Pint of Adnams

Slippery slope you know - Gordon Gravett built just the one Slater's coal wagon and that led on to Ditchling Green. Once you've built a 7mm scale model you'll know what the attraction is. BTW what is in your 'white box'?

You mean it doesn't open so you can actually put some oil in it? Excellent modelling JB, hope you're documenting it for a feature in the S7 Newsletter - any thoughts on opening firebox doors and that sort of stuff?

Hi Mick, Thanks but that site has comparatively minimal information and also some errors! I'm working to a level of detail that identifies individual elements of a structure, even down to the separate parts of a single element - for example a high column is painted one colour at the base to about 4'6" high, then a 1.5" wide band, with a different colour up to the top. My 'data sheet' so far has an introductory page, 7 pages of closely-typed details of individual elements and colours for both specifications, and 3 appendices covering details of the actual paint colours, preservatives, and the symbology used on notices etc. That's why I really need sight of copies of the original specifications.

I've been putting together a document/information sheet that attempts to summarise in detail the 2 different painting schemes in use from 1923 and then 1937. Unfortunately there are a number of errors and omissions in the sources I currently have. I realise it's a long shot, but does anybody out there have, or know of someone who has, any of the following: A copy of the original 1923 (or 1924) painting specification; A copy of the 1937 version; Either a colour chart or some other means of identifying the specific LNER colours (as opposed to BS colours), referenced NE 1xx in the specification. TIA.

The Thompson Matchboarded Brake looks to be very nice for the scale. The Thompson D358 is available as an Isinglass drawing in 4mm, ref: 4/614. Comet also do/did it as a 4mm kit, and CRT Kits http://www.crtkits.co.uk/ do it in 7mm - maybe either might be helpful in supplying a reduced master?

Hi Adrian, I was quietly following this thread in 'the other place' and I'm pleased that I can continue to do so in here, although rather less discretely than before. I was talking with Jim McGeown at the Southwold show in the summer (even managed to insert the odd word sideways into the conversation) and I remember well Jim admitting that, in the early days when he didn't know any better, he used the Skinley blueprints as the basis for his kit designs. So if the aforementioned circular patches appear on the Skinley drawing then you have your answer as to why they are in the kit, even if that doesn't explain why Skinley drew them in the first place. Another suggestion is to ask Bob Essery.