Martin S-C

Perhaps ceremonially buried inside a pyramid.

Goodness, you are absolutely correct. I see they carry the blue and yellow banner on their packaging. I stand corrected - I must be thinking of another company. Maybe Zvezda?

Those are the latest range by Strelets I think? They are producing some great stuff these days but sadly since they are a Russian company I won't buy them. I am still using a bunch of old Airfix and Matchbox plastics from the 1980s. Still going strong - they get their bendy rifles repainted every once in a while.

Standard M&GNR livery!

Good gracious, you are a wargamer too! How tragic we've never met! With soft plastics also remember to give them a good bath in a bowl of warm soapy water to get rid of any traces of the release agent used to ease their removal from their moulds. I scrub them with a redundant toothbrush at this stage. Wargame figures are odd things though with often cartoon levels of over-emphasized detail and depending on the manufacturer and how long ago they were made, some distinctly non-human proportions. Metal figures seem to be worse in this regard than plastics. Not the best ranges to look at for model railways.

Probably because the sculptor made him sit after he'd just come out of the bath. Poor old geezer must have been freezing.

The Drill Hall is a classic piece of superb modelling and I hope it has appeared in a number of magazines! There are very few flint buildings modelled, on railway models or otherwise. As for my long silence on RMWeb I have been unable to find the mood to do any railway modelling for a year or more, my life has focussed on wargaming, mostly 18th C and 1930s fictional by which means I can enjoy a short spurt of modelling and get results on the table top within days which is terribly appealing and motivating. However stepping back into my model railway planning shoes and looking at that plan in light of my trials and tribulations with designing a system layout I would voice concern at almost all the aisle widths given on these wonderful plans. In my painful experience you need 36" for two people of average girth to pass and I would fix that as the minimum aisle width on any design. More is preferable. Unless the intent is to operate this wonderful empire solo and assign guests or visitors to a seat by the door, this plan would be quite problematic for 2-3 people to operate, especially if they are in their dotage (as I am now). You may have to accept narrower baseboards and wider gaps between them.

Its incredible to think that Woodcroft was very seriously damaged at the break-in on Friday night of the Market Deeping show back in 2019. The team have done a fantastic job of restoring it.

As happens in good exchanges of ideas, people branch off along their own lines of thought :)

The post I was referring too was Schooner's which I've quoted above yours. I am sure what he suggested can be done, the problem I foresaw was that the system would/might not know in which direction the movement was taking place. I wasn't necessarily aiming the discussion at the Modulus System specifically though I was wondering (perhaps not at all clearly) if it could also handle such things.

In the real world yes, but the signals in this system would operate even when shunting within station limits. Imagine a simple terminus with a 2 points forming a run-round loop and 1 starting signal at the end of the track with the passenger platform. A train arrives along the straight line into the platform. In the system described above the starting signal would be off because the straight road is set. The system has no idea in which direction the move is taking place, only that a route is set. How would this software know which direction a move was happening in?

It could but if in a shunt situation might you wish to operate a point but not clear a signal? I don't know if that would be the case but if it were signals would wag about unnecessarily. Or a point be set for running in one direction but setting it that way also clears the signal in the other?

That second option has potential.

That would entail a further lever though wouldn't it? The cost issue raises its ugly head once again.

I still want a fully manual lever frame, but with the pulling of the signal lever by the operator to be blocked until after the route is set. The exact equivalent of manual interlocking, only digital or electronic. I haven't a use for route setting software. I suspect what I am looking for does not exist because it would have to be impossible to pull the signal lever and that almost certainly has to mean a mechanical system.