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    KR Models business model etc

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    2 hours ago, Legend said:

    Is it me or has it all gone quiet on the KR front ?  Shouldn’t the Leader and 4DD have arrived or be on their way ?  Don’t seem to have had any announcements for a while - I think the last was the WD 2-10-0 . 

    I saw them at Alexandra Palace and they said that they expected delivery of the Leader and DD within the next two months.

    Ray

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    GCR wagon grey?

    in Pre-Grouping - Modelling & Prototype

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    I suspect that Humbrol thinners is not the same formula as Precision. They smell different for a start. I would always use the brand from the maker of the paint.

    I have been told and believe it to be true that white spirit thins paint by breaking it down. It is not a thinners. A proper thinners is the same solution as the liquid element of the paint in which the pigment is suspended.

    Don't forget that there were old formula and new formula Humbrol paints and you should not use old formula thinners with new formula paint or vice versa.

     

    All the best

    Ray

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    GCR wagon grey?

    in Pre-Grouping - Modelling & Prototype

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    When you say that the paint is not fully dry, did it eventually dry properly ?

     

    From experience with Phoenix paints, they can take quite a while to mix properly, maybe twenty minutes or more.

    Perhaps try mixing the paint again and test it on a piece of primed material and see if the colour changes to that on your wagon.

    The large tins are the worst, you can end up with arm ache by the time it is fully mixed and dries correctly.

     

    All the best

    Ray

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    Tonbridge MRC Exhibition Saturday 17th February

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    17 hours ago, Invicta Informant said:

    I and my brother went this morning (the pair of us are somewhere in that picture of the sports hall). We really enjoyed the variety and the quality of the layouts being exhibited (Priorsfield pictured). It would be difficult to pick a favourite. Painless journey there and back. Lovely breakfast in Goodfellas Café. Really good day out.

     

    Thank you once again to the Tonbridge MRC for another excellent show.

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    We used the same cafe, our regular.

    Ray

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    Elbow Lane. Having a rest while I build board 4.

    in Layout topics

    Posted · Edited by wainwright1

    On 22/01/2024 at 11:11, chuffinghell said:

     

    As is the round of applause

     

    However I believe the building was formally owned by a shoe maker Mr.R.Sole, although that might be cobblers

     

    I recall that back in the 1980's there was a shoe repairers in Jamaica Road, Bermondsey called R Soles !!!!

    By the way, a shoe maker is a cordwainer. (Reminds me of a character in Round the Horne with a similar activity).

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    Hornby M7 Motor

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    I wonder  if that is the same type of motor that was fitted to the H class. I have three of them and two had to go back to Hornby as the motor was overheating, one of which damaged the loco body. I think that it was due to poor construction of the motor.

    All the best

    Ray

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    OO gauge GWR Mogul and Prairie

    in Dapol

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    On 12/02/2024 at 09:21, wainwright1 said:

    I had been contemplating the ROD liveried version of this in khaki livery but disliked the very light 'sand' livery they showed on the pre-production model. I saw somewhere that it was said that the error in the livery had been noted and would be corrected to Khaki for the production model. However, when I saw the model yesterday, it would appear that nothing has been corrected.

    Interesting that my observations have not generated any comments.

    I am sure that if this had been a Hornby model the experts would have been queuing up to tear strips off them.

    It looks like Dapol have got the black wrong on some of the other versions ?

    Sounds like the original class 73 livery issues all over again.

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