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  1. Terrible news, and my heart goes out to you and the family Graham. Only crossed paths fairly infrequently over the years due to distance, but his generosity (at a time when he didn't know me from Adam) and the inspiration of his modelling has had a huge influence on me. It was always an absolute highlight of an exhibition to catch up with Ken, hear the news and inevitably various entertaining tales. Rest in peace big yin, and get the new workbench set up wherever you are.
  2. Nice one Mark. I imagine the exhibition will be beyond my reach but I will keep an eye on progress and I hope it goes well.
  3. Good show @Jim49 et al. Glad I decided to go for a look as there was plenty to see and a good selection of trade too. Garlieston is looking promising and running well John - good to see another bit of Galloway take shape in miniature.
  4. Hi Mark I do like the Clans. I reckon they're a touch more elegant than the Brits thanks to that smaller boiler. Nevertheless I'm restraining myself from your Kernow tip despite a forthcoming birthday. Some information on the tablet catcher - or the mounting for same, not sure they were fitted often, if ever - thanks to Chas of the Alloa crew: Some comments on nameplate colours around the same point in the thread, plus or minus a page or two. Have to say I don't recall seeing light blue nor green. I didn't get hung up on the colour as mine disappeared under a layer of Kingmoor grime. As forewarning, I find the (fairly bright) lining on the running plate really highlights any wear and tear to the weathering caused by handling the loco. In retrospect I'd have been better removing it. Keep up the good work J.
  5. Doesn't quite look as crude there as I recalled, and in fairness the airfix planking isn't brilliant either. Here's a side-by-side with Airfix body on LHS, Dapol body on RHS: I can see why people might choose either, but the deep dark plank lines are too much for my taste. And yes my lettering is just about as bad! Both are shown running on Parkside chassis with Lanarkshire buffers.
  6. No, the body seems to have been retooled in Dapol days, leaving the newer examples suffering from over-pronounced detail. From memory these include planking lines which one could drive a bus through, and oddly shaped corrugations in the ends. Both purport to represent the BR built diagram 1/204 van - in body at least. Some very useful notes on 4mm LMS (and LMS-derived) vans from the Airfix/Mainline/Dapol, Parkside and Ratio models can be found here: https://windcutter.wordpress.com/2012/04/22/the-lms-van/
  7. My reaction to the unfolding Covid situation last year, despite being of good health and in my mid thirties, was to make out a quick crib sheet of what I had and where my family could seek help in either selling or finding good homes for my models if the worst happened. Yes, both. As far as I know the Brassmasters kit is the 'best' route to a long firebox Jubilee - a loco that is very conspicuous by its absence on my layout. Too difficult for my skill levels (now and in the short to medium term) and too expensive to break into a source of parts to mix with other kits or models. It seems Corkerhill will continue to be sending it's Jubilees out on other diagrams meantime.
  8. This view will be spectacular. I love the generous use of space and how the scenery is going to dwarf the train - the only way to really capture this prototype location I guess.
  9. Hi John, Hornby seem to have produced both the rivetted and welded variants of the LMS bogies, and you've got an example of each. I'm pretty sure they've always issued their coaches with matching bogies at each end, but I dare say stranger things happened on the prototype. The books lead me to believe the LMS built coaches with each type of bogie concurrently.
  10. The recent 'bookazine' (effectively a compilation of what would otherwise form individual articles) from the Hornby Magazine publishers on the subject of modelling engineer's wagons is the first publication I've bought in a long time, other than the MRJ. It opened my eyes a bit as to what the mainstream publishers can still produce, and I would welcome further similar works. Somehow, I don't feel that the internet has yet equalled the printed press. Forums and facebook type sites offer piecemeal content frequently thinly spread amongst in-jokes and off topic discussion. All the interesting information may be in there, but the presentation of a well-written article would make it far more coherent. One interesting side effect of 2020 and its lockdowns is the advent of the virtual exhibition. These videos offer an opportunity to see a layout in action but with the possibility to be as informative as a written article by narrating what is happening on camera. Such apparent anomalies as double-headed 4MT/5MT locomotives on two-coach trains or loaded coal going in both directions along a stretch of line could be explained and understood rather than potentially written off as just sloppy modelling. I have seen a lot of marvellous modelling at exhibitions without having a clue about what was being represented.
  11. Take the mechanicals out of crashed Teslas etc and fit them within locomotive tenders, consulting some Hornby and Lima designers from the 1970s-80s if necessary. That should still leave space for a sound chip and speakers within the redundant coal space.
  12. https://railphotoprints.uk/p968868046/h24EEB274#h24eeb274 Presumably the same train, just a few miles south beyond Barrhill. It's a lovely photo.
  13. Have to admit, I only noticed after one of mine started to part company from the main body shell!
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