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  1. Ebay seller was doing them, I had to make the Cheltenham District from two packs, Cheltenham plus Maidstone District from memory.
  2. Yes, they ran "seaside specials" on Sundays, bank holidays and more often in summer school holidays. Just one bus there, five hours or so in Weston for the same bus back. Sometimes it needed to be duplicated or triplicated to cope with demand, it just picked up at a few points in Cheltenham and Gloucester then went straight onto the M5 so probably only took about 90 minutes from Gloucester, even with an Olympian.
  3. wow, that's quite a find- thanks for that. Now to place a massive order!!
  4. Can anyone point me towards a source for the West Yorkshire PTE colours as worn by the Class 141's when they were brand new please. The colours worn by the buses in the same region are quoted as "verona green" and "buttermilk", I've drawn something of a blank so far!
  5. Its only happening on this site, but it didn't happen just now!
  6. using google chrome on a desktop, not gold membership. Just took about seven attempts to get this far, as soon as the screen opens a very dangerous malware "advert" for BT tempting me with offers in Euros for completing a "survey" and also purporting to be from Vodaphone. Luckily my malware is up to date.... I know this has been said a thousand times and we get that you have to monetise the site and turn a substantial profit for your owners but this ain't the right route, as the site is un-useable.
  7. Another three months of silence, how long until we hear the squeal of wheel flanges...
  8. I'm selling off the last of my stock of these replacement interiors as part of a clear out before I move house. £30 for four, including free P&P. You need them if you've got Oxford Rail Mk3's (INTERCITY "swallow" or Virgin), Hornby (InterCity as per this years release, INTERCITY "swallow", most post privatisation liveries) and Lima (again, everything between blue/grey and mid 2000's refits). Not correct for sliding door era. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185824420447
  9. Mr Colour blisters enamel paints, thankfully only a test piece!
  10. Seen it, ordered it, waiting for it! Thanks for the suggestion, I've now got a model set aside for varnish trials ahead of re-stripping prior to going into a different livery!
  11. Are you using https://www.migjimenez.com/en/ as that's all I could find typing AMMO MIG in? It's out of stock there. There appears to be an acute global shortage of modelling varnish, every single turn I take leads to "no stock"- that was probably the 20th place I've tried.
  12. Do you have an online stockist? Nobody has the HR hobbies version of AlClad, the warhammer games people have e-mailed me to advise "out of stock" implying that HR Hobbies is no more.
  13. Thanks, found some stock of that on a Warhammer website so I'll give that a whirl- the product numbers are the same so it sounds promising!
  14. Can anyone suggest a good alternative to Alclad for a sprayable varnish? I'm running out and nobody on eBay has it without paying for shipping from Australia or the USA! I use the gloss version (for final coat on model buses) but the satin would do. All other varnishes I've tried go white or yellow, or don't work after the third or fourth time the container is opened.
  15. Never thought of that, I'll have a look in there later this week!
  16. Apologies for the question, I've looked back through six pages and couldn't see a topic where the answer was apparent. I want to make a copy of an item I already have, in my naivety I assumed it was a "thing" that a local 3D print place might be able to simply place my item in a machine for it to somehow scan it and spit out copies some minutes later. Upon asking it seems I have to spend £300+ getting them to make it into a file, and that is before I've even got one unit in my hands. The item is an interior seat moulding for a model bus that measures approx 120mmx28mmx30mm. The material used isn't important, neither is the colour or the finish for that matter. Looking at the other threads it seems that making the item myself in fusion 360 or similar software would be the starting point if I was making it from scratch, but that feels like a very long route when I've got the actual thing I need in my grubby little hand- I just need about 20 more of them! Huge thanks in advance for advice!!
  17. seriously, you might as well just throw everyone non premium off the site now. I can't close the Rapido advert which takes up 75% of the screen and on a decent sized desktop monitor I only have a 3"x7" visible window and can only see the first half of each line in any posting. This site has now passed the point where advertising has become so overwhelming that the site is useless. (Using Google Chrome, a not uncommon browser)
  18. A pair of Olympians painted using the Phoenix Precision colours, and I'm happy with the shades.
  19. Don't know if I should put this in road vehicles but it's here for now! Does anyone know if anyone did transfers for the "Metro Coastlines" branding as used by Blackpool Transport on trams and buses in the 2000's (from I guess c1999/2000 until c2011/2012). I've looked at the likely suspects and not found anything, its a tough one to home-print without access to a white ink print facility.
  20. Thanks, have ordered two sheets to see how I get along. Spraying or otherwise colouring a plain sheet would have been an issue as cutting and fitting the glazing is quite fiddly without worrying about scuffing it.
  21. It's probably been asked before but I can't find it by searching! Can anyone recommend or point me towards a source of flat acetate sheet (or similar) to turn clear windows into bronze tinted windows. Ebay searches pull up coloured sheets but none in brown or bronze. The application is for a model bus kit, I had a sheet a long while ago from Howes which was ideal and used inside Lima Mk3 coaches at the time but now sadly all used up.
  22. Doing nothing and churning out more slam door Mk3s using the now 20 year old moulding would suit very nearly every single modeller who doesn't care about the coaches and will accept anything as long as the loco hauling them has micromillimeter perfect roof grills and door handle positions. My evidence for this is my total inability to flog 76 seat replacement interiors despite Hornby having sold tens of thousands of coaches with either original 1976 layout standard class innards, or even worse the first class 2+1 layout in standard class coaches as per the IC Swallow releases in 2020. Not that I'm bitter or anything!!!!! Slam door Mk3's might be done on the mainline (which is true bar the GWR sleeper and some charter rakes) but given the length of their careers and the appetite for loco models in the 1976-2020 period you'd have thought the market was still fairly large going forward.
  23. Be fair, the Hornby ones do bounce along the track!! (and they are at least 35 years old). Looking forward to the Skipper, when/how do we order?
  24. Nope, that is the one number that we already have (the Hornby Skipper was 142015). There are 12 other Skippers to choose from, so any other number would be preferable. Oh, and Cornwall beats Devon in every meaningful measure- I hope the destinations will be easily changeable by the amateur modeller as they are on the Bachmann 150/2 for example! What is the anticipated release date of these?
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