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The GCR,GNR and GER were looking at at least working much more closely together. I doubt the GCR and Midland would join together as they were strong rivals, I see mergers of complimentary rather than competitive companies.

Not your fault I should have known, this happens with a lot of models.

Thank you, it just shows I should ask before painting. Unfortunately I do not have another set of transfers so it will stay black unless another comes my way and then this one can be altered to another company on the transfer sheet.

Interestingly the pictures and diagrams do not match I have copied the instructions here, but the picture in colour on the top of the packet does not have the centre board even though the transfers provide it, but has used the ones supposedly for the shell bp wagon. Other companies were grey, blue or red. Any definitive answers/ photos out there? Richard

Painted it in black because the instructions told me that was what the company livery was. Seemed backed by research as they explain liveries in general, but I would also assume Dapol did research too?

And the third has been finished It will need weathering. Had to make it, it is one of very few GCR connected kits with transfers out there. I have say though that as a first experience with methfix transfers, it has left me wondering why anyone would use them, they seem quite a lot of effort for little decernable benefit over the much simpler and quicker water slide , unless someone can tell me what unseen benefit I have got. Richard

I hope (mainly through the contributions of other modellers) this thread continues to be useful and even 'inspirational' (not my personal description) in the coming New Year. I'm astonished how popular it is, and how many look at it and contribute to it. My most grateful thanks. The thread will shortly hit 1 million views I wonder if RM web can cope or if like an odometer it will cycle back to zero. Has any other thread topped the seven figures Mark yet?

The A1 has progressed and the lining is "almost done" but I could not take it to the outlaws as a Christmas project, so for my sanity I built and painted these over the 4 days, Both sides as I have little else to show, they were old preprinted sides, but the Manvers main on one side had partly come off so some of the writing is my free hand . That makes seven Manvers main wagons, you can never have too many of them on the GCR. Also about to break cover is a tar wagon but I have had to wait to fit the roding as I did not take any away with me so that had to wait for our return to home. Little modeling projects over Christmas make the season so much better, though they will look tiny compared to the three massive tasks I have set my self for 2017, as long as my health, finances and sanity hold up. Richard

The wills ones are about right as long as you drill two holes in to every upright indent, I did it over a number of days. That stopped me going potty.

These look great, had you considered a grass mat to hang down on the far side to conceal the below ground storage yards?

And children ....from my experience in my line of work

I feel yur pain as my layout has had to move 5 times, including crossing the Atlantic. Better than having to scrap it and start again though Richard

The GCR B3 and B5 good looks were radically changed too. Even those did not go as far as the conversion of the 0-8-0 tinies into tank locos....by ET again. However the GCR also had one loco that went from a 0-6-2 to an 0-8-0 and back again, it also became a crane tank at some point too if I am remembering correctly. Richard

You definitely have a purpose in life then as Thomas is planning a "layout like uncle Tony's" but his interest is speed, so at the moment wants to scratch build a Japanese bullet train, it was suggested by someone that he could perhaps save up and buy one or get one for Christmas. His reply, " now why would I want to do that? Then I can't build it. My thread does not tick over at the rate this one does as I get sidelined into helping build things for the boys layout, but I will encourage them till the cows come home as then they will not have enough cash to spend on drugs when they are older. Joke aside, thank you, they have wider interests than a lot of their peers which will give then skills which can serve them well when they are older. Richard

One of my sons soldered up his first kit, (a scale link car) aged six. I held the pieces, he introduced the iron, and did some cleaning up, I finished cleaning up the joins. He picked the colour which is a bit loud but might be real, and now it runs as a load on my layout. Now he and his brothers want to build their own locos and carriages. I blame visiting little Bytham Richard

It has to be as we are old school. We have to make the stuff ourselves because the box shifters do not supply very many of our needs. I enjoy he building though. We all do, that does not mean we will not use something appropriate if it is made. Richard

The next project breaks cover It is a railroad A1 with brass masters detailing, new handrails to replace moulded ones. I had hoped to spray it, but spray paint in the USA does not have the correct shade so it is hand painted. Lining from fox. The loco ran on the GCR just prior to ww2 so fits for my GC through the ages trains. It needed a streamlined non corridor tender though so a GBL mallard tender top is mid re spray. I had hoped to finish it by now but have done no. Modeling for a week due to work. That is not good for me. Richard

How may locos have i opped at the NRM by seeing just their number/ nameplates on the walls? Does the sections merchant navy count as "most" is still there, if only from one side? Richard

Stick with solvent, seal in with superglue on a pin. Best of both worlds Or Both sets of problems. Richard

Lovely loco.I am sorry to here about John. A real gentleman craftsman of our hoby. Richard

For the roof fit a former, the real ones had them to help them hold their shape. For the tube, find a 15mm one and wrap it in plasticard to get the correct width. Just ideas.Please keep doing tutorials, the motor one helps though the first half loses me slightly. My wife gets electrics far better than I do. Richard

A B3 now there is something I need to have a go at making. A delight to see one modeled so well.

That's me. Though i have tried to listen to others about how fast trains should really go and then gauge it off passing signals or buildings. If anything Tony was always telling me to slow down. The exuberance of youth? Richard

Oh how history repeats itself. Thats why we should study it.

That is a great loco. I hope Jesse gets many years of enjoyment out of it.Tony your comment about prejudice on a persons appearance being limiting. All I can say is thank god my wife can see past appearances otherwise I would be single. I think that statement is true for a lot men. Richard