My plans for building the ultimate pony truck for the (and all the others that are to follow!), Baldwin has hit a snag - the wheels are insulated from the axle thus making split chassis pick up a bit difficult. I know it is possible to add a bridging wire to the axle but as the axle is only 2mm that could be interesting.So, does anyone know where to get non insulated 9mm wheels? Another though I had was to just drill out the wheel to accept the bearing and then mount them on a stub axle but I think there may be some side play issues with this approach.

On a completely different subject (but vaguely related!), not being content with recreating a battle field in 7mm scale I seem to have made a full sized one out of the front lawn. Having finally realised that it consisted more of moss than grass I got down to doing something about it. My cousin had kindly lent me a manual scarifier and I can now see why he was so keen to get rid of it - boy is it hard work! You certainly wouldn't need to go to the gym after using this - only problem is I did go this morning. I now have a lawn that looks like the Somme and probably only fit for a veg in front of TV and probably not any more modeling tonight!