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Ian Fisher

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  1. cheers for your positive words
  2. Interesting wagon, Sorry being late to the party. Both wagons seem to share the same chassis of 20'8" which for me is one I had not come across. Each solebar has to be 7mm longer in 4mm between the headstock and axle? The bodies are a variation on a wooden medfit? Yet another interesting diagram to add to the possible builds list.
  3. Odd how people post in other threads about wanting a 325..... 14 replies...two who PM'd me a few nutty replies and very few meaningful approaches
  4. found image gives the shop as being 47... If you look on google earth Betfred currently occupy number 65 3d news 53
  5. If you look closely at the brake lever the tool has at this stage had some significant wear and or damage, which I understand had major issues in getting components out of the die.
  6. Thinking of having a look at getting an old 03 and giving it a makeover refurb. I have high level chassis kit. I recall craftsman did a kit but at a loss as to other parts that may be out there that I may want to consider
  7. Bet its all that steam punk stuff that has put them in profit. or Airfix! just try and buy a kit of late! Military modelling is a little bit more table top, I have invested in a few aircraft principally with the lack of rail shows my bits buying has shrunk. Compare military traders they have grasped e commerce.
  8. ditto... I had a very privileged but brief opportunity two years ago of working in Loram. Caroline was a favorite..
  9. I bet you are the best of the best with an airbrush.
  10. Not sure how you can tell from a cad what the spec is of a flange...
  11. They had one of Footballs longest serving managers if not the longest for many years (33) By trade a window cleaner it was joked he would take advice from many of his clients in the Crosby area, area with many Merseyside based footballers calling the Crosby home....
  12. I read somewhere very recently that someone said these are ex Airfix.. Odd that they they had existed without a release and for the only addition Hornby would make is the door lights! not having the option to just alter the tools!
  13. The Sleepers are I guess being released to make up the test trains as in the pics above.
  14. Can you explain about the "full retool" please
  15. more info coaching stock on ever annually... https://daverowland.smugmug.com/Platform5-Railway-Books
  16. I reckon the loco book was published twice a year, the others annually
  17. A mate who started on the railway with the LMS ended his career in Liverpool Lime Street's top link. He was one for a laugh too. A younger driver having done an inspection of his DVT and felt his DVT was missing a pantograph! report it then lad....to which the fitter then bent the younger drivers ear.. Jimmy, driving himself kicking back in his cab doing a ton going down working, was then greeted by a steward with a full brekkie. Imagine the surprise having worked on your own for twenty years, his comment "I almost s*te myself" but the brekkie was good.
  18. I beg to differ. A Mark 3b DVT aint a class 82/1. The model could actually be cheaper to produce as unlike a coach to convey passengers this has no interior to model after a small cab desk.
  19. Simple its a coach. No motor. Technically not a class either its number range falls within tops for npcs.
  20. MK1 Wobbly chassis released around forty years ago! at if my memory serves me right at about 75p??.....the buffers looked a little bit like a solid oleo. MK2 Then you had one with buffers from a design favoured by GW Churchward...possibly but hey it was sprung.... Oh and bits would fall off randomly. Oh and those buffers....sprung great but did I mention they bore no resemblance to anything oleo related. The shape was a bit iffy on both Hornby takes. They then basically invented a box body for their COALFISH, it was soon "retooled" Bits would still fall off. They then released batches at increased prices which had them sat on shelves...but its a new generation model, with some major flaws.. Some models you can have a hack at but the HAA family sort of relies on the bucket being accurate, it wasn't. The next generation deserve to do well.
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