Scaleforum 2024 - Exhibition Report - Part 4

[@musoseven8218]

Perfect viewing throughout 👍💜😊

[@lewe1882]

Thank you for sharing all these 4 reports. Really well written and presented.

[@edwardbarnes2702]

Didn’t know Butley Mills still existed! amazing I still have Ian Rices book detailing this layout and found it most inspiring, thanks for the very detailed filming and narration, seems you was a bit more ‘relaxed’ on this last presentation, well done. Eddie 🤓

[@davew2452]

Thanks so much for the excellent, comprehensive, and entertaining reports. This is much appreciated as just too far for me to travel.

[@ricktownend9144]

Thanks for this lovely series of videos. I particularly enjoyed seeing the Wantage layout, and its demonstration of how three-link couplings are perfectly workable in 4mm scale. One idea I haven't seen developed yet is working brakes on rollingstock to enable engines to back down on to trains realistically; I'm sure in the DCC age it could be worked, and maybe also non-digitally, with brakes (only one set needed per set of vehicles) turned on/off with a magnetic 'wand', or even an actual working hand-brake on a goods wagon.

[@althejazzman]

"braking" can be simulated on the controllers and their influence on the motors in the models.

[@ricktownend9144]

@@althejazzman Yes - but it can't hold the coaches/wagons still while the loco backs down on to them.

[@Phil-oj5nr]

There were quite a few Proto4 and Scale4 enthusiasts in NZ. The late Bill Richmond’s famous (in NZ) LMS layout was actually built to exact 4mm scale complete with transition curves. There are two modellers in Napier who follow Proto4, going back to the mid 1960’s.