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The two shunters look excellent I have to say. Just hope Urie15 has seen Weathering Man's warning about using Dettol to remove paint, I suspect many other modellers will have gone down the same road! .

Is that the certain "Scottish " loco that we don't mention, but inadvertantly have(!). Hopefully the GBL version won't "replica"te the one we're all thinking for, if it is then my nose-end will be out of joint !!!

Was the Tri-ang chassis long enough btw - the 12003-32 batch were 31 ft 4 & half inch over buffers whereas the standard "08" was a mere 29ft 3in - does anycare really! That would be a challenge for the major rtr manufacurers wouldn't it?

Fifty - wow! Don't suppose the e-mail gave a "squad list" , did it? I suppose the Western & HST are still in the academy waiting for a call-up to the first team, as it were. Heaven forbid the dreadful 08 from Triang-Hornby days is ever resurrected!!

A class 76 would be good, but can't envisage that unless the Olivia Trains one is used. I hope they don't use a named Class 45 for their choice (Part 17) - devil of a job to remove nameplates - a class 44 or 46 (not D163!) would be nice, especially since I have a spare Mainline chassis. I'm NOT an HST fan but a single power car ( in Black & yellow livery - see latest copy of MLI) would be a great unusual non-powered cargo. Will the series extend beyond no. 20 even?? Plenty of other suggestions will be forthcoming...........

Hi tren! Thanks for your comprehensive reply - I clicked the like icon instead of thanks earlier. Don't think I'll be buying an old RM on-line - the prices charged are usually exhorbitant and then there's postage. Will look in bargain bins at stalls at events.

Not been that enraptured with 2005 onwards versions tbh. Only the Daleks & cybermen interest me now. Some of the Dr who figurines are quite good - presumably not produced by the same company that produces GBL Models!! Why are Dapol wagons such a pig to repair couplings on!! Any thoughts on what part 16 will be, surely Amercom won't move everything from no.17 forward one place??

Hi John! According to my calculations the Standard 4MT is wed 3 Sept (my birthday) and the T9 5th November (hmm...punchlinesw to follow no doubt depending on its quality!). Big question now is what is Part 16 (with the demise of Locomotion)?

Hi john. Pink appeared to be the norm from the late 1950s - there many photos in Modern Locomotives illustrated issues that show this and I can remember seeing locos in Doncaster works in the late 1960/ early 70s in this. Members of class 56 built there had a mid-green undercoat I recall. HTH.

Thanks for the clarification Tony. Sorry I didn't see the post earlier today before replying. Hopefully my discovery in the Murray Brown deltic book of 9019 will serve everyone accurately. (Wish i could afford the Bachmann version!)

Hi tony! As a postscript to my previous post late Wednesday I picked up my copy (again!) of "Rail Portfolios 3 - The Deltics" and bingo - Page 3 -9019 at peterborough (taken from some 10ft or so above roof level) - clearly shows your point about the roof vent and the postion of the obscure nose-end panel. (Why hadn't I noticed this before?!). So one problem resolved. Regards malcolm

Hi tony. By vertical walls do you mean the lug either side of the centre axle? Did you remove 'em intentionally (or would it better to retain these?). Sorry I'm a bit slow this evening. Looking at the photo you attached and the drawing in Model Rail no. 18(April 2000) and the GBL bodyshell in front of me, there is a (crude) roof vent (almost oval shaped) less than a scale foot away from one exhaust port . So i presume it is this end on the secondman's side that the obscure panel is sited(?).. . Thanks once again

A thousand thanks for the photos Tony - I've realised now that the the Lima "guides" sit underneath the GBL frame and you've carved out a shape really to accomodate the the motor and gear assembly, with the Lima curved sections supporting the the front and rear guides from underneath Did you use some sort of packing at each end to provide a channel for the guide to move within? Thanks also for the info. on the nose end panel - still haven't managed yet to pin down whcih side it should go on, trawling my photos again - amazing how many of 'em don't show the correct side! Thanks once more. regards Malcolm

Wow! Thanks yet again Tony!! I would definitely have yourself & Weathering Man on my list of friends on a certain defunct quiz show! I should have said nose end side panel in hindsight. That would explain my just-one -per -loco theory - back to checking photos again. Found a superb t/t green three-quarters view of D9014 in the "Looking Back At English Electric Locomotives" book incidentally. Thanks again and regards . Malcolm

Hi john! In response to your mention of articles on the Jinty I have been looking for scale drawings of one as I wanted to create a later "keyhole" version as one of the handful allocated to Royston shed - so I thought -ah - Model Rail Magazine would have covered in a Master-Class article over the years, after some four hours of searching online and through my printed indexes I drew a big fat blank. There is, however, an excellent photo feature on the preserved 47383 (no scale drawing though!) in the very first issue (Autumn '97). Other sources would be Ian Allan's "On Midland Lines" and their "Locomotives Illustrated" magazine (don't know the exact issue number -sorry!). A byproduct of my research was that i compiled a complete "Master-Class" artcile list from 1997 to date. If anyone is interested please let me know and I will type it in all on Friday evening - thought it might come in handy now we're all chopping up and improving GBL models. Regards

Evening sir! Many thanks for your very speedy reply indeed. That's a very ingenious way of doing it -would have never occured to me. I look forward to your photos later this week. I would imagine there was much delicate sculpturing of the GBL chassis to accoodate the two bogies. As an aside would you, or any Class 55 afficiandos, be able to tell me if there just one bodyside panel per nose end (which I've measured from a Model Rail article be 3ft long by -1 and a half-feet wide), or just one single panel per loco? have looked through many photos in books and it would appear just one panel per loco. Many many thanks once again. Regards

Hi! Trying to adapt and secure the Lima 37 bogies to the GBL chassis.How have you secured the motor bogie to the modified chassis while retaining the screw fixing for the body?.A photo showing a plan view would be very useful please? Many thanks for any help with this. Regards.

Evening Mr H! If I may be so bold as to offer some advice - presumably you have favourites that are on the GBL List of releases (published on various sources - I can message you the details if you haven't btw). The series started on Wed 19 February and thence every two weeks after. By referring to this schedule or calculation by calendar, select the page number on the GBL thread here and see what date the first comment is, ideally select the day before the Wednesday in question, and the corresponding page number and the reviews of your chosen model/intended purchase should begin. This will save considerable wear & tear on your eyesight, and time! Sadly I did not practise this to begin with! Hope this helps.

There's no excuse for that smoke deflector being so cock-eyed and that hideous finish on the tender! Hope you can find a good newsagent now to purchase future releases, can I suggest the main post offices in large villages (as opposed to town centre ones!). On a humourous vein, would love to see photos of your wife's cakes!

Spot on Darrel on the absence of magazine reviews - I only buy Model Rail and wonder if perhaps the icy response to Chris Leigh's comments many pages ago on here means that the GBL series has been ignored by the editorial team at MR. The models have been a godsend to myself (on a very limited budget) and I suspect many other RMWeb to improvise and motorise these inexpensive little gems. Seems rather churlish for so many titles to pretend the range doesn't exist.

An excellent most thorough review from the Weathering Man - a thousand thanks for that sir! Mention has been made of the Hornby 0-6-0 chassis to be used for motorising. If my memory serves me right isn't the Hornby version is a generic one and therefore dimensionally inaccurate (wheelbase-wise), or, was there a predecessor to this (that I am unaware of) that is suitable, and only produced during a certain time period before it was usurped by the poorer version? Many thanks in anticipation to replies..

Thanks for this , TMZ. When I can manage to get Issue 7 my spare lIma 37 chassis will find use here. Good photos.