This week's progress...
The polystyrene & modrock has been cut to allow a road to the level crossing.
The glue is now dry and scenery can begin.
Green paint added before any grass goes down.
Carefully painted inside each archway!
Now for grass.
Front of the layout now painted to match the other boards.
Grass & foliage starting to appear.
And along the front.
Meanwhile, I started work on the switch panel. We need eight more switches, so the only way to do this properly is to remove the current artwork from the front. Thankfully as this is vinyl, it peels off reasonably easily.
There have been many additions since the panel was built. It's looking untidy inside so this seemed like a good opportunity to strip it properly and tidy up.
The track layout is modified to reflect the additions and reprinted.
New circuit design incorporates the additional switches, some more colour added to differentiate between each control circuit. All the switches and meters had to be removed before adding the new vinyl and then applying lacquer.
Ideally this would have been completely re-designed but this would mean starting again with a new panel and as there are already over 70 LEDs in this panel, I really didn't fancy starting again!
It also became apparent during the last exhibition that the power supply for the points, lights & various Arduinos was nearing its capacity. So a second power supply is also being added and the power districts split between the front and rear boards.
I've also taken the opportunity to add some individual protection fuses for each of the transformers and upgrade the mains power lead.
More to follow.
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