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A few from the South Typhoon , Romney Hythe & Dymchurch September '04 T9 120 Bluebell September '04 Mogul 1618 Bluebell September '04 34072 257Sqdn Swanage September '04 Maunsell S15 828 Swanage September 01

Dapol N gauge Maunsell coaches At TINGS I asked Joel on the Dapol stand if they had any details of the announced Maunsell coaches, I received a reply today including some CAD/CAM images, from these I can say they are the early "Low window" stock and will consist of corridor 1st, 3rd and Compo, a 6 compartment brake which was not included in the drawings so don't know if it's the 3rd or the Compo, along with these is a Passenger brake - Van C, this looks very similar to their 4 wheel CCT/GUV i.e. a planked van. ETA late next year or early 2015. (Is this the same or similar line up to the Hornby ones, if so what 6 compartment are we likely to get?) I also enquired about the possibilities of a King Arthur to pull them, he'd "love to do an Arthur, but the tooling budget won't run to it"

Lytchett Manor Models are reintroducing GEM and Fleetline kits and stock a number of other items they also carry Farish spares and have a repair service for Farish. (They have recently moved in to the part of the old Farish Poole site) They will be at TINGS this weekend Sep7/8, and will be releasing the GEM S&DJR 7F white metal kit (got mine preordered along with an SR Z class 0-8-0T) http://www.lytchettmanor.co.uk/about_us.html

Etched Pixels/Ultima now do some N gauge LSWR coaches and vans, I've recently built the Fruit brake (diag 892, 48') and some 1892 6 wheel 30' full brakes. They also have some 1901 block train 6 wheelers and others http://www.ultima-models.co.uk/catalogue/LSWR.html They have LBSCR, SECR, IOW, and other SR items including coach detailing bits. The vans I built were fairly easy to do, the bodies come as a one piece etch folding up from the floor with a separate roof, some of the finer detail parts were a bit of a challenge, I did cheat a bit for the 6 wheelers I used the chassis from the NGS Stove R, for the Fruit brakes I shortened some Dapol siphon chassis (trawled Ebay for cheap ones, then ordered some "unpainted" ones from Dapol at £6 each, but due to some production problem they supplied me with fully finished items!)

Minor nitpick, the lowest BR numbered T9 was 30116, pre BR the lowest number was 113, 113/4/5 were among the 13 T9s converted for oil firing in 1947, then laid aside in 1948 and never converted back to coal burning and withdrawn in 1951. However it looks like a wide cab version too, not easy to see but I think a narrow cab one would have the coupling rod splashers lined, if so the only ones with 8 wheel tenders were 30337/8, the rest of the 300 series received 6 wheelers when transferred to the Eastern and Central lines during the 1920/30s. Still renumbering could be included as minor fettling and detail. 30104 was an M7 class 0-4-4T.

Just to say I've sorted the mising photos.

Hi Graham, "Somewhere in East Dorset" is now being added http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/75308-somewhere-in-east-dorset/ Final name not decided yet, maybe "Purbeck bay" partly due to its being built in a bay window.

I'm in N gauge, I currently have a very small Jewellery one from Lidl, about £6, I can just about fit wheel sets and once a Fleischmann motor, I've never used it for any kit work, not big enough! Had a browse through Amazon and see they currently have the JPL 2000 at £24.99, tank capacity is about 350mL, they don't quote tank size only external which is 198x124x110 or about 8"x 5"x4" so should take an N coach at around 6" (nowt bigger than 57 footers for me). Any opinions on JPL products (and their 2000 model), looks like the Maplin one is the next size up, JPL Ultra 7000 (500mL)

I'm getting a bit fed up with Del Prado stuff appearing in N gauge locos they should be in a separate collectors category,. I realise that UK Ebay lists model railways under collectables but surely there should be some way of separating the statics, I do a search to exclude the words Del Prado and static, but there is still over a page full "From Poland". Another thing that should be excluded from the Locomotives listing is 4 or 5 pages of Modelmaster decals also appearing in N gauge locos (4 or 5 pages out of 18 after excluding Del Prado) Problem is their listing starts with a ref number prefixed NG, so if you try and exclude that from a search you lose most listings with "N gauge"

Bit more on the above, the £M1.47 grant will be used to upgrade track from Worgret to Motala and refurb 2 1960s railbus's to mainline standard, or so says report in local paper.

Bit of news on the 12" : 1' scale for SR fans http://www.swanagerailway.co.uk/news855.htm Hope they intend issuing through tickets from Branksome, I can probably just about walk there pushing my 4 wheel cross between a Zimmer and a wheel chair (AKA a Rollator) Then all I want is a lottery win to get Adams 563 out of York and running on Swanage rails!!

Union Mills have produced an N gauge ex LSWR 0395, mine is in SR black as 3441. Minor niggle is the use of a Drummond 6 wheel tender (as supplied with his T9 and 700) that should not be too much of a problem to make look a little more "Adams" . At first we thought the smoke box door did not slope, however an email enquiry elicited the reply that the slope is 2 degrees which Colin of UM says is that quoted on the drawings, and that the slope can look more than that on photos from certain angles. Having done a bit more photo research I tend to agree. It runs and pulls well as do most UM models. It's now awaiting a little detailing, vac pipes, lamp irons etc and a bit of fettling to the tender. I may go as far as hacking a Worsley Works Drummond from a Caley 0-6-0, it fits the UM drive although less weight means a bit less pulling power; but being nickel silver easier to solder to. I do have some etched coal rails handy too. Just have to fill in the front of the tender sides, add the box ("tool box?") on the rear to hide a bit of lead for extra weight, also a piece of lead on top to be covered in "coal" At the rate things are going it should soon be possible to model the LSWR with a reasonable variety of locos with RTR and kits; we have UM T9, 700 and 0395, Dapol M7, Langley S15, BHE N15, NBrass G6, Peco-Wills B4 (discontinued but still comes up on Ebay) Worsley Works D15, Watercart tender, and with a bit of hacking and kit bashing others are possible, e.g. H15, most of the Drummond 4-4-0s could be hacked from existing bits, The UM tender drive is very useful for many of these projects, so far I have an Adams A12 and Drummond K10 using them, in the "project box" a late Adams 4-4-0, The same type UM tender drive I have also used to power a BHE Urie N15 (added a pony truck in front of the drive) Etched bogie side frames hide the plain UM wheels. The BHE loco body sits on a Peco Jubilee chassis.

