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What thickness foam, are you using?

Empty shell cases don't have a firing band. that is on the projectile to engage with the rifling

Hi, I think you have your Precursors and your Precedents confused. The 4-4-2T was a tank version of the 4-4-0 Precursor, and the 5'6" 2-4-2T was a tank version of the 2-4-0 Precedent (actually of the Improved Precedent). It was usually referred to as the 5'6" tank, and not the Precursor tank. The 2-4-2 tanks were used on goods turns at various times, so you don't need to stretch a point to use this engine. The 0-6-2T Coal Tank was designed for goods work, but often was used on passenger turns instead, so I think there was a degree of using whatever came to hand on LNWR steam sheds.

excellent stuff. should look good when you have painted it all.

Archer Transfers do eye transfers, but they reckon that eye detail is invisible below a fihure height of 54mm http://www.archertransfers.com/PAGE_EyeballInstructions.html link is to eye painting instructions

I have followed your stuff from the beginning, and all of it is excellent. Regarding foreign wagons there was a fair amount of movement of specific products, returning wagons being empty of course. So all you need is to find the product to explain the wagon. Seasonal or perishable produce was often localised, but tended to go to the big cities where it was transhipped (bananas via LNWR from Liverpool to London for instance), but machinery and hardware could come from quite a distance, and not all the named fast goods trains on the GWR went to London so stuff from Birkenhead for example could easily find its way to Farthing. I'm sure you can write the sory for each wagon you like the look of!

It looks from the photos as if No6 stayed in L&Y livery, though with a new number (the corners of the panel lining are the give away. The PC kits come up on e-bay from time to time.

I think the blues and yellows are pretty accurate renditions of new posters, obviously they would fade with time and weathering.

Hi Mike Just realised I "lose" anything older than a day or two on RM Web, so only just picked up your answer. Thanks for the info. I'll seek out matchpots/testers for colours now and see how they work (try out on old wrecks first of course). Jon

I would just search on the year, working back from 1913, maybe with some regional names, or town names.

Heres one for a newspaper, plus some paper posters. if you put Paris 1913 in the search box on the image page there are a couple of other poster walls, plus a nice big Defense d'Afficher painted sign http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rue_de_Meaux,_Paris,_1913.jpg

Exactly what sort of paint is your Farrow and Ball Rectory Red? Most of the paint used in my decorating seems unlikely to stick to a model wagon. I must say that I think the red seems more "right" than the oxide/bauxite version. Maybe that would look better if it was heavily weathered as well to make it look more l;ike something that has been in servicve a long time?

but whatever this is asn extremely nice building

Still plenty of horses in use in 1947, so could be doing both

Its not so easy to explain but the screw pickets dont have closed eyes. They are more like the little puzzle things you can buy. In real life to put the wire through you hold the wire underneath, pass the bale up behind the picket and then down in front. This doesnt involve threading the whole length of wire, just moving it up and round in a twisting motion. Hope this makes sense.

This looks very good. Depends when this is supposed to be but looks early to mid summer in a rainy year to me. You need to invest in a cardboard tube (kitchen foil?) to wrap it round then put it in a plastic bag!

The WR tank (L&Y 1041) seems to have stayed in L&Y livery, with the addition of the oval numberplate No6. it was bought by the WR in June 1921 so it wasn't around for very long before grouping.

I would be interested in some of these in 18.83 if you go into production.

Hi Mikkel The saloon is unlikely to have had a vestibule in the middle as it would have been hired out to a single party travelling together. Similar coaches just have end armrests on the seats next to the door. I hope this coment isn't too late!

assuming the turfs were grass might not be correct. They could well be peat turfs and so shaped like large gold bars only dark charcoal grey.

hi Ian I'm late picking up this blog, but I hope you can reply. I just got hold of SketchUp and have a query. Do you draw at full prototype size then export to your chosen scale? Or does Shapeways accept a scaling instruction with the STL file? Jon

The horsebox appears to be brass. Is it a current kit, and is it suitable for an earlier date?