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Thank you. I may have to have a go at weathering in the future if the "Round Tu-its" allow. The others with "ghost images" of the SMBP logos are interesting too.

Those built up until 1966 were vacuum braked, eventually the survivors were converted to air brake but the Shell-BP livery had ceased by then. The mid grey Shell would have been air braked from new, let us hope later runs will add air brake detail, the earlier liveries are fine (as long as you only look at one side).

When announced one could place a pre- order on the Footplate site. The details are still there but the ability to add a pre-order seems to have gone. Pre orders are now possible via the Flangeway site. Having placed a pre-order via Footplate if I now pre order another via Flangeway does it all end up on one list or will it be separate parcels (and postage)? Anyone in the know?

Anyone know what the difference is between O-IS001 and O-IS002 ? Both say Independent Snowplough - 1965 version with yellow chevrons.

Indeed of the original 8 wagons announced at Guildex it is just the gunpowder van and southern pattern box van to go. The illustration used at the time was of a GWR iron mink improvised gunpowder van, and Minerva have in the meantime produced one of those. It could be they really meant the BR type gunpowder van, which is different, but whether that is viable now remains to be seen. Here's hoping for the SR box van though.

From days of cutting and shutting the original Lima mk1s yes you could get a full brake - you have to fill in one central door though. Never found a use for the other halves though, the window spacing is just too wrong. Other than cutting out each window it just doesn't work. I'll wait for Dapol to do it (Lima eventually did)

Sadly not.

In the Dapol collectors club newsletter it suggests the O gauge club special this year (2019) will be 1401 - order form 'to follow'. Any club models remaining after 12 months (2020) will sold to the public at normal MRP. Normally club specials follow on from a normal production run, so 2019 looking good for the announced models.

Nah! Just build a maintenance depot with overhead lifting crane (working) and transparent 4th wall. Best maintained low mileage 22 ever.

Shouldn't it be three Kings at Christmas?

Have they said what scale the diesel loco is? They do N too, and HO (but probably not here)

It is a mkII 1100/1300 (sloping rear light cluster) which puts it even later, and the red car looks suspiciously like a Lotus Elite, also rather later than the loco/livery - perhaps it is the loco that is the time traveller!

A speedy recovery is nice, but a full recovery is more to the point, and I hope Kit gets both. Do the exercises and the lifestyle changes - it's worth it. (recovering from heart triple bypass).

One of the reasons for adding wood, sandbags and so forth to armoured vehicles was to disrupt shaped charge projectiles, if they do not detonate at the correct distance their power is seriously undermined. Mine blast was another reason, so, no, not a pointless exercise at all, just dealing with a different problem.

Shermans were loaded on warwells not warflats. Warwells were constucted to carrry Sherman family vehicles as they were out of gauge on existing wagons (warflats, rectanks)