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  1. Of course, everyone knows post boxes are red, as this old postcard* proves: *or not 😈
  2. I think the problem here is not so much the exact shade and perception of colour, which is really another well discussed topic, but the possible use of random colour and guesses when converting a monochrome image. Personally I'd rather have the original non-colour picture.
  3. Same length as the HD model, but a new tool. The HD LMS brake van used GWR partitions as did their BR brake van. Hornby 1974 Hornby Dublo circa 1960
  4. The long buffers would be the then standard square shank type with large round heads.
  5. The glass carrying wagon (Coral A) actually has "A K's MODEL" cast into the underside in your photo. Is the other (top) wagon cast or etched brass? It's not clear from the pictures. Here's a list of GWR wagon kits.
  6. Going by the number of vertical seams I reckon it's a 'C' type container, so 27' long (8' x 8' cross section) the maximum length allowed on trailers at the time. These were withdrawn comparatively early, superseded by 30' and then 40' types.
  7. The three compartment coach looks rather like the 'Prusssian' coaches Bachmann did.
  8. Not really; they're right on the real thing when you compare them to the official specifications. Actual painted numbers. BR Gill Sans. The Marklin numbers would look better if they were spaced a little further apart. Indeed if the spacing had been right the typeface errors wouldn't have been very obvious. It's only when you look closely you can see the '0's are a bit too elliptical and the '3' is symmetrical top to bottom; Gill Sans '3' has a very slightly longer bottom stroke and the centre part angles down very slightly. The signwriter has done his job correctly.
  9. British Trix and Rivarossi both used 1:80 scale, though some Trix models: AL1 (because it started as Lilliput) and the late '60s A2, A3 and A4 LNER Pacifics were 4mm scale while the 16t mineral and pig iron wagons were 'accidentally' 4mm scale because their 1:80 scale 17' 6" chassis works out at 16' 6" in 4mm scale.
  10. Age yellowing. Probably if you rub with very fine abrasive they will look grey again.
  11. Just measured my original Matchbox (45A) at 57.75mm long. 167" is about 4242mm, so the scale is about 1:73.45. Perhaps someone in Vauxhall's management realised FA perhaps wasn't the best of codenames, so these were always referred to as F, series I and II (though the final 1960-'61 model had some significant revisions, including a completely new, higher rear window and roofline but wasn't called series III). I still need to build an FE to complete the line-up.
  12. I had one of the Midget versions of that which was just a little too long. Being whitemetal it wasn't too hard to cut and shut with a razor saw. 1957-9 Victor F dimensions (inches) w.b. 98, length 167, width 62¼, height unladen 58¼. Divide by 3 for 4mm scale millimetres.
  13. The transfers work well. For compartment stock I've created some artwork for fold-up seats/compartment walls. Would be rather more complicated for open stock though.
  14. The current geometry is the same as Super4 radii 1, 2 & 3. Series 3 was the same as the earlier 'Standard' track with different radii that do not directly equate.
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