Hey everybody, Matt here for Leighton Sports Cards, ripping 2023 Panini Prism WWE Hobby, 12 box full case break number one. This is random box style. I'm gonna open the case and lay out all the boxes first. That way it's clear which box is which before I do the random. So I think that's the most fair way to do it. So let's get it going. That way there's no confusion on how I lay out the boxes or anything. All right, so we're gonna go row one. This will be one, two, three, four, five, six. And then the back, seven, eight, nine on the back. And then 10, 11, 12 on the back. So one through three, four through six, seven through nine, and then 10 through 12. All right, oh man, I hate to throw upside down. It's all right, going with it. All right, let's do this. We'll randomize five times on the names and then the box numbers. Good luck. One, two, three, four, five. Everyone S down to Patrick T. And five times on the boxes. One, two, three, four, five, six to 11. All right, we have everyone S box six, Matt M eight, Jason B two, Ben K five, Matt M four. Joshua B 10, April L three, Joel B nine, Chris S 12, Rob H one, Corey S seven, and Patrick T 11. All right, I'll post those results and we will get this started. Here is a link to the results. Nine to go on the next one. Here we go, box number one. This is Rob H, good luck Rob. Take all these out now since it's all Rob's. Here we go, Otis, Hyper and X-Pac. That is red to 2.99, top tier the Miz. Biggest hit so far today. We pulled a Rondarowski, Liv Morgan, dual auto redemption, and then a Dragunov, gold auto to 10, there's Ivy Nile, and Sheamus. That is orange to 99, Austin Theory, Tamina, Hyper and Austin Theory, Silver, Undertaker, Alton Prince, Hyper. This is MVP, blue, that's to 1.99. All right, come on Rob, let's see a big hit for ya. Let's see something awesome in each of these boxes. So, Myko, Satyamura, Blue Wave, and Edris and Ophay. That was a purple to 1.49. Ray Mysterio, it's red wave, and Gunther, Silver, man, that triple threat match at Mania was phenomenal. Wasn't that good? It was really good. Gunther, Sheamus, and Acintyre. What's that? They always put out the orange. Well, this'll do. Silver auto, Becky Lynch. There you go, Rob, congrats. Nice start to your box here. First auto for ya, it's Alton Prince, Silver. Probably just, I don't know about that. Juice contract, contract ends after this week. Damon Kemp, red wave, and Damien Priest. Silver, I really like Damien Priest, Xavier. I don't like his character a whole lot right now, but I think it gives him something to kinda keep him paid until we're ready to really push him to the moon. This is Bailey, orange, that is 99 of 99. Nice, Bailey, and there's Tozawa. That's red to 299. Goldberg, legends of the hall. Red wave, Holocogan, and Kevin Nash, Silver. Stone cold, Judgment Day steam, yeah. There's Vader, and nice, this is gold. Sensational signatures, legend auto to 10. Johnny Rods, nice Hall of Famer gold auto. There's John Cena. Johnny Rods is, he was mostly an enhancement talent for WWE for years, kind of like upper level enhancement talent. He trained a lot of really good wrestlers though. I would call him lower card, not so much enhancement. Alton Prince, red wave, Theahale, Rookie Red. That is 299, I'm sorry, 299. Queen Zelina, ring of royalty. Box number two is Jason B. All right, let's get case number two filled up. We have nine spots to go in that, and here is a link. So Marty Miller, Hyper, and Terry Funk, Silver. Randy Orton, ooh, nice. That is legendary signatures, Shawn Michaels. There you go, Jason B with box two here. Great start for you. So Roxanne Perez, Silver. Kane Legends, there's Ivy Nile, Hyper, and Brutus Creed, Silver. You're McIntyre. What's IJPW? I think he means NJPW. Oh, New Japan. That is Kaden Carter, Teal, 49, and Gunther, blue to 199. Shawn is nice. Wendy Chew, blue wave, and Boa, red to 299. Warrior, Oscar Bailey, and then Sasha. What's Sasha calling herself? Something Monet. Oh. Come with us, her name. There's Austin Theory, red wave, and Nikita Lyons, blue. Oh, Mercedes, Mercedes. Mercedes, yeah, that's her first name, like her real first name anyway. Yeah. Mercedes Monet, yeah. John Cena, red wave, and the Miz, red. Rich's favorite there. Ivy Nile, Hyper, and Topdala. That is Rookie Blue, 199. Cameron Grimes, red wave, and that is Ludwig Kaiser, Silver, Bret Hart, Hyper, Hulk Hogan, and JD McDonough, Jey Uso, red wave, and Kevin Nash, purple to 149. Wait, Derek. Kel, last pack for Jason B in box number two. Wow, look at this. One of one, black auto, Cedric Alexander. Congrats, Jason B, our first one of one of the day. You make awesome hit, Jason. Here's Isla Don. Great way to close out your box. Box number three is April L. When you get that one magged, will you hand it to me real quick before you? Oh, I'll take a picture of it now. All right, this is April L with box three. It's Elton Prince, Hyper, Lacey Evans, red, Trish Jadis, oh, let's stay hot here. Was that Shawn Michaels and Cedric Alexander in the same box? Yeah. So Shawn, no, Shawn Michaels auto and a one of one Cedric Alexander auto in the same box was nuts. Were these from box two? Cause I was magging. Give me one second here, guys. Rhea Ripley, red wave, Ronda Rousey, blue to 199. I wish they had Rock and Roll Express in this. Some Berto, Hyper, and Zoe Stark. Silver, Kevin Nash. Cody Rhodes, red wave and silver, Sonia DeVille. Braun Breaker. You know what's funny? I have a friend who was an indie wrestler named Brian Breaker, and he signed a developmental deal and they made him change his name.  That's better. Braun, instead of Brian. That's so many syllables. Elton Prince. Razor Ramon. Red. That is to a one, or I'm sorry, to 299. Randy Savage. All right, again, this is box three for April L. The Godfather. Red wave. And Jagger Reed. Orange, that's to 99. Ring Royalty Shamus, silver. We're still at nine to go. On full case, number two, random box style. Here comes an auto. That is a redemption. It's worked out well for us the only other time we saw a redemption today. All right, good luck, April. Nice, that is gonna be to 99. Superstar, autographs are red. Edge. There you go, nice one, April. Ricochet, silver. Roman Reigns. Let's get case number two filled up. Nine spots to go on that one. Random box style. 