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Hi guys, Thank you very much for the suggestions. I will have a look at what is involved/need with these and see what will work best for me. I have already kept it as simple as I can with just one track leading on/off the turntable. Including a turntable was a bit of an afterthought, I will admit, as I didn't think I would have room for it. However, after I had laid out the station and goods yard tracks, I realised that I had an area of "dead ground" that was large enough, hence the simplicity of the tracks serving the turntable.

I have installed a Dapol turntable on my under construction layout and have powered it with a battery powered drive unit which works fantastically without any wiring dramas! The turntable is situated on a spur off my goods DC method, as the cost of chipping all my motive power for DCC was/is prohibitive! However, while powering the turntable so that it turns was simple, where I am struggling is with getting the power to the track on the turntable itself to enable the locomotive to run on and off the turntable. Someone suggested running a feed to each rail from underneath the turntable, but then had a "Doh!" moment when I pointed out that the rotation of the turntable would wind the wires together and eventually stop it rotating! I have looked in all my model railway books, including my collection of the Peco "Shows You How" booklets that they gave away with Railway Modeller from time to time, and searched online to no avail. So can anyone supply me with or point me in the direction of a simple (it has to be simple as my wiring skills are limited) set of instructions and/or a diagram that solve my problem please?

Whether I am painting a model constructed from wood, plastic or plaster castings, I always paint the mortar lines first and then when this is dry, pick out the individual bricks or stones with the appropriate colour(s). Yes, this is more time consuming, but results in a more pleasing finish and a nice variety of shades, etc. You don't say what scale you are modelling in. I am modelling in 4mm, which I would suggest is probably the smallest scale you would like to try this in for the sake of your eyesight and your sanity!

Interesting that this offer includes a couple of kits that were offered as free gifts with previous issues, but which were denied to subscribers at the time. Do potential subscribers realise that they are likely to be short-changed in a similar way once the publishers have lured them in with this offer?

A question on fiddle yards, if I may? It is long established that on most baseboards, laying some form of underlay underneath your tracks reduces noise. In terms of fiddle yards, what do people prefer - laying a single layer of cork underlay across the whole surface area; or laying it under individual roads? I am currently building the fiddle yard for my layout and undecided as to how to deal with this aspect. Out on the scenic section of the layout I use individual strips of cork underlay under each track.

Hi everyone, I am looking for the cast whitemetal kit of a Wickham P.W. trolley and trailer that Nu-Cast produced several years ago. I used to have one, but somewhere over the years and a few house moves, it has gone AWOL!

Some years ago I found a source for some 4mm scale colliery tubs, which at the time I stored away as afuture source for a colliery layout that I planned. Typically, now I need them the supplier tells me that they are no longer manufactured. Does anyone know of source of supply for some please? The ones that I saw previously were static - that is all I need. Many thanks in advance for any assistance offered. Steve