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Wonderful. The star of the show for me are the 'brambles and undergrowth'. Very, very, nice.

I've had similar musings. I wonder if the techniques used in the "Pepper's ghost" illusion could be used? Perhaps for exhibition layouts only, but it may be possible to produce it on a smaller scale. It would be marvellous to see a train pull up at a platform and then have the 'ghosts' of the passengers and staff move about the platform and so on. The other alternative might be to use a looped video playing on a smartphone screen, which is then hidden inside a building so that the movement is visible through the windows?

Wonderful stuff, as ever. You always deliver the goods, Mikkel ray

Todays word is "ferritic"...

Really nice looking layout Chris!

Page 92 - What is a GWR MONGO vehicle? Is it for transporting Flash Gordon's luggage?

I love stuff like this. I think its the sheer seat-of-the-pants feeling it has. Keep it up please.

Thanks Gordon - useful stuff. O/T, sorry, but that excellent list is only a small indication to non-GW fans that the Great Western is far from 'done' as far as R-T-R locomotives are concerned. Railways didnt just spring into life, fully formed, on January 1st 1923!

As any fule kno, nigels favorite is ye olde trane "flying scots-man", but "St Custards" for a skool would be topp

I saw the 28xx in W.H.Smiths today and thought it looked ok.

Party pooper It was always going to be a compromise - but I think I can live with it with a few tweaks.

That's ok Stefan, don't fret I'm looking at 247 Developments website - sounds like they do custom plates but it's not entirely clear from the website. I'll give them a ring in the week. Next question: Do you think this would have been painted GWR green? To my untrained eye it looks very dark - although maybe the tank is a different shade of 'dark' than, say, the cylinder covers (which look very black) lol Surely, once absorbed, the GWR would have painted her green?

Looks like they have withdrawn their bespoke nameplates service.

This is a picture of Raven that I found here: http://www.broadgauge.co.uk/locomotives/d52_raven_class.shtml Lovely. What struck me was how much like it was to these: Now I don't have a drawing of the Raven class, but they do look awfully similar. So similar, in fact, that I'm starting to wonder why Horny have never produced one of these as a 'fictitious' livery for the Caley - after all, they seem to have done everything else. So anyway, I picked up a couple of pugs this morning from the toy fair (who doesn't love a bargain?) I bought two because the L&Y livery version looks so cute that I will probably keep it 'as is'. The LMS red one (which the previous owner has already had a go at with a brush) is for the chop. It's quite tempting just to leave it as it is and re-livery it... but the changing the boiler fittings, chimney etc would make such a big difference I think it would be worth the effort. The cab needs extends backwards by the look of it too - not sure how, but hey-ho I'll have a think. Any ideas where I can get name and number plates from ?

Home and happy I bought these two little things "Why?", you might ask. Well I have a plan - and it's as hot as my pants, to quote Lord Flashheart...

It's on from 10am - 3pm http://www.ukmodelshops.co.uk/events/8782-TonyOakesFairs_ChesterToy&TrainFair

The Toy Fair at Chester Northgate Arena has been brought forward to tomorrow. I'll be going. Will you? I'm sure I need something... I wonder if the sell "a kick up the backside" ?

Payday is upon us once again, and the postman has been kind enough to drop this one through my letterbox. Lovely. Stupid box, stupid tender wiring connector, but lovely, lovely model. Hornby 28xx NRM special edition.

I would love to try that, Mike! Are you talking about the handles or the lining? Do you have post about it somewhere? The paints I'm using are, incidentally, Vellejo acrylics.