CBCOLLET Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 Thought I'd just throw in my ha'penny worth re the CMX. I found a major problem with this excellent product in as much as finding suitable motive power to shift the thing. Easy on a level, but my layout is anything BUT level - the indoors bit runs on a continuous falling gradient to ground level as it exits the place, so I have not been able to use the CMX as I hoped because of lack of loco's with the necessary 'grunt'. First, I bought a very ancient Hornby 'Deltic' - had the grunt, but it was too high to get through the outdoors tunnels ! Then I bought a Bachmann class 40 - had big problems with this as it was not man enough plus it's leading sets of wheels kept de railing and so I finally bought two class 20's on good advice now hey presto ! I can get that cleaning tanker anywhere with the 20's in tandem. Anyway, after paying a good price (almost £100 !) for the CMX, I decided I couldn't 'live' with 'American' look of the thing, so I modified it with buffers, solebars, ladders, a footway grid on top and re paint in good old black ! I added a little bit of signage (more to do yet) just to give it a PW departmental look. See the pic of it on my Flikcr page (my username is 84A ) Take a look and do let me know what you think. I would have uploaded the pic on here, but even after heavy cropping, it was still too 'big' ! Oh well ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanR Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 Quote I would have uploaded the pic on here, but even after heavy cropping, it was still too 'big' ! Oh well ! Resizing photos isn't really about cropping. You need to reduce the quality. A simple tool like 'PIXresizer' will do the job nicely. http://pixresizer.en.softonic.com/ Good work on the CMX by the way. Ian R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 Yes, nice work with the CMX - really looks the part now. With regards resizing photos, I don't know a lot about Flickr as I don't have an account there but if you've got an account then that might also be a good way of resizing images for use elsewhere. The photo of your CMX is available on Flickr for download in several different sizes and I assume that's done automatically for you when you upload an image? Here's the 800 width version from Flickr: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBCOLLET Posted December 11, 2012 Author Share Posted December 11, 2012 Thanks for the 'heads up' on re sizing Mick. I actually thought it meant the size of the physical image was too big And many thanks for putting up here. Appreciate that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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