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  1. gardenwall
    Thank you. I may have to have a go at weathering in the future if the "Round Tu-its" allow. The others with "ghost images" of the SMBP logos are interesting too.
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    Those built up until 1966 were vacuum braked, eventually the survivors were converted to air brake but the Shell-BP livery had ceased by then. The mid grey Shell would have been air braked from new, let us hope later runs will add air brake detail, the earlier liveries are fine (as long as you only look at one side).
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    When announced one could place a pre- order on the Footplate site. The details are still there but the ability to add a pre-order seems to have gone. Pre orders are now possible via the Flangeway site. Having placed a pre-order via Footplate if I now pre order another via Flangeway does it all end up on one list or will it be separate parcels (and postage)? Anyone in the know?
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    Anyone know what the difference is between O-IS001 and O-IS002 ? Both say Independent Snowplough - 1965 version with yellow chevrons.
  5. gardenwall
    Indeed of the original 8 wagons announced at Guildex it is just the gunpowder van and southern pattern box van to go. The illustration used at the time was of a GWR iron mink improvised gunpowder van, and Minerva have in the meantime produced one of those. It could be they really meant the BR type gunpowder van, which is different, but whether that is viable now remains to be seen. Here's hoping for the SR box van though.
  6. gardenwall
    From days of cutting and shutting the original Lima mk1s yes you could get a full brake - you have to fill in one central door though. Never found a use for the other halves though, the window spacing is just too wrong. Other than cutting out each window it just doesn't work. I'll wait for Dapol to do it (Lima eventually did)
  7. gardenwall
    Sadly not.
  8. gardenwall
    In the Dapol collectors club newsletter it suggests the O gauge club special this year (2019) will be 1401 - order form 'to follow'. Any club models remaining after 12 months (2020) will sold to the public at normal MRP. Normally club specials follow on from a normal production run, so 2019 looking good for the announced models.
  9. gardenwall
    Nah! Just build a maintenance depot with overhead lifting crane (working) and transparent 4th wall. Best maintained low mileage 22 ever.
  10. gardenwall
    Shouldn't it be three Kings at Christmas?
  11. gardenwall
    Have they said what scale the diesel loco is? They do N too, and HO (but probably not here)
  12. gardenwall
    It is a mkII 1100/1300 (sloping rear light cluster) which puts it even later, and the red car looks suspiciously like a Lotus Elite, also rather later than the loco/livery - perhaps it is the loco that is the time traveller!
  13. gardenwall
    A speedy recovery is nice, but a full recovery is more to the point, and I hope Kit gets both. Do the exercises and the lifestyle changes - it's worth it. (recovering from heart triple bypass).
  14. gardenwall
    One of the reasons for adding wood, sandbags and so forth to armoured vehicles was to disrupt shaped charge projectiles, if they do not detonate at the correct distance their power is seriously undermined. Mine blast was another reason, so, no, not a pointless exercise at all, just dealing with a different problem.
  15. gardenwall
    Shermans were loaded on warwells not warflats. Warwells were constucted to carrry Sherman family vehicles as they were out of gauge on existing wagons (warflats, rectanks)
  16. gardenwall
    Except of course 'break' is the original usage back in the day when couplings were not so reliable (19th cent).
  17. gardenwall

    Dapol Class 21/29

    gardenwall replied to spackz's topic in Dapol

    Wrenn (Hornby doublo) announced the Adams Radial decades ago - it would appear in catalogues but took messrs Oxford and Hornby until this year to actually produce one.
  18. gardenwall
    Just think of it as finding it a friend.
  19. gardenwall
    Nice idea, greatly depends on what the vans are carrying - many explosives do not explode if set on fire, they just burn rapidly - no pressure wave - so carnage yes, but no hole. Even gun powder will not explode unless closely confined. Modern explosives can be quite hard to set off without the proper detonator. Some do explode as a result of flame though.
  20. gardenwall
    Col Stevens would buy almost anything if the price was right.
  21. gardenwall

    Buckets

    gardenwall replied to 81A Oldoak's topic in Minerva

    Bucket - A little buck.... (ISIRTA) (I'm getting mine by the loco.)
  22. gardenwall
    The Dapol collectors club magazine which arrived to me yesterday a bit chewed by the Royal Mail (so maybe a bit delayed), but still legible, had a table of status updates which doesn't add much except it is in black and white. '14xx CAD/CAM finalisation about to go into tooling'
  23. gardenwall
    Original Warship similarity of design but in terms of moulds probably not. 21/29 cab ends maybe. Of course he could have been talking about internals.
  24. gardenwall
    Indeed, Gunpowder van, Southern pattern box van, conflat and 9 plank could all still be viable, though underframes may need to be thought about. Minerva may do the gunpowder but probably the improvised kind. Whether the markety can suport two versions is a question of economics. Southern box and the conflat should be good though.
  25. gardenwall
    First details of new liveries for 2018 on the Air ministry tanks are now on Tower models website. No pics yet. 5 type A, 5 type B, Some may be effectively number changes.
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