So if i am understanding tis correctly, I can connect this unit directly to a computer without the use of the phone?

Just amazing thank you so much for sharing your experience and your work

Good evening Paul Brilliant video as always I’ve just finished watching all of them again and as a 73 year old returning to the hobby I find you have the knack of explaining the obvious in my language I would like to PM you as I would like some help in my modelling journey I’ve just acquired a lFalcon 2 Pro laser printer after watching your detailed setting up and camera set up videos Thanks David😢

Hi Sanding Junction & it's is Randy and i like yours video is Cool & Thanks Sanding Junction & Friends Randy

This is awesome and love all these kind of diorama videos, but honestly, what are they for? What do you guys do with them after they are built. I feel i have the ability to make one but what would I do with it after

Thank you so much for this video. I have this machine, and I had no idea how to even start to use this machine. It's my very first engraving machine. Your video is the only one that shows this part. 🌹

Sorry, I dont know much about this, but you say the kit comes with the 40watt and a 1.6 module. What's the 1.6? The 10watt version?

I you'd love a Bambu A1 Mini printer. I've been using a Ferret Pro then printing stone sculpture miniatures with marble PLA with success after my scanning with my phone didn't work too well.

Can we able to make PCB using this engraver?

Love the video's on the laser cutter/ engraver. In a previous video you mention Medite 2mm, I live in Australia and I'm having trouble sourcing 2mm anything, Most suppliers are happy to get you mdf as long as it's 12mm when I ask for 2mm they think i'm from another planet! . Any help on where I can source 2mm Medite or similar globally would be appreciated!

Hi just a point of clarification did you pay for the laser or was it provided by Creality? I think it's important for us to know as soon as you stray out of the how to and into the opinion section ...

I didn’t mind I too paint on my layout 😊

Sounds quite fascinating!

These aren't very well suited for model railways. Their max resolution is only 0.1mm, a 4K resin printer has a resolution of 0.048mm, 12k resin printers are 0.019mm to 0.024mm. The 3D model output is a point cloud, which if you try to print directly will have mixed results and artifacts. Even the professionals spend days to weeks cleaning up 3D models that are scanned with much more expensive equipment, its faster currently to just design the model in blender or fusion 360. You will get similar if not better results from using AI tools like Meshy by just taking some photos or using one of the iPad apps available.

If you remove the run around points you could incorporate a station pilot 0-6-0, a headshunt well placed to access all platforms and a couple of 4+ carriage long storage sidings. At Swansea station the layout is similar and in the 70s, 80s they had carriage sidings outside the station. An 08 was used for reversing carriages out to storage and so leaving the road clear for the locos to run light to Landore depot just beyond the station. It would be operationally interesting too.

Hi, I have the same machine, but I don't get that small nrs that you are getting is there a way to get someone G code or calibration info that closer to what this guy is using please and thank you, this video has been alot of help.

Hi Paul, I'm in the throws of rebuilding my layout to represent Sheffield Midland Station and I have a North Board a Central Board and a South board and apart from long run tracks all my points I used track screws so I can easily take up ... I'm also using iTrain so I can eventually go Automatic ... I'm at the stage most of my track is laid and point servo's and block/feedback detection works ... Regards John

Nice one Paul.

That is wonderful! Best of luck to you with that..🙂

I can only wish you all the best with your new venture, Paul! You are a great artist and it is good to see you passing on your skills. 👍🏻

Hi Paul, late to your video, and I've not managed to read all the other comments, so may simply be repeating what others have said. TLDR: leave out the points, and enjoy the extra operating requirements of taking locos backwards and forwards from the depot. 1) First off, IF I hated your style of videos so much that I had to leave rude comments, I wouldn't watch your videos. (And yes, there are a few model railway channels I rarely watch for exactly that reason...) 2) Points with no clearance for point motors. My initial thought was that they're right at the front of the layout, so (assuming you've not removed the springs), you could just operate them with the hand of god. Other options would be wire-in-tube either manual or connected to a remote point motor, or smaller low profile point motors. A month or so ago, I popped into DCC Concepts' showroom in Settle, and my mind was blown by working model point rodding in OO, operated by servos, but I'm sure installing that would drive most people mad. 3) Do you even need the points? Cost of two Peco points, motors & infrastructure is bad enough: imagine the cost of the full size equivalent! I'm pretty certain that not every station had points to release the loco, and I think your description of a loco coming from the depot to pick up the train for departure, and the "trapped" loco then making its way to the depot. 4) There was a bit of overthinking going on when you wondered about things like the baggage van being at the wrong end when the train left the terminus. Well, yes. That's going to happen at any terminus station. Without going back through your videos to find the one with the track plan, I can't remember if there's a reverse loop anywhere in Julian's design. If you can't reverse the train, you're always going to have the problem that a train leaving the terminus couldn't return to it with the loco remaining at the front without the loco running round at some point.

Not my thing but good luck with everything your enthusiasm will prevail.

great vid on channel thanks lee

Good luck with the new content.

