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    S.A.C Martin

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    Interesting view about the front end of an A4 being used - the main stand out difference is in the slope and the length of the chimney which appears a good bit longer on a P2. When I asked my friend Peter Relf to tackle a 7mm P2 kit for me, he took a long time looking at the front end and in the end decided that there was no suitable proprietry casting in 7mm that did the job, so he scratch built one using milliput to get the final detail sloping curved front. With regard to yours being a long build, I've now been waiting 4 years whilst Peter has felt that he might as well have scratch built it from the start!

    Good luck with your build, I look forward to seeing the pics.

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    Jon020

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    Sorry that you ended up with a sore throat Jon, many thanks for your help in setting up (and dismantling) my stand, as well as yours. I managed to get set up in that van again by 6.30 and had a good day (for a change) at the War weekend, Barry Freeman came down for the day and will be back again for the Model Railway weekend 7th/8th July if you're interested. Thanks again for your help, M.

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    S.A.C Martin

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    I completely agree that neither Hit or whoever holds the rights to the Thomas brand has any right to stop anyone else putting a face on an engine. We had all this argument at The Bluebell Railway and ended up abandoning Thomas days even thuogh the Rev W Awdry wrote a book specifically about our railway and its first engine Stepney, only to have Britt Allcroft tell us that we had an engine that 'resembled' the Stepney of the books!! at which point we said that it had been Stepney since 1875!! and we had any rights we liked to the engine. At this point the Stepney books mysteriously didn't seem to be stocked any more - we should have charged them for the rights to all our engines, which now proliferate in books and models, but we're not like that. It hasn't stopped me from putting faces on our engines in pictures that I paint and I've also made and painted the faces that we used on the full size engines. Anyway the kids still come to look for Stepney even though he hasn't got a face and he's gone black for the past couple of years.

    By the way I really like Hamilton Ellis' 'Fast Goods' appropriate as 'Fast' women were a bit on the naughty side and I daresay that was what he was angling at.

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    S.A.C Martin

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    The Black buffer shanks were LNER livery and the red were the BR livery so it may be a guide that if the loco had any major works after the LNER livery then it would have changed to BR style. However 60503 had Light or non classified repairs in 1949, so may not have had a full repaint, but when the numberplates were applied, then the bufferbeam numbers would have normally been painted out which might well have included the buffer shanks, so unless you can find a definitive picture it is a difficult one to choose. Most pics that I have seen show black buffer shanks in LNER green/BR numbering, but with number still on bufferbeam.

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    N15class

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    Interesting your point about tarnishing, these look like they have been waiting a dozen years for some action, not realising where you live - Northern Brazil ! I still find it amazing the power of the internet that links people all over the world with similar interests. The well tank looks a bit nose-down, can that be corrected? The Ivatt needs some form of compensation? Although lots of people tell me that 7mm rigid chassis are OK, I find that they are the only ones that give me problems, particularly with my outdoor layout.

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