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Dave hopefully I've uploaded the photo correctly. Here are the sides exactly as returned from Slaters, what do you think? Malcolm

I think they had some samples pieces of the printed sides at the Bristol O Gauge show.

Hi Malcolm, they look fabulous! I’m really impressed that they’ve got the brown line in the cream panels perfectly positioned I went on the Slaters website to have a look, but couldn’t find any mention of this development. You would think they would be shouting it from the roof tops! Very impressed! BW Dave

Some great models on a nicely modelled layout.

Is it possible to see some photographs of these please ? G

So these are colour 3d printed (or similar) sides? Mind blowing if so - the colouring in particular. My own 3d printed efforts fall down with my painting and lining:(

Hi Malcolm, that’s very interesting news! £60.00 sounds pretty reasonable when you take into account how long it takes to paint a coach! I’d love to see some pictures of your All Third, how they get the printing to register perfectly with the coach mouldings is beyond me! Hmmm that’s annoying, I didn’t know Laurie did some! I ordered a set of milled ones from Premier Components last Friday, but I’ve subsequently heard that they may take ages to come BW Dave

I can't find any reference to that on their website - can you post a link please

Dave Slaters are now offering a coach printing service, I've just received the sides and ends of my all third S9 in the pre 1906 livery and it's fantastic it includes all the necessary transfers and coach number all for £60 and is worth every penny. All you'd need to do is join the 2 sides together and send them off. Laurie Griffin does a set of cast nickel silver jointed rods for your 2021 that you may want to check out. Looking forward to seeing Sherton Abbas at Telford. HTH Malcolm

Cheers Pete. The Ford Cortina MK1 was my Dad’s first car. We went on quite a few holidays to the south coast in that nippy little motor. He’d have me clean it every week in order to earn my pocket money. Oh, happy days. I guess if if you are going to park it by a trackside during the week then it would get really filthy. Bet the signalman’s young son really has to earn his pocket money!

Tell me about it, brother!

I think that is a very hurtful thing to say. You should not be judging a locomotive on whether it has aesthetic continuity. Ugly locomotives have rights too. Also, it is easy for someone like you to talk about 'free standing resonance', but not everone is free and not everyone has resonance.

Hi Al, I do indeed Not a Buffalo, but a 2021 class saddle tank. I built it with a rigid chassis, which in retrospect was a mistake. All my other locos have sprung compensation and run much more smoothly because of it. The plan is to fit some Slater's sprung hornblocks, but I need to source some split coupling rods from somewhere. Hopefully it'll be ready for Telford!