269.99 a spot, Caden Carter. Hyper, Chad Gable, silver. Savage. My favorite manager. And probably, for managers, probably Bobby Heenan. Classy Freddie Blasey. I loved Heenan as a manager. Could not stand him as a commentator. Really? No. So Mace. That's gold, 10 of 10. You go, April. I'm in a great box here. Roxanne Perez, red. To 2.99, macho man. No, my problem with Heenan as a commentator was the same problem I had with Piper as, like Piper on the mic after his great heel run. It was all about them. It was like, like Bobby, like your job as a commentator is to get things over. A talent, never. Yeah, but he would bury talent to get himself over and I don't know. I get he was a manager. He's a bad guy, but still. It's a Stax Lorenzo. Rookie, Wave and Tamina. Blue, 199. Kofi. Rookie's in this set. But like same with Piper. I couldn't stand Piper's promos after he turned baby face. This is to 49. Red, or I'm sorry, red. That's blue. Auto Malik Blade. Dakota Kai, Silver. Bianca. Polly, yeah, Polly is so good. Brooks Jensen, Red Wave and Finn Balor, Silver. Seth Freakin' Rollins. All right. That's it for box three, April. We have Matt M with box four. But with Piper, like, he would always say things that like he, it was like he thought they were hip, but it was like, he was just like so, he was trying to be like culturally relevant. So he was trying to make like references, but they were outdated. Like he was talking about Phyllis Diller in his promos. That was like some old comedian or something, you know? And it's like nobody had a clue what he was talking about. And he was really bad about like, getting himself over at the expense of others. Nice, that is auto. Bray Wyatt. There you go, Matt. Nice start. The Rock, Silver. Natalia, Serena gets mad at my wrestling opinions. Dakota Kai, Hyper. Boa, Silver, Undertaker. She gets mad because I think work rate should be how much you get paid for a booking. Not what Dave Meltzer says. There's Edge, 75. MVP, that though. MVP. Red, yes, absolutely. I think Dave Meltzer is, he has no patience or tolerance whatsoever for elements of storytelling that don't involve direct action. But when you're writing a television program or booking a long-term angle, you have to do that. Like sometimes you have to have things that are just to build characters or just to like move a story ahead that don't involve like power bombs. It's a Stone Cold, Red Wave. And Humberto, Blue. Like anything that's about developing or advancing storylines, he just dumps on. He has some really good takes on a lot of stuff though. That is Mr. Stone, Silver Auto. Katana Chance, Silver. Asuka, Ridge Holland. Hyper, Robert Rude, Silver. Kane, who do you think's the most overrated wrestler ever? Damon Kemp. Ever. Blue Wave and John Cena, Red, 299 ever. McIntyre. Now I'm pretty sick of Austin's way. I don't understand why they're pushing him. He's not special like at all. It's Mankind, Red Wave. And Ludwig Kaiser. That is Orange in 99. Sandman. It's Zoey Stark, Hyper. Dante Chen, Silver. I need to go back and watch some Pillman Liger matches. There's Kurt Hennig, Red Wave. Sanga, Silver. Because I always remember them as being really, really good. Like Ryan Pillman, Jason Liger. And then I watched like they were the first ever match on Monday Nitro. Really? And it was terrible. It's like super, super sloppy. So I don't know if I just remember. Like I want to go back and watch other stuff to see if they're actually good together. I don't think so. I feel like their styles are too different. Cameron Grimes, Hyper. And Elfie Valkyrie, Purple to 149. All right, last pack to box four from that M. It is Ricochet, Red Wave. And Sonja Deville, Red, 299. There's Roman Reigns, Top Tier Silver at Kat Moss. All right, box number five is Ben Kay. Best hit out of the first case was a Ronda Rousey, Liv Morgan Duel auto. Best one out of this one so far has been a Cedric Alexander, one of one auto. The Chante Adonis. And blue, Ricky the Dragon steamboat to 199. I thought you were gonna say steamboat just to troll me. Shotzi. Down to eight now on case number two. Random box style. There's Ricky the Dragon steamboat, Red Wave, and Red Dewdrop. It's the 99, although steamboat wasn't here that the promo was either. I like to be a former world champion. Wasn't a great talker, impressive. Yeah, Hulk Hogan, Hyper, and Macho Man, Silver. There you go, nice one. This is box five, Ben Kay. Ava Rain, that is Red Wave, rookie, nice one. There you go, Ben. Carmelo Hayes, Silver. Edrasinofi, Hyper, oops, that goes this way. Grayson Waller, blue to 199. RVD, Braun Strowman, Red Wave. Andre Chase, purple to 149, and Bianca Belair, Silver Prismatic Entrances. Ooh, nice. That is Superstar Auto Gold to 10, Bailey. There you go, Ben Kay. Congrats on the gold, Bailey. There's Natalia, Silver, Ultimate Warrior. Who do you think's the best? Lady wrestler, N-D-R-E. N-D-R-E, Oscar, right now. I don't think it's close. I think she's by far the best. There's Seth Rollins, Hyper, R-Truth, Silver. I think people sleep on Bailey, and Bailey. Yeah. I think she's so much better as a heel. Yeah, I don't know. I feel like she can make it. This is JD McDonough. She can come back from that really big baby face. Gold to 10, yeah. And is this another gold? That is Edge. No, Orange to 99. There's Stone Cold. There's Tozawa, Blue Wave. Rip Fowler, Red. This is Sanga, is it Sanga? Sanga, Sensational Signatures Auto. Santos Escobar, Silver, Steamboat. Last pack of box five, again, this is Ben K. They should do a dual auto of Goldberg and Gilbert. Yeah. Cedric Alexander, Red Wave. Amari Miller, Silver, Gunther. Box number six is Edwin S. We have eight to go on the next break. Let's fill that up. That is, no, yes, but not as the Shockmaster. So his name, Fred Ottman, is in this, but he's not the Shockmaster, he's Typhoon. All right, here we go, Edwin. Patrick, you are box number 11. There's an auto coming already. This is to 49, Blue Legendary Signatures, Goldberg. There you go, great start to your box, Edwin. Oh, do you wanna get with her real fast and see how she's marking them? It's Fallon Henley, Silver, Carmella, Nicky Cross, Blue Wave, Ray Mysterio, Silver. They have Shockmaster in the undercard. I don't think I saw that on the checklist. I might've missed it. Ridge Holland, Orange to 99 and Ridge Holland, Blue to 199, Lacey Evans, Yokozuna, Red Wave and Damien Priest, Purple to 49, Mick Foley. Undercard is like a prism fast break or prism fast break in basketball, quick pitch in baseball and no huddle in football. Comes another auto already, Cora Jade, and oh, this is cool to 49. That is, Blue Sensational Signatures Auto, Leilani Kai, one of the top WWF lady wrestlers in the 80s. Josh Briggs, Silver, Charlotte. Nope, no color blast yet. You're happy to see one in this case. Tiffany Stratton, Hyper, Ridge Holland, Silver, Saray, Red Wave, and Omos, Red to 299, Julius Creed, Hyper, and Maxine Dupree, Rookie, Blue to 199, Eddie, this is Josh Briggs, Red Wave, Bobby Lashley, Silver, that's a sweet looking card. I really like that. Axe to go, in box six. Jerry Lawler, Hyper, Julius Creed. So Eddie, an Ash, Red Wave, an MVP, Red, Dolph Ziggler, he's Hyper, and X-Pock, Red. Go, nice X-Pock. That was box number six. Corey S is up next with box number seven and again, these go seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12. Here's seven. We have two more cases of this