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This Blog is all about my adventures in N-Gauge Railroading. There is a second part to this railroad Blog which is a Japanese component as I like to model Japanese railroads.
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Today makes the second package stolen from out of my mailbox. I had a package that was delivered to the locker in my building today. I go to open my mailbox and there in a key to open the locker but there is already a key in the locker what the actual fuck. Two weeks ago a package was supposed to been delivered to my mailbox and there was no package in the mailbox . The postmaster is clueless, the temp letter carrier is a thief plain and simple. Today I got home theres a new key in my mailbox for a different locker and my package from yesterday was in it guess they're working those USPS workers too hard.
I finally got my order from Plaza Japan that included several decoders some vehicles and other goodies. First thing that I wanted to do was put a decoder in my IR Railways Series 521. As usual I couldn't find a tutorial for the instructions for installing a decoder in 5his car. Thank goodness that the installation is pretty standard and easy.
Cover off EMU |
Truck removed EMU |
No truck or cover |
Decoder installed |
Decoder installed and truck installed |
I was looking around and I found some BLMA concrete car stops and I was on eBay the other day wondering if I should buy some or not Im glad I didnt lol. This is exactly what I need for the parking lot that Im working on.
Well dont I have enough projects going lol. I wanted to add a parking lot to the Koban I just built and here are some mockups of the lot and the building.
I think I'm liking the first 3 mockups out of all the ones that I've tried.
Today I got some new items in like the Barrel Connector and some Dupont Connectors (not pictured)
I wired up the barrel connector and installed some wire for the programming track and the main track.
Documentation on how to wire up the command station werent that clear so I went looking for some reference pictures.
Below is the result of my wiring.
While on sScale,net I posted in the DCC section someone their homemade DCC WiFi throttle. TCS makes a WiFi throttle that costs $200 the homebrew WiFi throttle supposedly cost under $50 USD to make and it dont look too shabby either. Heres the link to his wsebsite and pictures of the throttle which I think looks cool.
So far I have two out of three parts that I need for my DCC++EX DCC-EX Command Station. Im missing a bunch of other stuff I need like Dupont connecters, Power supplies, Wi-Fi shield. The pic below below is what I have so far.
DCC++EX is old DCC-EX is the new kid on the block lol. sorry for the confusion.
My Makerfabs ESP8266 WiFi Shield shipped today woo hoo!!!1
ESP8266 WiFi Shield |
Elegoo Mega R3 Board ATMega 2560 |
The smaller building is from Miniatuart which is a paper laser cut kit. That could be a clinic or shop but Im making it a Koban which is a Japanese Police station. The Larger building is from Outland Models and this will be a city police station. They both came out better than I expected especially the smaller building. All thats needed for both are police men, motor cycles, and signage Ive started to work on that
Today I completed a nice purchase from Hobby Search that should tide me over for a little while. I got some parts a railbus and an excursion 3 car set what I forgot were some decoders but I think HS was out of them. The most anticipated item is a Japanese Koban that is laser cut cardboard kit. I've had a fascination with Kobans lately and will post some of the pics that I found on the internet of them.
Im going to preface this post by say that this post is in no way inclusive of want needs to happen in your decoder installation like the one I performed. You could blow up your decoder and need to get a new one however that didnt happen to me. This post will have pics and light on words except where needed.
Disassembled Hello Kitty Motor Car
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