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Dave Jobling, who isn't a member on here, has cut and shut a number of these into accurate models. We ran them on Grantham last August. If anyone's interested, his thread on the LNER Encyclopedia forum steps through the modifications.

It certainly did some with a pre-fitted worm - so pre-fitted it bent my puller when I tried to remove it to get the supplied mounting off. The meshing is not silent, but certainly doesn't grind as though it's mismatched. With the perversity common to almost all kit built mechanisms, it's quieter in reverse. Given the age and history of the mech, it may be that none of the original gearset is still present. Wheels and axles have certainly been replaced. I don't have it to hand to check whether it's been bushed to use standard Romford axles, which would strongly suggest the gear is a replacement.

I Knew The Bride When She Used To Rock And Roll - Nick Lowe

Thinking Of You - The Colour Field

C4388. Magnificent pair of trousers. Kim Jong-Un himself would covet those.

I'm In Love With a German Film Star - The Passions

Unsurprisingly she gets a lot of the attention. I just wish they wouldn't let her sing.

Have you found this lot yet, Clive? The guitarist is faster than his own shadow most of the time:

Gone Daddy Gone - Violent Femmes

Morning Tony, I'm very reluctant just to have axle ends running in resin, it's never a good long term solution. In this case, Wizard waisted bearings dropped straight in and Gibson 12mm wheels ran freely in them. About as simple as you can get.

No Blue Skies - Lloyd Cole and the Commotions

Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards - Billy Bragg

Hey Lord, Don't Ask Me Questions - Graham Parker and the Rumour

This. Couldn't agree more.

It is. The 'CLC' in that sentence had been lost somewhere. The instructions from Robin Peover included numbering and other details for the wagons passed to the LMS, so I decided to use them. Thank you. It's Humbrol 94 and 148, thinned slightly, brushed onto the grey primer. I plan to put some thinned grey over the buff colour before I varnish and weather it, see how that turns out. Thanks, Jol. That's how mine was, in just a plain brown envelope with 'D96 Trolley wagon' or some such noted on it. If it has been changed, perhaps bogie stretchers have been added? I had to stop when I reached the point where it told me to make them, not having taken any brass sheet with me. I'd eventually reached that conclusion. My initial thought was that it was an X04 in a fancy mount. We'll see how my makeshift fixing holds up.