scheduled. Eight to go on case number two, 12 on case number three. Hopefully we get both these filled up but at least number two. Here we go, box seven. And again, this is Corey S. And then once again, we have Matt M, box eight, Joel B, box nine, Joshua B, box 10, Patrick T, box 11, and Chris S, box 12. Right now, this is box seven, Corey S. Tony D'Angelo, Hyper, Jagger Reed, Red, Goldberg, Chante Adonis, Red Wave, and Top Dalla, Rookie, Orange to 99, Taya, Roman Reigns, Hyper, John Cena, Silver, Taker, Cameron Grimes, Red Wave, and Tony D'Angelo, Silver, Keita Lyons, Hyper and Santos Escobar, Purple, Bianca Belair, Blue Wave, and Indy Hartwell. It's a Red, so Red to 99, Dominic Mysterio. Here you go, Corey. He has a lot of fun to watch now that he's a turn healer. Scarlett, Silver, Ford Angle, Roman Reigns, Red Wave, and Shayna Baszler. Styles, this is box number seven, Corey S. AJ Styles, that is Orange, 99, Mace, Red, Nathan Fraser, Blue, Otto coming here, this is to 99, Red, Superstar, Otto, Montez Ford, you're going, Corey, Elton Prince, Silver, Hogan, Pack, box seven, Indy Hartwell, Red Wave, and Asuka, Silver, Xavier, box eight is Matt M. Still eight to go on that next case, let's fill that up. Case number two, Random Box Style, Red Wave, Joe Gacy, Red, Dexter Loomis, Prism, I'm sorry, Hyper, and Carmella, Orange, 99, Hogan, Katana Chance, Red Wave, and Andra Sanofi, Dante Chen, Hyper, and Jey Uso, Silver, come on, let's see a big hit. Like a huge hit, there's Bailey, Red Wave, and Johnny Wrestling, Red, Shinsuke Nakamura, Hyper, and Sarray, Blue, there's Ronda Rousey, top tier, Silver, this is to 99, Superstar, Otto, Red, Zalina Vega, you go Matt M, Katana Chance, Silver, Finn Balor, Blue Wave, Cameron Grimes, Silver, Booker, that is Mansour, that was Teal, 75, Sanga, Red, Lexa Bliss, top tier, Dante Chen, Red Wave, and Purple, 149, Shayna Baszler, JBL, nice, this is Sensational Signatures, Otto Gold, 10 of 10, Shinsuke Nakamura, there you go, Matt M, excellent box, congrats Matt, make that one please, Dante Chen, Kora J, Hyper, and Satamura, Silver, good box there, Joel B has box number nine, we have eight to go on the next break, let's get that filled, Chad Gable, Red Mojo, or not Red Mojo, Red Wave, Purple, Becky Lynch to 149, there you go, nice one Joel, there's Legends of the Hall, Kane, Lo Hayes, sorry, Red to 299, please be sure to hit the like button on the live feed, we very much appreciate that, Andrew Sanofe, Red Wave, and Roman Reigns, Silver, this one's number nine, Joe Gacy, those are Hyper and Raquel Rodriguez, Silver, Wade Barrett, Finn Balor, Red Wave, Channing Stax Lorenzo, Rookie Red, I'm sorry, jeez, Blue, I don't know why I'm doing that, it's Roddy Piper, Rip Fowler, Hyper, and Dexter Loomis, that is Purple, 49, this is to 99, Red Superstar Otto, Carmella, there you go, Joel, Joe Gacy, Silver, Goldberg, Carl Anderson, Blue Wave, Korean Cross, Silver, Taya, they have a Mojo coming, that is Apollo Crews to 25, Joel, nice Apollo, Red Dolph Ziggler, Undertaker, Andrew Sanofe, Red Wave, Ricochet, it's Blue, Dolph Ziggler, and to 25, that is Sensational Signatures, Mojo Otto, R-Truth, nice hit, Joel, Chante Adonis, Stone Cold, Holy Blade, Hyper and MVP, Silver, that is it, for box number nine, Joshua B is up next with box number 10. Again, we have two more of these scheduled, case two is up next, we are at eight spots to go on that. Let's get that filled up, all right, come on, Joshua, Celia, Red Wave, it's in Fraser, top tier Bianca, Otto, Kevin, to 99, that is Red Otto, Jey Uso, Joshua, Giovanni Vinci, Korean Cross, Red Wave, Drew McIntyre, Silver Drew, Diviassi, Tony D'Angelo, Hyper, Axiom, Purple, 149, Diviassi, Carmella, Hyper, Jaggeried, Red and Blue, Trick Williams, Becky Lynch, Eddie Guerrero, Red Wave, Blue, Zelina Vega, Triple H, it's Ducudson, Hyper and X-Pock, Orange, 99, this is Prismatic Entrances, Gold, Charlotte Flair, that is one of 10, nice one, Joshua, yep, he's in this map, I have several Steamboat autos, it's Kit Wilson, Red Wave, Ultimate Warrior, Red, Zelina, PD and Hyper, JC Jane, Topdala, Rookie Silver, yeah, Riddles in this, I don't remember if he's on the auto checklist or not, Josh Briggs, Red Wave and Tatum Paxley, Rookie Silver, two packs to go for Joshua, I think we should still have an auto coming, right? It's an Italia, Blue Wave and Liv Morgan, Red, Braun Strowman, he's on the auto checklist, right last auto coming here, that is to 99, Sensational Signatures, auto Red, Madcap Moss, Roddy Piper, Silver, all right, that's it for box number 10, Patrick T is up next with box number 11. We have a little ways to go on our next break, eight spots left, let's get this filled up, case number two, Shayna Baszler, Orange, 99, Johnny G, or Johnny G, Johnny you're wrestling, Red, there's Steamboat there, they also have an insert and a couple, or he has autos in this too, Cruz del Toro, Hyper, Chad Gable, Purple, there's Auto, Electro Lopez, go Patrick, Sensational Signature, Silver, Auto, Katana Chance, Silver, Keen Wild, there's Red Wave and Nikita Lyons, Silver, Superstar, Auto, Natalia, I was trying to get that player off of it, the Rock, Silver, Top Tier, AJ, Stacks, Red Wave, Saray, it's RVD, Hyper and Tiffany Stratton, Red, Natalia, let me take a look here, we're at eight and 12 to go on these other two Prism case breaks, let's get number two filled up, we get number two filled up, I don't, number three doesn't have any spots in it, so if I need to I can pull that one, Mr. Perfect, Red Wave, Natalia, Blue, Otis, Hyper and Dante Chen, few packs to go here for you, Patrick, X-Pac, Red Wave and Channing Stacks, Lorenzo, Rookie, Silver, Stone Cold, Ivy Nile, Hyper and John Cena, Purple, so 149, nice one, Patrick, 33 of 149, Julius Creed, Red Wave, Nathan Fraser, Red Undertaker, Legends of the Hall, Silver, that'll do it for box number 11, good stuff, Patrick. Box number 12, this is Chris S, there's a link to case number two, Raquel Rodriguez, that is Hyper, Charlotte Flair, Red, Dusty, Sensational Signatures Auto and Nathan Fraser, Ava Rain, Rookie Silver, Jey Uso, Blue Wave and Mr. Perfect, Silver, Cody Rhodes, all right, come on, let's finish drawing here, Carl Anderson, Red Wave, Shinsuke Nakamura, Blue, Stone Cold with Michael Hayes, Kaiser, Hyper and Tamina, Red, Booker, Charlotte, Red Wave, Cedric Alexander, Silver, Alexa Bliss, Brayson Waller, Blue Wave, Brock Lesnar, Silver, JBL, Red Wave and Andre Chase, Blue, The Miz, Dolph Ziggler, that is Hyper and Cody Rhodes, Purple, Herdangle, Chad Gable, Jerry Lawler, Silver, Dolph Ziggler, Top Tier, Bailey, Red Wave and Shinsuke Nakamura, Silver, all right, last pack, let's look at this, X-Pac and nice, Mojo to 25, Ricky the Dragon Steamboat, awesome card, congrats Chris, there's Andre Chase, Orange, 99 on the back and that will do it for your box, thank you Chris, thank you everybody for filling up Case Number One, appreciate it, congrats on all those hits, lots of good stuff in that case, we have Case Number Two coming up next.


