colin penfold

I do think as well as aspiring to improve, we need to enjoy modelling at the standard we can achieve. It's clear that we can't all be Pendon or MRJ standard and it's no good allowing that to spoil your enjoyment. I play 5 a side every tuesday and enjoy every minute, despite the fact that I'll never get called up for Norwich City ......

viewed on my phone Ian I thought it was black, too. But sat here looking at it on my laptop screen it's GER blue

Watching Sheffield Wednesday on telly. Reckon it might be their day. I have a new job as a driver. In my travels i am becoming concerned about the level of equine criminality. There seem to be horse trials everywhere at the moment...

Reminds me of the teacher who asked her pupils what they did at the weekend. One boy said " I put fireworks in frogs' ar$es" "Rectum" said the teacher. "Yeah, blew 'em to bits miss" said the boy. Exit stage left to booze....

Do that then, you have a public to please....

it's only a collett goods with a runny nose.....

I speak three languages. English, pissed nonsense and bad.

Congrats on the anniversary and thanks for the ongoing filthy mogul entertainment.....

Hopefully more than one train an hour though Phil.....

That's a long way.....

I am sorry to hear that. All the best to you and your family Jakub

If you have a sample or colour photo you can upload it to a site like this http://colormaid.spektran.com/color-picker/ You can get a RAL code from that and all vallejo paints have a RAL code on the bottle. There are also pantone finders out there and some model shops online have charts showing various manufacturers paints with pantone equivalent

No because vans don't go fast enough for speed to streak the rooves. They are streaked by gravity. @Mick Bonwick will be along in due course to confirm.....

Surely a pannier never offends..... DeVille S. Advocaat

Thanks Nigel it's engine driver that I have installed so I will activate that option.

Thank you Nigel, that's really helpful. Does anybody know the relevant CV for Zimo decoders? My system is a Digitrax Zephyr which doesn't seem to have emergency stop, but I am currently experimenting with using my phone on loconet with JMRI. Would there be an emergency stop in there that would work "through" the zephyr?

Can I ask how emergency stop can be achieved with stay alives in locos. Even if you turn the power off the stay alive will keep the loco heading towards the disaster, wont it?

I'd say 46444s colour is too red, more like bauxite than the SR brown which is more, well, brown really...

I haven't done any adjustments to the chip which is as supplied. It's an adams radial sound file which I thought was the closest available to the Ilfracombe Goods, which of course is not available! Both the radial and the IG are two cylinder locos so I should be able to get it right in due course.

Thanks Ade. I'm very pleased. It has a massive flywheel and a great quality motor gearbox which hopefully overcome the defects of my chassis building!

On the plus side you already look younger and thinner in that photo

It lives!

Funny, I thought of Lord Belborough at Chigley. Time flies by when I'm the driver of a train, and I ride on the footplate there and back again....

So here's a quick chassis question. I have built the chassis using the spacers provided in the kit. I have used the bearings provided in the kit and the wheels and axles from slaters as recommended by Laurie. However, I can't help feeling that the back of the wheels are too tight against the surface of the bearings if I fully tighten them. Tighten them fully they bind a little. Ease off by an eigth of a turn and they run lovely. As you can see above it's running fine so I'm not going lose to much sleep over it. I wonder if i should take a bit off the surface of the bearings or the back of the wheels (or both) or should I leave well alone? Is it simply that it is possible to over-tighten the wheels on the axles?

Thanks G. She really is smooth on DCC. The loco builder box was a good shout too, the tender is whizzy now