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Part autopsy, part whodunnit, part restoration blog. All fascinating to see being picked apart.

I went to the V&A while that exhibition was on. There was a board with various Ivor assets with an camera positioned over the top. You could create your own little short by moving the pieces, saving images to build frames before playing back your animation. The Iron Chicken! I think the poor old Soup Dragon would be very confused if you mixed them up.

0.8mm 'L' angle shaped brass. This was from the now sadly defunct Eileens Emporium. Holiday Hobbies have it in 1m lengths (ZM1L - 1M 0.8 x 0.8mm Brass Angle) and it might be available elsewhere.

That's where we started - see the video posted by @jamie92208

There's a thread on railforums.co.uk from last year with post #10 saying it was part of a failed museum project by WCRC. Following a photo on a NatPres thread, a 2021 photo - So it's been worked on recently to get finished off.

A search on the UK Preserved Railway Stock List & The Railway Heritage Register Wagon Survey Project - D299 Ex NRM Wroughton Store, moved to Embsay & Bolton Abbey Railway 2006. To Hellifield c2019 http://www.ws.rhrp.org.uk/ws/WagonInfo.asp?Ref=17595

Mainline body above, (rather battered 2nd hand) K's below.

81.5mm length over ends, 33mm wide, 17.85mm tall. Shorter than a Pipe and a plank too tall.

The only Esso tank wagon on the SVR (past or present) according to the SVR wiki is 2686 and all the photos online I can find have it in all black - including all in this Flickr album. Unless there's another, or it's had some red oxide applied recently to stop some rot? Besides, the SVR also had a purple Bulleid...

Colours depended on the different classes of oil based on flashpoint - Class A (more volatile liquids, petrol, benzene, etc) are the silver/grey with red frames. These were slightly longer in the tank than the 35t Class Bs made by Airfix/Dapol. Class B (generally heavier oils) were black.

Depended on the painter I would imagine - not much consistancy in photos to hand. This one has given himself a bit more space by using the 2nd plank up, using the end and still painting a nice rectangle. Atypical I would guess! Another is on page 44 of The 4mm Wagon Part 2, on the lower planks on the 2nd panel, below the BR added strapping. Page 46 of the same has number on the end section, 2nd plank up, fitted fully onto the plank with rectangular box covering the number and 12T on the plank above.

There's enough people who hop on board trains having passed up to half a dozen different screens and displays with platform numbers and destinations and still ask those crammed into the vestible areas "is this the train to so-and-so?", so my faith in such things is low to begin with!

EFE - but only 2/3

Albert Goodall parts? As currently produced by RT Models

There's a photo in the HMRS BR Brake Vans and Ballast Ploughs book of BR standard brake van B953447 being used as a grounded shunter's hut at Toton.

Oops, they're going to me. I could do a scan of them for you when they arrive to see if they would fit or to use as a pattern?

Yes, they do. My boxed one is also....somewhere safe... so here's a spare.

Only if you cut the top off..... https://www.ltsv.com/w_ref_codes_tops_u.php

Yes, the SNCF 241P Mountain 4-8-2. http://www.kitmaster.org.uk/Mountain.htm I've not long acquired most of one by accident in a job lot. It's big!

On my rather stalled GBL body based Jinty builds (excuse the dust), I've added the tank balancing pipe to help provide a bit of something between the tanks. Much better than the solid 'wall' between the sides.

Excellent!

The Christmas events season at the Silk Mill in the evenings was also due to start this time next month and was fully sold out - we tried to book a date early December for work a few months ago and was it booked up even then.

That's a <ahem> Huge Janus....😆 (sorry, had to be done)

So the blurry black blobs on a job lot photo I assumed was going to some form of christmas toy turned out to be this: A Kitmaster 241P Mountain! (too large for my normal folded A3 photo backdrop...) Missing front bogie, tender floor/bogies and a few other bits. What an unexpected beast - not sure what to do with it!

I'm sure the part-built kit I picked up has the instructions - will try to have a rummage in the loft today to find out. EDIT - It does! PM sent