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Two good-looking locos. I wish my spring cleaning turned up such goodies.

Don't forget that Fair Price kits are plain board - you will need to paint it if the plain surface is what you want. If not, you will need to apply a suitable layer of moulded plastic, embossed card or brick paper.

If you are going to chop panels about, why not start from scratch using plastic brick, stone, tile or slate sheets by the likes of Slaters or South East Finecast. There will be a host of detail accessories you can add - doors, roller shutters, vents, air-con units, drain pipes etc. The 3D printing market is bringing out new stuff daily. I don't know about 7mm scale, but in 4mm there are several laser cut kit manufacturers of low relief modern warehouses. Their kits tend to have the main wall as a flat panel, so you can decide on the depth and build out just as much as you need.

A couple of examples - they do others https://www.scalemodelscenery.co.uk/kx007-oo-low-relief-industrial-unit-side-wall-1-oo--4mm--176-8176-p.asp https://www.scalemodelscenery.co.uk/kx060-oo-low-relief-modern-industrial-unit---oo--4mm--176-9997-p.asp Later ---- They actually have a page with all their modern industrial buildings on it. https://www.scalemodelscenery.co.uk/oo-gauge-industrial-buildings-51-w.asp/#modern All the stuff I have had from SMS has been well designed and good value. Another series of laser cut buildings I have heard good reports of, although I haven't bought from them is Fair Price.Their kits are, as their name suggests, very competitively priced. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/124512591490?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20201210111451%26meid%3D212881df80be40238b9c6d3a4f56ecbe%26pid%3D101196%26rk%3D11%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D166712023610%26itm%3D124512591490%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D4429486%26algv%3DSimplAMLv5PairwiseWebWithBBEV2bAndUBSourceDemotionWithUltimatelyBoughtOfCoviewV1&_trksid=p4429486.c101196.m2219&itmprp=cksum%3A124512591490212881df80be40238b9c6d3a4f56ecbe|enc%3AAQAJAAABMKAGZatwWrSFioKhyF05YYps7xtgOI2Vu0BqB4BERv%2FNTfrUNkP50TZAJfREiGj7R%2BA2x2E5zTqSs43jfR6uCcmt8%2B%2BTUdobg9SfOq%2BIqjUBndYE9Gnl7KlKOMVjnkjucnYwAQgZYa%2BnGHgWAbxmImZKdOyDbzurSz2zlNxJaueVkXKYNq8P3hIirTYxHJ%2BmbRZM7MUjTyDWaHqaH8X%2B6Q0nbwt8fawanaYW3G1rrVNOuZDC8R7ctAOThMBLjn5phM0OW3Qzj3uZmB7Typh58%2BPgBw9tfwUgVHIgjHsZ5L7D80lWJQB1hBa3VOgs1xwDlMWjDoDk7LqwzkwwjBCoMxXLAgtqlZAI7PUFkQO87XxQjkZ4MKJYZYo25DtkE2P1sS8HmNHvUSy0wPEGPJ7jXs4%3D|ampid%3APL_CLK|clp%3A4429486&itmmeta=01HVYYRAH5KQW09ZPZZVVRQGM2

Here's a prescription to lift your spirits - from my family archive - The Ivins figure in my family tree three and four generations back. 1886 in English Bicknor in The Forest.

I thought so 50+ years ago. "There are a few things that I know are not right"!!! but I was but a lad.

'pictures on Flikr' or Flickr even!

Depends on one's viewpoint - King Richard 1 led the English knights on the Crusades against the Muslims.

This looks like two 155s coupled together on a Hereford to Oxford service in 1991 and another pair on a Cardiff to Penzance service in 1988.

Our local bus companies have tracker apps which allow you to check whether a bus is coming and to track their progress on the map. Handy, especially for those stops which don't have a display on the bus stop.

Will a whacked out sign do instead? Something about the speed limit on the Sussex Ouse, just north of Newhaven.

Didn't the Romans prefer to go straight, across the terrain rather than curve around the hills - so not 'flatnav'.

They must be some of the layout bases with the hills and valleys already moulded on. Tricky to get Set Track to suit the curves. Better use flexible.

Bunds perform a useful function, although they may not normally get their feet wet. We have recently had them installed on the flood plain around the Ouse estuary in Newhaven and upstream. In town they are concrete walls. Up stream they are earth ridges running on either side of the river, set back from the river itself, so that they can allow a degree of flooding without putting houses and too much farm land at risk. The river banks were already built up with earthworks on each bank, sometimes as much as 2 metres above the surrounding fields.

It's all so retro - whether its human waste or chicken guano - it's always been a crap idea.