Wooly Junction

Last circuitry tweak to my Raspberry Pi Pico powered ‘mind your head’ sign. My LED backlight panels didn’t suggest a specific resistor, and having tried out a few I’ve settled for round about 60ohms. Next to rewire everything to a headerless Pico inside the case.

This is such a great idea. Could have done with that many times 😆

Discovered I couldn’t see well enough to solder any more … been to buy some reading glasses!

Looks good in the lighting

We now 3 minute videos on here - just a couple of weeks too late 🤪

Maybe combine modelling with bonsai or terrarium ?!

Superb as always. I don’t think I’ve seen scenery like this on any other layout 👏🏻

I think it’s more my inability to work out how to actually find the stuff I’m interested in, as Insta seems to like to curate the feeds. And I can’t figure out the difference between posts, reels and stories 🤣. A lot of great railway modellers on there though.

That’s what you call attention to detail 😁

It shows you what you can do for a low amount of money if you try 👍🏻👏🏻. I must finish my cheap PiZero loco sound project and post that on here soon…

That is such a spectacular layout. The castle is just incredible 🏰 👏🏻

That’s the kind of pass I call brave, hoping the points are set correctly 😆

My estimated viewing figures for #ModelTrainShow2025 :
- BlueSky: 100%
- Twitter: 50%
- Instagram: remind me how it works again?! 🤣🤣

Well done CottonTreeRail @modeltrainshow.bsky.social a fantastic 6th show and over £500 raised for RailwayChildren. Thank you for bringing the online model railway community together again 👏🏻 🥳

Incredible 🤯 👏🏻

Great layout and stock 👍🏻

Wow that’s fantastic, such good modelling at that scale

The gantry and buildings are fab 👏🏻

I have never seen a model firework display before! 👏🏻🎇

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🚂 #ModelTrainShow2025 stats so far 📊

👀 125,000 views
❤️🔄 700 interactions
💷 £290 raised for Railway Children

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A great setting by the canal. Looks bigger than n gauge!

Well the evening draws to a close on the first day of #ModelTrainShow2025 raising money for RailwayChildren. Thank you to everyone that has posted, liked or replied. I’m looking forward to seeing more videos tomorrow. #BSMRGUK #TMRGUK #IMRGUK

Lots of activity at Central station #ModelTrainShow2025 #BSMRGUK #TMRGUK #IMRGUK (Part 2)

Lots of activity at Central station #ModelTrainShow2025 #BSMRGUK #TMRGUK #IMRGUK (Part 1)

Thank you! It was very satisfying getting the route proving sequences going 👍🏻😁

I love the juxtaposition 😆👍🏻

(Part 2) #ModelTrainShow2025

Not much has changed on the layout over the past year, but I did finish weathering this rake of IOA ballast wagons #ModelTrainShow2025 #BSMRGUK #TMRGUK #IMRGUK (Part 1)

The sound of that horn would definitely make heads turn! I think you’d have a few issues with clearance under bridges though 😆