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Looks fantastic Jerry, should be awesome with some colour on there with a load of station staff and a few waiting passengers - be sure to model Tiddles

Hello Jaz, In regard to painting very very small objects I find brushes like these are good, I do have smaller versions - Anything around 0.2 - 0.4 is pretty good

Some fantastic stuff Lee, Your recent Units look great! Tis a nice bit of weathering a detailing you've done on them

You doing any shows this side of the bridge Mudmagnet?

I look forward to seeing this unit complete and in the platform at Par

Well doesn't take too much working out who's sitting in the background of that one... Good show I thought (at least in the 'Cornish' proper railways room), see if I got any pictures from that show. Cheerful chaps packing away their trains:

Made my day Jaz Live Long And Prosper. Nice to see Spock has a place on the most famous Arboretum Valley Model Railway 'Wall' Doodle:

I think these graffiti artists are better than the regular kind The regular ones drink cans, wear hoodies and randomly vandalise walls. Where as these make bare walls look good !

Tis nice to see the back scenes being done Bill, I look forward to seeing them in person at some point Cheers, Reece

I like the overscale wagons Jaz Looks nice!

Think I'll have to get a set of these BR road vehicles for my yard, looks nice Mudmagnet

Looks nice Chris, I think it's good to see I'm not the only one building a Ratio station building and without a roof. I quite like your victorians. Cheers, Reece

My first engine was a Lima Class 31. I can't find fault with the body moulding - could just do with the normal amount of detailing, most of which are optional extras depending on how far you want to take it. Pipes, Couplings, handrails, windows, wipers, roof fan & grill, odd cab end parts with of course the Driver and Secondman. Just really the mechanism which benefits from an upgrade in my view.

No tribble at all... The Lima trailing bogie is held in by the primitive clip so all you need to do is pull it out and the bogie drops out (before or after you take the wires off), the newer Hornby version can simply clip in using the same hole.

Indeed always advisable... That's when you get traction motor faults. I also did a Tri-mek a while ago, I remember I filled up the inside of the body with chunks of lead around the motor. Until the loco was eventually replaced with a Helmek which runs and looks much better. I think the Lima and Airfix Class 31 still hold up to standards visually.

Yes tis a motor with a worm gear on each end which is transferred via a cog to the axels. Two powered axels. on the Hornby Railroad 31 all wheels have pickups on both sides unlike the older Lima. They're reasonably powerful as the loco has a hunk of weight in the centre. On a modification note it is possible to get two chassis and cut them both in half and have two powered bogies if more traction is required, in turn both motors are then wired opposite so they both go the same way.

Nope but you can buy the entire rear trailing bogie and swap it over with the Lima one, it also has the advantage of an all wheel pick up. Unfortunately the price of things is the only downside but it does save some time and effort (and it is a hobby after all - they're expensive!), it involves the least amount of modification/work. However if you have time and patents it is possible to fit the Hornby motor bogie to the Lima chassis frame, but you'll need to cut out the material where the Lima pancake was and build a motor mount from plastic. The Hornby motor bogie then 'plugs' in the hole drilled in the top of the new motor mount. Wiring would also need taking care of but this is straight forward. After that you've saved around £15 or so (not to sure what the price is on the chassis frame and unnecessary boards are now) I've inserted one of my sketches to explain: Cheers, Reece

Hello Paul, You could upgrade the whole chassis with the newer Railroad version as it's available as spares. Just a mater of swapping the body over - no noise, no poor running, no more Lima pancake. The wheels are much better on the newer unit than the older Lima version as I think you are aware. The newer version also has pick ups on all wheels rather than the Lima version which has pick ups on one side of each bogie. I was just expressing my thought because it might be easier and viable just to swap the entire chassis unit. To answer the question Hornby wheels will not fit directly into the older Lima bogies (and work) without modification. Cheers, Reece

I like the Class 25s You should put up more pictures!

Should try BR Blue with Rats & Clay Hoods everywhere

Tis all looking nice Jeremy - I have great respect for your enthusiasm to lay individual slabs in 2mm scale. Your platforms look Awesome so far DMU in the platform there, should look spot on. Cheers, Reece

Hello Bill, Indeed your probably right about the sacks, quite taller heavier weight. I think the smaller ones are again Modelscene but I think they're only available in the pack with sacks and barrels. You can get other ones from Ratio kits which are also good and smaller than the Modelscene ones, I found these are better for stacking on top one another Maybe for your era you might want the much later plastic sacks we see more now... remember the coal man coming to drop them off in his lorry when I was younger. Cheers, Reece

Hello Bill, I like the coal hopper looks awesome, I'd ask how did you make it? Small suggestion for coal sacks, I got these a while ago but I think they're Modelscene items but they look alright filled with B&WR's coal and painted. Of course I already had these spare so they're now on Old Elms Road in the Coal Yard I built along with a Coal Lorry (but I think I written about that elsewhere). Be interesting to see more on your Coal Yard Bill Cheers, Reece

It’s a Mr Death or something… he’s come about the reaping… I don’t think we need any at the moment.

Walk up the steps for a shower or take a bath in the tank