Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Travisdale Pickmere Railway (on pause)

 I have decided to pause the Travisdale Pickmere railway build as I had to move and basically start the build from scratch. I did want to link to my youtube channel that tracked all the work that I had done up until the point of our move. 



First Blog Post - Sismo 737 Simulator - S1E1

I just wanted to introduce myself & give a bit of background. After posting a photo to /r/flightsim there was an outpouring of support for me to document the build. 




Based on the above photo, I decided to try and document the rest of the build with photos, blog posts, and youtube videos. 

Some background about the current build. I am putting together a Sismo 737 NG simulator, linked rudder, linked yoke, motorized TQ. I managed to buy this from a business which was changing direction, and was able to save a substantial amount over buying it new. We also just moved into a new place, and we have a 2400sqft shop (will be enclosing the sim & adding split A/C to enclosed sim area). 

First steps were to re-attach the frame for the screen, and mount the screen to the frame. I have a couple time lapse videos showing a bit of work, my son even lent a bit of a hand. 

Videos will be coming shortly, I am working on a better internet connection as I am limited to 15mbps currently.