Hi James, Any news on the turntable controller?

Hi James. Enjoyed your review of the Atomstack X24 Pro and the Creality Falcon 22W. Which do you prefer?

hi i have just found this video here and would like to know if there's any progress on it becoming available to purchase as a kit or motor and controller kit to interoperate into a scratch built turntable ? thanks

Hi James I am Just starting out with Templot following your video I'm OK up to the send to mesh but when I press the open STL for Mesh fixing I am sent straight to Chitubox I have downloaded the 3D Builder were am I going wrong

Hi James, Trust this note finds you well. Could I enquire where you acquired your small bench vice….is it something you have designed and made or is it an item commercially available…. Whilst appreciating how busy you are if you get five and could advise either way it would be very much appreciated. Really enjoying the updates and techniques used. Best Regards Gary

Hi James, you will find leaving the grab handles off the coach sides until post painting will make the lining much easier.

Hi James, Firstly well done yet another great video, your channel is fast becoming a video diary of all your modelling skills. which are very impressive I have to say. I also note you have fully embraced FDM printing with lots of FDM printed boxes in your early benchtop shots. I can only assume your Neptune 4 is far better then your previous FDM printer. re, the change of material for the servo mount system, it looks as though you have retained resin for the eccentric sheave material choice, which if I am not mistaken slides directly into 6700 bearing. is that correct? I also like the repositioning of the micro switch's, I did wonder in the earlier version if the micro switch were a bit exposed in there original position. I could see catching one whist fumbling around underneath the baseboard could have resulted in the micro switch housing breaking off. By moving it you a have solved that even it it was not really an issue. I can also see why moving to FDM could give you some advantages, maybe more likely in 7mm gauge than 4mm! cheers Phil,

Thanks, James. Good to see a new video from you - I was starting to wonder if you were ok.

Oooh - some good stuff there! Is it in your plan to show the level crossing gate mechanism (Ep 29) - hope so, can't wait to see how you made them work.

Re driving a single from the driving wheel, I suggest you might contact Barry Luck of Plumpton fame as he has a Brighton Single which has run on Plumpton and Pulborough.

Hi James. As always, impressive attention to detail and some inspirational ideas. I shall be checking out the website. Did you say that the hopper wagons were going to be available in Midland Railways?

I was wondering if we'd get an update on your model railway with all the other projects you appear to have😅

Are you still using the machine? How is it

if you stain the timbering instead of painting - it can have a nice looking wood texture

Nice to see everything moving along, great stuff.

Outstanding thank you for sharing James.

Dear James, thank you, what a special Treat as my dear Wife would say, I was very concerned that you'd stopped making your wonderful Videos. Hope you're keeping well. Warm Regards.

Great stuff James! I've got a LRM single driving wheel loco to make one day so will be interested in your process. I've been thinking motor in tender, cardan shaft to loco driving wheel to maximise weight of loco. Wonder if you meant that, or tender wheels motorised!? 😮 Nice turned brass boiler fittings!

For a moment I thought you were going with traction tyres on the spinner. Your fictitious Midland layout reminds me of Manchester's canals and railway viaducts.

Great video again James. When is the video concerning timber bricks coming out? Whist I was watching the section on your 18.83 layout I thought that the plan looked similar to a Midland station that was close to where I live. Namely Nailsworth one terminus on the Stonehouse and Stroud branch.

Great update video James. I was starting to wonder where you've gone. LOL. I have a spare D&S Cowen & Sheldon 15 ton Steam Crane kit available. I'm sure we could work out a deal? Turntable? LOL. All Best.

Welcome back 👋 2:10-2:20 yeah, (partly) brass will look better and add weight for friction ~3:00 "little bit special", ah a understatement 😉 and for (and not) a "breakdown" 🤩 ~7:50 *I shouldn't look at the buffers* ~8:45 sprung would just be better / more prototypical, yes 😶‍🌫 generally spoken. ~11:00-12:00 you simply got alot work in progress, at least it's all in it's box and not get messed up🧰 ~13:00-onwards yeah, that "little" other side project 👍 That's well🗜 it even got, astonishingly, much more turnouts then the challenge called for! Or as you say it at 16:04-16:13 😎 17:18-17:40 yes, join up with (parts of) your club for it 😉 ~18:30 let's just say "that part of the arch got reworked, walled up and is now used as a storehouse for side projects" as well as hidding the board connection behind and is a reminder for things that got broken on the build😉 ~21:30 yes, that's fine looking track work 🤩you could still let parts unfinished just to show how track work can be done 😉 ~23:00-23:50 Driving wheels, especially on (so called) "Singles", need definitely more friction then the other wheels! 😉 or yes, those "tending to slip". Nothing wrong with driving from the tender on a model. You cannot miniature down everything, dust and muckiness happen to be bigger then to scale anyway! Till next time

Like to see some more of the laser fibre work.

