chris p bacon

Having to disassemble the track, cut each sleeper from its neighbour and reassemble is about as far from RTL as you can get, you might as well just use the Exacto range.

In fairness if you don't know the chap would you buy without an idea of what is was or how much, could have been phrased a little better though. PS, I don't need your keys, I've got a crowbar and a sledgehammer.......could explain my modelling!

It's a new type of horseshoe for flat racers.

Boom......Bo....

If you read "Wrights Writes" you'd think that with the advent of decent RTR modelling was dead. I thought it might be £6 RRP but figured that a fiver might be more palatable.

On the other hand I'm surprised the APT-E sold as many as 2000, this is the figure for a normal production run for other recent releases that are able to be purchased some time after release meaning stock on the shelves. The figure of 4-5000 is very optimistic nowadays but a figure of 1000-1500 for the Single could well be correct.

Best not to use these nets as smaller birds feet can get caught up in them and trap them, we buy ours loose (or make them) and put them in a wire feeder. Changing locations again might help, it's quite common for us to place feeders where we can see them but this means there isn't enough cover for the birds to feed freely.

Where's the "Jealous" button.

We had somewhere similar this year, I could only do one day and it took the operating crew an hour and a quarter due to roadworks, I was back in Sandy with a cuppa before they got to the hotel. Accommodation was fine it was the roadworks on the North circular which were the issue.

Lady Bacon had to go to Rainham Marshes (RSPB Reserve) in Essex today, 54 species seen inc water Pippit and also getting to within 4 feet of a Kestrel ! Robin, Wren, Sparrows and Blackbirds are now back and on the feeders, I can hear the Blue Tits but haven't seen them, no Green Finches yet which is unusual.

Bit of a cheek Ivan but can you send it to me too please....pretty please with bells on.... membership@gnrsociety.com will get to me. Ta.

That one was on the i94 as well. I was so tempted to answer "not sure" but then I managed to wake up....

Blimey, I wasn't even a teenager! Ta for that, I'll look out for copy in the secondhand stalls.

There was a layout that stands out in my childhood memory of RM, not because it was a great prototypical inspired piece but because I thought it was fun (I was a teenager) and had lots of small cameos. 'Under Milk Wood' was the layout (IIRC) and was possibly the work of D Rowe, the station was "Llareggub" and the trackplan was something like a simple inverted figure of 8. What stood out to me was what you could get into such a small space.

The i94 or i95 immigration card, such a joy after 10+ hours in the air, I loved the question "Have you ever been convicted of Moral Turpitude"

The Mill at Sandy was much better. John Jordan was a friend of fathers and when they were kids they did things like cycle from Sandy to Southwold for something to do, they also use to tear around town on motorbikes when they were in their early teens (they'd get an ASBO now) this was until my uncle Arthur (Dads older brother) put the bike in the river, the following day a resident of water lane (now Ivel rd) gave Arthur 5 or 10 shillings as a reward!

Superb, you've made an excellent job of those. I'll admit that I tend to shy away from rivets as they try my patience too much so I use the excuse that as I need approx 150-200 wagons I haven't the time. What's next on the list?

What does it fire?

I said I didn't help much

I'm starting to think you were a yuppie I played E flat trumpet in Ally Pally in 1972 at Scout band nationals, (1st Sandy Scout & Guide band) we won ........I'm not sure I helped though....

I might have to hone my burglary skills......

See the relevant posts what with Peco were prepared to say

I'm sure it won't be too much more but I do get the impression that some want it to be the same price as the existing which I can't see it being. I used Exacto which worked out at about £6.50 a metre (bulk buying) which was more than twice the cost of Peco (if I accepted it), one person who has visited and seen it said he wouldn't pay the extra as he thought it was "too expensive" and yet for his layout the extra cost would have added no more than £25 to the overall spend, and yet every time he visits he says he prefers the prototypical look. If Peco price near a fiver for a length I wonder how many will still buy the existing range as it's cheaper.

£41 for an O gauge point......we'll need a defibrulator on this topic soon.

With an ageing customer base they might not like it to be too long a timescale. Just picking Hattons it shows a length of track as the same price (£3). I do note that for a large L/R it is £12, I'd be surprised if the new BH one's were that price.