I'm James Regere and December's What's Neat starts right now. The What's Neat show is sponsored by Caboose, sharing our passion for trains since 1938. This is What's Neat for December 2020. I'm your host Ken Patterson and this month we really do have a good show. First of all I'm going to show you a product called Ballast Bond and Ballast Magic. Ballast Bonder is a product from the UK that allows you to glue down the ballast on your railroad track either in liquid form or in dry powder. It also works good for making trees and doing freight car loads which I will demonstrate in this month's video. Also in this video I show you how to install a TCS train speed 1 speedometer for your layout. And in this case I decided to install mine on the fascia of one of my modules in the room and it reads accurate speed either in miles per hour or kilometers for your layout. I'd like to thank the viewers of What's Neat for supporting and watching our show. We're coming now into our ninth year of doing this show with over 98 different What's Neat videos made since November 2012. We've covered all subject matter, we've shown how-tos, we've done interviews, the St. Louis RPM meet and so many other great shows and subjects that we've talked about. Be sure to check those out at the Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine's YouTube website. There's a lot of information that you can go back on through the years and review. Also I'd like to thank the viewers that watched the What's Neat this week podcast. That's the weekly video show that we create every single Saturday night to keep you updated on what's new, the latest news, latest products and what's going in on in this hobby of ours, the best hobby in the world, model railroading. So with that, let's continue on with the rest of this December 2020 What's Neat. For this segment of What's Neat, I'm going to install a speedometer onto my layout so I can accurately read miles per hour of the trains as they move along. Now I'm going to install this sensor on my river diorama here that has got an area of the layout where it's going to be easy to be seen from all over the area where we usually sit and congregate. I do most of my work so I can simply look up and be able to read the digital readout. I've got a TCS or train control system, train speed one system here and it's a system that is simply a module with a LED readout on it right here and it mounts behind the fascia of the layout. So what I'm going to do is mount that right here on the layout behind this plywood. My layout of course is foam and all my modules are designed so that I can lift them up and take them over into the shop in the event that I want to do work on them, which is what we're going to do here. Now the system runs on between 6 and 18 volts. So what I did was I went through my box of old transformers. We all have those from various electronic projects and things that we get through the years and I found a transformer here that puts out 9 volts. I also went through my old electronic box and found this old USB hub and I took that apart, pulled out the circuit board and what I found on that was a connector that just happens to plug in with the connector on the transformer. So my plan is to mount this connector underneath the layout so that I can plug in the electrical jack directly from underneath my layout anytime that I want. I also plan to put a switch, a rocker switch on the side of the layout so I can turn the power on and off to the system so that it doesn't run all the time. Now the digital readout here is just got the right thickness on it here where it'll mount flush behind this piece of plywood. So all I've got to do is cut out a hole in this, cut the foam and then mount this up underneath and I'm probably going to attach it to the side on the inside with Velcro. So accessibility and removal will be easy in the event that I need to do maintenance on this. So I'm going to screw the power supply into the terminals here that are on the circuit board, mount it in place, plug in the jack. Now the other question you've got to ask yourself is how does this system read speed? It does that through these two, what appear to be almost LEDs, these little sensors and the distance of the sensors is the most important thing with installing this system because if these are off by as much as a quarter of an inch you're going to get an inaccurate read. Now what do I mean by that? The system is set factory to read these little, the distance of these need to be set at one hundredth of an HO scale mile and what does that mean? Well there is a chart in the instructions that explain that one hundredth of a mile in HO scale is seven point two, eight, three inches apart. Now what does that mean? Well it sounds like it's about seven and a quarter inches but again if I do it at exact seven and a quarter that's not seven point two eight three because seven and a quarter would be seven point two five. So what I did was I pulled out my handy calipers here that read in a thousandths of an inch and I was able to set them to the exact dimension of seven point two eight three and by setting the pointers on the track I will be able to see where between the ties exactly I need to put each sensor in relation to the ties which is actually perfect it fits between the ties in this area just right. Once I've got the sensors in place I'll run the wire from the sensors where there's a jack right here that'll simply plug into the circuit board on the system. So this should be a pretty straightforward installation I don't think it'll take very long at all but I'm going to walk you through the process as I do it and let's see how this project turns out. The first step in the process was to remove the river module from the layout. All of my modules are built on flat table tops and come out for easy maintenance and access. I simply rolled this into the shop where the speedometer's installation would take place. I used a spiral cutter in my Dremel with a router base attachment to cut a square hole into the quarter inch plywood fascia. This hole would be one and a quarter by one half inches to accept the digital display. I used a tippy foam cutting tool which is essentially a hot foam cutter to create a space behind the quarter inch plywood to accept the TCS train speed one circuit board into the module. I then used a file to do final carving around the quarter inch plywood fascia until the one and a quarter by half inch hole would accept the train speed one's three digit digital readout. This fit flush into the quarter inch plywood making for a very professional looking finish. To further enhance the installation's appearance I masked