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How about the Pacer? I’ll get my coat Griff

Hi. Here’s my little piece of encouragement. I’ve been following this for sometime and it looks superb. I’m particularly impressed with the platform but the whole package is coming together nicely. Keep up the excellent work. Griff

I look forward to finding out a little more about this. It seems to be an economic solution to ‘plank’ type layout control. Griff

Well I can certainly see why there were problems... I’m going going back to carving up some PGAs. Griff

... but that’s easy. The point of Minories is the lack of reverse curves over the turnouts in a small space. That’s what makes it work. Griff

Is though? Ready to lay track, drop in wheel sets....and I’m not talking OOSF Joking aside.... there is a consensus on here that everyone does what they do for a reason and that’s good enough for me. Griff

Indeed Mike.... I still bought it though ... it’s just vol 2 is on the shelf and vol 1 is on the workbench. Besides.... isn’t all a bit modern for you? Griff

For the sake of balance. I’ve had excellent service from Accuracale. Parcelforce.... well they’re Parcelforce aren’t they* *my mum always told me that if you can’t say anything nice then say nothing at all Griff

I was, perhaps, fishing for that news and I’m pleased to hear it Griff

Great book and superb value for money. However, it’s gone straight to my bookshelf as I’ve little need for it at present. The subject matter covers, perhaps intentionally, some esoteric traffics and for that reason it doesn’t score as highly as the first book IMHO. There is no mention of intermodal, military, mineral or tank traffic (China clay excepted) but it’s there for future reference. Looking forward to part 3. Griff

I thought that was Pannier tanks... or Dapol GWR 2-6-0s Griff

Do you get a bonus point for spotting that the illustration of the 2HAP on the competition page is a 2EPB? Griff

Sounds like a challenge to me Reading I’m guessing or Kenny O but that’s the problem, there are going to be a number of exceptions. Too many tbh and besides if you were that bothered surely you’d research it. BTW Hattons have started to publish example train formations and Accurascale do the same. Griff

By the same logic it could be a 37 or 47 .... I just hope it’s not news of further delays. Griff

I think you answered your own question No that’s simplistic. There are many reasons why some choose to model to standards less fine that P4. You are correct that you can get by by pulling out the wheels from OO to EM. Also the requirements for compensation are less likely in EM. My main reason for modelling in courser standards is that the radii is more forgiving and I can squeeze a roundly roundly into a smaller space. However, you can always tell a P4 layout by the flangeways.... EM and OO have identical standards and I take your point that if you want fine track then fine scale P4 is the only way but life is full of compromises. Griff

Those T pylons aren’t going to be as easy to paint as a traditional tower that’s for sure. Griff

Sometimes it’s easy to accidentally grab a folder or file and drop it somewhere unexpected. Click on ‘this pc’ folder (either on your desktop or in your tray ~ it’s the one with all the stuff on your computer) and in the top right hand corner there’s a search box (search this pc), you should be able to find you’re folder there by searching the folder name etc. Hope that helps. Griff

Have you done a search? Griff

I’m sure there are many more worthy (and profitable) subjects that would be worth a RRP of £300?

Neither did they have the internet. Griff

No body say it it is but manufactures make things and reviewers review things. Manufacturers sometimes make mistakes and, so it seams, do reviewers. At least nobody died. Griff

Attack? No, but perhaps e a lesson in observing the basics by some*? I remember, in much less enlightened times, Hornby's, Lima's, Mainline's etc products having their dimensions compared with the prototypes in many contemporary magazines. Perhaps we have got too blase? I don't purchase much without referring to fair and critical appraisals first. I'm glad somebody got a ruler out before I got my wallet out. *including me Griff

Steady on. You’d think that the measurements might have been scrutinised on an item marketed as a scale model. Griff

Joggle.... that it’s. Griff

I agree... wasn’t it known as a twoggle or something? I read that you could use a vice to ‘press’ a kink into the rail to form a rebate for the point blade. That’s what I used in my previous (and limited) point constructions but I wasn’t very happy with them. Additionally, the use of a diagram really does the trick IMHO Griff