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Soldering marathon completed yesterday and a dozen lights assembled today. More assembly and some painting tomorrow morning.

One bunch of assembled and painted ground signals. I still have a few more to make if these aren’t enough.

20181224_114934 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

They look great - how far into the baseboard will they be recessed? R-

RogerB wrote: ↑Mon Dec 24, 2018 12:26 pm They look great - how far into the baseboard will they be recessed? R-

They should end up with the top of the baseboard about halfway between the signal head and the heatshrink that holds them together. The heatshrink should form a ‘plug’ in the hole to be drilled in the boards and allow me to infill with ballast etc to hide the hole.

Sounds good. R-

Still nothing on the TV and we did all our Christmas visits yesterday, so, inspite of a sore throat and cold, I managed to get a bit of time in the shed. Installed a few of the new lights on this section which proved to be trickier than expected.
All the units were tested during manufacture but for some reason a couple of them illuminated both LEDs when installed. Swapped them out for others I had made and all is well. I’m guessing the heatshrink may have moved and exposed enough wire to allow a short circuit - should be able to rewire them in due course.

20181226_170015 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

That looks amazing. Also, I've not seen anyone model throw rods before.

Not uncommon on layout in the UK Chops.

That looks lovely Steve (the lights) and the work you have done with the dirty track. Very realistic. I am going to try and copy soe of your stuff but doubt I shall match it...........John

Ballast looks like it is supporting the track.