An order to Modelmaster produced suitable transfers for the 16t minerals I've built up over the last few months. The plaintive requests on their website asking for people not to bother ringing them to chase order were unnecessary as delivery was 4 days!

The ease of not having to put every b£$"d% number on individually is certainly a major advantage if you are like me and don't really mind if the number isn't exactly correct. I had no problems getting them to float to the position I needed and then stay there.

Also I thought I'd put up a picture of my Airfix brake-van based on a Dave Bradwell chassis. This was great fun to build and I'm really pleased with how it looks and runs.

Back on the subject of the GUV I'm really confused by humbrol's acrylic paint range. I get on well with these for spraying so was looking for the right colour for BR Maroon coaches. I'm presuming that RC423 Carmine is the 'blood' in 'blood and custard'. Is it RC403 described as Crimson Lake I need?

David