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A foggy evening in West Orton?
Like the idea though.

40 a day still Steve, about time you gave up.

I think I fogged the whole street! Never smoked in my life.

It’s a first run of a disco smoke machine (the glitter ball is in the post )

The machine has a remote switch which I can fix to the frame of the layout with the main gubbins underneath. The intention is to feed a burst of smoke into a manifold then pipe it under the board so to specific points on the layout.
Pipes etc on order but God only knows if it will work.

I blame WTD by the way.

I think there was a distinct chill in the air watching that. I was with WTD when we saw the "piped smoke", and it did look realistic.

I am happy to take the blame Steve. It will be worth it.

Just caught up with this video and it really made my morning…….I can supply Hound Dog howling if you decide to go down the route of the Sherlock Holmes Express - LOL

Richard, I was thinking more along the lines of American Werewolf in London - “don’t go on the moors at night, stay on the road.”

I have my candidate for the sound effects if needed.

Untitled by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

Plans for smoke have not worked out as planned (no surprise).
I have established that the machine heats the smoke fluid to a very high temperature then squirts the resulting vapour through a nozzle. The superheated vapour then condenses as any air it meets is cooler than the vapour. The trouble is that as soon as you put a pipe or tube on the nozzle, the vapour condenses in the tube so that little or no smoke comes out the end. And of course, as I wanted to use narrow diameter tubing, these very quickly fill with condensed water.
So it’s not going to be practical to route smoke to specific locations around the layout. However, I have fitted a larger diameter tube to the machine so I can give areas a quick squirt to photographic purpose.
I guess it’s a case of nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Better get back to ‘proper’ modelling.

Smoke around the layout this has to be a first. Hope the thing don't catch fire Steve.

Hi Steve going back a bit I was taken by your fencing. I tried it but my old shaky hands mucked it up so I have to make do with some plastic fences I got on ebay instead. Such a shame your fences look fantastic.