Is the closing date Friday Perth time or uk time?
A Layout planning challenge with a Prize!
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Hi All
You could just buy the 6 pack of Flicker free lighting units
and say you won them in the competition
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(for the benefit of the financial controller)
seriously though It would be very nice to have a setup like Richard is planning for his test track!
Regards Zmil
You could just buy the 6 pack of Flicker free lighting units
and say you won them in the competition
seriously though It would be very nice to have a setup like Richard is planning for his test track!
Regards Zmil
QUOTE (Martin71 @ 19 Oct 2008, 18:29) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>How about offering the scale Ripple Head you have....and I will design and build it for you!
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***Ummm.... Nope!
I'd drive you insane as when it come to building layouts, I don't play well with others - I like things done my way!
Anyway....
If I saved the cost of building Ribblehead once more in time and materials I could afford to fly Iain Rice back to stay with me again and build it together
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BTW Ribblehead will soon be available as a kit if you are really keen on it... full, half and 14 size... Not cheap and still a lot of work to create the finished result.... But worth the effort.
Why don't you enter anyway, Martin
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Richard
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***Ummm.... Nope!
I'd drive you insane as when it come to building layouts, I don't play well with others - I like things done my way!
Anyway....
If I saved the cost of building Ribblehead once more in time and materials I could afford to fly Iain Rice back to stay with me again and build it together
BTW Ribblehead will soon be available as a kit if you are really keen on it... full, half and 14 size... Not cheap and still a lot of work to create the finished result.... But worth the effort.
Why don't you enter anyway, Martin
Richard
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QUOTE (Richard Johnson @ 19 Oct 2008, 17:02) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>***Ummm.... Nope!
BTW Ribblehead will soon be available as a kit if you are really keen on it... full, half and 14 size... Not cheap and still a lot of work to create the finished result.... But worth the effort.
Hi Richard,
By half size do you mean suitable for N Scale or just half of the length of yours ??
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Cheers,
Trevor.
BTW Ribblehead will soon be available as a kit if you are really keen on it... full, half and 14 size... Not cheap and still a lot of work to create the finished result.... But worth the effort.
Hi Richard,
By half size do you mean suitable for N Scale or just half of the length of yours ??
Cheers,
Trevor.
QUOTE (Expat @ 20 Oct 2008, 20:20) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Hi Richard,
By half size do you mean suitable for N Scale or just half of the length of yours ??
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Cheers,
Trevor.
Nope... Sorry Trevor... Never in N! Creating the masters for that viaduct in one scale is more than enough for one lifetime
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Richard
By half size do you mean suitable for N Scale or just half of the length of yours ??
Cheers,
Trevor.
Nope... Sorry Trevor... Never in N! Creating the masters for that viaduct in one scale is more than enough for one lifetime
.Richard
***Decision time. It took much longer than I thought to make this decision!
Basically, no single entry is 100% buildable "as is" as each has an aspect that won't work well for a test track... However each also had at least one element I really like, so that sort of balanced things!
(I didn't really expect the perfect "build it as drawn" answer, just some interesting entries!)
* The hardest thing for all was the narrow neck area - however thats where two computer monitors will go so I had no choice!
* Also hard was the combining of EM and OO in a single narrow strip "layout". Most used gradients and overpass, one used a dual gauge diamond which is actually no problem to build.... I may do both in the end and make it interesting!
* One had great detail as to structure suggestions, one had a full signalling diagramme....
* Two thought about the end of the board and disguising at least one ends "exit point" nicely.....
* One included some 009 - with one of my favourite industries... lime kilns! Hmmm.... I hadn't intended it on this test track, it would give me usable 9mmm gauge track though!
* Two used computer generated drawings which were nice to review, others were hand drawn, but that made no difference to my decision at all as effort and design were more important to me!
ALL were well thought out!
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I will now combine aspects of each plan and create the final design.
SO... for now, what did I decide?
I have thought a lot about it and as no ONE plan is totally what I want, I have decided to award prizes differently.
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I will take and use aspects of FOUR entries, and award FOUR equivalent first prizes, and NO runners up! So... each of the 4 will receive a first prize... A $99 value six pack of DCCconcepts "Flickerfree"
The winners are... (in alphabetical order)
Expat
Lancashire Fusilier
UPNick
Zmil
Congratulations and thank you for entering!
I'll pack up your prizes next week and send off to Dubai, UK and (thankfully for post cost
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) Perth Local!
kind regards
Richard
Basically, no single entry is 100% buildable "as is" as each has an aspect that won't work well for a test track... However each also had at least one element I really like, so that sort of balanced things!
(I didn't really expect the perfect "build it as drawn" answer, just some interesting entries!)
* The hardest thing for all was the narrow neck area - however thats where two computer monitors will go so I had no choice!
* Also hard was the combining of EM and OO in a single narrow strip "layout". Most used gradients and overpass, one used a dual gauge diamond which is actually no problem to build.... I may do both in the end and make it interesting!
* One had great detail as to structure suggestions, one had a full signalling diagramme....
* Two thought about the end of the board and disguising at least one ends "exit point" nicely.....
* One included some 009 - with one of my favourite industries... lime kilns! Hmmm.... I hadn't intended it on this test track, it would give me usable 9mmm gauge track though!
* Two used computer generated drawings which were nice to review, others were hand drawn, but that made no difference to my decision at all as effort and design were more important to me!
ALL were well thought out!
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
I will now combine aspects of each plan and create the final design.
SO... for now, what did I decide?
I have thought a lot about it and as no ONE plan is totally what I want, I have decided to award prizes differently.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
I will take and use aspects of FOUR entries, and award FOUR equivalent first prizes, and NO runners up! So... each of the 4 will receive a first prize... A $99 value six pack of DCCconcepts "Flickerfree"
The winners are... (in alphabetical order)
Expat
Lancashire Fusilier
UPNick
Zmil
Congratulations and thank you for entering!
I'll pack up your prizes next week and send off to Dubai, UK and (thankfully for post cost
kind regards
Richard
Hi All
No one is more surprised than I am
I am truly very very happy to be selected in the winners list , I have been speechless (unable to type also) all afternoon. Now that I have come down from the ceiling I can thank Richard for a great competition and I will put my prize to good use
I can only fund my hobby with what I sell , so my budget is limited , in fact sometimes I have had to sell one of my favourite Lok's to pay a bill.
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Times are tough at the moment.
Thankyou once again Richard
Regards Zmil
No one is more surprised than I am
I am truly very very happy to be selected in the winners list , I have been speechless (unable to type also) all afternoon. Now that I have come down from the ceiling I can thank Richard for a great competition and I will put my prize to good use
I can only fund my hobby with what I sell , so my budget is limited , in fact sometimes I have had to sell one of my favourite Lok's to pay a bill.
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Thankyou once again Richard
Regards Zmil
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