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Although Belties are quite small compared to your standard modern dairy cow.

Thanks. This all makes sense to me. Black it is then.

thanks Gary. I think that settles the inside bunker sheet as being black. Still not sure about the side sheets as they are not really the same as the ones in your photos as they don't connect with the cab front or roof.

I'm looking for advice/suggestions (sensible ones, a longshot, I know) for painting inside the cab of a Manning Wardle Q class c 1904. The information I have for this loco is that inside the cab was cream, but this is not so straightforward for a semi-open cab. I have painted the underside of the roof and front and rear sheets cream. The question is what colour might the bunker inside the cab, and the insides of the cab sidesheets be? The photos show the partially finished, loco in its current state. The bits I have described could be cream, they could be black, like the footplate and the backhead, or they could be the same indian red as the outside surfaces of the loco. Does anyone have experience of one of these type of locos in real life?

I'm fairly sure this is wire for fastening stays to uprights in trench construction. Also used as ankle breakers fastened between a field of short posts. We dug up the remains of the post stays in a practice trench on the Otterburn ranges. Pictures not brilliant but the best I have to hand. The trench construction manuals have good illustrations. Can't work out how to attach a photo to this comment so I will PM you.

The carriage is not any kind of LNWR carriage as the upper body panels go all the way to the roof on these, and the panel beading would in any case be much narrower.

The Narrow Planet service is excellent. I hope you haven't made my mistake though. I needed a plate for "Watkinson No2", but was distracted during ordering. What I ordered was "Wilkinson No2". Wilkinson being my partner. So to avoid wasting the plate I got her to choose a loco kit and a livery for the loco of the suddenly discovered Wilkinson's Chemical Works off stage right on the layout. Phew, could have wasted £2.50 there.

No, Maroon and orange. Harrogate has visited before, probably to have a chat with Barber, the other Harrogate Gas Works loco. Here is Naklo before the new train shed was built

http://www.scalefigures.com/HO/ho3.htm Although they are in the US https://eileensemporium.com/index.php?option=com_hikashop&ctrl=category&task=listing&cid=1353&name=spring-steel-coiled-wire&Itemid=189 Although brass or nickel silver woulkd work just as well. And essentially any guitar shop might have broken strings they would give away (ours does)

any suggestions on where to source a cab for a 4mm scale Valour model?

Excellent Andy, exactly what I need. Thanks

Anyone know of a souce for wagon transfers of the pre SNCF companies, also early SNCF in HO?

there are two bits on top of the motte at Castle Acre, a square keep, and a curtain wall. This view of Totness suggests a solution. just have the low curtain wall.

Localism is nothing new. DNA tests on stone age bones from Cheddar caves (>25,000 years ago?) were a match for some of the present local population. Makes all these other lots newcomers..

All this talk of military railways and coastal forts leaves me surprised that no-one has yet mentioned the Spurn Head railway at the mouth of the Humber. http://www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/spurn-head-railway/ It scrapes in as pre-grouping being built in 1915. One of the few railways that can justify a single narrow baseboard with the sea on each side, plus the locals built sail operated vehicles to run on the line, so no problems with DC or DCC, you just need a hairdryer.

The problem with Scalefoursoc (double the membership of 2mm scale Association, but difficult to know what proportion actively build track) is that there is still a strong following for the original soldered ply and rivet method, which is what the society sells. The newer plastic base and chair method supplied by C+L (own brand and Excatoscale) which is similar to the 2mmFS stuff, contains a lot of components which would serve for EM and 00 as well, so making and supplying the chairs, frogs, crossings, blades, in-house doesn't make economic sense as only the track bases are particular to P4, and the society hasn't the resources, or the purpose, to supply the users of other 4mm scales. To see the DOGA, EMGS and Scalefoursoc entering into an economic venture partnership seems unlikely and fraught with potential problems.

