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    LNER... RTR for OO.... Kit building to P4. Generally in the old NER regions...but I do like it around York!

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  1. Enjoying watching, Paul. Making me want to do some modelling more regularly... Work gets in the way of so much good modelling time.
  2. These finished examples look brilliant. I usually dont do pre orders however as these are so good I am willing to throw caution to the wind and place the order. I will now have a trains worth of 9 hoppers. I should probably get some NER ones to mix in...but I will stick with LNER triples at the moment! Interestingly I am more excited about these wagons more than the coronation sets or the new locos coming!
  3. The only item I have for the 2024 catalogue, is the 2 new LNER A4's which were shown in the 2023, being Commonwealth of Australia and Empire of India the later only just being released in December 2023 and the former only making it in 2024 generally. Only Empire of India is shown in the 2024 catalogue. So either some one at the publishers were fed incomplete information or they expected Commonwealth of Australia to sell out very very quickly! I might point out that the new Empire of India is a lovely loco and runs beautifully. My CofA is the old issue but is still a good runner.
  4. My experience of the system is quite good. Probably helped by reading the entirety of this thread before even starting the install. I have installed the new 21Pin decoder in a Empire of India A4. I wasnt really happy with the speaker or its enclosures for this install. The suger cube is a good unit (i have similar speakers in a Bachmann V2 and G5) but the A4 has a 28mm round set up from new. So a 28mm enclosure would have been useful (Hornby I hope your listening!) for the sugar cube. After chating to SRman who had quite a collection of speaker and said to try one of his spare 28mm. I did so however as I think it was a ESU item this is over thickness for the recess and the weight. After using a dremel to remove a ridge from the chassis to drop the speaker lower. I had to modify the weight to allow further height for the speaker... more cutting and comparing for the weight. In the end this worked nicely with the weight sitting down on the speaker back and the body fitting back tight again. One thing doing this is there is 2 foamy packers on each side of the weight which should be removed and reinstalled once all the cutting was completed! I lost at least one of mine! The speaker wires were connected to the S pads on the 21Pin circuit board This has resulted in a good sound production with a good volume. The sound file for the A4 needs a little bit of work to improve it I think.
  5. I feel for all the people at hattons. The loss of a job, friendships workmates and constant location. Over the last 30 odd years I have been buying model railways from Hattons and the much missed Mainly Trains. Hattons has been the go too from Australian British outline modellers for years. The service and range second to none. I had heard years ago if it wasn't for the Australian sales the business would have been a lot worse off at that time, in one of the many economic down turns. I am saddened to hear the decision was partially contributed too by the Australian GST collection. I thought this had been well and truly killed off due to the relatively small scale numbers of model railways. ( For the record, all imports into Australia less than $1000Aud are GST exempt. The exceptions are any thing from eBay and I think Amazon but these sales would total in the millions.) I will miss my daily review of the pre-owned email.
  6. My guess is we will see Dominion of New Zealand come out to match Commonwealth of Australia and Empire of India. I do wonder if they will do Union of South Africa and Dominion of Canada as these both seem to be offlimits due to the great gathering limited edition sets. However both would be lovely in their coronation liveries. Still wondering if they will upgrade the D49. As it is a legacy model of Hornby's dating all the way back to O gauge sets. The current 1970's really needs to be brought into the 2020's they already have the tender for the group standard versions. The grouping tenders could be made up from spares... Such as the Q6. But the others would leave to the modellers to chase around Bachmann for the GCR types.
  7. I picked up one of the A4's from this issue. I really didn't like the gloss which I thought made it look plasticy. So after a clean down (don't use IPA on the bodies as the gloss produces a white bloom which is hard to get rid of) I used Tamiya satin gloss varnish spray pack over the main parts of the body and Matt on the tender top coal area and the cab roof. I am now quite happy with how Woodcock now looks.
  8. Thanks K. I do agree the driver and fireman is a nice touch. I look forward to detailing it all up! Along with a photo of the other 2 coronation locos I have. Just have to wait 3 weeks while I holiday in the UK. 😀
  9. I did end up getting Empire of India it ran nicely at monk bar models. I look forward to getting it all the way home for a decent run and be able to install the Hornby sound chip. Has any one had one of the new A4's apart. The guys at Monk bar said it has firebox glow and a speaker already fitted. I am not sure this is right, it also doesn't bother me if not. Though it would be great if it was as good as Bachmanns G5 which I still think is one of the best sound and fire box I have seen.
  10. Don't forget Dominion of New Zealand! I will have to get a set of these coaches as I seem to still have the addiction to A4's..I already have Dominion of Canada and Commonwealth of Australia, I'm in York at the moment and considering getting Empire of India... That would make 16 A4's...all in LNER liveries. I picked up the latest Irwell press books on the A4's and A1/A3's wonderful photos from the NRM. Including the coronation sets.
  11. Oh goody... I may be able to pick one up before I come home... hopefully one of the many WH's I will pass will have one I can get my mits on for the flight home....
  12. Thanks Paul, This is where I had searched out most of the information to start with.... I should probably have another go at building the station building. I know that most buildings are a lot larger than expected when built to scale... its my day job converting them from a architects drawing to some thing on site! I will dig all the information out again and start with a scale drawing... that will have to wait for the new year. In the mean time I will watch your progress.
  13. Paul, are your buildings kits or are they scratchbuilt? I was searching around for the station building plans which I received a few but the one that I managed to build really didn't convince me once it had made it to about 80%. If they were scratch built I would love to know where you got the plans etc... or if kits the supplier as I would like a set....
  14. I've heard it said that every rail plan that people come up with here in Melbourne takes 50 years to reach maturity to be completed... But then again the level crossing removals happened quickly... only about 10 years
  15. In addition to the above I think BR had "lost" about half a million wagons over the year when they were doing their audits... misnumbering on both sides could account for up to 3 wagons! I know The RCH had a large number of missing wagons that may or may not turn up between accounting audits!
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