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1st December 2022

… How do you fit Digital Command Control, stay-alive and sound into a tiny ‘OO9’ gauge … layout. This tiny locomotive has been fitted with a digital sound decoder, speaker and stay-alive. PECO’S …

By MIKE WILD 6th January 2023

… level track. For those intent on converting the ‘B12’ to Digital Command Control operation, an 8-pin decoder socket is provided in the … to accept a 28mm round speaker. This combination will make digital and sound fitting straightforward, but due to the …

By MIKE WILD 7th February 2023

Kernow Model Rail Centre’s Beattie ‘Well Tank’ project is bearing fruit with all four livery variations now approved for production (see Update) and the first Southern Railway liveried variant arriving in the

By MARK CHIVERS 25th June 2023

… and come pre-fitted with wire bridging clips suitable for Digital Command Control (DCC) layouts. These can be easily removed with …

By BEN JONES 1st March 2023

… metal guard irons and solid-looking brake shoes with control rods sitting outboard of the wheels. The LNWR was … detachable NEM couplings at the front and rear, a ‘Next18’ Digital Command Control (DCC) decoder interface on the front of the chassis …

By MARK CHIVERS 1st February 2023

… Multi Purpose Vehicles (MPVs) to the range, an upgraded Digital Command Control (DCC) system and much more. Bachmann Europe has also … will be to the latest specification with DCC ready and digital sound-fitted options, priced at £149.95 and £249.95. …

8th March 2023

… and ran well following a little running in on analogue control. The next change was the addition of digital sound which was completed following another rummage …

By John Fuller 27th March 2023

… in the form of STL files– for the uninitiated, these are digital downloads for 3D-printing at home. Pilot figures …

By MIKE WILD 22nd November 2022

… as an operating roof fan, all of which can be set up for control on a digital decoder depending on how many function outputs it … slip points and operated equally well under analogue and digital control. A central Printed Circuit Board (PCB) is …

By Richard Spreckley 5th October 2023

… markings printed as masks, after Airfix kindly provided a digital image of the decals, which was then converted and … RAF Sky used for the underside, being built gradually to control the tone and depth of colour. Post-shading with a …

By MIKE WILD 3rd January 2023

… Cab interior detail is comprehensive and as well as the control desk there is an AWS bell on the central bulkhead … and it is pleasing to see that a plug-and-play option for digital sound has been introduced. Body detail, shaping and …

By LEWIS BUCKNELL 1st April 2023

… and kept all wiring simple. I’ve considered upgrading to Digital Command Control but as the layout is single track and I only ever run … 4mm: 1ft Size: 16ft x 2ft Region: Midland Period: 1950s Control: Analogue … Misselthwaite - the Yorkshire Dales in OO …

By MIKE WILD 24th January 2023

… great strides in simplifying how we can go about adding digital sound. Dapol has been particularly keen to make its … 30 locomotives. Highlights of the project include function control of heavy exhaust and coasting sounds as well as the … off when decelerating F27 Volume control … INSTALLING DIGITAL SOUND IN A DAPOL GWR ‘MANOR’ 1. Dapol’s new GWR …

By Harry Fielding 23rd December 2022

… an add-on kit of bits to provide a simple one push button control to rotate the 180 degrees which I needed. Above: A … - or to dip my toes into the brave new (for me) world of digital. I had been working on a new club layout based on … and all manner of things. The real benefit of using a digital system like CBUS is to reduce dramatically the number …

By MIKE WILD 28th December 2022

… layout which meant devising new options to manage point control. Our final choice was to use the route setting … Size: 19ft 6in x 10ft Gauge: ’OO’, 16.5mm Scale: 4mm:1ft Control: DCC , Gaugemaster Prodigy … Above: Hornby's new LNER …