an area around our square hole with blue painter's tape and white paper to protect the plywood and proceeded to paint this area with shake the can black spray paint. I let this dry for a few hours before removing the tape. Once the paint was dry I drilled a three-quarter inch hole into the plywood fascia that would accept a radio shack rocker switch giving us the option of turning the speedometer on and off. Using woodland scenic's dry transfer letters I burnished the letters m p h onto the side of the module just under where the digital readout would be placed indicating that the reading on the side of the module would in fact be in miles per hour. I then finished the side of the module fascia with a fresh brand new coat of high gloss polyurethane to the entire eight foot long module and then I let this dry overnight. With a visual finish of the speedometer on the side of the module complete it was now time to focus on the wiring on the underside of the foam module. I cut a piece of plexiglass on the bandsaw in a circle with enough flat space to glue under the diorama. This disc will act as the mount to hold the female plug that will allow me to easily plug the wall transformer's wire and male plug into the bottom of the scene. I picked the location under the module to draw a circle on the foam where the plexiglass disc and the female jack would be installed up under the scene and tucked up into the foam. Using the hot foam wire cutter I cut a space into the foam underneath to accept this disc with the idea of keeping the jack flush up underneath so that it wouldn't protrude to the bottom of the module when it slid back into position. I also cut a channel in the foam leading from the female jack to the space where the speedometer would be located. This is the area where the power wires will run from the jack to the circuit board's J2 power screw terminals. Now I'm turning my attention to the top of the diorama where I need to put in these LEDs the sensors that sense the distance and gives us our calculations. This comes on a big flat wire like this and all the wire is not necessary. Only four of the wires in this harness are necessary for the two sensors. So I've stripped away a lot of the extra wire so that I've got these small two wires connected to each sensor which I will then run through this I think this is a three sixteenths brass tube and they fit in there perfectly. So I would run this brass tube through the foam of the layout and then run the sensors up through it right flush with the top of the railroad ties. Now I notice these sensors they're soldered and the soldered joints are open to the air so I wrapped I'm wrapping them in black tape so that as it goes through the brass tube I don't get a short on the sensor that's kind of important. Now looking at the layout here I've got the module on its flat side and I've got my caliper set for the exact distance of one one-hundredth of a mile which as we said before was seven point two eight three seven point two eight three and I've got it set for that right now what I'm going to do is take the points of the caliper here and put them on top of the trackwork find out where these two points are take a black sharpie and make dots on the ballast line inside between the ties where this is going to fit right here and then I'm going to sink the brass tube down through that point onto the underneath side of the diorama and cut it off so that we'll be able to run a channel in the foam underneath with these wires. I'm running my second tube through using a screwdriver to help me push it in place all the way through the foam until I can feel it pop out the underneath side and I want this tube to be flush with the top of the rails actually with the ties just like that now I could glue these tubes in but they're so tight I don't think they'll ever move a little white glue would be something to think about around the edges the second tube didn't protrude all the way through but I can see exactly where it is here I double check with the calipers to make sure my distance is right so I think as we take the hot foam cutter and cut into this we will locate our brass tube in there I can feel it yep there it is right there and it's already deep into the foam which is exactly what I want I don't want the tube protruding out the bottom of the foam I want the foam the tube to be up inside the foam so when this diorama lays flat on my tabletop surface all these wires are going to be tucked up in a channel looks like I've done here this is the main power wire for the track in fact and it's mounted up underneath there flush so when the table sits everything's flat then I use this foam pro orange foam to keep it in place and it's exactly what we're going to do on this project with all of the wires we're going to mount all the wires inside these channels that I'm creating with the hot foam cutter and then cover them up with a foam pro burying the wires into the foam so what I need to do is cut all the way across now from each brass tube create a channel just like this this foam cutter cuts very quickly take that piece out and then I'll be able to put the leds now these will have to be glued into place with white glue I still need to wrap this one with black electrical tape but we're going to put these leds right inside the brass tube and feed it through absolutely flush with the ties and as you can see I'll bury this in this channel here and feed this one through the same way after I wrap it in electrical tape which I haven't done yet just for illustration purposes I'll go ahead and thread it through now and then we're going to have all of this wire where the connector is going to run up to where the electronics are going to be right here so all of this wire is going to have to be folded up real neat and I'll create a area here a big hole where we can tuck all this wire up underneath the module as well very clean so I've got both of the leds pushed through the brass tube here you can see the wires and I've got them both wrapped in black electrical tape I'm going to take this tacky glue and I'm just going to put a little glue around the edges here and shove these flush with the ties and just let them set for about 30 minutes just a little glue it'll go into the brass tube and hold everything nice and tight it will dry clear so it won't affect the led and I'm going to push this led completely flush with the tops of the ties just like that I'm going to do the same thing on this side doesn't take much glue at all it won't take much just a little bit so that it touches the inside of the brass tube and we're going to shove this one in place too the both spaced are spacing our exact spacing of seven inches point eight three seven point two eight three spacing so that'll give us an exact readout when a train goes across the top of this and