Tales from The Room of Doom. Dipping a toe in various bucolic backwaters.

[Captain Kernow]

Thanks Tim and Rodney, most interesting.

My control panels these days always feature a fixed, panel-mounted controller and a plug for a hand-held. So far, I have always fitted a bog standard Gaugemaster panel-mounted controller, non-feedback and used an AMR hand-held. The panel-mounted controller is normally there just as a back-up at a show, although there are a small number of my locos that prefer it.

This is the most recent - for 'Bethesda Sidings' - shown sitting on top of the base board, when the layout was still under construction, prior to being mounted on the front edge:


I may now investigate a panel-mounted PICtroller in llieu of the Gaugemaster...

My layouts aren't really big enough to use the fancy braking stuff!

 

[NHY 581]

Morning all,

The refurb of the Room of Doom continues apace......well......ish.

Repaint is ongoing today and we collected the first of the shelving units yesterday for probable assembly and locating within tomorrow.

Updates in due course.

Rob.

 

[NHY 581]

Evening all,

Some progress has been made with the first of the shelving units now in place.




Recommence tomorrow....

Rob

 

[Phil O]

Sheepy,

Will there be a trainset on the top of the storage boxes?

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Plenty of room for LPs though....

 

[NHY 581]

Sheepy,

Will there be a trainset on the top of the storage boxes?

Morning Phil,

Yes. In theory two though it will be snug. I envisage Sheep Dip will be to the rear and the new layout will run right to left.

They'll be at a height around that which they are normally exhibited at, maybe a bit higher.

Another set of shelves will be behind where I took the photo from and that will have EWE on it. They will be lower.

Rob

 

[Captain Kernow]

It looks so neat, it could almost be a computer-generated image!

 

[Pencarrow]

It looks so neat, it could almost be a computer-generated image!

Almost arty if you zoom in a bit...



I just mentioned art, but think I got away with it darling...

 

[Phil O]

I hope that Tim, doesn't see that and start off on one!!!

 

[Captain Kernow]

I hope that Tim, doesn't see that and start off on one!!!

Too late, Tarquin, too late!

 

[NHY 581]

Update.

All furniture assembled and deployed to Room of Doom......STOP.........Now frantically trying to cram stuff back in.....STOP...........Anticipate fierce resistance........MESSAGE ENDS.

 

[Captain Kernow]

Resistance is futile...

 

[76043]

I think all those shelves are actually IKEA layout incubators.

"In IKEA, nobody can hear you scream."
Tony

 

[NHY 581]

Morning all,

Further tinkering. Hopefully be able to post a few images in due course but I'm reasonably happy with progress thus far.

Rob.

 

[NHY 581]

Finally, something model railway related....well, ish.

Here's a view from the Room of Doom showing Ewe's new perch.



New Desk of Doing to the left.


Rob

 

[Osgood]

So much better than an aquarium

 

[Rob R]

So much better than an aquarium

What? Is that not real water?

 

[David Mylchreest]

The Room of Doom is ever so tidy

 

[Alan]

Nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[NHY 581]

Morning all,

Well, there is a little bit to do but here's a view of Sheep Dip's new location, opposite Ewe. A bit more elevated than Ewe's perch by some 15cm which places Sheep Dip just below sheep eye level.



Here we see more of the revised, actually new, Desk of Doing which is some 50cm longer than the old, improvised one.

I'm actually enjoying the unclutterment. It is something which I accept hasn't always been succesfully managed but I feel more inclined to start on something walking into the room as it looks.

As I say, I've still got jobs to do. Sheep Dip needs connecting up and there are a few more books to move in and bits and bobs to rehouse. But for now, I'm quite enjoying being able to plonk myself down with a cup of coffee and flick through a comic or book or simply just look around.

Sorting the Room of Doom is one of the best things I've done in relation to railway modelling.

Rob.