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Thanks. Shame it's taking so long but it does look good (especially without shirtbuttons )

Has there been an update on this? When is it realistically due now? Sorry for not following the (lack of) progress with this model - internet connection isn't great where I spend most of my time, and I had resolved myself not to waste precious online time looking into this. Thanks in advance.

Wow. thanks for the 12":1' model pictures.

Very impressive. Thank you.

I feel the wheels on that unpainted ballast wagon are a tad too large. This may be the reason for it's high "stance". An as for Lotus Carlton - not a chance against the Carlton which Lotus built for us for use out of Berlin in the late 80s..... (cue "shred you afterwards" speech) Perhaps I might spill the beans in 2035 now that the Cold War is over........ I went through a Police speed trap at 140 at about 3 am one morning and they couldn't catch me! The there's the Audi Quattro story, but all of these are better saved for a car forum - Lets get back to GWR/WR rail please.

Yes, the bullion van as per Mozzer's photos is the one for me. The only Mk1s I appreciate are Golf GTIs (had one once) and Lotus Cortinas.

Thanks but I have gone for a bullion van from an earlier age, and not one of Geoffs........... The "newest" things in my collection are a 4-6-0 City and 10 Hawskworths of different types. That ex Mk1 is way to newfangled for my liking.

Watching the K42/1 build with added interest. I have "copped out" and gone for Geoff's "sides only" option for mine, and I'll butcher a Hornby 57footer. But I have taken the plunge inspired by RM Webbers, and ordered a full coach kit to do after that - one of the bullion vans. Just need some time at Home............ Thanks once again.

Loving the creamery Jules. Well done.

I shall keep my eye open for an RMWeb Didcot day. Hopefully on a day when I am home. Sadly I am back "here" again - loads of modelling time, but no models or kit here - It's a non starter doing modelling here really. Didn't get any further on the K40 or Collett 0-6-0, but I did finish a whole pile of small unfinished projects - including detailing some Wrenn MICAs and dipping some Triang clerestories ready for MIB Snr to paint and detail in his spare time. He has produced the best hand-painted clerestories I have ever seen (even tho I am a little biased). Have decided to buy a K42 sides kit from Comet to accompany my the as yet unbuilt K40.

April.........?

You have a great one too Castle.

Castle, Thanks for an inspirational post. I am home safe and sound for a few weeks and thought that I would start off with the 6 wheel water tank - it was simple, quick and really got my modelling mojo back very quickly. I have a tunnel TOAD to finish tonight, and a Collett to clean up (post weathering - "put it on and take lots back off") and then it's the K40 Comet kit I started back in June. Looks like I won't be here in time for the 72XX and the Dukedog arriving (TrePol&Pen plates from Jackson Evans have been in the bits box since June) - but that's something to look forward to for my next trip home.

Some more rolling stock before you start another engine please - you did ask. TBH you can do an engine if you like - it's all been great so far, and very inspirational - can't wait to get home and start modelling again. Thanks.

Closer to Paddington - somewhere where my 9707 can take MICAs off to Faringdon, the ALES and GRANOs can sit outside a brewery, and all of the CONFLATs can converge at a depository - there were plenty under what's now the A40 elevated. A fair bit of license will be applied.

Only just discovered this posting. Thanks and good luck. My plan and purchases centre around a semi fictitious mainline to the East of you - 4 track mainline, with a lower level of shed and goods yard with a furniture depositary and brewery on the corners outside the mainline. 100% urban - not a blade of grass or a flock tree in sight. My grandfather ran the Hayes Nestles factory during WW2 - as a senior food chemist he was in a reserved occupation. I know the stretch of mainline well, having lived in Notting Hill and keeping my cars in a farmer's barn in Langley, I traveled that stretch a lot. Thanks for sharing. I'll keep dropping by when the internet allows me to.

Stunning photos - you are indeed a lucky bloke.

Great posts. TY

Help if you rough up the original factory finish - primer like a rough surface to grip to. It then acts as a sponge for the colour coats. Not too harsh a rubdown tho - you don't want gouge marks.

I think those 2 lineside huts may be Hornby Dublo ones, in which case it may be worth seeing what they might fetch on Ebay by putting similar ones on "Watch". Keep practicing on the wagon weathering - I try and paint the couplings matt black after putting grot on the running gear - the matt black helps the couplings disappear.

Another stunner in the making. Thanks for sharing. I've never been to Grantham Station - but sadly spent far too much time on top of the hill.