The Welcome Mat

Welcome to this Blog. Hopefully you may find it of use (i doubt it but it doesnt stop me hoping does it?). All my skills are normally self taught, and at the moment i'm a lone ranger when it comes to my layout with the occasional help from friends (normally it involves alot heckling).

I've never yet got a layout really past the electrics stage. I normally lose interest which is why i've decided to become involved in lots of things so i can vary my time between different things. All the work you see on Westleigh is my own work and all the photos you see on my fotopic sites are again my own work. I'm amazed i havent started to play with it, perhaps leaving the vast majoirty of the wiring to the end helps.

My main interest in railways is principally the early 90s. Even though i only just got into double figures in terms of age just as privitisation came in, i find it a very interesting period. My earliest memories were at Salisbury, Oxford and Bristol. So to counteract this aswell i tend to model the northwest scene during 1990 to 1994. However i also do the Wessex area during the same period and the scottish lowlands during 1988-1990.

I do have a little interest in the 1996-1998 privitisation period. I'm more aware of this period than the sectorisation period and again i wouldnt mind if it turned into this era.

I also am working on a project of Devizes station in 1963/64 just before alot of the line was rationalised and eventually closed. This however is a very very long term project and probably wont get anyway for many many years yet.

I do spend alot of time in the summer out an about doing photography particularly of civil jet aircraft. I'm certainly no David Bailey but i'm reasonably proud of most of the photos taken.

Anyway i suppose i really should get off the computer and get on with some modelling work, except work has a tendancy to get in the way!

Wednesday 10 February 2010

To energise it the way God intended? (WR)

I've been having a quiet evening tonight and I've been contemplating the control methods used. At the moment I'm going to use DC control. However DCC is getting more and more tempting. True there is the cost of chips and when you already have the layout wired for dc and all you need is a controller DC is cheaper. But DCC is just so tempting, but Is it worth the £10 or so a loco extra? I've used DCC before and found it to be good when it works but when the numbers don't add up i find it a pain to get it working again. In some respects I'm a technophobe. Not a complete one mind you but certainly a fair way there and if i do decide to go down the DCC road what control unit and what chips??

I like the dynamis in most respects but i dont like it when you have to keep it pointed at the main box. I like a digitrax unit which twin controls on one handheld but i understand that's quite expensive. The lenz set 90 is a very good set but perhaps is a little old hat now. It all just seems to be questions questions but with DCC that seems alot of what it is. The roco multimouse was a perfect unit but i found it didnt give very good control. Perhaps that was just me though! Question is where does one get a roco multimouse from?
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