Captain Kernow

What about thin, narrow brass strip, some fine pliers and some glue?

Looking good, Tony. How will you replicate the firebox below the footplate? I found that difficult when I did my 75023, due to using a Portescap driving the middle axle. I would do it differently now.

Perhaps it might have become part of the 'Avon Metro' that was much vaunted in the early 1980s, if only the local authorities of the time had been able to conceive of any kind of celebration in a brewery...

And no horrible big Continental HO flanges in sight! Lovely models.

Then what I do is move the barrier a bit further from the layout and remember to keep a close watch on it throughout the day.

Surely crowd control barriers will solve a lot of these problems?

'Very interesting, but stupid!'...

But it must be very posh and, therefore, worth all that money, because it's called a Chronograph.

I do like a J72. I am currently working on my third one. All three represent locos that have been 'sold out of main line service' to either the NCB or an outrageously improbable light railway. The current J72 on the work bench is, I think, the 'guinea pig' that Iain Rice used to test build his chassis for the loco, as designed for Mainly Trains. Lots more work to do yet, including replacement buffers: Here is my first J72, weathered to represent a loco sold to the NCB and working in an unlikely Somerset colliery at the time it was photographed on 'Engine Wood'. The split chassis eventually gave out and a Perseverance chassis was substituted: The second one was originally a second-hand purchase and was repainted into a dark green to represent one sold to the aforementioned light railway. The split chassis also expired after a few years and I built a Perseverance chassis for it. Here is this unlikely loco, resting in between duties for it's improbable light railway in Mid-Wales:

Well done, you've passed Basic Locomotive Recognition, Part 1.

Are you in there somewhere, Robin? Where's Wally?

Well, yes I did want to know and then again, I would have preferred not knowing and assuming that the sniggering in front of my layout was due to something else...! Anyway, I've only got the one and am unlikely to get any of the Rapido ones. Oh, hang on, didn't someone say they were fairly common in the Bristol area in the blue era?....

Indeed, that is the question. Let's hope it's not like the Rapido 16XX pannier, beautiful body but the way the chassis and drive mechanism is fully integrated with the body is an abomination.

Maybe, but polished real copper would look better than that copper paint, the lamp irons look under-nourished and the chimneys not quite the right shape. But ModelU are to be commended for the figures. Is that smoke some kind of DCC thing? And I bet it's got a coreless motor...

I wonder if cost is a factor in deciding to paint a loco BR black instead of a colourful and possibly complicated pre-grouping livery?