As expected quite a few of my deliveries rocked up this week. The most wanted one were the 9685 port expanders. I replaced the bad one that I had and installed the new one and I fired up my emergency control panel. I realised that I had disconnected the common from the LED’s on the diagram, so I reconnected that and everything was good again. I connected up two servos to the first port, and 5 servos to the second port, and I could get them moving as I changed the point direction switches on the panel. All was good. This is what it was designed to do.
Saturday was NMRA meeting day, down at woop woop. We had a good attendance and just a warning that PK needs to employ a food and drink tester at Armidale next weekend. You will keep sunshine! While at the meeting I picked up the first 3 of my 3D printed QR railmotor models from Guy. They are very well designed and well printed. So I have a full 2000 class passenger car and a 2000 class luggage car. I also picked up the intermediate 2050 class car. When I got home, I gave all three an undercoat and let them dry overnight.
Sunday was our Club’s Buy and Sell. I had my usual stall. I was selling quite a few different things. I ended up making a bit of money and was able to pick up another 2 QR railmotor shells from Guy. I picked up another 2000 class luggage car and another 2050 class intermediate car. I was also able to pay off some debt to the boss after the Buy and Sell as well. So I am reasonable happy with the day's outing. When I got home, I undercoated another of the railmotor shells, and then the spray can was empty. I will buy another can or primer tomorrow. I then moved on to spraying the now 4 undercoated railmotor cars, their silver colour. They look quite smart. The plan is to catch up the work on the fifth car tomorrow afternoon, and then start drilling out the various marker light locations and then go searching for my selection of 0402 LED’s in white and red. Hopefully I will have enough. If not, I will place an order to get here next week.
Following activities will be to source strips of clear styrene for the side windows and door way glass windows. I will also have to bite the bullet and order about 16 pairs of 12mm power bogies and 12mm dummy bogies. I will eventually need 6 sets of bogies, and other mates will also need a few sets either 2 or 3 depending upon how many cars they will be buying. I will then need to source some DCC decoders and plug everything together for my collection of QR railmotor cars to be able to hit the layout. Once I have my first set operating, I think I will then sell my Far North Models 2000 class set for around $450 per car. I will see if there is any interest. Hopefully before Christmas I will have at least one intermediate car completed.
No comments:
Post a Comment