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G'Day Folks Plethora, sounds like the Greek god plenty, or a Pullman car ! manna

G'Day Folks The Brake van is 'Brand New' straight out of Doncaster. manna

G'Day Folks Looking forward to this Layout. Doncaster is a Big place. manna

G'Day Folks Hope you let us know what was in the Attic, better than a Barn find !! manna

G'Day Folks Lovely little engine, but the boiler looks so small, two cups of Tea, and it would be empty ! manna

G'Day Folks Onwards and upwards the say, well I've gone back a bit. The K3 I've been working on has now been lined, so not to much to do, just find the screws to put it back together again and the drawbar, it's around here....somewhere ! J3 4100, has a nice new shiny tender, lettered as well, I wonder if that happen a tender swop, perhaps, got to tone it down a bit. Bit more done on the W1, starting to come together, the cab end was very low, jacked it up with some Blue Tack, think I'll have to come up with something better though. manna

G'Day Folks Yes, doing a bit every so often, still plugging on with the house, good chance next year I can start the new layout. manna

G'Day Folks That's looking rather good. manna

G'Day Folks Wouldn't be because the wind blows rain under the garage door, would it ?? Otherwise you could end up with a kitchen full of water. manna

G'Day Folks Taken by myself, at Peterborough SA 1969, she was parked next to 409. manna

G'Day Folks A picture of 402, seen in better days, she was still working for a living. manna

G'Day Folks I to got to walk through the corridor tender, when she was at the Wood Green/Noel Park exhibition in 1958. manna

G'Day Folks An Apostrophe, is only a Comma, that is above it's station ! Terry, Aka manna.

G'Day Folks Collectors or Modellers !! If you've got more than two loco's........................... you're a Collector, even if you run them. Terry. Aka manna

G'Day Folks I wonder, if ever, the SAR 400 class Garrett will ever run again. manna

G'Day Folks Well call it a representation of what happened, we can't always get it 100% right. And, who knows, on that particular day it 'Could' have had Gresley stock. I'd stick with it. manna

G'Day Folks Re, the flat ended axles, couldn't you use pin point axles, but grind the ends off the axles. That's what I do. manna

G'Day Folks Look good, don't I. manna

G'Day Folks You won't regret having one of those Air Cons. But they don't like the cold to much, keep the outside unit covered. manna

G'Day Folks Always wonder why my Kirk coaches looked a little 'Bare' underneath, I can feel an upgrade coming on. manna

G'Day Folks G'Day Shaun We still have a kind of seasons, winter, still in the High 20c's (35c Friday), from now it'll be building up to the 'Wet' season (summer). But I'll be heading South in November, got to go a look after my Parents for a while 4/5 months, give my sister a break. It would be nice to see you if you ever get to this side of the Planet. Been spending some time fitting the body to the chassis of the W1, I had to remove a bit of whitemetal, to get it in but I've managed that, the streamlining around the wheels was a pain, but whether the valve gear will work is another thing, I may have to revisit it in the future. manna

G'Day Folks The wheels have at least 2mm of side play, I hope that's going to be enough. The axles sit in brass square tubing, filed down to accept the axles. manna

G'Day Folks I've moved on to the tender, the body has gone together fairly easily, bit of flash and a couple of wonky bits. I'm using Hornby 'RED' wheels, but the tender is set up for pinpoint axles, so a sub frame is being made, I've made one for almost every GN tender I've built, but this is the first eight wheeler, not much different. Still a little ways to go. manna

G'Day Folks When I saw the title, Ah ! someone's building a Chinese restaurant....................😲 manna But the Layout, looks good.

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