Marklin Z Scale Summary of the last 3 years could say that the last 3 years, since I did the last update of the Web The Basement Loco, have been much moved, in my likings, as in my personal life, which has greatly influenced them.
Scale Figures 1 / 6 Back in the spring of 2006, the Forum for action figures "30centimetros" closed and many from fans not knowing where we were staying contact. We try to re-unify a free forum for me so there was diversity of opinion, and people are not put under.
Finally, after several meetings and tired of so much speculation, 8 Madrid, we created the forum Group 1 / 6, a forum focused on the fans to the figures of 1 / 6 scale. Of course, as I was the only one who knew about computers, I got the technical side (creation, installation, configuration and maintenance), a not very graceful, which gave me enough headaches. Of course during that time I could not update my website, but I have enough new material that will try put here ...
Forum Agrupacion 1 / 6 At that time, my wife also became pregnant with our first baby, something that really scared me a bit, being a parent ... newsprint go ... be responsible ... could not keep spending money on hobbies, because I did not know what came over me, and between the fatigue of the forum, the need to save for what might come, having to remodel my house to make room for the new host with all joy in the world and collect a lot of my interests in two rooms had to be left alone in one, I decided to leave the world of action figures a bit parked to devote to my family.
In December, after a complicated delivery that arrived in good order for both my first daughter was born. With the excitement of learning to be a father, giving bottles and changing diapers and see how my daughter was growing up, they went 7 months without noticing ..
The Minimotos and the World of Racing Already in the spring of 2007, I had been very fond of motorcycles since childhood, discovered the Minimotos ... mechanics again and the smell of gasoline ... what memories ... and of course I bought a cheapie Minimoto Air Cooled to try and have fun ... Gradually I was preparing to change the carburetor and the exhaust pipe ... and making that it ran every time ...
My newly purchased Ducati minimoto
I liked so much and had so much fun learning to drive in preparing my minimoto circuit and red (which was beginning to fall short of power) to buy me a water cooled Blata and a leather suit (the falls are very grateful for my age ...), I had also entered the forum minibikes "PortalMinimotos"
http://www.portalminimotos.com/foro/ , where experts met I pointed to races, I began to live that scene making friends and learning enough to knock in the convoluted circuit of Princess ...
Ducati and ready ....
The Princess Circuit
After the summer, was ready to prepare my Blata, and get involved more fully in mechanics, opening up the engine, at the expense transfers and other ... so I bought a second hand motor not to touch the original that worked very well and was starting to roll fine with 9cv ... in November, had been tarred and paved the Princess circuit for a career ... we were shooting and tar did not quite dry ... and one of the turns ... right end of the straight ... slow ... with such bad luck ... my rear wheel, which had been pasted part of the pitch, yaw and just when was completely crossed the road ... he picked up grip ... speed bike made me throw up in the air ... to get up and sit in the middle of the track ... I noticed a strong pain in his right arm ... go ... had broken the ulna and radius ... Go 3 ½ months of Baja.
With my Blata on Princess days before breaking his arm
Back Trains ... Z scale now had come Christmas ... and needed an occupation ... I discovered the Marklin Trains Z scale (1:220) ... precious ... and the quality of being so small could make me a model in a space quite small ... my arm was pretty sore at that time ... but the train was an occupation rather quiet ... with a little help I started to make a model of 140cmx60cm that folded against the wall with hinges ...
The small Z scale model
When I had the ramps and some of the main structure made ... I tried some longer trains ... and had many failures of calculation and of course did not come up with more than 3 cars ... were a disaster ... I started to spin and before long I decided I had to make me another model in terms ... but on a couch that I almost did not use and I decided to make room to start a project more seriously ... it was spring 2008.
I began to see planes ... find more detailed information ... I'd bought books in German Z Scale ... and had learned some basic things of this scale ... soon saw the light of the new project ... a model L-220cmx170cm for up to 5 separate trains, a huge station in order to stop trains 7 and 8 passenger cars ... a mountain village with station ... a lake ... and an industrial area ... I had always wanted and now possible with the small scale Z.
2D plane Z scale model
Plano 3D Z-scale model of
My Big Z scale model
saw the possibility of a hybrid model between Analog and Digital, with a system Shiwches let me change the sections between the two modes. .. and of course, study the set-top boxes that were in the market to make any changes ... between my findings, I managed to make one of the built-in steam locomotives with sound decoder ... namely a BR10 ... a wonder of which we speak and explain how to do it ...
Installing sound decoder in the Tender of Z scale BR10
Internal wiring of the sound decoder Z scale BR10
Picking my hobbies ... The twins were born Summer ... my wife got pregnant ... but it was all planned ... small at the moment would be in the bigger room and I put my demo in the small, which came just ... and would later would do with my stuff ...
After the summer, in September 2008, went to consult the gynecologist, for an initial exploration ... and came the unexpected ... were twins ... ... ...
After Shock received the joy of the girls were very good and now fully assimilated ... I started collecting just about everything concerning my hobbies during the winter of 2008 ... least 3 windows of Figures 1 / 6 strategically scattered throughout the house ... and showcase the Z-scale train, of course, everything about this scale is at hand in the attic of my house to get a briefcase minimaqueta ... some modules ... or something similar.
Spring 2009, the Twins are born about 15 days ... and are precious ... we are already large family ...
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