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Jon, There is no need to pre soak the area with Kleer, just add a few drops near the side of the ballasted area and it soaks through. It behaves like very thin super glue, if that makes any sense.

Tom, Like you I have never done any 3D drawing work before. The only experience I have of even 2D drawing goes back an 'O' level in Technical Drawing 30 odd years ago! However, I do find SketchUp an easy tool to master, and find that the ability to enter the size of an item manually really helps. For example if I want a cuboid of 0.2mm x 0.6mm x 0.15mm, I would choose the rectangle tool to draw a rectangle of any size, then type "0.2mm,0.6mm<RETURN>", this can then be push/pulled to the depth of 0.15mm by pulling to say 0.3mm, then typing "0.15mm<RETURN>" which will reset the manually pulled depth to the entered figure (SketchUp doesn't unfortunately allow (unless someone knows different) setting the "snap" to a finer resolution than 0.1mm). Ian

Looking at your pictures, You have a single chimney Castle class loco with the flush sided Hawksworth tender. Looking in my books the first one I found that suits that combination is 5087 "Tintern Abbey" And yes, the plates are available from 247 Developments. HTH Frank

Is scale that important? It probably is if you're trying to boil water in a furred-up kettle.....

Paul's right, Julia - some of the larger NG stuff rivals the smaller standard gauge stock (think of that huge South African Railways loco at Quainton - it's 3'6" gauge!), and Prince is tiny anyway. Not sure about the chassis on those etched NG locos though.... Glad you enjoyed the show - or the bits of it you visited, anyway! Andy