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I had £3.50 taken from my account for an alleged Amazon prime account I don't have. Alerted the bank, they agreed it was fraud refunded me and cancelled my bank card. My partner has money taken from his account on the basis he'd paid for something on his phone. Bank useless and phone company useless. So we told his phone company to ban such purchases through our phones. Hasn't happened again

As said above trackside is Keighley on the KWVR. The station forecourt was filmed at Kidderminster on the SVR.

Safe bet they'll be no upgraded GWR coaching stock

You are right, I'd forgotten.

As I recall there was the veteran four wheeler, and a brake and a composite for each of the big four. The GWR was based on Collett 57 footers with a dining car. The Southern was the GWR coaches painted green and a different roof. The LNER were some distorted gresley coach stock plus a sleeper. The lms were stanier 57 footers using the GWR underframe or vice versa. The BRITISH rail stock were a selection of Mk 1 and after 78 some mk 3. Any mk 2s came from airfix

Lady Justice arrived today. She is 3D printed from Shapeways from a royalty free source found online. So I take no credit for the design. The cost was extortionate. A tenner for the print (not bad), thirty quid for the packing and postage! Don't tell the other half. The scales needed repair but given how delicate there are I'm not surprised. So now the roof and skylights to do

So little bit different, working on Mother Kibri kitbash. Almost at the stage where I have used all the kit parts I want to on this one. This was the original kit Five of them collected over several years give this Haven't decided if this will be shops with a hotel above or offices. But definitely shops at ground floor. Will design something up and get it 3d printed for the shop fronts. A lot of attention needs to be given to the roof, so plenty of pyramids/pavilion rooves and chimneys to give that high Victorian look.

Nice work, but don't forget that mortar was sometimes tinted and rather than having darkened with age, it started out that colour.

Of course no court building would be complete without the royal coat of arms. This one is a former warrant officers cap badge I believe bought off a certain online auction site. It's perhaps a little on the large side buts fits nicely above the main door. My fine detail painting has never been brilliant, I tend to rely on a broad brush approach and a layer of dirt to cover up the worst of it. But from a distance and in the gloom under the pediment I think I get away with it.

I look at realism in two ways, there are those layouts which are accurate down to the last rivet which I admire greatly but could never aspire to, and then there are those layouts which don't attempt to that level of detail but manage to capture the atmosphere of the real thing. The mind/eye can be very forgiving

The model shop I go in most frequently, the very excellent Footplate in Kidderminster, has plenty of coaches in stock from Hornby so if not in the current catalogue coaches are still available!

Hundred years of grimy midlands soot added. Has helped to bring out the details on the lions

Michael, I found someone on eBay. He was quite happy to make them a little bigger than advertised on his posting and without the base.

Lions arrived today, so couldn't resist posting a few photos. Bit amorphous but will do as limestone statues that have suffered the pollution of the local climate for a hundred years

Suppose it's possible that Hattons could sell on the rights/moulds for their Genesis coaches

Yes I'm aware of goods stock, but never heard of it in relation to passenger carrying stock

I'm not aware that the articulated stock was overly wide. I understood it to be a variation of the later Collett 57 ft bow ended stock. The GWR did have some wide stock (notably the Cornish Riviera and Centenary coaches which were banned from parts of the GWRs own network. But I've never heard of one of the big four loaning stock to one of the others!

I like the scale, "to fit box" 😂

Sure Beatties used to do something like this when I was a lad!

I wonder if they will be a sudden sell off of all those old Nellies, Connie's and Polly's as people rush to replace them with latest hi def new ones!

Feels very much like a treading water announcement, and perhaps to be expected as they move to a new way of making product announcements. Although the announcement of Polly etc sounds more like a very early April fool! Also I had hoped we'd seen the last of the old GWR Collett coaches and that the moulds had been taken out and buried in an unmarked grave

I don't have the books with me but so far as I recall the GWR articulated restaurant cars were a three car set.

Plastic strip arrived and stonework added to basement on one side. Should have ordered more as have run out of enough to do the otherside. So fresh order placed.

No I think that's a traffic cone

Not much progress. Have ordered some plastic strip which I'd hoped to get Saturday morning to do the rusticated stonework on the new basement but it didn't turn up. So in the meantime have kitbashed the doorways for the Bridewell, finished the steps and balustrade, using some scale link products I find amongst the spares. The balustrade needs drilling to accept these so at the moment they look a bit drunk. Also sprayed some of it in stone colour to allow the second row columns to be glued in and the back wall of this area to be started. I wasn't keen on the large windows the kit with comes with for this area so have bashed up some spare side panels. Progress so far posed with the compulsory Queen Victoria statue. Built from a Franklin mint pewter figurine from their British monarchs and a plasticard base. the lions and lady justice have been ordered