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Simon is that 37685 paired with EWS 37xxx? If you was to pair up 685 & 710, they actually worked a tour in 2001 from Crewe. Pathfinders The Catherine Wheel. This was the first leg to Derby... Crewe - (via WCML) - Warrington Bank Quay - Eccles - Manchester Piccadilly - Stockport - Crewe - Stafford - Bushbury Jn - Bescot - Perry Barr North Jn - Soho South Jn - Birmingham New Street - Proof House Jn - Water Orton - Whitacre Jn - Tamworth - Burton-upon-Trent -Derby Full Choc & Cream Rivera set as well. The tour was originally booked a pair of DRS 20's, but they became unavailable at the last minute so they kicked out 685 &710. Was a bloody good day, even though the 'Bombs' got shelved! Link to full tour here... https://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/00s/011117pt.htm Cheers Anthony

Already available... https://www.farishnspares.co.uk/graham-farish/mkiii-2nd-class-coach-interiors-packed-in-4s-br0004.html Mk3 FO also available. Cheers Anthony

Really looking forward to seeing Shirebrook finally in the flesh at DEMU. Cheers Anthony

West Coast Models will be there all weekend. Come along and see what we do. Have an up, close and personal look at our very own personal collection of resprayed and detailed models, plus scratch built items of rolling stock and conversions. In addition to this, we will also have our full range of detailing parts, accessories and 3D printed models available to purchase over the weekend. We will be demonstrating kit building over the weekend, so please do come up and pick our brains. Many fully finished NGS kits will be on display, so if you're struggling with a certain kit then please do come and ask us for advice. NGS York 2023 Saturday 13th May & Sunday 14th May. See you there - Anthony www.westcoastmodels.co.uk

Will pop by and say hello Steve. Cheers Anthony

Been keeping up to date on your YouTube channel. Very impressive and a proper era 👍 Cheers Anthony

Thank you 101. Yes, a very simple job indeed. Cheers Anthony

By the way Nick, the layout and stock is looking superb! Solid 2mm modeller as you know, but somehow has a small collection of O taking over a corner of the garage 😆 Cheers Anthony

I shall have to have a butchers. Thanks for that. Cheers Anthony

Hi Nick My only issue with these is that they have chosen to model the early type with centre ladders! Why didn’t they just model the type that was more common, this being the later left hand fitted ladder examples. Apart from that minor (minor for me anyway) they do look very mouth watering. Now do I get a couple and rework the ladders and grab rails to the left? Or repaint an already left handed ladder type? A few have also had a moan about this 😜 Cheers Anthony

Ahhh James, again, these are just absolutely stunning!! Nothing more to say. Cheers Anthony

Thank you for this, really good comparison, however be careful as the BG 'should' be falcon grey, but the 2 Mk2s would have been executive dark grey, which is slightly darker than falcon grey, but I note on your BFK you have used the correct paints. Farish is neither here or there to be honest, but certainly very close and passable in my opinion, however you can tell the difference on the new Mk2F's as these are all executive dark grey except for the RFB which is correctly falcon grey. The RFB conversions all came out in falcon grey with italic (Gill Sans Bold) IC lettering circa late 1991/92. Now the last batch of Dapol Mk3s in IC swallow were actually quite good, better than the black we had originally! The falcon grey and executive light grey was pretty decent, orange cantrails and silver window surrounds, sadly I can't say the same for the sleepers. This really, really annoys me! I have 12 on order and I was a fool to think that Dapol would make a good job on these. So for now, I'm looking at masking up and respraying the executive light grey, adding new INTERCITY lettering and 10xxx running numbers. Sleeper should also be on all 4 ends, not just 2 as modelled, but in a slightly higher position. Add the silver window surrounds oh, and the orange cantrails! How have they missed these off?? I only assume that Dapol have either looked at the photo that's on Flickr of 10701 which was / is stored at Long Marston and noticed there is no cantrail, but this is basically because it has faded away after such a long time in storage. Now this is what I originally thought, but after a little further research, I note that in Nick Meskell's Scottish Class 37s Vol 3 - The 1990s, some had painted orange cantrails and some not circa 1994. I know the INTERCITY land cruise sets with white roofs do not have orange cantrails. Photo of the real 10701 (SLE) as stored below for reference... How they should look, but these 2 have orange cantrails... Taken in 1998. Anyway, for me I'm happy that we finally have Mk3 sleepers in N that can be easily stripped and worked on, but sadly (again) another Dapol product perfect for my modelling era that will need a little further money spent on and a partial respray etc to make right... The big question here though is, if Farish were to produce these, yes they would be near as damn spot on, but at what cost? £40 / £50 a pop? I'm looking at just over £300 for a rake of 12 Mk3s, then once the 2 Farish RFBs and 2 BGs are added, your up to around £420 ish depending on where you shop? So if Farish were to release these you could probably add another couple of hundred quid onto the rake, but I would be 99% certain that I could take them straight from the box and run them happily. So for me, spending a few evenings prepping, masking, spraying, sending a few quid over to Railtec for transfers (I actually have them all in stock as I knew something like this was going to happen) https://www.railtec-models.com/showitem.php?id=1275 are what you want - then add the paint and varnish on, your going to get a pretty impressive load 16 sleeper rake after all the alterations are done. Sadly for me, another pain and another pile added to the project list, but once complete, I'll be a happy chappie I reckon. A few more SLE and SLEP stored photos... 10558 (SLEP) 10731 (SLE) 10606 (SLEP) Cheers Anthony

Jesus! That's some work that fella. My home depot too! Sadly it's a far cry from my first depot, which was in fact Rugby PSB, sadly now confined to history... Just one pointer, the photo where the transit van is parked, where the access door is, is in fact a roller shutter door, but please don't feel I'm nit picking, obviously without having close up access it's probably hard to tell from photos. Really is amazing work!! Cheers Anthony

Ahh wonderful work Rob. I do like a small roundy, roundy. Will be following with interest. Cheers Anthony

David, this is absolutely fantastic. I am actually based in the ROC at Rugby, so if you ever need any measurements or photos, just drop me a message. Cheers Anthony