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So I bought one off eBay and then contacted the UK's premier model weathering specialists The Model Centre (who happen to be based about 8 miles from me) and they weathered it for me for £50. As you can see from the video, they did a cracking job.
Now, if you do your homework on the Hornby turntable you will see it isn't entirely straightforward wiring it up on DCC. There's a handy guide on the Hornby website with wiring diagrams which is helpful, but then all the forums witter on about it not working. What I'd recommend is following the Hornby guide; taking the bottom off the turntable so you understand what's happening with regards polarity (when the train's pointing the opposite way to what it was) and fiddle about with your turntable. Don't worry about some expert on the web who'd probably wired everything up wrong. Mine works fine (most of the time).
WIRING
As I said in an earlier post, my whole layout worked just from being connected to the controller by two wires. However, this would be bad practice when it's all fully powered up. As I've already mentioned all of my points have got the electro-clips in them to help with current, but I've ran a bus under the whole layout with sprigs going off to every section- not to every rail as is recommended in many guides and magazines- and it seems to work fine.
In the rear of the picture below you can see that I've used 3M Scotchlock wire joiners to connect my dropper wires from the track to the bus. I've had no problems with this method at all. In the foreground you can see that I've joined the droppers from the inspection pit lights to the auxiliary bus by exposing the wire and soldering and insulating. This method comes recommended in guides and although it is a guaranteed connection it is fiddly.
