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  1. Judging by the prices currently being asked for Vanwides (£33), and the Dancehall brake vans (£30), they'll come down substantially if you wait a few months.
  2. Actually, once you strip the 2mm of paint off them, Dublo 8Fs are quite refined!
  3. I was thinking more of sheeting half the ones you already have. 😊 But presumably that wouldn't fit your traffic pattern.
  4. Another (perhaps safer) option is to have duplicate sheeted and unsheeted wagons that you surreptitiously swap over during mid-session tea and cake breaks.... John
  5. TBH, the kits come with bearings, wheels and transfers so the only extra expense is glue, paint and couplings. A bottle of solvent will do dozens of wagon kits, the paint is a colour needed for many others, and I'd be binning the tension-locks off the r-t-r one anyway.... If the price of the Palvan matches the Vanwide, it'll be about two-to-one on cost.
  6. I also have a couple of Bachmann Standard Fives that have Markits tender wheels (OO), and I have a further set in my wheel stash, so must have foreseen a need to do another.... I don't remember when or why I changed them, but I doubt I'd have gone to the trouble without just cause. IIRC, with both them and the WD, one had to swap the Markits wheels onto the Bachmann axles. John
  7. And some new ones. 1: Swift & Co, which will be sited alongside the entrance to the Goods Yard; scratch-built by Ray. 2-4: Some shots along the back of the MPD since Tom's been adding his scenic skills to the plasterwork! So much better! 2: The Cleaners' bothy/store. As yet incomplete, the back will be fitted, and the model bedded in, once the glazing and any interior detail has been added. Scratch-built by me. 3. Multi-kitted bike shed, sign board, etc. by Ray 4: Coaling crane; scratch-built by William. All taken on Lumix G9 with in-camera focus stacking. 25mm or 42.5mm Lumix lenses. John
  8. I've been trying to identify and repost the lost pix from Frank's post of 31/10/2015. Here's the first few, along with Frank's captions. 1: This plush, fictional, property replaces St. Augustin's Vicarage, so don't go looking for it. The church being across the adjacent St. Augustin's road. Ray Huish, and his crew, look to be off to a Bank Holiday Stock Car race meeting at 'Matcham's' Park, (near Ringwood). 2: The view across the junction from St. Augustin's Road, towards the, now camouflaged WW2 pill-box. Disguised as a garden Summer house, complete with roof tiles, gutters and painted on, false windows. This stood as a reminder of those dark days until the Junction's road layout was re-vamped in the early 1990s. 3: Viewed from the Lansdowne Rd. The traffic signals are fully operational and work to a automatically timed sequence. (All) Nikon D5000 with Sigma zoom lens. John
  9. We've been quiet of late but by no means inactive, despite some recent health issues for a couple of us (now improving with treatment). Tom, as ever, has been beavering away at scenery and, along with Ray, has set up a production line for Scots Pines to supply our own needs and those of the Group building the exhibition layout. I've been (slowly) scratch-building the loco cleaners' bothy/store in between my usual C&W and loco maintenance/repair roles. I took a few up-to-date pictures a couple of weeks back and they will be posted once I get round to editing them. None of us are getting any younger and gaining access to the inside of the layout has been getting ever slower and less comfortable. Something had to be done, and now it has! This morning, Ray and I spent a pleasurable couple of hours constructing a "guzunder" trolley/seat unit allowing us to leg our way through (backwards) without banging our heads. Initial testing has proved very successful and it should also make any under-baseboard work much easier. Ray owns possibly the world's largest collection of "stuff that is bound to come in handy one day", but it's such a delight when everything one needs just falls to hand and a job goes together with no snags! Tom reckons it's a bit on the low side for him so the next job will be an additional seat pad to drop over it for his benefit. John
  10. Back in the days when I regularly operated Taunton MRG's former "big" layout, Tamerig Central, there were a couple of sidings alongside the MPD where we regularly "beached" Bachmann, and some older kit-built locos that had lost continuity with the rail, and where wagons with Jackson/Romford wheels clattered along the chairs. The cause remained a mystery for some time and we experienced operators just avoided putting anything in there, as one does! The rest of the layout was laid with hand-made points and SMP plain track, but it eventually transpired that the two offending sidings had been the last laid when the shed was extended (before my time), and used up some K&L/old C&L that just happened to be knocking around the clubroom. With all track fully ballasted, it was hard to see any difference. The height of the chairs was near enough the same on both brands, but whereas those on the SMP tapered in toward the rail, the K&L ones had square, flat tops that stuck out into the four-foot. Modern C&L is much more like SMP in that respect, so the issue presumably no longer arises. John
  11. Quick coupler update: fitting my preferred #146 Kadees looks like a lot of work with a high risk of collateral damage to the lovely brake gear, so have ruled out an attempt. I've therefore offered up various options for NEM Kadees, and I'll be gluing in #18s with the prongs shortened to clear the brake gear. If using the pocket extender, it looks like the shortest NEM Kadee, the #17 will be the natural choice. Note that if requiring to push wagons round No.2 radius curves/crossovers, you'll probably need to go up a length in both cases. I'll also be advising my pal, for whom I usually fit Sprat & Winkles to wagons, that if he gets any of these, he'll be on his own! 🙃 John
  12. I fortunately have a "Quiktrim" photographic print trimmer which makes it relatively easy. John
  13. I put the extracts into clear filing pockets, thence into 4-ring binders, which is usually easy but a bit of a pain with mags like the Railway Modeller since the pages got bigger than A4.
  14. Mine just have a support structure under only two thirds of their length. Removal is achieved simply by finger pressure on the unsupported end, A small offcut of lead glued under the other end ensures stability in traffic. I make the supports from Wills planked sheet so don't even need to mark it out for cutting. John
  15. My two packs were imported over the border from Kernow and delivered this morning via the good offices of the Royal Mail. Just as I had to go out... Upon my return: First impression: Stunning. Second impression: Lovely black wheels with profiled centres, even more stunning. Overall impression, on a scale of one-to-ten: eleven! 😃 Can we have a Southern loco to follow them up, please, pretty please! John PS: Just noticed the beautifully proportioned buffers are sprung!
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