Great sound

Scarpia,

I am impressed.  That was a great Movie Monday show.  And the sound is great.  I must add that our love bird (tiny parrot) in the other room chimed in her approval upon hearing the birds from New England.

Thanks.

THANKS

I miss the Monday movies.  That was worthy of the showing!!   Layout is coming along great and videography was just as good.  Keep up the great work and keep sharing the videos!!

Steve

Thanks

Thanks, I know there are some boreing moments, like when the 7917 goes back down into the trees, but I left those in as I really liked how it showed the sound coming from the model.

Note the audio is un-modified (other than the importation of the bird sounds), that's actually how the Tsunami sounds. If you listen closely, you can even here me press function buttons on the controller..

Very nice, Scarpia!

I enjoyed that and now I want to get into the layout room and get something running on my chainsaw.  Inching closer.  Hopefully will have at least 8 feet of track to run on in a couple weeks. 

Movie Monday

I really missed switching when I saw the video Scarpia. Great work and great sound.

Ten thumbs UP For a great

Ten thumbs UP For a great Monday Video

OK my friend Scarpia It is time you put all your photos and all the videos together in a single DVD with some narration. Call it "Building your first Chain Saw or How to learn Model Railroading start to finish" by Scarpia & MRH Magazine"

Today I reread your entire blog and honestly It may be one of the best Beginner Model Railroad builds I ever seen. With the problems you faced and the solutions that Concorde them. With All your different approaches to make things work and then your install of the Sound Decoder and DCC unit as well as speaker install. Your Blog and the videos covers every thing from Bench work to Track laying to wiring and operation. Oh lets not forget your scenery and the different applications you used.

All while building this test RR you knew you would use it only for learning and testing different things with the end results being a Chain Saw cutting it into scrap and most of it would be landing in the dumpster to make room for you to build the real thing.

What a great story and this last video was really pretty darn good just ask that little bird that was setting on the Mike at the beginning.

Great Work and I'm serious about the DVD.

Dan

Almost Airborne!

At 3:28 in, the engineer almost needed his pilots license! You can actually hear the thud as the engine settles down after climbing the rail.

Very nice video... I still really love that static grass....!

CD & Airtime

Dan,

I greatly appreciate your sentiment, but truth be told, there are tons of other folks who have done a better job at documenting their foray into the hobby.  I know this, as I've looked at their history before creating my own.

While I hope others may glean something from the successes and failures I've encountered, truth be told documenting my process in this way (and note that my own personal web site has this up as well) is really most benefiical to myself, and why I encourage everyone to do it.

First up, it's a great way to take notes of what you've done, with pictures, and perhaps more importantly with others feedback - a factor that can't be underestimated when you're a "lone-wolf".

Second, I've discovered over the years that photo (and I discovered with this  post video) documentation helps you discover problems that you didn't see before.

Dustin's point about the loco going "airborne" is accurate - that's a bad transition from 83 to 70 rail (a step down) that I haven't noticed before - yet when you watch this under HD, and at this angle, it's glaring.  I also noticed there is too large of a gap on the locomotive body, I need to see why it doesn't fit tighter - that hasn't been clear to me viewing it in person.

Dustin, did you also catch the box car with the trucks off the tracks in the early part? That's the reason why there is the derail "blooper" at the end.

The things you see under HD.....

Boxcar

No, I actually missed the boxcar on the ground, but I got a kick out of the blooper reel!

It's the Rutland box car,

It's the Rutland box car, right in the beginning, easy to see aroud 33 seconds in. The leading truck is half off.

Definatley a "Doh! " moment.

I should also be clear about that 83/70 transition. I hurried putting that down, and thought I could file it smooth....guess what!