Interesting reviewer…
Nice picture of dirt in the switch points
All the scales down to OO are suitable for outdoor use. ( 1:21)
What is “Lego” scale?
The “G” in G scale does not stand for garden?
Lubricating it with lanolin
the remote control looks to be a modified toy R/C system, battery in boiler nicad
he was impressed with the detail, enough to compare to LGB
music button on transmitter fires off 3 whistles, chuffs and and a sequence of bells… I have the same sound chip in a birthday card, and a wall clock.
listening to the mechanism it is pretty rough, sounds sloppy
the one traction tire came off and disappeared during running.
not sure I agree on his observation that the passenger and freight cars have a “huge amount of detail”…
he painted the brown plastic rail silver, that’s kind of nuts, but look later where he paints the ties on the switches silver too.
embedded the track in dirt with a covering of aquarium gravel over the tops of the ties, later listening to his ballasting technique of going over the ties, and then clearing it away from the rails with the plastic wheeled loco… you can see the wear on the wheels also…
he does understand that the cross level of the tracks is important, although he had a level about one meter long (meaning he could not use it everywhere)
clearly the speed control is off, and then a first gradual step to mach one… mach 5 needs a bit more throttle.
Clearly from his experience with derailments the switches are crap, but no surprise.
I LOVE his “shunting work” at 18:40, all the passengers were killed instantly!
interesting he is spraying lubricant on the rails because the loco does not like the S curve or curves in general… I wish he would have pulled cars with the loco to see that even on a level layout spraying lube on the rails won’t help matters overall.
After only 3 weeks his ballast is washing out, (because most of his ballast is dirt), and now he is trying to use metal staples to hold the track down. I guess in another few weeks he’ll learn that he cannot overcome the laws of physics and expansion with metal staples.
Around 31.06 he says he found the traction tire that was lost the first day, but “you don’t need it”, and then proceeds to talk about lubing the loco frequently with different things. Notice the last driver around 31.15 on that goo is building up on the wheels… so he has not connected his spraying goop on the track and loco with buildup on the wheels… funny he could not connect the dots.
He also changed the springs in the pilot and trailing truck and near the end of the video he indicated he fiddled with these a lot. Kind of typical when someone is blaming the loco when the trackwork is the issue.
Overall entertaining to see his starting out and running into all the newbie pitfalls.
Greg
and seems to irritate many “G” aficionados. C’est la vie, n’est pas!?!