Just replace them with wire, or you can get wire spears with heads filed on the end

According to Howard Giles's Brief History of Re-enactment The Duke of Buckingham staged naval battles from the Napoleonic War on the large lake on his estate in 1821, and a reenactment of the Battle of Waterloo was put on for a public viewing at Astley's Amphitheatre in 1824. and In 1895, members of the Gloucestershire Engineer Volunteers reenacted their famous stand at Rorke's Drift, 18 years earlier. Also in (no date here) 25 British soldiers beat back the attack of 75 Zulus at the Grand Military Fete at the Cheltenham Winter Gardens. Wargamers are little devils for compression and scaling mismatch, but railway modellers are not innocent on this score. Selective Compression is almost universal when it comes to track layout (the very few fully to scale layouts look quite empty), and most main line traffic is drastically truncated. How many 0-8-0s are seen pulling 80 or 90 wagons? How many A4s with a dozen or more carriages. Railways do occasionally feature in wargames, most recently I was looking at rules for incorporating railways in WW2 skirmish level games using the excellent Chain of Command rules from The Too Fat Lardies. Unfortunately as a result of their quirky sense of humour too much exploration of their (excellent wargame) output is liable to leave me exposed to a raid by the moderators. Given wargamers total inability to understand the difference between scale and measurement the actual railways suffer massive distortion, and are often little more than caricatures.

If you squint and hold your breath it could be an LNWR single plank with long straight brake lever to a large single wooden brake pad, and with diamonds

I like this idea. You could keep the scenic break (is it a bridge?), but also make the front half of the Mallow Junction board scenic for even more viewing appeal

you are very kind to mention my soldiers, but I am by no means that good, just good at disguising it. If you are painting plastics dont forget to undercoat in dilute PVA or you will really become disillusioned when the paint flakes off the muskets. Only the odd expert can really concentrate on everything. You have built some superb buildings, whereas in the last five or so years I have produced a little shed and the front of a warehouse that has been pinned to the wall for most of that time. As suggested a couple of peco points and track lengths slapped on a plank is a good idea as a rapid hit and when you build anything it can be run up and down. Of course you could go for the Grand Crimean Railway and combine both interests... Which is what I am curently diverted into as a result of reading about the RE railway units operating in France in 1940 so I have launched into making stock for a small shunting layout depicting a section of yard under construction by 150 and 161 Railway Construction Company as part of the deployment of 1st Armoured Division south of Rouen in the first week of June 1940

Not an unbuilt line, but an unachieved railway: my favourite is the Welsh Railways Union, Edward Watkin's scheme to link Swansea, Cardiff and Newport to Liverpool, Birkenhead, and Manchester largely using existing lines, but requiring a couple of links, such as the Ellesmere line which were actually bullt. Had the Union come to fruition the railways involved, led by the Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire, would have been the Mersey Railway, the Wirral Railway, the Wrexham Mold and Connah's Quay, the Cambrian, the Neath and Brecon, the Brecon and Myrthyr, the Barry, the Taff, and the Midland (through the Swansea Vale Railway). Although primarily for goods the passenger trains would have been a glorious assemblage of through carriages, and running rights would have meant just as varied a fleet of locos.

Excellent stuff. I'm also looking for stables details for a site where all I have is a vague footprint on a couple of plans, though not GWR. This is an interesting site for info about what miight be going on in stables, although it is not GWR either http://www.crht1837.org/history/horsesstables#TOC-The-Stables-

There isn't a lot of info on the WMCQR stock.All the documentary evidence points to purchase from the L&NWR in the later period. The most widely circulated photos show L&NWR thirds and break thirds built at Saltley in the 1860s and available from London Road in 4mm. Thee are other pics which appear to show the earlier shared window third also available from London Road. The stock ran in the original L&NWR livery until the end of the railway c1906, although the L&NWR will have carefully scraped off any gold leaf in nthe lining and photos show no class markings. By the end some had been repainted in all over grubby Lake colour..

The problem with a yeomanry mascot is that it would have to keep up with the horses, as well as being easy to lead on horseback (or perhaps ride?) Very little in the way of domestic animals would suit, but if they had served abroad at any in in their history they might have an exotic foreign animal in commemoration. A lama perhaps, or a giraffe? A camel would be too disruptive.