Hi James, Great to see another video from you. I also might have a house move next year (still not 100% sure) so that's why my layout has stalled out. I have been considering making something smaller that I can make on a couple of 4ft long boards that I can take down. Not 100% sure what to make yet, looking at 009 to fit more into less space but still toying with ideas. 2 layouts I like from that same book are Witheridge and Clun, either way a snowy winter layout. Cheers, Michael

Fantastic work James

Hi James, so impressive, love the continuous development of the point motor assembly. Interesting point you have raised regarding 3D printed and brass for locomotives and stock, this together with your change of direction regarding track timbering materials makes for additional consideration. Thanks again, definitely worth the wait, so much content to mull over.

are you planing on doing OO scale commission's one day bc i would love to have a railway series edward OO scale model made by a fellow railway modeller

Casual test print in steel, love it.

While your models are incredible, I find your self-constructed tooling most interesting. Without good tooling, great models are not possible.

I love the waggon lift, another way to add interest to a small layout

What a range of skills ! Delighted to hear that there is progress on the turntable controller .

Very interesting. Fine workmanship is always an inspiration.

I really enjoy your videos and the care and detail that you are putting into creating as perfect a scale replica of Bexhill West as you can. Your ability to inspire modellers into increasing their skills by encouragement makes this film series a must for any serious railway modeller. You are particularly successful with your track videos and have taken a lot of the fear of point building away. Bexhill West Model Railway simply is the best modelling series around. One minor error I noted (sorry...) was referring to push-pull stock. For some reason which I don't know, the Southern tended to refer to their versions as pull-push. Maybe Mike King knows the answer. Finally got around to joining the S4 Society recently having been a regular visitor and exhibitor at their wonderful shows and admiring everything... Best of luck with the rest of the project and look forward to maybe seeing it at Scaleforum in the near future. Best wishes Natalie

Please add nails on the fence lattices.

Simply Superb!!!

Hi, a brilliant video. I don't know more than you either...............mechanical signal box interlocking has always seemed a dark art to me, but at the same time fascinating to look at. The people who designed those back when were pure genius..............Imagine those really big mechanical boxes with upwards of 100 levers, the design that went into those interlocking frames! Fantastic stuff and I can't wait to see what's next. Thanky ou for some great explanations of a tricky subject. All the very best Dave.

I know it's 4 years after the video was posted, but I have just recently fitted some new slates onto a real roof and I thought I ought to mention that whilst you are correct about the ratio between width and height, the overlap should be less than half the slate length. So typically for my case of 10" x 20" slates, you'd see 8" exposed. Here's a link to a roofer training video where the guy works out the gauge (overlap) for a slate roof in that size kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3vdkpeGnp15apI . Hope it helps, and thanks for the video series, I'm loving the switch to P4!

It sounds really usefull, I'll look out for the product, thank you. Gary

Hi James, Firstly thank you for the excellent presentation at Scaleforum last weekend and for the support and problem-solving freely given by you and your colleagues on the stand. Your guidance has certainly solved the problem of the missing chair slots and the very tall chair bases that I was experiencing. The one that is still refusing to yield however is the problem of not being able to add the rafts to support batches of chairs for printing. Despite watching your video on the subject and, to the best of my ability, following it slavishly, step by step, when I draw rectangle shape around a group of chairs, this doesn't appear as a raft when the file is exported. I seem to recall that you said that you might have an idea why this is, but I never got the chance to catch up with you after the presentation to discuss it further. Any thoughts and suggestions would be gratefully received. Full disclosure - I'm using a Mac, so Templot is running on Crossover and I have not been able to get 3-D Builder to install at all. I am therefore saving files without mesh fixing, then importing them into Meshlab for repair, but I suspect that the problem lies further back in the process with the export from Templot. Regards Mike

Got me thinking it could be modified to drive a storage traverser too, so in a linear motion with a lead screw.

I was just wondering whether you had tried cutting brass sheet on this machine and whether it's capable. I'm thinking of the thickness kit wagons etc. come in that can be folded so only thin stuff.

All that seems to be on here is new machines being tested and no modelling, we all can't afford expensive or " freebies" , more on the model railway please

Very good . . .

You make it look easy. I'm hoping to get to scaleforum 2024 anyway . .

Great episode, steel frame, why not, at least you can weld 💯

Fantastic scaling discussion !!!

Great staging of skill levels, thanks James

I’m hooked, thanks James

Very exciting

Nice bit of kit, i was surprised by its metal cutting ability, i have a trotec speedy 300 40w and i won't touch metal. I see you drawing in solidworks , i tried it but return to rhino 7 mainly because i get a license via work. Have you used any of the creality or elegoo 3d printers either fdm or resin. Check out my channel www.youtube.com/@old_duffers_chuffers