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By mail to the address on the website? 

 

I had success in contacting him about 3 years ago when I tried to order some tarps. I also got a reply about 18 months later (!). I tried contacting him again last year whereupon my ISP blacklisted my IP address as I tried to send to his hotmail account. Not game to try again after that. a great shame as the tarps look very interesting.

 

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Craig W

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Years ago I bought some excellent 4mm scale MR wagon sheets at an exhibition. The maker, Thomas Petith of Cardiff, still has a website www.wagonsheets.co.uk/ but I've had no response to email - does anyone know if he's still trading? I confess I've not yet tried good-fashioned post.

I'm still alive and the wagon sheets are still available. Contact me at wagonsheets@hotmail.com or 02920844135.

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I'm still alive and the wagon sheets are still available. Contact me at wagonsheets@hotmail.com or 02920844135.

 

Tom, the email address quoted on your site is incorrect, it shows @hotmail.co.uk, not .com.

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Arrived in the post a few days ago:

 

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Thanks to Tom for the prompt service (and the bonus LSWR sheet - I now have a plan for that) and to RMwebbers for helping find the cause of the contact problem - to confirm, the address is: wagonsheets@hotmail.com.

 

I'll be getting to grips with the LNWR ones first but have plans for the rest. The SER ones are because I can't get this picture out of my head - lovely line-up of antique SER wagons, such a shame SERKits are 7 mm scale only. Note also the SER sheet 'borrowed' for factory purposes in this view - behind the horse-drawn wagon and the telegraph post - presumably demurrage charges were mounting up!

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Thanks very much Compound for illustrating the sheets. I wish you hadn't linked to that H&P photo though, those photos are so disruptive :-)

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Hmm, I think I know what Mikkel means - that inset tandem turnout in the final photo has set some track-building hankerings going that I thought I'd put to bed with a simple cobbled dockside diorama a year or so ago ...

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I think that the sheet would go over the load and the wagon sides, rather than be "tucked in" inside the wagon sides?    Some info here: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/gansg/9-loads/9-tarps.htm but a quick Google didn't find examples images of real wagons.

 

Perhaps your "modeller's licence" to allow the load to be removable?

 

 

Bought some of these recently in n gauge, good product and good service. A happy customer.

Here they are in N gauge

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I think that the sheet would go over the load and the wagon sides, rather than be "tucked in" inside the wagon sides?    Some info here: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/gansg/9-loads/9-tarps.htm but a quick Google didn't find examples images of real wagons.

 

Perhaps your "modeller's licence" to allow the load to be removable?

 

One does see both arrangements in photos, although over the sides is much more common. It depends on the load - if it needs protection from rain etc., then over the sides - and ideally not with a dip in the middle, though there are plenty of examples! Some loads were double-sheeted, once with the sheet tucked inside the wagon, then a second sheet over the outside.

 

This can be viewed two ways - either frustration at covering up one's handiwork, or, with more planning, an opportunity to be lazy...

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Thanks guys for the feedback, it was done this way as I did use a plasticard base to put the load on so the loads could be removed if needed.

 

I'm going to see some prototype pictures but if not now that I know how to best stick these tarpaulins down and that they wont harm the underlying wagon then it'd be easy enough to put another tarpaulin over but draped down the sides of the wagon.

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