon closer aquaintance with the company and their models .... :)

No point in putting emoticons in your post, though, I can't see them, except as little black rectangular outlines. You could be smiling, scowling or whatever, and I'd never know.
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Well the important thing is that others can see them - after all, we're writing for a larger audience here .... ;)
 
Perhaps I should have worded my post, 'emoticons....on my account', in fact I think I will.

I have just one RH locomotive - the teeny brother of my 1/4 scale 'Harlech Castle'.

I accept your finger-wagging of my post, but apart from that one loco, only the Sandy River loco is of interest to me, or rather, it would be, in 1:20.3 scale.

tac
 
Ah, the vendor and I came to a disagreement. Y'see, I valued my trade-in at around £1750. He did, too, but with the decimal point too much nearer the left for my liking.

tac
 
Ah yes, that's a valuable lesson we can all learn from - allways negotiate the deal first - before placing the deposit .... ;)
 
tac foley said:
Perhaps I should have worded my post, 'emoticons....on my account', in fact I think I will.

I have just one RH locomotive - the teeny brother of my 1/4 scale 'Harlech Castle'.

I accept your finger-wagging of my post, but apart from that one loco, only the Sandy River loco is of interest to me, or rather, it would be, in 1:20.3 scale.

tac
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Even the Sandy River loco is a bit small for Fn3 as it is really a model of a 2 footer, and thus smaller than a 3 footer.

Fortunately, I have not been seriously tempted - the bank manager has not even been approached :D:D:D
 
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