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This is the Hornby LSWR liveried T9 on the Ormesby Hall layout 'Corfe'.

Given time, it should reduce city-wide congestion.....

Have you read this thread at all?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/4mm-Scale-etched-brass-kit-built-LNER-GCR-FISH-VAN-OO-EM-P4-/141209257493?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item20e0ba4615

I'll have to have another look at my photo, Arthur. I wonder if a bit of judicious shading would give at least some of the effect? Still needs the roof fittings and vac pipes but essentially complete. The fittings arrived from Dave Hammersley for the Howlden - 4A6 gas lamp tops, 4A7 torpedo vents, in case anyone else is looking for any - and those have also been fitted.

This week, while waiting for bits, I have mostly been building a pig-ugly coach. I like these NER matchboard vehicles, they're so awful they're really eyecatching. This is a D 111 Lavatory 3rd. A number of these were transferred to East Anglia in the 1930s and this one will run on Thurston and Wickham Market. I have a couple more ex-NER coaches to make up so we have a choice of non-corridor stock to run.

As long as it's not woodchip - if it is, you'll never get it off again.

Hey Pete, Haven't read back through the whoel thread, but have you tried this Limonene stuff? Geoff Kent reckoned it set more slowly and didn't distort plastikard and Mike T is trying it with apparently good results.

Come on, Gilbert, do keep up. Time to practice your Russian.

Pssst, Barry! Yours is a D11, mate. Cabside windows.

Picture 4. Definite wallpaper material.

Can you elaborate, Mike? I haven't either.

I had quite bit of time at the bench this weekend and got on with a few jobs. I've been repairing one or two wagons from the Thurston shunting stock which had been damaged either at shows or (more likely) in transport. These grain vans had the Geoff Kent treatment some few years ago including the riveted strip at each end of the roof. This was done using an etched strip from (I think) Alan Gibson and it had lifted and caught on something. Now I'd use Evergreen strip and Archer transfers. With care building and the extra detail Geoff recommends these make a nice model. They are both compensated as the short wheelbase makes them very prone to derailing when shunted if they're rigid. The detailing is mainly handrails, bits around the roof doors, better buffers and hopper operating gear. I see we have a handwheel missing on the left hand wagon as well. I'm looking forward to seeing the Bachmann BR hoppers after years of resisting invitations to lengthen a Dapol one or two. The Howlden has had undergear and trussing and is now awaiting roof adornment. I don't have enough vents or lamps and so I've ordered some from the ever-helpful Dave at Roxey Mouldings. These need to be the high, pregrouping torpedo vents rather than the lower profile ones the LNER used. Both this and the 6 wheeler have also had buffers fitted. I use the Wizard Models L & Y sprung buffers (LYRC025) - the stock is too long for GNR, but the shape is similar and they come with the oval buffer head which is required. This Kirk conversion to ECJS has been seen before on here, but that nice Mr King provided me with some clerestory castings instead of the rather unsatisfactory arrangement which I had before. Here I've grafted two together to make a long enough roof (see where the vent spacings become irregular) and stuck one side section back on. It's curing before the second one is applied. The side sections look to me to be cut from Triang Thompson roofs. Who said they're useless? Finally, I'm seeing the owner of this next weekend and thought it might be nice to have something to bring with me. This is from one of the most recent batches of D & S kits, a D 87 Milk Van. Went together very nicely, doors are a bit fiddly, roof fit is awful. That's this week's job. It's now drying off before the last bits are glued on.

It must exist, Roy Jackson has (or had, at least) one on Retford.

Oh, dear. I hope I wasn't rude? Sunday somehow never quite got going the way Saturday had.

I rolled it to get the main arc and then formed the eaves by holding it along a piece of bullnose skirting in a vice and rolling it with a piece of 15mm copper pipe. To get the very last part of the bend I used a bit of 1/4" brass rod and fingers. It's not easy, but then I haven't done many of these. Worst part was filing back the excess I had left at the cornice line, missing with the file and slicing my finger end open. It makes typing more uncomfortable than it ought to be.

Oh, you're no slouch yourself, Pete. I keep an eye on your thread. The 6 wheeler came with a roof and yes, it was half etched. That's why it's bent a lot more tidily than my homemade one, which bears the marks of some persuasion with a length of copper pipe.

I hope Colin (or Barry should he ever read this) won't mind me saying that the Cambrian kits have improved in terms of ease of build markedly in the last few years. The older ones (lower numbers) take more care and are more fiddly. The newest ones are on a par with Parkside (some of whose older kits are also a challenge). I wouldn't worry if you're struggling with a Hurst Nelson PO (if it's a Cambrian) - I've been there myself. The gold standard are Roger Chivers - they all but assemble themselves.

Well, I was so pleased with that Howlden 6 wheeler that I picked up the next vehicle on the pile and thought I'd have a go at that as well. This is also a Howlden and also by Bill, a D 129 Composite. I've just about applied all the bits you get in the kit here and spent a couple of evenings making the roof. There's a cornice on these so I shall apply a piece of Evergreen strip which will hide the small gaps and inaccuracies. After that it's detailing bits and an interior. I put some of the underframe equipment onto the PBV and here it is posed with the slightly larger diagram which D & S did.

Hi Dave, The one of these we run at Ormesby has the pickups on the tender. Probably for the same reason.

I don't mind being called a non-scented modeller, Gilbert, but I do object to 'cheap'.......

So many punchlines, so little time......

Now then, Gilbert, that's a good question. I use one of these, but my learned colleague Mr Foster has found something much more exotic and exciting. Put the powder where you want it with the small brush and spread with the largest one. I don't use a fixer, the stuff really does stick to more or less anything. Don't varnish over it either unless you want it to all but disappear.

Agreed. Every layout I operate at a show, we spend all weekend being clicked and flashed at but very seldom see the results. I had one child asking quite intelligent questions, but he was gobsmacked when he asked if I would run the Scotch Goods and I told him it wasn't due for about 2 hours (it had just been round).

I still buy and built the 3H kits when they come up - Cambrian have since covered the opens, but the older kits lose nothing by comparison.