Well, back in the country, back in the jug agane.... Not really been idle - far from it - but nothing major, just lots of finishing off jobs. Thought I'd run round the bench last night and have a look at what's going on. Regular readers will know that I do the maintenance for the railways at Ormesby Hall. All the locos have been serviced and returned ready for opening next month, but there are some repairs which are ongoing. For the benefit of those new to the thread, the principal layout is LSWR around 1922 and was built by Ron Rising, who was a builder for Pendon for many of the early years. The return crank had come adrift on the S15. This has been to me a couple of times already with this problem; soldering the back of the rivet to stop it popping out hasn't been a durable fix, so I removed it altogether and put a nut and bolt through it, soldering over the nut to conceal the thread and prevent it undoing itself. There was sufficient clearance to do this without having to thin down the bolt head. We'll see how long this lasts. Now this is very much not my comfort zone (although after 18 years you'd think I might have picked something up) - is this a G6? Whatever it is, it had stopped working. After taking the lid off, the motor was completely unresponsive. I'm presuming a winding had failed. After 50 or so years and far more use than most locos get in a lifetime it's to be expected. Peter's Spares offer an X04 replacement and one of our group works there now, so a quick exchange of emails and one was procured. Fitting wasn't quite as straightforward as I'd hoped; that's not a vanilla X04 in the previous picture and the mounting holes weren't in the right place. You can't slide the mounting on Peter's replacement over the worm and my puller wouldn't shift it, so I had to cut it off and then use the rear mount to make a replacement. It's all running now, though, ideally for another few decades. I see rolling stock as well. The stepboards on this ambulance car had come adrift at both sides and needed soldering back on. Can anyone tell me what colour the solebar is painted? It could do with some touching in. Ron has also put thin wood on top of the stepboards (you can see where it's delaminated). Is that his enhancement or does the kit suggest/include that? David Geen donated some kits way back in the day. Peter Simmerson built these and I painted and weathered them. The one on the left had lost an axleguard - very easy to solder back in place, lucky that someone had kept it. The one on the right has had the V hanger and brake lever broken off at this side. Those have not been kept so I'll have to find replacements. I think this brake van is scratchbuilt. One cosmetic axleguard had fallen off (glue failed) and the lower stepboard is missing from this side. Easy enough to make a new one. On to my own stuff. We had Christmas in France with family and I am able to take a soldering iron and have some modelling time while we're there. I packed up a few brass kits, almost all of which were LMS vehicles as it happened and managed to work my way fairly well through them. They're all now at the final detailing and painting stage. In no special order other than that in which i assembled them: D & S NSR horsebox. This was a gift from Jesse Sim when he stayed with us last year. Caley Coaches CC17 D87A CCT. I acquired this via Red Leader. It was a lot more complex to put together than it's fairly simple appearance might suggest. Particularly the lovely cast spring and J hanger assembly was at least 2mm too high to fit into the gap between solebar and axlebox and had to be chopped up. LNWR D96 trolley wagon. Red Leader gave me this with the observation that there were over a thousand rivets to punch out. I didn't count, but it felt like more. This was not the best designed kit, to be honest; it's almost all multiple half etched layers which build up and by the time you've punched in all the rivets (and the etch was over 30 years old and not flat when I got it) the amount of distortion you have to fight against made it really hard work. The instructions were a bit cryptic as well, but I think this is what it's supposed to look like. It could have done with a rigid basic structure for overlays to be attached to, that would have made a much easier build. I have ended up with a gap in the floor, so it'll need a load, but now it's together I'm not displeased. The instructions were anonymous, so i don't hoenstly know whose kit it is. There was a signature on the etches which i think read 'Williams'? Here, on the other hand, is a brand new etched kit, to the left, a Midland D333 implement wagon. This is by a chap called Dave Basford, k22009 on here. Really easy to put together, crisp accurate nickel-silver etches, only took me a morning to get the whole thing built. Really impressed. The other wagon is a Cambrian D178 open to replace the one whcih has gone walkabout from the Wickham Market stock. These were built by the Southern for the LNER and only the ironwork was painted, apparently. R & E Models GC D17 unfitted van to the left; this will be finished as one of the 95 which went to the LMS when the CLC stock was divvied up in 1930, hence the extra door bracing. By the same hand as designed the Caley Coaches CCT and very much in the same style. It's interesting to see how different designers tackle the same structures. The right hand vehicle is a Three Peaks Models L & Y D1 open. This only just qualifies as a kit as there were only two pieces. It was recommended elsewhere and as I'm always interested to look at new products and manufacturers (and I have a number of LMS containers in need of wagons), i gave it a go. The finish is very good, the resin is slightly flexible, which is a bonus and it took longer to open the package than to assemble it. If this gets people into the way of building their own wagons then I'm all in favour. As a starting point, you'd really have to try hard to go wrong. We're into things I started before the holiday now; to the left an Airfix 'LMS' van, being remade to a BR D1/204 with a Parkside replacement underframe. On the right a Ratio LMS van from a job lot I acquired; new buffers and roof vents and not much else beyond a repaint required here. I needed to make some more mineral wagons as I'm supplying them to two 1950s layouts now. At the same time Warley taking a hiatus means I don't need my wagon building display models for a while, so I'm completing some of them. I had a series of Airfix D1/108s showing a step by step restoration, so these two are now well on the way to completion and two more will follow. This is not my idea, it's done to the Geoff Kent method in The 4mm wagon Vol. 1 which I can't recommend highly enough to anyone who doesn't have it already. Also after Geoff Kent, Airfix BR cattle wagon. This will be an adaptor wagon for my BB carriage couplings, so there's a dirty great chunk of lead in there to keep it on the straight and narrow. And finally.... this is the Flat T I made at Warley this year. Although strictly following the LNER painting guidelines meant it should be all black, it looked terrible. I've engaged Rule 1 and a certain amount of prototypical licence and painted the solebars and buffer beams grey and it looks much better. I think I'll keep it like this. The load is by Maketis and I took advantage of our Christmas break to order this and have it sent to me there. It could almost have been made for it.

Liked the song, hadn't seen the video before. Looking at the age of Deirdre Barlow when that was filmed, it must have been pre-1968?

You can bash a Kirk kit into anything with enough effort and ingenuity. Did he do a 6 compartment BTK? That would be my starting point. If you can solder, Bill's sides and MJT everything else work well together.

That window configuration and separate stepboards suggest a D178 BTK.

I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night - The Electric Prunes

I can't remember who wrote it, but there's a pastiche of AE Housman which includes the lines: What? Still alive at twenty-two? A fine upstanding man like you? It does apply to a great deal of traditional folklore.

Tim, what do you use instead of Tarmac (Humbrol 112) which seems to have disappeared? Revell 69 was close but I can't get Revell paints locally any more.

Some things do look better even when wrong.

I've had the same rethink - I think mine is going to be grey with black bogies. I'm just building a Bolrecs and the ABS instruction for that states grey body, which being steel you'd have thought would be black.

It's a J17, so not strictly relevant.