interferes with the light creating the circuit which the detector will detect so that's all I've got to do on this side I'm going to let that set up and then we'll start burying all the wires on the other side of the diorama underneath and get everything wired up now that the sensors were behind the track it was time to go underneath the diorama and start gluing all the wiring and everything in place starting with the plexiglass disc that would hold our connector to supply power to the diorama I used foam pro that orange foam to glue the disc into place underneath the layout and then I used tape in fact some black gorilla tape to hold it into place because this foam would expand and I didn't want the plexiglass disc to be pushing out from underneath the module that would hold it into place until everything cured in about 30 minutes so now that the wires with the brass tubes this is all dry now I've got our ribbon cable here in place and I cut out a groove so that it comes off of each brass tube I cut out a groove here going right up the middle of the diorama across diorama and I'll shove this flat ribbon cable in there I also created a cavity for all this additional extra ribbon cable since it's so long I can just tuck that inside the module here just like that which leaves our jack which simply plugs into the speedometer right on the back right here just like that okay then what I'm going to do I'm probably going to use some silicone glue and silicone this up to the fascia of the layout I've got my rocker switch in place I've soldered the wires to that you can see it works here just like that and I've got the rocker switch wires connected to our jack what I did was I took the great stuff foam pro glue and that plastic plastic plexiglass disc that we made that the jack is mounted to I cut out a cavity here inserted that in there put gorilla tape over the top of it and let that sit for about 20 minutes until the great foam set up and it is now set up so what I'm going to do all I've got to do is simply like I said take the speedometer puts put a little glue on this here maybe silicone I'm going to push it up into place through our hole in the plywood so it'll be fascia mounted and then I've got all these wires to tuck into our grooves which the grooves are already cut all I got to do is plug everything together on the jack this is going very quickly right now and then what I'm going to do is make sure all these wires are in tight okay and then I'm going to fill all of these channels that we made with the great stuff foam let it fill let it cure let it bubble out and then I'll shave it off smooth so that the bottom of the diorama will be completely smooth when I put it back into place on the table surface where it belongs on the layout so this is going to take just a few minutes to do and this is going to be complete now it was time to connect the sensor ribbon cable to the train speed ones circuit board matching the red cable on the harness to the number one pin on the 10 pin jack this is very important and it's covered in the instruction pamphlet that comes with the train speed one here's a trick I've got for holding the wires into the foam until I fill it up with the great stuff I like to take these one inch staples that are usually used with a staple gun and I pull them apart individually and I press them into the foam I let the staple go on either side of the wire careful not to damage the wire or puncture the wire and I just shove these staples into place into the foam and they hold it temporarily until I get the great stuff into the groove and that's what I'm doing right now I don't think I have to do that to the ribbon wire okay I'm ready to mount the speedometer into our fascia and I'm going to use just a little silicone glue on this right out of the caulking tube I'm going to put it right on the circuit board I'm going to press it into position and watch as this thing fits right into our hole that we've got carved right here should fit in there flush mount nicely it does everything's plugged in everything's already pre-wired there's nothing else I need to get to now all the ribbon wires all the black wires everything is tucked into our grooves in the foam as you can see right here the bundle of wires like I said is right here our electronics are all in the place the rocker switch is wired we have flush mounted with silicone everything's in the place so what I'm going to do now is I'm going to take this great stuff foam this pro stuff and I'm going to fill this groove and let it go ahead and bubble on out it's going to expand and then after it expands we're going to shave it flush this is no magic to this cover everything thoroughly encasing everything and to get to these electronics everything's and that's it we're going to let this cure razor saw and shave it off smooth after it expands the further in the next 30 minutes and then we'll be able to put this module back into the layout plug it in and see if it works so with all the foam cured and all the wires tucked into the module all I got to do is take this saw and just flush cut the bottom of the diorama and then we're ready to go and put it back into the layout where it belongs to get a train running let's see how it works just like that we slide the diorama right back into place where it belongs the tracks match up right here back in place and I simply plug in the power underneath the layout I've got jacks right here I plug up underneath and power each module individually to make sure good power ready to test the system now and see how it works after I put in the rails right here and just line up the tracks and so just like that we've completed the installation of the tcs train speed one speedometer I've got it of course mounted right here and I'm going to turn it on and as a train runs across the sensors you're going to see that it's going to read out the speed that the train is going and there you can see it's going 25 miles an hour it's worked out really well I really like the way it works guys I'll enjoy seeing it operate as they run their trains now so be sure to check it out you can find this at tcs's website tcsdcc.com they offer the single unit the train speed one that you just seen me install they also have a train speed four which has four sets of sensors to read off of the same digital readout meant to be put in your control panel or mounted onto the side of your layout and so with that that's the segment for what's neat and Patterson the host of the what's neat show at model railroad hobbyist magazine and today I've got an exciting new product to talk about from the uk this is called ballast magic and it comes in a kit and I also have another product here called ballast bond and this is from deluxe materials if you check out their youtube site it's got a lot of great videos that show how to use