Start of another hack of a Union Mills N gauge loco, this time a damaged LNER D20 loco (minus tender) into an Adams X6. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/56351-union-mills-d20-to-lswr-adams-x6/ The tender drive will be one left over from the T9 hack, and will receive any necessary tweaking to make it look more Adams.

I've just had a browse through the SR/BR(S) layouts thread. I'm very surprised to see only one N gauge and one 7mm, all others are various flavours of 4mm/00, further to that only 2 claim to be pre 1948. I must say I feel very lonely, modelling 1930s steam in N gauge, lovely Maunsell olive, no gaudy malashite, will anybody else admit to pre Bulleid steam - in any gauge/scale? Having gone to school alongside the Bomo/Weymouth line in the 1940s my SR memories are of Ex LSWR Adams, Drummond and Urie classes plus examples of most of the Maunsell classes. My earlier layouts were set mid to late 50s but I've gradually built up a reasonably representative stock of older classes from an Adams A12, B4s, Drummond M7s, 700s, T9, K10 through Urie and Maunsell 4-6-0s and a Q, I also allow a couple of LMS visitors via the Somerset & Dorset. Future plans include an Adams 4-4-0, and other Drummond 4-4-0s, have a kit for a D15 waiting it's turn. Currently the Nelson is getting a new tender, the Rivarossi drive failed so I'm replacing it with a Minitrix drive and the original pattern tender. Suppose I'd better start uploading some pics and text.

A couple of items of mine, both N gauge, A kit bash of Chivers or P&D Marsh 4 wheel passenger rated vans into Gangwayed bogie luggage van http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/47701-n-gauge-sr-gangwayed-bogie-luggage-van/ A RTR hack, Union Mills T9 to narrow cab and watercart (must practice lining skills) http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/47698-um-t9-modification/

Craft shops like Hobbycraft and The Range stock beading wire, (jewelry making craft area) I have some 34SWG/0.23mm (£1 for 24yds) 2 or 3 strands of that twisted together might do the trick. 38SWG/0.15mm wire would probably be even better, but I've only seen it as either insulated/enamelled or as part of 7 strand cable (7x0.15) which you'd have to unravel and re-twist up 2 or 3 strarnds

The reasoning behind locked PDFs is that they can not normally be edited thus preserving copyright.

Every page carries the copyright warning, "any modification of this file or printout by the purchaser or any third party is strictly prohibited" Although how one can kit bash without modifying the printout seems a bit of a contradiction, if you were to say cut off part of the printout so you could fit the building into a specific space does this constitute modification or admissable kit bashing? Cutting and other actions necessary to add a door or window or to block one off, I would call that modification, but it's also kit bashing. By the same token one could use an image editor to achieve the same result and if extending a building doing it before printing means less joins to cope with, this would go partway to answering Metalhips desire for an odd number of terraced cottages, I have a row of 9 edited, (- from a different supplier- and also scaled down from 00 to N) a terrace of 9 fits on an A4 sheet and I was able to include a ginnel between cottages 4 & 5, cloned in a lintel and second storey over it.

My point is more about the legal aspects, I know how to do the deed, but think it would be more acceptable if one was able to do it without laying oneself open to action under copyright rules. As for which image processing application is best, I would suggest the one you are most familiar with using. The GIMP has a quite steep learning curve, if you know GIMP, use it, if another then use that, the GIMP is free which is a big advantage; the application I use is one I've been using since about 1991, followed through its upgrade versions over the years it does all I need so why change, I've made my own transfers for Maunsell coach sides among other things.

For some railway buildings, (stations, signal boxes, goods sheds etc) some editable downloads (at a bit higher cost,?) so we can change colours of paintwork, to suit the company/region or stone buildings (and sheets of stone) the ability to alter the colour of the stone to match the local product, (e.g. Cotswold is a lot different to Purbeck) TIFF files would probably be best for this, JPGs don't retain enough definition when saved, as might be necessary if spreading the work over a number of sessions.

Do you want N gauge stock suppliers also? Dapol, Bachman/Grafar, Union Mills all produce RTR locos, Grafar, Peco and Dapol produce some passenger and freight stock.

Hi, some of you will know me from SEmG, I recall meeting Muz on a Swanage Gala a few years back, probably be there again this year. About me, retired, just turned 77, 3 years a widower, modelling "somewhere in SE Dorset/Purbecks" sort of Swanmouth or Bourneage,. N gauge, mid 1930s. definitely pre Bulleid. Some of my stock here, Current layout progress I've been modelling in N gauge since 1974, had a number of layouts over the years, largest was a loft layout 25'x17' had Bournemouth West almost to scale, reduced carriage sidings was the major concession to space;.not many got completed, things like divorce, house moves and suchlike tended to interfere. Other hobbies, photography, gardening and music, used to run a 1962 Ford Classic until it was no longer fun crawling under and over it about 7 years ago. rarely switch the TV on, maybe 2 or 3 times a year.