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Jules

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  1. I too have a mildly upgraded Lima siphon - bogies are Bachmann, buffers replaced with some whitemetal jobbies and I replaced the end handrails with wire (hard to see in the dodgy pics).  I seem to remember getting the bogies to fit, at the correct ride height without interfering with the solebar was a bit of a fiddle.

     

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    Hauled by one of my many small prairies - you can never have enough of them 😄

     

     

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  2. I managed to straighten the handrail kink with just a pair of normal pliers, and cut off the excess once in place.

     

    I think the worst part of removing the top feed and associated gubbins is actually starting it - as you say it isn't actually too difficult if you take it slowly.

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  3. 😀

     

    I'd forgotten I had also fixed the dodgy window on the Oxford Toad - I think I used a bit salvaged from a Ratio kit and cut to size with a bit a plastic strip to finish the job.

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  4. 3 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

    I like the shortened Toad, do you have any details of how it's done?

     

    Unfortunately nothing of much use!

     

    I had purchased a Oxford Rail 6w Toad and quite liked the shorter version as it allowed me to get a longer goods train in the run-round loop.

     

    I had a spare Airfix/Hornby Toad so just sort of cut it up to to match the Oxford Rail one.  The roof was the easy bit...

     

    So although from a distance it looks ok, it can't really be considered that accurate as I'm not sure how accurate the dimensions (body panel widths, underframe etc) are.

     

    I seem to remember I was bored one weekend so just took the saw to the Toad without much planning...

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  5. Thanks :) 

     

    Now I have done that one, I need to do the other one as well, hopefully learning from my previous errors!

     

    Another couple of shots with a recently built Slaters 3 plank MR wagon, and a shortened Airfix/Hornby Toad

     

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  6. No comment on the plan as such, but looks like it should give plenty of operational fun!

     

    I am in a similar position with my layout - there are a few electrical issues (mainly voltage drop) and dodgy track work where points have needed to be replaced, so I am building myself upto having to bite the bullet and do some serious rebuilding before too long!

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  7. 22 hours ago, MrWolf said:

    A Pannier never offends.

     

    Except when I remember that I haven't gotten around to sawing the topfeeds off any of mine yet!

    I keep looking at my panniers and think I should do something about the top feeds. I'm slowly working upto taking knife to plastic!

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  8. An update on the images...

     

    I have been through the whole thread and replaced the missing images where I can.  Much to my annoyance, there are quite a lot missing from my HDD and backup HDD - they mainly seem to be missing from 2011-2013.

     

    Where I cannot find the missing images, I have added 'Images lost - not on HDD' to the post so that anyone looking at least knows I tried!

     

    I am rather annoyed at myself for two reasons:

    1. I haven't got all the images so have an incomplete record of the long development of Mayshill

    2. My old filing system wasn't!  Fortunately my recent images have been filed logically, but the older stuff was completely random, so finding the missing images has been a pain. Lesson learnt.

     

    While it has been a bit annoying having to reload the missing images (first world problem I know), it has been quite a pleasant journey going back to see the development of the layout, and looking at some posts with regard to things that I intended addressing ( the backscene being one...) that 5+ years are still waiting to be done!

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