their products and they have a lot of other model railroad products that are really great for the modeling industry in general doll houses building scenery they've got a really a lot of cool products so check them out and you can find their website at deluxe materials dot com so let's start with the ballast magic kit and what it comes with is inside the box there is a stirring stick there is a container to mix your ballast in with the glue and the glue is a powder it comes in this container it's a very fine powder it doesn't yellow and it allows your ballast when it dries to adhere to your track very well there's also a misting bottle in the kit and I've already prefilled this with water so that we can wet our ballast after we mix it I've got two different kinds of ballast here first of all I've got woodland scenics ballast and I also have rock ballast from high ball production so this is really good ballast that we like to use when we're doing dioramas because it looks very realistic in outdoor sunlight and I like the way it looks the first thing you do and the instructions specify that you should mix it seven parts ballast and then only 30% with the powdered glue and I'm going to dump the powder glue inside the container here and I'm also going to dump it in with the woodland scenics and I'm going to mix it up with the stirring stick that is supplied with the kit and as you can see the ballast gets a color to it that shows then what you do is you simply apply the ballast I have a piece of track here already glued down and I'm going to simply apply the ballast like I always do and this is the rock ballast I'm using first put down the woodland scenics ballast next in the middle here and then I'm going to take my brush a paint brush and spread the ballast the way we always show in videos nice and smooth I can see the powder mixed in with the ballast very even I'm using two different kind of brushes I've got a fan brush or a regular artist brush and then what you do is you simply spray on the water with the misting bottle which I've got right here and that causes the glue the powder glue and the ballast to stick together and they suggest that you let it dry for two hours the other thing I've got is a product called ballast bond and this is a liquid product it's thinner than white glue it is non-yellowing and it comes with an applicator to apply the liquid to the area that we're going to ballast and I might just pour it right out of the bottle because I feel very comfortable doing that and I'm going to use rock ballast for this so I'm going to apply the rock ballast here to the scene right next to the other area that we're waiting to dry spread it smooth and then I'm going to apply the liquid which has already got a wetting agent mixed in with it so it'll soak in between the ties and around all the ballast and what we'll do is we'll put this aside and let this dry and see how it comes out in two hours another thing that you can do with this product which I find very interesting I've got a Bachman coal car here which has got a plastic load in it already and what I want to do is I'm going to sprinkle coal on top of this and glue it down using the powder glue and I don't need that much coal so let me dump out some of this I'm going to mix the powder in with the coal and stir it up evenly and I'm going to place it right on top of this car actually what I'm going to do is spray a little water on it so I get good stick just a little mist with the misting bottle and then I'm going to put the coal into the car this will make the car look very realistic you can see the white powder glue easily with the coal it really sticks out it's easy to see and then I'm going to spray it with the misting bottle to mix the glue in tight with the coal on top of the load that's already in there and that's all there is to it this car is already pre-weathered so I don't have to worry about ruining the outside finish on the car and we'll let this dry another thing that this product does which I find absolutely fascinating is it helps you apply the ground foam to trees so here I've got an armature of a super tree from scenic express and I'm going to mist this just a little bit with the spray bottle just to make it wet and then I'm going to sprinkle the powder glue directly on top of the tree just a little bit not a lot it looks like it's snowing and then what I'll do is I'll take woodland scenics fine ground foam and sprinkle that on top of this tree I'm going to wet it first so the glue will be activated and sprinkle on the ground foam pretty simple it looks good and then what we'll do is we'll set this aside to dry I'm misting on just a little bit more water so that the glue mixes in with the ground foam and it says to give it two hours to dry so I'll stick it right here in the diorama and we'll come back and see how this looks so here we are it's been three and a half hours since I put down the ballast bond and the ballast magic powder and I've got to tell you it's pretty much dry the woodland scenics as you see here ballast is dry the real gravel right here is dry and the ballast bond the liquid that I put down it's just about dry and it's my opinion till probably let it dry overnight but as you can see all of it is holding and none of the ballast is coming free from the main line also the coal car I'm very impressed with this the coal load looks really nice and again none of the coal it seems to be falling out of it and it didn't affect the sides of the car whatever so it's a very clean finish on this model the tree looks absolutely perfect as you can see the woodland scenics ground foam is holding quite well on this and it appears that this is a perfect tree and that the powder glue worked very well so with that it's a new product from the UK check it out check out their website by looking at deluxematerials.com and also check out their youtube site where they show these products demonstrations and a lot of other products that are helpful for us model builders so with that happy modeling all of the model railroad products seen in this episode of what's neat are available through caboose in lakewood colorado or order online at mycaboose.com


