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As I was never really happy with the last generic 60's style DMU that I built, and our adventure into DCC operation is proving do-able although extensive in conversion, I have been heavily inspired by the sounds of a model on Pete Watermans o-gauge layout of a class 116 DMU, so thought I'd give it a shot to build in LEGO and convert over to DCC with the sounds. (I would in no way have been able to get the DCC side of it done without the expert help of 2 friends of mine, Richard and Mike. Their help and effort into making this work with soldering, choosing resistor values, relays needed, etc, has been fantastic and very much appreciated)......I just built the thing to be able to take apart in easy sections to get to the wiring, speakers, lights, etc.! So this is the final result: The above cab ends pictured show the last 2 combinations that I'm trying to decide on using. I've gone through maybe 20 different variations of cheese slopes / no cheese, to try and achieve the right (or near enough!) look, this is the version I'm going to go with now, but still undecided if to use the stickers or not. The one furthest from shot uses no stickers for the "whiskers", the one nearest in shot uses stickers over the cheese slopes to enhance the shape of the "whiskers". Me being me, I'm drawn to the sticker version and will probably end up going with this? The 1x1 dark grey plate visible on the side of the drivers cab door is the only part in this build that is not obtainable in dark green (as its a modified plate with clip / o ring used to hold the 1x4 tile in place).......so if I go with sticker usage, then I'm tempted to also cover this plate with a dark green sticker! Below is a video of the available sound functions whilst stationary.....obviously when in motion the motors also rev up, along with track "click-clack" flange squeel and brake squeel. I will get some videos of it running on my display at STEAM in the next few weeks. The next video shows how we have made the interior cab light come on in direction of travel, and off in reverse (on both ends) whilst changing over the direction lights from white to red.....as there are no bi-polar led's in white and red (only green and red) this has been a hurdle to overcome, especially as I'm only connecting 2 wires through the run of carriages and the soundchips require 3 wires to activate the changeover easily...hence never have been able to have done this without my 2 friends :) For the techies, its using a South West Digital class 108 recorded onto a Loksound V4 soundchip......and then weeks upon weeks of changing cv settings to get it to run smoothly and sync the sounds up with speed, etc....sometimes I just dunno why I do this! Carl
