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You would now find that at LONDON BRIDGE station!

So here we are down and now we'll be out with TRING

YORK ROAD

That play is a bit Steve Davis for me So following on from black we go red NORTH ACTON

It is overpriced to keep passengers away and stop overcrowding

Gentlemen, you are rushing through these stations like a Fast service We missed a good opporunity with Tooting Bec to get out in two moves so I am going to play a nudge to CHIGWELL followed by a wink to LEWISHAM

It actually costs £240 if you are in a hurry and collect it in person. £150 for the loco and £90 for the speed awareness course

Okay everyone and pay attention - we can get out in three moves... NORTHWOOD

Actually I think I meant to say 7 car formation due to the shared bogie arrangements of the cars between trailer and power car. Anyway - sometimes you have to make the decision for the customer and just collapse the N gauge down to 7 car sets or nothing. As it is we care going to get nothing anyway - so an excellent compromise is better than disappointment. Either way fingers crossed Xx

NORTH HARROW

Why should the N gauge crowdfunder be the same as the OO gauge? If the demand is lower or insufficient then perhaps a different business model is needed ? Why not issue a one type (eg black nose) limited edition 5 car set at £400 (not dissimilar to the APT-E) and then do prolonged runs of the coaches perhaps without numbers until either demand wanes or there is sufficient demand for a rerun of power cars and trailers / or there could be limited runs of variants.

SOUTH HARROW

Okay that makes sense

The 3D parts applied to the model. I made the battery boxes a couple of mm deeper so that they fix better to the underframe. The portholes look a bit overscale however I will wait until the primer coat before I decide

Thought I would play about a bit in Sketchup to see if I can 3D print some of the parts. The battery boxes, the hinged end hatch and the photocell portals did try to upload the stl file for others to use but apparently not allowed to do so for some reason

Now I am making another Structure Gauging Train Optical Car Same idea as before, using Wickes plastic tube connector to form the central curved roof. Marking out the approximate places of the photocell portals

Hard to say when comparing against the TV series. When you watch these things as a kid you are comparing it against something like Coronation Street - so your perceptions are skewed. You were also drip fed over several weeks, so your anticipation was high. In the movie the producers are desperate to ram everything into 2 hours - so there is nothing especially new or inventive compared to the books or TV series. The budget cannot afford astounding special effects and the actors didn't have any chemistry between them. Little cameos of original actors and costumes might leave you feeling the script writers had lost the will to live after one too many pan-galactic gargle blasters. I don't even remember there being a book in the film - although it must have been there and I imagine it had better graphics etc. .

I am reading this with a bit of interest and confusion and I don't want to instigate the wrath of the moderators but Dave makes it clear on page 1 that this is not a crowdfunder. He is being commissioned by DTOS. So - this isn't quite the same as a crowdfunder - where the customer is taking on the risk of the venture directly with the designer and supplier (Dave) and thus cutting out the 'middle' man. But what we have here is DTOS taking no apparent financial risks at all on this project, not spending any money on shelf space but placing itself as the sole point of orders and sales on behalf of DJModels. I don't see this retailer is commissioning the APT in the same way as Hattons - which has for example put its own money up front for the RHTT models. Beyond releasing Dave from the distractions of running the order books I would like to know what 'value' DTOS is providing to this project - if they are not putting any money into it but just pushing prices up by ***%, then it is no wonder the N gauge project isn't getting off the ground?

They look really good

Have you heard of EZ Line?

HI Hermes I think we are trying to start the next station name with the tail letter of the last

Let's try and get this correct.... SURREY QUAYS

I would go now but I see I have to miss a turn for not turning tail on my turn

BURNT OAK

You should know - since the franchises came in what has happened to the timetable. Fingers crossed this down't end up as a cancellation...