Graham456

I second that but wish to add more inside the smokebox door is a iron bar with a horizontal slot in the centre of the doorway, through which the dart because the inner part of the handle is like a arrow headed dart which with the inner handle at either the 3'o clock or 9'o clock position will go through the slot, when this inner handle is turned to up or down, the backs of the barbs on the arrowhead engage on the sides of the slot in the bar, the turning of the outer handle being on a screw thread pull the barbs tight on to the cross bar tight and the door then seals around the edges up isn't used not just for looks but also the weight of the handle might encourage it to rattle around to open if not tight enough on the screw thread,also you would have to hold it in the upright position whilst tightening the outer handle where as gravity will do that in the down position.

I am a bit out of date due to not seeing Trevor at any shows this year ! But doesn't Trevor of Cheltenham Models still produce the type you require......I hope so? right Haveing posted that I thought I had better check,,,,,,and yes their on his web site as available.

You could also make everyone buy a box of Peco streamline track as they enter, to be swung around your head as you walk around.this will ensure distancing along with the stink and bags and also help a British supplier in these difficult times P S give us some warning though as I had a shower today and need time to build up a odour

Yes, on wednesday I was distanced ! face to face with him, (didn't cross the threshold) as I was in Exeter so piped down to collect my Bachman NER J72 he was takeing the opportunity of the shop being shut to have it revamped and painted, but he was sat at a desk next to the phone which he answered promptly when I called to arrange the purchase in the morning by the way why doesn't his shop appear on UK model shops anymore? It's their all right and trading more worryingly apart from Buffers he's nearly my nearest model shop !

During this enforced modelling time when the B&B has been quite!! haveing worked through quite a few of the unfinished pile I have dug out a half finished toy fair model of a Ian Kirk push pull trailer which has been on the to do list for a while because it didn't come with a roof ! Now the question if anyone can help is a running number for LNER days the only LNER coach book I have only has a acute angle picture with no clue to running numbers.in the text And do I do the driving end teak or black, it's currently teak as it was done at the same time as the sides, the only picture I have found on the web is (of a model) is black ? thanks if you can help Graham

Well they were built 1911 . Apart from the early two which had no vac brakes so don't count in this case as the one I built has vac brakes, now I model loosely pre grouping, I say loosely due to a castle or few other transgressions of this rule that I couldn't resist. i to haven't seen any end pictures with G W but then all the pictures I have seen are late in their lives I am just going on the normal 10t vans livery of the time Thank fully we have a few more days before the varnish goes on due to home improvements ! That need doing

Thank you I now have this wagon up and running on bogies with the right axelboxs, i have painted her gray and am applying the livery....... but would these wagons have the G W and running number on the ends ? Suspect so as other vans did at the time,unless any one tells we otherwise I am going to apply some on the ends ....you have a few days until the varnish goes on top !

Thanks but ! being well aquatinted with useing MJT bogies on my siphons and Haveing double checke, MJT don't do a plate wagon bogie .not that I know wether the right "heavy or light" is right which is why I asked to choose if they did one, the kit comes with what I call the heavy bogie, deeper throated with reinforcing strips along top and another one below the holes and springs, the cambrian ones only have a single reinforcing strip along the top and round top oil boxes, the ratio bogies are the thinner light weight bogies with no reinforcement strips still with oil boxes, none of which match the pictures of these things I have in the HRMS gwr iron minks booklet, hence my enquiry as for the best bogie to fit with greese boxes found in the pictures I have, my enquiry is powered the text and pictures I have in this HMRS booklet and A,K, H gwr wagons the text contradicting the pictures, unfortunately the pictures are late or BR time line, other wise I would believe them over text ,but modelling their early days I can't be sure if they stayed the same?

Sat at home with know one yet able to stay at my B&B I am getting on with another of the stash of Hobbytime mink F kits Haveing sorted out with advise on here nearly four years ago how to stick ally,for the last one I built, the body has been no trouble, But this time Haveing read more on the web when we couldn't go out, I am thinking of useing different bogies on this kit as the ones in my resource books pictures have the square axelbox covers rather than the round topped ones that come with the kits bogies, any recomdations as which ones to go for ? I have Ratio, Cambrian versions but none have the square box covers the only thing found on the web is to use the Hobbytime bogies under the 40t bogie coal wagons but not what to use under the mink F that youhave robbed them from?

