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You need to get at wiring underneath so if it`s a fixed home based layout, I would suggest a height that lets you lie down on your back underneath with arms extended upwards to fiddle with point motors etc. This tends to end up with a layout at around normal desktop height, which then allows operation while sitting down.

Hey, guys. Get a life. I agree with the semantics but let's get back to the question. I leave much of the stock on the track on the layout which is in the garage. There are always trains ready to go and wagons ready to shunt. My biggest problem is spider poo!

Well pleased with these. They even look classy with their black finish. A much better lead than most of the Bargain Hunters thread that seems to specialise in 10 quid off unattractive blue diesels!!!!

DCC Concepts have no11 (20 pair #5) Kadee coupling packs available for £19.96 - which is around £15-20 less than most places. They don't for some reason sell the draft boxes, but at this price it's a snip anyway.

Thanks Miss P. What a fantastic link. I've now started to use the Vallejo paints suggested by ozthedog and am very happy with the colours he recommends. I'll post a piccy if I can work out how to do so. It's really transformed the pagoda, Ratio fencing and the Metcalfe station building.

Hi,CNW Asssuming that the locos have NEM pockets, I would go for a #18 and if you get buffer lock try a #19 and then if necessary a #20. When fitted the jaw of the coupling should be level with the buffers when viewed from above.

I am about to install some GWR fencing from Ratio, duly painted. You have to paint it realise just what a good moulding it is... but has anyone any advice about how to fix it to the layout without it being snagged by a passing sleeve or knocked over by a careless hand? At present I think I will mount it on a strip of card, having drilled holes for the short extensions to the uprights, prior to gluing the card down but has anyone any better ideas. And what about the adhesive to use? Any recommendations very much appreciated.

People who spout on about locomotives that look wrong without the correct headcode (or cab steps 1mm too far forward) and then claim to be able to be able to run all eras and liveries on the pretence that it is a 'heritage railway centre' they are modelling.

Many thanks, guys. Really helpful.

I wonder if anyone can suggest a source for something like the GWR colours Light Stone and Dark Stone (or similar) in acrylic. Precision Paints do these but as far as I can see they are only in enamel which I don't like working with. Since colours weather fairly quickly, a lighter shade of the colours would be perfectly acceptable. Many thanks

Herr's a cheapo alternative Ifind works for naked eye viewing (altho perhaps not to be photographed close up. 1. Find suitable font in Word. 2. Reduce font size to around 6pt (you have to this manually. It is not on the drop down range of options). If too small after printing out, change to 6.5pt or whatever suits. 3. Set font colour to white and background to black. 4. Print out on thinnish paper as draft. This should give you a reasonable GWR wagon grey. 5. Cut out with craft knife to width and length of plank, and colour cut edges with grey felt tip. 6. Affix to wagon with pva or similar. Easier than transfers, cheap as chips and looks remarkably good from normal viewing distance. It is a really good solution too forrenaming shunters trucks, etc.

Sorry to be boring but I thought the point of this new thread was to tell people about bargains, not discuss import tarriffs and VAT. We‘ll be onto Brexit next!!!!!!! I liked Bargain Hunters mark 1 just fine, but everyone else complained about extended discussions.

Well, that's always a possibilty, TimV, since any Welsh word seems to inspire panic in some, but I would have thought that since EifionyddFarmers was a cooperative and the members were verylargely Welsh speakers it would have been sent back to the wagon painters!

Many thx to both of you. Anything further you can find would be welcomed. I didn't quite understand, Quarryscapes - is Eifionydd spelled wrong on the wagon as it appears in the Matthews book? What about youproducing a correct transfer?!:-) I agree, Vespa. Dapol should have checked and queried it. Being a Welsh speaker, I may be over-fussy but I don't like seeing the wagon running on the layout with a spelling mistake unless it is historically correct. Itmay have to get a very heavy dose of weathering!!

I have got a West Wales Wagon Works ltd edition wagon off eEbay, in 'Eifionydd Farmers Association' livery. Eifionydd is spelled incorrectly as 'Eifionyd' (one D) on the wagon. The late - and much lamented - propritor of WWWW told me he couldn't find his source materials, so my question is this: was the spelling mistake on the prototype, or did it creep in somewhere between WwWW and the Dapol factory? Does anyone know of a photo of the prototype? Any info gratefully received.

I have always taken as read that there should only be one engine running off any DC controller at any one time but: is there anything wrong coupling up two locos, provided that their motor speeds etc are compatible? And if that is OK, is there anything electrically unwise in running two trains round a circle of track as a true tail chaser, provided that one doesn't crash into the rear of the other of course?

Thanks for this definitive answer, 34 and Johnster. Baccy 57XX it will be. I'm modelling Dee Valley around Corwen, specifically 1938-9, but since Corwen was such a horribly elongated site, I have predicated another GWR/LMS junction nearby, on the lines of the LNWR Betws-y-Coed - Corwen proposal never taken forward, and created it a bit wider and stumpier than even a compressed Corwen would have been.

Many thanks guys. Most helpful. Raiding the piggybank now!!

Help please.I need a decent modern slow running Grewt Western shunter and having gone over to kadee couplings I need one with NEM pockets at the right height. Would recent Bachmann pannier or Hornby small prairie fit the bill? Since I am mdelling the Dee Valley the recnt 1361 cass would be no good and I suspect that the local 14Xx tanks were only used for push pull duties. All info gratefully welcomed.

Any chance you could produce the same thing for GWR era?