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  1. It's been a while since I posted an update. With all this rubbish weather we haven't been out in the garden at all. With such a wet winter I had to battle mould issues in the garage. It was growing on top and underneath the baseboards. Cleaned all that up and treated the wood with some wood sealer/anti mould stuff (it was just painted with left over fence paint previously) I've also been doing a lot of work in there to improve ventilation and decrease humidity levels. I'm hoping we won't have a repeat of these issues next winter. I've made a start on the depot concrete and some small scenic bits are ready for that area once I've sanded and painted the concrete. After that it will be time to tackle the station.
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  2. Scratch built some buildings for the PR&PR. It On30 so they are bigger, but they are plastic so they can live outside. I developed a new technique. I use a 4mm thick sheet of clear acrylic the size of the front wall. The walll has its doors and window apertures cut out and then stuck to the acrylic. Doors and window frames are cut to size out of very thin styrene using my plotter cutter. I paint them and stick them to the clear acrylic. The hotel was a bit more involved. The columns were from a Peco OO station roof kit. The balcony railing is metal mesh, which may rust! The roof is black styrene, the tile pattern was scored by the plotter cutter, with HOTEL painted by hand. And the trim on the adjoining building was made on my mates new 3D printer.
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  3. Throughout 2021 I was working on the electronics side of our hobby. Although I have a background in electronics I was out of date, and the Arduino revolution had completely passed me by. I've been playing catch up. But this has mainly been on my indoor projects. My first project on Amblethorpe is a passenger information display for Colwick Station. It shows "live" train information, but it's of fake trains. I've not connected it up to sensors on the track so it is not triggered by the coming and goings. This is possible, but I don't run Amblethorpe to a timetable so there is no point trying to do it. There are 3 screens each 22mm by 11mm with 128*64 pixels to play with. The type is tiny, either 6px or 5px high. They cost £6.50 per screen. They are dynamic, with some trains randomly delayed or cancelled. The clock ticks off the seconds minutes and hours. The destination stops scroll across the screen when required. These 3 are driven by a single Arduino micro controller, which cost £3.50. it all runs on 5 volts, and this can be pulled off the DCC track bus using a two quid voltage regulator. So the whole thing cost £25. I used my plotter cutter to make a hosing out of black styrene. It's a bit bulky, but I hid most of it by placing a Welcome to Colwick sign on the top. This year I'll get round to motoring the points on the Paltyville Ridge & Peak Railroad using and Arduino to provide the control and frog juicing.
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  4. I still want to know how you made that viaduct?
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