You can't take it with you. I totally agree. I now have 95 locomotives !! 🙂 K

I wouldn't worry about hiding the slip and other points in a tunnel because it's not prototypical - Rule 1 applies of course, but also Rule 1 can mean that that 2 feet of covered lines could represent 40 or 50 miles, with all sorts in between the two tunnel mouths modelled. I think your initial idea of a hillside would be better, but I'd just say just do the shell of the scenery, without bringing it to bottom baseboard level, so you've room for access to the tracks. The height difference looks too much for a retaining wall. An alternative (which I've just thought of, having seen the shot looking down the line, after you'd glued it in over the bridge over the double track) would be to model the single track branch that's right up against the wall as a viaduct. So you have the double slip territory open as you like, with a viaduct behind it. You need to put or paint a backscene along the wall before installing a viaduct. You might even be able to get away with a long bridge instead of a viaduct, but only you can tell if a bridge like that would look silly or not.

If you are having clearance issue with infrastructure under the baseboard then try using the MP1 or MP5 Surface mount switch motors from MTB, they should be shallow enough to hide under the platform's of the station you are placing there. Watch Chadwick model railway episode 188 for further details.

you could mark out where the platform is going ,put a set of surface points motor under the platform with a wire in a tube going to the points..

Agree about the ADM turntable, absolutely brilliant. Such a shame that they are no longer producing them.

Just use micro top points under the station amd hide the rest and be done with it ! Little john from chichester

Is there someplace where I can find the latest trackplan of the layout? The only one(s) I have found are on 'Station Road' channel, but the trackage on these for this station board do not seem to quite match what I see in your last few videos . At times I'm tempted to offer some suggestions; however without having a decent idea of 'the lay of the land' I could end up talking through my hat.

Thanks for the update! Really liked the part watching you lay track, will be interesting to see how things progress! 👍🙂

Hi Paul, ignore the Sad B@$7@&)$, that have nothing better to do, just keep doing what you do

Delighted to see you Paul as a novice trying to get to grips with the Creality Falcon2 Pro. I have just picked up the 22W model and can't get the offical parameters to work ie power and speed. According to the information that came with the kit, Basswood is to be cut at a laser speed to up to 575mm/min at 100% power. At this level I nearly blew a hole in the metal tray. I'm glad the metal tray didn't give way because, had it done so, I would have been like Sean Connery in Goldfinger except my wife wouldn't have reached for the laser off-switch. Can you give me an idea what your speed/power parameters a re for 3mm Basswood or similar wood. All help welcome. Regards to you Paul and watching your channel as often as I can. Hopefully will hear from you soon. A big thumbs up . Regards, Mike festi.info/boxes.py/​ Check out this website. It might save you some money.

Surface mounted motors or wire in tube operation. You could also extend the platform a foot or so with small alterations where the boards join before the start of the platform. Regardless, you’ve got an amazing layout. All the best and thank you for your contribution to the hobby.

Hi Paul, just to let you know, I'm coming from 25 years as a train driver and 5 years as a signalman. For your dilemma regarding the points on the platform roads. Points are very expensive to lay and also to maintain, so where possible the railway will do without points wherever possible. On a dead-end platform out in the sticks where there is not likely to be any other locomotives around, then there would be a set of points to allow the loco to run around the coaches and make the return journey. However, where your station is located, i.e. a depot close by and a lot of infrastructure close by, the likelihood would be that the platform, and probably, the sidings, would not have a crossover as a loco would be sat either in a headshunt or in the depot. So, the train would come in and finish it's journey, the loco would be uncoupled and the other loco would come out of the headshunt or from the depot and attach to the other end and take the train on the return journey. The loco that had brought the service in would then shunt out to the headshunt or depot and it would all happen again on the next service. This is why the railway loved the advent of multiple units. No need for two loco's and, more importantly, for two crews! I hope this has been of help and at least you can do away with the points in the awkward positions if you want to and still be perfectly realistic. If there is anything else you need any help on, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Thank you for the comprehensive show and tell. It has helped me a lot and it is good to know who to turn to should I encounter any issues. Thank you for all your help. Best regards Mike

Actually, Paul, your building thus railroad to run ( operate) the way you designed it. Why worry so much about the " what if'$ " . If for some reason in the futrue you may be of good health to move the layout, worry about it then. For now , enjoy you trains. Also, if you have to move the layout you won't be neatly cutting through the track. You'll be taking short ( 3/4 inches ) of track out then undo base board. Another thing , no layout will survive a move in tact as is. The new location will be too small or too large an area for this layout. Plus the person putting it in will probly want to tree it a bit to put something of their own into the layout. Just enjoy you trains,. Compromises are part of layout building anyway , so put in surface mounted point machines and get back into running. HAVE FUN!!!

Peko has a surfaces mounted poit solenoids. Oart #pl11 or 12. It runs on 16v AC, doesn't have extra switches for signals or frog wiring. They snap onto Peko🎉 points. If you don't like the looks,you can always cover with scenery. As for the crossovers , how about extending the two rails to the left and move points to the left onto other section. Moving the cross over to the right really isn't a bad idea. If you use serface mounted when you take down thr layout removing the points won't be hard at all.