Sometimes it just goes on forever, that's what she said. I don't know if we got that. We did either. Ah. Ah. I took my heads out of it. You should be in order to see it, it's a Corbin. I'm Alex. I'm Rick. Whoa. Oh! Woo! Woo!  Dove, dove, dove.  We've had coffee. Today we're erecting a trailer. A what? A trailer. Wow. Yes. For a film called Fire. What? From bending the six. We've seen the trailers. This trailer is fire for Earth. Oh, it's part of that. Water. Yes. So this is the first one. Got it. So Deepa Metta, I think it's her name, but this is the first one in the trilogy. It's not like a... Is it a trilogy or an anthology? Is it three or four? It's three. It's three. It's three, but they're not really connected. Why do we do four elements? She might be worth, I don't know, but I know there's three. Okay. So this is the first one that came out in 1996 by Deepa Metta. And I think it's actually mostly in English. Well, that doesn't surprise me coming from... I think it was banned. Unless I'm hearing it incorrectly, I think it was banned at least for some time. And I think it was India. But she's also done the other two, which is Earth with Amir Khan, which is about the partition, and then water with... Well, and she's done other films where we're just straight up English spoken films. Yeah. Besides these. Yeah. Let me see if I can find a... But she's done, obviously, based on the elements. And we've reacted to two of the other ones, and this is the third one we've known about, but hadn't... So you go ahead and you can read the synopsis. Two women who are abandoned by their husbands find love and solace in each other. That's why it was banned. Because two women were abandoned by their husbands and they found solace in each other. Led's Patronix, Rick. Got it. Led's Patronix. That's the technical name. It's true. Yeah. That's for... Anyways, but the other two, Earth and Water, both look fantastic. I'm very interested in this whole series. 1996. So the trailer might be terrible. Who knows? Who might get an aeration? In a time that land forgot. Come on. Come on. Come on. You must give a chance to Sita. Your duty as husband demands that she do. I need you. Stop forever. Like a group. In a sleep? No. He's going to meet his girlfriend. I don't like you to have such a good family. We know him. So I think there's going to be a reason to have a sexual relationship is to have a sense that we'll carry on family name. Did we do anything wrong? What I saw in the bedroom is a scent in the eyes of God and man. There's no word in our language that can describe what we are. How we feel for each other. Is that Sita's fault? All these new ideas in your head?  Oh yeah. Yeah the series. So this one's obviously about two women whose husbands are awful and obviously cheating on them and treating them terribly. Cheating like baby factories. Yeah and so they find love in each other and so they think that's a sin. The husbands think that's a sin. Right and so yeah very one 1996 in India that's impressive because I don't know how many films like this were we making in Hollywood at this time. That very few.  So the first there's been stories that have been like hidden stories. Yeah but mainstream. But again like when we first started the channel it was pink when we first watched it and we saw the year it was made and we started to become shocked at stories that were coming out of India that we never expected them to be not only as good as they were and as relevant as they were but they were pre-Hollywood in terms of the relevance in talking about things in society. So yeah this would be very much in keeping with being ahead of the curve and I can understand why at the time it would have been banned. Yeah and from what I can recollect I think Will and Grace started a lot of the mainstream in terms of one of the first big mainstream gay stories. That was accepted. That was accepted. Yeah because it was obviously smaller independent stuff probably. Because the first my recollection of the first gay character in a TV show was Billy Crystal in the TV series Soap and then the whole mold was broken but it took a while. The door that opened for Will and Grace was Ellen. Oh yeah she was obvious for this. Ellen Ellen and the reason was because Ellen's character broke and shattered everything because it was both life and art. Not only was the character coming out but Ellen came out herself on that episode and industry just canceled the show shut her down and then thankfully somebody said would you be the voice of Dory and the rest of history. Yeah but it was that show that really began to you know that that was the crack in the wall that gave Will and Grace. Will and Grace was the one that made it acceptable. So Deepa Mehta if I'm pronouncing your name correctly the director likes to tell these extremely powerful stories and this one Earth is about the partition and then water was about a widowed wife right that can't remarry right. Yeah a widowed wife that can't remarry because the society right says she that's her role now. That's her role now. That's what is expected of her from society. Air, Ramon, composure. That's Deepa Mehta. Yeah Deepa Mehta. Okay why do I know that name? Is it just because these? No no no. She directed is this her filmography right here? Yes. Go to her no that's the page for fire. Go to her filmography and it will show if I'm not mistaken we just reacted to the one she did. It was English language. Was it heaven on earth? Or was it? They had been heaven on earth. Anyway we've seen her her name because she's a respected director has been around very very long. Yeah so this whole trilogy looks very interesting to me. I am curious as to why this one's fully in English. Yeah that's interesting. Yeah the fact that I believe they were in India and people mistake every single time I say something like that that I know most people in India speak English but obviously that's not what they always speak when they're in India around other Indians. That's not the normal the one that they always are speaking so sometimes it throws me off. Well it looks like I mean it's giving us the stats for when it was released in the United States but that was and the distributor New Yorker Films is literally an East Coast company so my suspicion is that maybe she was telling an Indian story for an American audience and so she just took an Indian story with Indian actors and put it in English because she knew reading subtitles it wouldn't be seen. Especially in the 90s. Yeah especially in the 90s right. But let us know how this trilogy is and we would definitely start with fire because we made the mistake before even though we liked all Vishal Barlawash's trilogies of his Shakespeare's I think it would probably been we probably would have enjoyed it more if we started with the one that was first because we started with the latest one so obviously technology wise you had all of his best stuff you had all the money you didn't get to see the growth and I it's hard because of the three yeah that's the one I would recommend for everybody to see yeah but if it got the time I would do it just to watch to watch his because you do see his growth. Zach saw McBool he loved McBool. He liked Header even more but he did see Header first. He did see Header first. Header is Hater by the way. You say Header. Yeah I do say Header. Sorry. It is it is extraordinary. So let us know how this film is should we start on this trilogy because I'm quite interested. Yes. You killed me.