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Meanwhile yours truly has been quoted on the matter in everyone’s favourite publication “Reinsurance News” 🤓 https://www.reinsurancene.ws/high-number-of-cargo-claims-anticipated-from-stuck-vessels-following-baltimore-bridge-collapse/ Got a couple of follow up interviews tomorrow, watch this space for more vague comments about the cost of it!

Why can’t it…? I often use Dapol mk3s to check point work as it’s easy to remove the bogies.

Haha, they’re very tempting! I eschewed the 3 as the 2 is great, but I feel I may ‘need’ a 4! Look forward to hearing about it either way 👍

Does look very interesting. I need to work out if the marked reduction in Z height is a problem for anything I print. as ever with us it’s a gamble on pre-ordering and getting stung with taxes versus just waiting until Amazon have stock. The prices are compelling though.

It's a nice depot diorama, but they've messed up the red stripe on the back 47 - it doesn't extend around the cab side like the other two, and they've obviously not yet done the weathered Railfreight logos. The dry brushing is good, but I'd urge the modeller to look at photos of the real thing - the brush marks on the roof that one in the foreground look really unnatural, and they've missed altogether the bit above the windscreens. Don't get me started on the opening door gimmick too. At least they've not gone with the cliche of having a driving leaning out.

Personally always preferred the red, but I like the heritage concept and they’ve done a great job on 611.

That’s really helpful. That does suggest it would be useful to add one to the arsenal! If the print volume was slightly bigger than my existing FDM printer it would be a no-brainer!

Thanks, that’s helpful. I guess I’m more interested in the Bambu alongside other FDM printers. I’m totally happy with the workflow for resin, although I can see how much more faff it is, and I definitely see me always using resin printers more. The speed is sort of attractive, but ultimately I start a print and leave it, so it doesn’t really matter. essentially I only ever use my resin printers for railway stuff at the moment because the finish on FDM is so massively inferior, and it’s whether the Bambu printers have closed that gap, for things like buildings where you’ve got lots of straight edges and hard corners where resin will not be optimal.

As a precis to stop the “well for detail buy a resin printer” comments - I have multiple resin printers and I have an FDM printer, so obviously I need more! I’ve been impressed with what I’ve seen from the Bambu Lab X1/P1P (I believe they’re the same hardware, but no enclosure on the P1P and it foregoes some of the bells and whistles), anyone using one? I confess I’ve never messed about too much with my FDM printer, it works fine for what I want it to do (which is basically never railway stuff), but the Bambu Lab printers really look like they’re blurring the lines (often literally) between FDM and resin. Obviously at a fundamental level the technology is still the same, but with the speed and the finish they seem to achieve it’s a tempting proposition!

Even if you did slavishly recreate it I’d argue that just laying a 36-road yard is easier than building a complex shed building in an already complex yard!

It’s by design, and it’s wrong. All 4 lights should be illuminated. I have seen it fixed, but not sure how.

I think Nick is probably right to pose his ideas, becuase if I was spending £20,000 and many years of my life on a layout I would want everyone's considerations, even if I eventually ignore them! I think what Drew has come up with is a little bit the 'safe' option for people who find themself with a large space in which to build a layout. Ultimately it's a scaled up version of what you'd build on a 6x4 board; roundy roundy outside, with some sidings in the middle, there's just more of them. Nick's idea really is ripping that up, and probably making better use of hte space, insofar as you couldn't build huge elements of that in a small space. It's a more adventurous approach too, which could be seen as better or worse. I think scale plays a factor here - N gauge is brilliant for watching scale length trains meander through scenery, and less good for lots of nadgery (definitely a word) shunting. If that's what the OP wants then great, sitting back with a tea/beer while your trains circulate around you, or shuffling stuff around in the yard while that goes on is probably quite therapeutic, if not the ultimate operating challenge. I've no dog in this fight - like others I was attracted by the idea of a large N gauge layout, and a lot of the considerations are ones I have had for when I get around to undertaking a garage conversion to give me space for something similar! From a completely blank canvas I prefer Nick's idea, but I fully understand the rationale Chris has employed of evolution versus revolution, and I think where he's got the plan is excellent. TL:DR: they're both good!

Any good? https://www.trains4u.com/p/301250/Revolution-Trains-OO-IWA-Cargo2-Cargowaggon-IWA-Holdall-Wagons

I'm a big fan, it's my 'day-to-day' resin. Well priced, although the grey is often out of stock (I usually use black in these instances). I typically pay £16-18/litre. The 3 litre bottles are particularly good value. I don't have a MonoX2, so no help there though I'm afraid.

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