European N scale modelling of
the SBB and ÖBB
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Visitors since 02.03.07:
The moving picture to capture the moving train...logical really! Recent arrivals from the model shop have to be tested, and while running them along a piece of track with a finger is sufficient to check that the axles are all correct and nothing is 'wobbling' it is much nicer to see them running on a layout.
Even if the models are running on my old layout with the tight bends, poorly aligned track and electronics that have spent too long in the damp garage, at least they are running and my cine camera can capture it! Google seem only too happy to host everyones inane videos of the mundane and so I have taken advantage of this facility too!
Roco have just released the SBB EW IV coaches in ICN livery again. The models are not only excellent and feature red paint where the tail lights would go (which is a useful stop-gap until I fit some real ones) but are available at a very good price, along with a load of other things. Thank you Roco, now please please please do the BLS EW IV again...(have you seen the price on eBay for one?! Crazy...) and an SBB Bt driving trailer wouldn't hurt too much either!
A rake of these ICN coaches in A - A - B - B - B - B formation behind a dependable Minitrix Re 460 run downhill and out of a tunnel and across a bridge:
Another recent arrival was an ÖBB 2016 from Fleischmann with the new style logo (no more pflatsch :-( ) which I filmed pulling a steel coil train with telescope wagons of mixed nationalities (mostly ÖBB, three DB, one FS and one SBB). In the background is a Taurus with an EC train from Italy (probably Venice) which is waiting for the signal. Given that EuroCity is a premium service it is unlikely it would be stopped anywhere outside of a station, especially for a few a steel wagons...however only one track on my layout is working so I have no choice!
This Fleischmann model, along with my DB BR 185 and SBB Cargo Re 482 have mechanisms of the very highest quality and are very quiet and very smooth to run. The super detailing is delightful, but once again an otherwise brilliant model comes with blue-white LEDs?? An LED is not an expensive thing - and all European trains have lights with a golden yellow colour - so why not golden yellow LEDs? I am quite happy to retrofit myself but the hassle of disassembly/reassembly and the risk of destroying something on the surface-mount PCB with my soldering iron is a right pain.
Pictures of the ÖBB 2016 and some other things to follow in the gallery when I get round to it. To finish here is a picture of the scene where the above video was taken, featuring some other new arrivals - the delightful XMPR Eurofimas of the FS...again Roco delivers!
I have taken videos of lots of other models test running in the past but I have only just learned that I can set the focal distance when using the video function on my camera! (a Sony DSC-V1) These older videos all feature the auto-focus trying and failing to latch onto the moving models and so give a headache to watch!