Arun Sharma

Budapest also has some rather nice articulated new looking single deck trolleybuses [as well as some nonarticulated ones]. As a Londoner I am pleased that they are the same shade of Ayres Red as London buses used to be!

Having spent the last couple of weeks wandering around Budapest, Vienna and Prague and being pleasantly surprised by their extensive and easy to use tram services, I have attached a few pics of some of the vehicles: Budapest 4024 is a Tatra T5C5K vehicle. Vienna 302 , seen here heading towards the Soviet memorial to those who died during their liberation of Vienna, is one of Vienna's latest trams a Bombardier Flexity Wien. Prague 9224 in all-over advertising is a Skoda 15T vehicle and Prague 8442 is a modernised Tatra T3RP vehicle. These seem to frequently run coupled together in pairs or as triples.

I routinely check the level of the build plate before each print run - it only takes a minute or so. Like you I have only ever used Elegoo Water Washable resin - usually Ceramic Grey but occasionally Mint Green. I have found that mixing the two in the tray is fine and has no effect on the build. As far as the FEP film goes [assuming no holes or leaks] the main problem is going to be scratches giving rise to an area where resin has hardened in the scratch. This will give rise to a consistently poor uv transmission and hence incomplete or absent curing. Thus if the piece has any significant mass, then it will be more likely deform along the line of partially cured resin. Personally I have never paused a print although the software allows it. Given that resigration is of the order of microns, it seems very simple to spoil the registration and alignment. I tende to leave the resin in the tak for days/a couple of weeks at a time and it seems to do no harm. If a print fails, then I agree that filtering the resin in the tank and examining the FEP is essential. Again, try not to scratch the FEP or LED. Regarding supports: Most of my prints are 7mm scale. If I was printing something the size of a hollow matchbox or AA battery, then I would use medium supports as well as a raft/skate. I have attached two pictures - the first is the settings I use and the second is a screen shot of orientation of part of a 7mm Routemaster [front part of the upper deck route display]. Note that this has been turned though 45degrees TWICE not just once. This minimises the pull on the FEP because the strain is taken by the raft which has the effect od spreading the load. Hopefully that will help.

Really - what sort of problems do you have with the Saturn? I have a Mars 2+ Pro as well as a Saturn S and they seem pretty robust and straightforward.

Thank you - Well done - It looks magnificent. I wonder whether there are 7mm kits available...........

Tony - On the subject of recent models, have you had your Raven A2 'Kingston Upon Hull' painted yet? The last I saw of it was in your BRM article just built with only the wheelset painted.

Lurking around Doncaster on 13 April for much of the day was the Midland Pullman HST - seen here with M43055 closest. In the background [as a bonus] was Network Rail's class 150.

The book is rather better than the film. Like all of the late Dr Crichton's books [under his name and his nom d'plume John Lange ] they are strong on technical detail and accurate history of the period.

I had reason to be lurking around Doncaster last Friday. 67028 plus various container flats and some Arlington Rail vehicles were lurking by the 'Plant' buildings.

Oddly enough, there was no shortage of influential Romans who hailed from what is now known as Spain. Hadrian [as in Wall] and Seneca [both elder and younger] were technically spanish.

Yes, obviously there is. The original post here was a question regarding EWR. The discussion thread does not welcome questions as a cursory reading of the header to that page will demonstrate. So I put my question into the questions page ........ Quod Erat Demonstrandum.

I, and I suspect many others, would agree with you. I was demonstrating on the DEMU stand on Saturday and I would very much liked to have seen Hornby TT120 rolling stock as well as Peco TT120 track.

Given that the railway between Bletchley and Bedford St John is currently effectively closed due to a shortage of suitable rolling stock, is there any sign that this period of disuse will be used to start the upgrade to become an eventual link in the Oxford to Cambridge Railway?

The 3D CAD software used on the show is SolidWorks which of course belongs to Dassault in France. The reverse engineering software that turns scan point clouds into executable SolidWorks files is derived from the Korean software Rapidform XOR [or Design X in its most recent US 3D Systems incarnation]. Before they reach our baseboards, models have been touched by the products of many countries.

I hear what you say Jol, but given that Simon K is currently getting more free televison publicity than one could shake a stick at, I should think his advertising piggybank is rather healthy at the moment. Model railways, slotcars and polystyrene kits all had a massive boost in lockdown sales and I don't know whether that continues to this day. If Hornby TT120 is sucessful and say, PECO come on board with more code 55 TT120 track as well as compatible rolling stock and lineside structures then that may well encourage other manufacturers to take the plunge. At that point, retailers may accept that there is less risk and request sale or return stock from Hornby. The fly in the ointment would be how would retailers get their 25-40% markup/profit without passing on additional costs to the consumer who is currently almost certainly getting TT120 rolling stock at prices below anything a retailer would be comfortable with.

Your logic is impeccable. No one has actually been disadvantaged by Hornby going for TT120 because Hornby hasn't any feet in the N/2mm or 3mm pools. As someone who designs [mainly] 7mm kits but doesn't have enough room for other than a shunting 7mm layout, I have gone for The Easterner A4 train set in TT. I am sure more items of rolling stock will appear. I am not sure yet whether I will use PECO TT120 track over the Hornby track and similarly I will probably end up using Gaugemaster PSUs rather than the supplied Hornby one idc. However, for a starter layout/trainset, it makes sense to use discrete track pieces rather than flexitrack since they don't need to be secured to a baseboard. Regarding Hornby selling via Internet, that makes sense. The tooling costs of what has currently been delivered will run into the millions. It makes sense for Hornby to 'minimise their exposure' by cutting overheads and keeping as much in-house as possible. Over the next few months, no doubt we will get feedback from retailers regarding how much predicted custom may have been lost due to people switching from N or 00 to TT120 but there seems no sign of such feedback at present. The point about gauge and scale being compatible is an important one but usually disappears in the whining noises made by people who secretly wish that they had started modelling in 2mm FS or EM or P4 long ago.

It's an interesting point regarding the lethal properties of boiler insulation. Looking at the few books/photgraphic albums that have been published regarding the scrapping of steam locos, in very few are there pictures showing the gas axle wielders wearing any sensible form of respiratory or skin protection. As a medical student, I recall being told that the wives of scrapyard workers were almost equally at risk of developing mesothelioma and/or asbestosis as they inhaled the dust that was on their spouses clothes when washing them.

A lifetime ago I was the deputy station commander at RAFH Wroughton. The visiting Mayor of Wroughton informed me that the name Swindon was derived from Swine Down as it was the hillside where the good burghers of Wroughton used to walk/graze their pigs. I was led to understand that many of the older inhabitants in Wroughton and Chiseldon still referred to the town as 'Pig Hill'.

The F104G was also known amongst Luftwaffe crews as 'Widow Maker'

And look at what happened to poor Huskisson when he tried to speak to the Duke of Wellington at Rainhill!

If you want drawings of these 0-6-0s then suggest you use those published by the Great Eastern Railway Society. The GERS drawings by Brooks & Gardiner are pretty good. If yoou want kits - then Jim McGeown has produced kits of J68 and J69/1 in the past.

Nowadays perhaps: 1- Having got habituated to working from home, and 2- the use of facilitating software such as Zoom, Skype and Teams would make exact comparisons impossible.

Thank you - I would certainly like to see that other pic if you are able to track it down.

Anyone got any pics of the griddle cars in the class 309 units? - The four car unit in the six car set that went to Clacton had a griddle car in it.