Clearing house

A stack of small stuff tonight, so without further adoo;

- A small group works on towards an NZ120 competition cup for the convention competitions. Initial thoughts fort he name are the John Rappard memorial trophy. Awarded for the model of a New Zealand prototype to a scale of 1:120 that gains the highest percentage of possible marks during judging. (Categories 2.1 to 2.12). Hopefully this is OK with everyone and we can hopefully get it past the convention committee in time for the convention.

- The initial get together is now down or Schloss dandruff on the 22nd of January. Entry will be a model (of some sort) that you are currently working on or have recently finished. Some S scalers are allowed :v). Not sure what we will do for lunch, but there is also a steam/diesel excursion that day, with a locomotive swap at palmy, which might be a good assembly point. No idea what we will do for lunch either but we will take it as it comes.

-2 hours in the shed today gave no visual improvements but I added in the loco depot DCC booster. This involved working out just what the hell I had done under the hood, but turned out to be as easy as cutting a couple of wires. I had to make a few alterations to the wiring but its now all up and running. The power supply has a bit less juice that the main one so locos slow down/speed up on entering/leaving the depot track. Next up I will look at doing some hand held controllers to add to the Zepher jump ports. I'll also have to come up with some 'novel' control boxes. Still not too sexy, but more important than the pretty stuff. I also fixed another couple of track problems, but I keep finding more.