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Lovely job Mike. Shout if want one printed in resin, given the effort you’ve gone to you’ll get a much better finish.

Well he seems to be doing a fairly good job of that... I wonder if there may still be a switcharound that sees Ricciardo in the RB and Perez in the Alpha Tauri before the season ends.

Fantastic, lovely job!

Really? I’ve never heard of a train running fast unannounced, and I’ve been on far more trains than I care to recall that are changed to being “fast to Barnham”.

Not accelerating is virtually identical to braking when you’re the following car. I can assure you from bike racing that someone suddenly stopping pedalling is akin to them slamming on the brakes! The “coming back from on the grass” is different. If you’re on the grass you are very wide, and it’s plain to see you’re a hazard. Again, you’re talking about an inch difference, with the drivers evidently being largely unaware of exactly where that line is. Having them swerve to the opposite side of the road so they can deal with their spontaneous loss of power still sounds like a recipe for disaster.

But you're talking about "going off" by an inch or so, they're not leaving the track in any real sense, ergo a following car would suddenly be met with a slow car on the racing line, entering a DRS zone. That would be mental. Surely for the money involved they could have gravel for F1 and an alternative for Moto GP?

They’re not views, there is a right and a wrong here (you’re wrong), but it’s a bit of a point of pedantry. You seem not to listen, but I’ll try it again in as few words as possible. VAT is due on everything. Below £135 it’s meant to be collected by the retailer on behalf of HMRC (so nothing is due to the courier). Above £135 it’ll be collected by the courier, usually the retailer will remove local tax (but they’re obvious not legally obliged to). So yes, IN GENERAL nothing will be due on transactions below £135 at point of delivery. However this is not “orders under £135 are tax free” as you keep repeating. If HMRC checked a package for a VAT declaration they could entirely justifiably charge you for it. Some retailers will do this - essentially they are complying by declaring to HMRC they won’t collect UK VAT. To the OP I’d be very confident you’ll have nothing to pay on delivery. However if you are asked for VAT (and the admin fee, which in this instance will be many times more than the VAT) you’ll have to suck it up.

Half the field getting penalties is essentially the best option? Including 12 (edited) applied after the race. We’ll have to agree to disagree on that, that’s ridiculous. There’s gravel on the outside of other corners in Austria, 4 catches a few out, but you don’t get track limit infractions there.

Not a single post about qualifying or the sprint race in Austria. Bit of a damning indictment! Quali was ridiculous with all the track limits infractions. Just stick some gravel there to stop them doing it. Must have been an uncomfortable debrief for Perez. Best sprint race I've seen I think, the wet-dry conditions giving a chance for some interest. Fair play to Russell, great job by him to make up ground after gambling on the slicks.

Yes, I’ve noticed a lot of 350s were being identified as 508s or something I didn’t recognise. Bit weird. Still generally find it useful though for what’s actually coming.

I like the maps on Traksy at times like this.

Be aware that on clear decal paper the yellow will be invisible. I’d stick with the green surround I’d say, and use white-backed decal paper. Or slather in graffiti like the real thing.

Yeah I think the moulded roundels are a slight let down. I actually prefer Revolution's N gauge ones being printed with etched supplied. I get the sentiment, but they've naturally got a 'softer' edge than etched ones.

Pfft, just hit send and hope for the best! Even looks like there's room to put in a wiggly ramp.

Yes of course it could be done, my point was just that listing bogies designed as functional items are unlikely to cut it. I’m not aware of any realistic, cosmetic bogies in N.

All the same problem though. You need dedicated cosmetic bogies, as none of the model ones look anything like a real bogie when not under a wagon. Some OO gauge ones are getting better, but still tend to have a lot of material that isn’t actually there.

Yeah you’ll obviously get a much better finish. I’ve only done the MWA-B (and here in N gauge), but shout if you want decals!

It’ll depend on your slicer, but they’ll all have a ‘clone’ functionality. I think in Cura it’s Ctrl+M, in Chitubox it’s one of the buttons at the top, or copy/paste works. Do all your supports/hollowing etc first. To lift prints off the build plate again will depend. If we’re talking Chitubox and resin then there’s a setting in the support settings for the Z-lift. If it’s Cura/FDM you’ll have to manually move in the Z-axis and ensure you have adequate supports to hold the model up.

Fusion enables you to scale to many decimal places, but you don’t scale to 1:76.2, you need to scale to 0.013123359580052 (ie 1/76.2) surely?

Farish have already done a sound-fitted 60, and it’s one of their best models IMO. I never quite understand people’s desperation for myriad lighting combinations. There would be a very long list of models ahead of the 60 I’d sooner see redone.

I struggle to believe that - you’ve got some lovely prints and some nice designs! some decent dimensioned drawings of them here: http://www.innobogies.de/en/axiom ln 25 en.html

Have you waited 4 years to run it?! Not had a problem with couplings on any of mine, but did have issues with detailing caused by bogies not being seated correctly IIRC.

Nicely done! Small aside, they’re the wrong bogies on the MWA - the flat-top TF-25s are fitted to the JNA-A, you want ordinary TF-25s for the MWA.

Agreed, and if the price falls too that'd be even better! The Jupiter isn't quite big enough, couldn't print O gauge bogie wagons in one go.

Well the Saturn 3 is already 12K, and no bigger than the 2, so you’ll have to wait for the 4 for any extra volume.