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New home, and an unexpected wait for the internet

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Moving on out

We’ve had to move twice in 12 months. This gets old fast when it’s not by choice. However, we’re now in a new house and we’ve a level of certainty that we have not had recently.

But, there’s a problem with that.

It’s like 1985 in here…

There is no internet, and our mobile phone reception is marginal on a good day due to our distance from the nearest cell tower.

We’re waiting on an electrician to come in to trench out and replace the current conduit, which ends 25 metres short of the pit in the street, so that the broadband company can connect us up.

The result is that hopefully sometime in February we’ll have the internet connected and I’ll be able to upload January’s video.

1985 is better than I remember it in someways, but worse in others. For now I’ll keep working on thing’s here in the Turdis, and keep carrying on.

I just wish you could see me typing this on my phone. It would be nice if I could make my sausage fingers work on it, like they do on the keyboard.

I’ll be in touch in a week or two. Assuming we’ve arrived in 1997 by then. I wonder if my CompuServe account still works?

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Site Update – RailBox XAF10 Modelling pages updated

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The modelling article on the RailBox XAF10 class cars have been updated. There is new content and the third step of the rebuild article promised some time ago. There’s more information below.

What’s happened

My last update on this project covered the addition of a short history of the class. This time we’re getting into the meat of the project.

This new page covers the dangly bits between the frame and the rails – brake rigging. This is a task focused modelling article on how to simulate the brake rigging on the model without going over the top. Thanks go out to Tony Thompson whose original post on his blog got me started on this particularly enjoyable journey. (There’s a link from the new page to Tony’s original blog post.)

Throughout the series I’ll be aiming to complete the entire project section within an hour (between getting home and dinner for example) and at the end of it have a model that you can be proud of. Here’s what I mean using before and after photos:

Image 1: The basic Athearn BB kit sans brake rigging

Image 2: Same kit (undec) with brake rigging – a subtle difference but well worth the effort

You can head direct to the page by clicking this link, or head over to the project home page clicking this link. I hope that you enjoy this new part of the project. Like, subscribe and follow to keep up to date with all the new content here on Andrew’s Trains.