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  1. TimberSurf

    4mm LUMSDONIA ¦Layout and Website

    Hello, I am the owner of the LUMSDONIA Railway Company. A fictitious railway with a very real website Lumsdonia.co.uk, containing the architecture of the grand plan and some (hopefully) useful guides and tips on railway Modelling. I know very little about railways (although I have travelled on...
  2. adrian

    Thread Tagging

    The more observant may have noticed a new feature at the top of the threads. With the recent software upgrade it has now enabled us to apply tags to threads. There have been a few posts recently discussing indexing of posts and finding stuff of interest. Whilst there were plenty of suggestions...
  3. Dog Star

    DCC Choosing a speaker... what affects the result?

    Just a simple one-liner, "you can get better speakers" - although "better" than what is not clear. A rare outing of a favourite diesel and the sound is burbling nicely. The host for the day offers the thought that maybe a different speaker might be worth considering - fair comment, just how do...
  4. J

    Etiquette (or rules) for linking content here to other sites.

    There's a guy on another forum that I'm on who is posting a thread about building an Aster kit with links to pages and pages of Flicker photos with no explanations or captions about what is going on. I think that so much of the potential value is being lost that I wanted to post a link to an...
  5. Rob Pulham

    Rob P's Silhouette Cameo Cutter Workbench

    Hello all, My birthday has a come a couple of weeks or so early this year. - Chris has bought me a Silhouette Cameo cutter and because it arrived and the warranty is now running she decided to let me get my hands on it early.:thumbs: I am not sure if I should place this here in CAD Corner or...
  6. Giles

    Silver-soldering loco construction

    On my last couple of builds, I have remembered my youth, and gone back to silver-soldering wherever possible, instead of the more usual soft soldering. The easy availability of silver-solder pastes (in syringes) and small torches makes this so much easier and more viable. To be frank, I find it...
  7. FiftyFourA

    Templot

    Not sure if this is the correct forum but here goes anyway. I have been trying to use Templot for a while now. I have twice deleted it from my laptop in disgust as I find the tutorials so impenetrable (and I was a computer science lecturer until I retired 3 years ago) and dont always match...
  8. warren haywood

    Painting and lining

    Just having a play trying to get a photo uploaded. Once ive sussed it out i have a few pictures of work i have done today showing how to finish one of the sancheng ready to run locos and also a brass loco Warren
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