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Sorry to hear this. It would have been worth reporting to the moderators.

Thanks. I've found by sticking on some extra bases I can create some convincing stacks and its a lot cheaper than buying off the shelf! Just need a steady hand getting the white stripe on.

My school was once buzzed by a couple of Starfighters back c 1980. I guess if you were in Germany this may not be that unusual, but I was in the middle of Manchester when they screamed overhead. Turns out they were West German and had been over the UK on an exercise, gotten lost and were using railway lines as a guide but ended up low level over Manchester following the Styal loop.

The Ivatt Black 5 model is by Comet, but was a full loco kit, rather than just a chassis or valve gear kit. As a matter of interest, I also have a BR Standard Caprotti Class 5, with the outside drive shafts you mentioned earlier. The centre axle drive gear box and slide bars are from the DJH kit but all the shafts, universal joints, reversing gear boxes, brackets, etc., are home made from brass sheet, wire and tube. Dave.