Hi what about having two of the same locomotives one at each end of the line and follow up with the other one as you said and then maybe will look like you have a run around arts impression and at the end of the day is your layout do it how you want keep up the fun and great videos

I wish people would stop using the word 'build' as if it were a noun. You build a building. Simple. You construct a model railway.

Hi Paul. First and foremost this is your layout and therefore no one else has the right to criticise. What would bring you most joy in the area your working on, if you can decide on that then there are ways to sort the issues. Try and enjoy it, and don't let it become a source of stress. Ian

Hi Paul, does your layout have a return loop so that trains leaving the main terminus can turn themselves around whilst running around

In real operation, steam specials often have a diesel on the rear. That would sort it and/or extend the length of the station yard to the right.

Good evening Paul, Stop beating yourself up, the options of if you keep the turnouts where they are, means that they sit on the board joint, therefore one way out, would be to fit the turnouts onto a thin base board of thier own, that, then sits on the existing baseboard, the joins of the streight ends being connected to the main lines using the dcc consepts track joiners, thus other than realignining the main track height to match that of the points, not a problem in the station itself after the points as whatever the point baseboard height adds i.e 3mm then that is then placed under the track, the same occurs on the station approach but obviously will require a slight gradient to take the level back to the original approach track height. Point opperation could be done using surface mount point motors like the Hornby type, given that they would be mostly hidden under the platforms, assuming that you intend that they can be lifted off, the leads powering the feeds and power to the turnouts have the cabling feed through holes in the main baseboard, but fitted with small plug connectos that then fit the main cabling under the board, thus then the track section of the points is independent of the main baseboard , simply lifts out when needed. However, the problem of locomotives being trapped in a terminus station is the reason why all passenger services today are basisally regardless of whether it is a local commuter service or an intercity sevice basically a multiple unit train, when I was a youngster back in the late 60's early 70's many an hour spent in London at St. Pancfas, Kings X, Euston and Paddington, it was the locomotive brought its train into the turminus up to the buffer stops, would uncouple, then another locomotive would draw in at the other end, couple up to the train, having collected the engine numbers and photograghed them with my box browny camara, wait for departure time to follow along the platform so as to watch the as the rear Locomotive push, to assist the locomotive train engine haul out of the station, with the engine having banked from the rear stopping at the station starter signal, the signalman having placed it back to on or danger (Siop), then await for his route to be set by the signalman to be released back to the MPD. Therefore if you obmit the points then a locomotive can quite protypically opperate in that manner, you said at the begging of this vidio, you have more than enough locomotives, so if the locomotive taking your train out cannot run round at the other terminus using 4 locomotives to opperate a train would add to the play value and enjpyment, Personally I would try the minor baseboard under the points keeping them where they are. with the alternative being available if my attemps to fit the secondary baseboard failed. All the best. above all enioy your trains and playing with them. Just remember what stresses you today, you will have forgotten about it in six months time. Glenn.

If tou aredoing a shuttle use a multiple unit then tou don't have to worry about reversing

Paul, Keep the crossover. My solution to your problem crossover pair of points is to make this section of double track track ‘modular’ on the surface of the baseboard. That is to say a double track configuration that includes the crossover mounted on a strip of cereal packet card and ballasted. This double track module is aligned by rail joiners on each of the four pieces of track. Power is supplied via a pair of 4 pole DIN sockets at the edge of the baseboard. I fix the module to the baseboard with ‘copydex’ which if needing to lift will release easily. Points are switched via surface mounted point motors, concealed under the platforms. I’ve designed a SPST switch to attach to the standard Peco surface mount point motor and use this to switch a 12v coil mini relay also under the platform to switch the point frog. Good Luck with SJ Two. T🚂

The points are of no use in the middle of the station. Make the loop at least four coaches plus loco. Maybe the bridge should be wider and start the station and siding fan there but also add a head shunt as others have suggested. Could two platform lines plus a central loop line fit? Would allow two trains and still allow run around capability. The auto shuttle could be engaged for your EMUs. Good luck

hi paul listening to your problem why not have a head shunt at the other end with a engine wait to return to the station and leave the second engine in the head shunt to return with next train

Hi Paul, Eeeek! And aaaargh! Your problems mirror those on my own layout but I don’t let them bother me. Nor should they you. Eeeek! for even thinking about putting a point on a modular baseboard join. Aaaargh! For over-analysing and trying to justify something unnecessarily. Your railway is supposed to be fun. In this and the previous episode 12 you’ve already discarded prototypical operational practice by running Down trains on the Up main simultaneous with Up trains on the Down main! The beauty of your layout, as designed with Julian, is you can vary how you operate it according to your mood. One day you can run long trains on your loops. Another you can mess about with trains to the harbour. A third you can shunt locos in the depot. You have enough locos and stock to run a different era on different days. Or a heritage day if you so wish. In short, accept it’s never going to give you 110%, but please enjoy it!