Easy Upgrade To Improve Your Budget Model For Pennies!

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Today Jenny shows you how to enhance your Hornby Railroad Plus Class 37 locomotive with working lights; detailed cab interiors; etched nameplates; and, thanks to Iron Horse Railways, weathering. If you like the look of the Class 37 and fancy one for yourself, here's a link to help you out: tmc-direct.co.uk/RailRoadPlus
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Chapters:
00:00 Video start
00:14 Introduction
01:16 Sponsors
04:00 Overview
05:58 How to add lights
08:17 What each DCC chip pin does
10:48 Building the cab interiors
17:00 How to wire lights
24:55 Make sure you use the right wires!
25:28 Lighting test
26:49 Adding etched nameplates
29:55 Weathering the Class 37 with Iron Horse Railways
34:29 Conclusion
35:57 Thanks and sponsors

Пікірлер: 27

@ausfoodgarden Жыл бұрын

We need more low-priced models with reasonable detail like this. A bit of effort can make them great as you've shown. I'm one of those folks that will pay through the nose for that "special" loco, but for the rest, a reasonable likeness at a decent price is what we're after.

@wamgoc Жыл бұрын

Good informative video Jenny! Just what we should be doing to make the hobby excusable to everyone!!👏👏

@grah84mck Жыл бұрын

Another great little video Jen. Looks cracking. Iron horse weather looks good too. Keep the good work up folks.

@fatwalletboy2 Жыл бұрын

Comes up good.think id sacrifice cab lights at one end and install an engine light instead perhaps including a grey piece of plastic as a dummy prime mover inside.

@MarchWestJunctionTMD Жыл бұрын

Hi Jenny 👍 thanks for sharing this it was really informative and easy to follow Keep safe and well Andy

@xxqq5719 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for such a well thought out video. Iron law, the soldering iron always finds the plastic on the bench.

@jamesgilbart2672 Жыл бұрын

Great work - it looks and performs like a premium-priced model! It might be good to paint the cab interior with pale grey paint - like the prototype and maybe cut out a printed picture of the desk dials and controls (shrunk to the correct size) and stick to the bulkhead inside below the front windows.

@mikeking2539 Жыл бұрын

Nice that it comes with etched names. 😮

@michaelbenton4117 Жыл бұрын

Jennifer, I have a class 47 in the railroad range, I also have lights that you used. So I will have a go at putting lights in the 47. Thanks for the ideas

@davidshaw5979 Жыл бұрын

Hi jenny I enjoyed the upgrade and the weathering that looked great , well done .. PS congrats on 21K

@robinforrest7680 Жыл бұрын

For us old gits, this is the way we always did things 👍. If they could do a decent range at around £40-50 they’d sell like hot cakes…

@johnpapworth433 Жыл бұрын

How come you didn't give the cab detail a quick wag over with paint? I had a similar idea with all the cab details from the Rotted out Class 31s like that too. One great supplier for lighting for the locos like this and others is Stickswipe on E-Bay, Maybe you should try some of their kits and show how they are fitted too?

@johnstephens649 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this Jenny. I have a similar Railroad GWR Class 57 and although firmly DC due to the age of many of my locos, your ideas are definitely things I am going to look into doing.

@StarWarsJay Жыл бұрын

I just bought a new Accurascale class 37. I’m too scared to weather it 😅

@redversb2347 Жыл бұрын

Currently available in the sale for £67.88 plus postage at Model Railways Direct.

@wamgoc Жыл бұрын

I brought one!!!

@Mapplewell_Park Жыл бұрын

Even thought I’m not Hornby’s biggest fan. That is a bargin!! The weathering really improves it as well

@allanmorton6022 Жыл бұрын

That was a really interesting video adding features to unused decoder pins. I'd also see this expanded to add DCC decoder into an old model with no dcc at all. I believe someone sells a pcb to connect a decoder too, just wiring up the motor and track then being needed. Worth an experiment as I'm sure many people have pre-dcc locos that would like an upgrade.

@antonywhittaker4558 7 ай бұрын

Bachmann sell the PCB for some trains I've fitted a few into some class 37s

@mels1811 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant locos

@gunguy6530 7 ай бұрын

Hi jenny, can you still add lights if you only run dc or is this only for dcc

@User-3O3 Жыл бұрын

@michaelbenton4117 Жыл бұрын

Well that's not good, no purple wire on the decoder.

@mikeking2539 Жыл бұрын

Sorry but what is the point of adding cab lights? The model doesn't have any interior details. Lights in the former headcode panel, and red tail lights are fine.

@JenniferEKirk Жыл бұрын

That’s why, as you saw in the video, I added cab interiors.

@trainswithnickyt Жыл бұрын

Anyone know what's happening over on tramfabriek as I want to support the sponsors, but everything seems to be out of stock and has been that way since I first checked

@JenniferEKirk Жыл бұрын

They should all be back in stock now. There were issues with getting the processors to make the decoders but I believe that’s sorted.