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    Now available in Haxby, York.
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    Interests include walking, reading, music, comedy, eating, travel, talking, shopping and driving....aka Life! My railway interests include BR Blue 1970-1980's, Motorail, Cross country services and the Rio Grande. I currently model in n scale and am constructing a layout of Kensington Olympia.

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  1. Can anyone recognise where D5344 (26044) is in this view from November 1968. I’ve just purchased the slide.
  2. Thought I’d back up the PC today and use my Seagate portable storage……..last one I’d done was written on the box 19/6/2021!….oops.
  3. Well one bus comes along and another two arrive! This another one of those roundtuit jobs. This pair of BT Models Atlanteans have been dismantled for about two years awaiting to be ‘converted’ very loosely into MCW Metrobuses. After the issues stripping the ODC Routemaster of paint I thought I’d get some plastic safe stripper for these bodies. Only the chassis on the BT Models Atlantean is metal everything else is plastic. After reading the instructions to DO NOT ALLOW the item to sit in the stripper for more than 5 mins and only paint it on the surfaces, I left the model for its 5 mins…………..and absolutely no paint came off. After probably 6x5mins the paint still wasn’t shifting although had softened. So the body got removed and rinsed with just the shine taken off. With the second body I’m not even bothering with the stripper. Anyway some progress photos. The completed Metrobus has the doors from the TPM Models DMS conversion kit added, kindly supplied by Grahame Hedges. As this is no longer available I’ll have to make some doors up. The Atlantean having four part doors.
  4. Yes it appears to have pick ups on the tender. DCC socket is in there too.
  5. The RML gained its advertising and route blinds today, I’m quite pleased with this one.
  6. The RML also gained its decals….and got varnished when I got home. Clad with typical 1980s adverts.
  7. A productive day at the Yorkshire area NGS meeting. A bit more weathering done, The Royal Kensington Hotel block painted ready for planting, The Duchess had a good run in too.
  8. After lots of Anglo -Saxon cajoling of the PC it finally behaved itself long enough to edit and print the first lot of adverts. I’ll let them dry off overnight before sealing them. They look OK to me.
  9. I have also dug out my only steam locomotive, Duchess of Hamilton. This was purchased in the Cumbrian Mountain Express train pack that GF did in 2014. It has never been run, so it was with a bit of anxiety that I took it to work to see if it would even move. No problem at all, very smooth. I will take it to Saturdays Yorkshire are NGS meeting to give it a run in on the modular layout, prior to fitting a chip. This loco ran some excursions out of Olympia back in the day.
  10. Some supplies from work, the brick red paint is to complete the restoration of the Royal Kensington Hotel building. The paint stripper for some BT Atlantean buses which will get converted into another pair of Metro Scania Metro buses. The replacement white decal paper arrived today so a new can of gloss varnish to seal them. The PC is having a bit of a strop at the moment. I’ve had to reboot it after it just locked up. Can’t get the additional bus adverts edited prior to printing.
  11. Starting to take the layout apart and make a few repairs to scenery on the joints.
  12. You’ll never make a barman stood that far from the pump handles John.
  13. The body has had another coat of red, the glazing has been cut to fit and LT decals added to the lower deck. A slight cock up on the catering front, meant that I’ve no white decal paper to print the side adverts……this has been rectified!
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