Why ! Who said throw it away, ! I did say filler isn't glue . but unlike triang and the six million dollar bloke things of this period are not rebuilderable for ever and if the join affends so much you can't bring your self to use it you might as well get a few years out of it with the aid filler and paint than leave it in the box unused throw away modelling can't apply to me ! I still have my first loco, Nellie, from my childhood fifty four years of use

Well is just a case of filling the join in anyway ? Dapol austerity are getting old enough to be .....well old models and their isn't great value in them now,and the likelihood of replacing or getting a motor ? Fill the join and enjoy the improved looks while it lasts. Filler isn't glue ! It will come apart if necessary for

I to expect no miracles on the collet front, and find the actual mainline versions better thanks to the thinner window bars, and I bought enough when they were new anyway........just needing toplights personly got enough mainline stock with the new Hornby stuff which are very nice but make the MAJ and PC stock looking a bit O! Dear when it gets close to the operator as it goes around

Well I am performing miracles! Being in two places at once ! not only am I locked down at home,finishing a K's 44xx but I am also holding a can of coke whilst at Taunton MRC club house.enjoying the evening, i wonder if being locked down only One and Half miles from the club room helped with that miracle

I to will follow this with interest, as I have a couple of each type of the kits collected over the years at toy fairs, all are of the perseverance chassis type, and I am going to ditch the wheels and gears along with the motor as I have found the Buler motor fast revving despite its good reputation, with "Romford's " P,B wire pick,ups a sixty to one gearbox and stashed away mashinas I hope to get something better than standard only problem is time due to the other kits in the queue ,, but then two have been finished during this lockdown so far and one more just needs more hmrs lining

Ear ! Didn't you leave the letters S and Y out of that first word ? by cake you did make a right pie of that answer keeping the quality of the replys up for Stubbys sake !!!

Yea but doesn't the aberdont prove that not all great western locos look the same ? stir,stir,stir .....and No I am not stiring pasty mix for the virtual SWAG meet and being picky didn't the Kruger/aberdont's come befor the aberdare especially as some of the aberdare's were built out of bits from the aberdont's

How about Manchester Vacs ? https://manchestervacs.co.uk/ even if not listed they do odd bits from scrapped vacuums happy customer for my DC4 a ancient dyson type

YOU ! Received free transport that long ago !!!! Blimey what age are you even my relatives over with you lot had to pay. A tenner

There is still debate as to the date for the switch from red to grey for wagons, due to lack of any official mention. (The current idea seems to be 1904 with the adoption of the large 'G W'.) O No ! Just to add more worry you bring up the Red Gray debate. Thanks !

The thing I go by is that back in 1936 when Hornby produced their No2 GWR high capacity loco coal wagon the sides of this tin plate wagon were GRAY now they were there looking at the real thing at the time not relying on memory or what some one put in a book,

Can't resist! First you put the plug in, then whilst the taps are running add matey bubble bath, when full clime in and test your submarine to your harts content ! Dosn't just apply to Huddersfield mind you its a wonder. What you learn about when railway modelling

You what !!!! Track laying to the sounds of the sugar plum fairy whilst prancing around ! I think I CAN wait to see this

Having just got back from looking at Phil parkers daily blog the thought struck me it's not just pie or pasty ! but pie pasty or cake ! question do trains have anything to do with this show ?

,that's easy both ..... the question really is West Somerset Gala or rmweb do ! whilst I can take a bite out of the pasty then a bite out of the pie, being in two places at once is a bit harder but not impossible . Despite the closeness of them both, still I have managed to be at the RMweb show vanished off to a landrover pub meet then back to. The RM web do in the past, so like the pie or pasty question all possibilities are do able/eatable 26th also being drive it day when you supposed to get out in your classic car, and yes the Land Rover meet is on this year but I might have to give that a miss, two things food or location in a day but add in a pub lunch time meet now that is going to far!

Bump, bump hello! Anyone home who has clue ? is it black or blue? please let me Finnish this loco off