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I have 14XXs and I also have a 517. I certainly don't need any more. Yet I am following the Dapol thread with a lot of interest...
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Nu Cast 2021 Pannier - Construction
Captain Kernow replied to Erudhalion's topic in Kitbuilding & Scratchbuilding
I seem to recall that the handrail know locations didn't exactly line up on the 16XX kit either. I think I had to mark out new holes in the cab on that one. -
Abandoned rails in the road.....(or elsewhere...)
Captain Kernow replied to 33C's topic in Modelling musings & miscellany
'Wildanet - the company that requires every employee to have a circus clown qualification on their CV'. A complete bunch of idiots. -
Out of interest, if that was Shwt's last exhibition appearance, what will happen to the layout now? ( apologies if I've missed the answer somewhere in the thread).
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You're welcome and there's more where that came from if you carry on throwing your toys out of the pram and generally whinging needlessly in such a negative fashion. But remember, no-one else was responsible for the removal of your nose.
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I was just curious how you find life without a nose? Do you miss smelling stuff? The wonderful odours of the emerging natural world as Spring progresses? Because you have clearly cut yours off, to spite your face and yet you appear to be someone of discernment, who appreciates a magazine with good quality modelling. If you want a guarantee of a pristine copy each time, just ring Simon Castens up at The Titfield Thunderbolt bookshop and order a mail order copy from him (Simon is @Not Jeremy on this forum). I've never had anything arrive in anything other than tip top order from him.
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Morning Tony, I agree with others in that you've posted a very interesting set of comparative photos, with much food for thought. I am certainly no expert on LNER locos, but my initial thoughts are that in terms of some of the bodies, there is very little in it between kit-built and RTR, (although within the RTR camp, some of the Hornby bodies perhaps seem a tad more convincing than the Bachmann ones). Of course, if you hadn't improved the RTR bodies in the way that you have, it is likely that I would have preferred most of the kit-built loco bodies over the RTR ones. Good weathering makes a world of difference to RTR locos as well. Below the footplate, however, I find most of the kit-built locos to be somewhat superior to the RTR ones, especially the Bachmann ones. The one thing I would say, is that I find the Hornby smokebox door area of the Britannia more convincing than the DJH one. I've found the same, when comparing my DJH BR Standard 2-6-4T to the Bachmann equivalent.
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Not even 1471, getting a bit lost after working the Llantrisant - Penygraig service?!
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Hello Tony, Thank you for your comprehensive reply. There is much in there that I not only agree with completely, but which also mirrors my own experience and views. Although I have a number of RTR locos in my own collection, none are allowed out onto the layouts, unless they have been weathered and (if necessary) additional detail added. I was thinking about the question of RTR verses kit built locos the other day and I realised that I derive far, far more satisfaction from running something that I have made. After that, good quality kit built locos that I have acquired come second. Like many of us, I'm very fussy about good running and where I find an RTR loco that I'm not happy with (and which won't improve with running in), I often give them an etched chassis. That way if the loco still has problems, then it's no-one's fault but my own, but if it then runs nice and smoothly, then it's elevated into the category of a well made kit in my eyes and I derive the same level of satisfaction, because I've had a hand in the finished article.
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If RTR were capable of pulling the length and weight of trains that you need to run on Little Bytham, Tony, do you think you'd have a greater proportion of such locos?
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☆ SWAG Members Day- SUNDAY 28th APRIL 2024☆
Captain Kernow replied to NHY 581's topic in The Noble Realm of SWAG
Lovely video, Callum, many thanks. Gives a great impression of what those of us who weren't there missed. -
One of the benefits of going through the vets for something like that is that you should be prescribed a product that is effective and not something that doesn't really work properly and which is bought from a non-specialist source. That's certainly our experience with regard to flea treatment. And anyway, our vets are really good, professional and kind and have helped us and our cats so many times, so I don't begrudge them their profit.
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Nu Cast 2021 Pannier - Construction
Captain Kernow replied to Erudhalion's topic in Kitbuilding & Scratchbuilding
I use cellulose thinners, applied with a cotton bud. Dirt runs away from that, screaming into the night... -
Looking very nice, Al. This kit was one of my first, many, many years ago!
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Purposeful and handsome in their mother's eyes.
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Eye of the beholder and all that...!
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And 1458 had a top feed in the late 1950s but it had lost it by the time it was working the Kington area lines and later the Chalford auto.
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Top feeds can be very confusing. Some locos had them when photographed in (say) the late 1950s, but had lost it again a few years later, presumably due to receiving a replacement boiler.