jimwal

Yes, do it. You will receive an email with 2 attachments: a warranty authorisation form and a postage label, both to print for the return parcel. Hopefully you didn't throw the packaging away! My own loco needs to return, it's similar to yours but a friend's is ok.

For starters, avoid the ones with faces...

Brilliant model, but too much wobble. On the layout, with the loco running at a low to medium speed, it can be seen to be moving up and down as well as sideways. On the rollers a couple of the wheels do look out of true and the convolutions are even more obvious. So I've messaged Rapido via their warranty form.

No Stephen, I got it wrong, it appears to be an LNWR term (LNWR Carriages by David Jenkinson 1995). The LMS vehicles with that name were built at Wolverton from 1926.

It's an LMS 50' gangwayed passenger brake van. Note the ducket to the left of the fourth window from the right. The bogie GUVs had end doors, the same as four and six wheel CCTs. I've never learnt why the different designation for essentially the same vehicle types. To add a bit more confusion, 'CCT' usually meant 'Covered Carriage Truck', but sometimes it would be 'Covered Combination Truck'. The Midland and newly formed LMS seemed fond of that.

Try it first as it is Richard. You could try a small coil spring between the bogie and loco to take a small amount of the front weight, it may impart a bit of friction and dampen side movement. With our sharper than scale radius curves, in my experience side control springs have to be carefully applied with not too much force, or wheels start jumping off where they didn't previously. Don't expect to get there in one go; there's nothing lost in 'trial and error', it is experience gained.

Richard, you've now got the chance to get the body properly aligned and assembled without the bowed running plate throwing things out of true. It should be possible to stand the cab on end, put the boiler unit on the cab and check if the front running plate section fits at the break as well as fitting at the smokebox saddle. Hope this helps...

Someone on another thread manages a fair output - albeit with kits...

Hi Richard, Check the motor/gearbox runs ok before you fit it and again after. You should be able to simply swap the wire connections at the motor end, even when you have a finished chassis. With the 'axle hung' arrangement of most gearboxes, there will be movement of the free end of the motor - this will need restraining. Sometimes a small piece of foam in the body is ok, or the motor feed wires themselves can be used. Time spent on pickups is not wasted, even the best motor can't work properly if it dosen't receive current all the time. If you are using copperclad make it as large as you have space for, it gives more soldering room to make a firm fixing. Hope to see you at Keith's Jim

Apologies for confusing things, it is not a fouling bar. It is a treadle. Exactly as described by Paul here: The reason: to show the signalman a loco is over the pit?, presumeably he can't see it. With the pit provided for ash clearance presumeably, this may be the reason for retaining the treadle.

It is a fouling bar. It sits just below the running rail and is linked with the points. Operating the points will lift the fouling bar on it's pivots to the right, the bar to the right being a counterbalance. Hence if a loco is over the pit, it will prevent the fouling bar being moved.

Paul, For a bit of inspiration, here's mine built about 30 years ago I believe. I purchased the kit at an Expo EM or Scaleforum when Danny had just produced what was probably the last run of the 4mm crane kits. The jib runner wagon is a Kenline kit so the various elements are apropriately wood or metal. The crane and other vehicles are intended to represent an example supplied to the Midland Railway. Beyond the crane can be seen a Slaters early Midland all-wood van. Just to decide which ex Midland coaching stock to use as tool and riding vans.

Aparantly part of a vehicle loading ramp. Maybe inherited when they took over the port operation. This coach is at Mangapps Essex together with a part-dismantled coach end that shows the widening conversion that the GER done to increase capacity.

We had better wait until they actually arrive in our hands before the accolades are considered.....

Tension lock couplers can be a real faf to uncouple without an uncoupling ramp...

Seeing your post for this thread on the 'forums' page Clive, given your normal output, made me think... 'Howe's he cut'n'shut a Princess into a coach'. . .

Given how big Tony says his cameras are, he may need a selfie crane...

Are the David Geen open C wagons still available?

The railway industry has quite a track record over the years too.

The kit does come with W/M buffers which may be sourced from LMS

Is that a fist on its way from the right ? ? ? . . . Who's he upset now? ? . . 😆 🤣

Hi Clive, The LMS coach books have a few wayward drawings regarding length. Perhaps the worst is the P3 buffet car; good quality drawing but 3ft under length if I recall! I beleive you've cut up Dapol/Hornby P2 restaurant composites so you must have 6-wheel bogies in stock. Those 50ft Cafeteria windows look very Bullied style to me, after all they were converted at Eastleigh. So maybe attack some of the older Bachmann Bulleid coaches! All the best, Jim

You need an esdieseled publication Clive!😆

In 4mm, Bachmann covhops in BR grey with different running number to first batch.