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Oo Yes! But if we’re having 188 can we have it in banger blue too? Large logowise 264 would be a rather splendid choice here on Mallaig 👍

Slap that on an early mk3 ‘Tina and the goosebumps will rise. But sadly I ain’t got an early mk3 Tina (yet). But….. Me does have a couple of boilered beastfield beauties on order from Accurascale and apparently they’re tantalisingly close 😍 The mk3 may prove a tad too pricey. Should have got one in 88 when I passed my test instead of the mk5.

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Considering the next trio have landed at Accurascale Towers this thread has gone very quiet. Could Stephen, Fran etc give us a hint as to when these will be sent out? Appreciate it’s probably Siphons before Syphons but I’m going on holiday next week and won’t be home for the DHL delivery. Just my luck really.

Looking very nice and good to hear that the timetable is running as hoped. Took me a while to find the spanner though 😀

I agree entirely with Rob’s words above. You have a very nice amount of space and quite clearly the talent to make a very nice model railway in it. I have 16’x 10’ in my attic so Mallaig uses just under 15’. I could have done with an extra couple of feet but I don’t have it so there is a compromise. I’ve got in all the features I want on that section and to my eyes at least it’s a decent representation. The loop is a coach short, the platform is half a coach short and the area from the crossover to where the train goes off scene i shorter than it should be (I don’t know by how much as it doesn’t really matter) but it feels right. Glenfinnan will have to have compromises which I’ll discover soon when I lay the boards out and Fort William certainly will. I accept this in order to have it as the other option is to not have it. I just want to be able to run the timetable and have fun with my toy trains. Robs space is something that we’d all love and he still wants more. It’s just the nature of the railway modeller. We all would like a bit more to do that little extra. I think once built and scenic’d you’ll appreciate what you have got rather than what you wish you had. Is a condensed Crianlarich such a bad thing? Could Arrochar and Tarbert not have a branch in a fictitious world? What ever you decide to build I’m confident it will look fantastic and I’m really looking forward to coming along with you as you document the journey for us. Good Luck and enjoy the build.

What space do you have to work with Warren?

It’s coming along rather nicely Andy.

I certainly don’t need a set for my 1980s West Highland layout but as a lover of GWR (and Southern) coaches even I am seriously tempted

I’ve got me shades on 😎

Can I add the word ‘Certainly’? I have two of the BEastfield beauts on order and they’re so close I’m pacing…..

I think it’s another of those either or functions like the wheel slip or cold start. In this case it’s the 37/0s that have the sanders. The more modern versions have the wipers.

Thegreenhowards has used fibreglass/car bodyfiller on his O gauge Glenfinnan layout. A very recent post on that thread and he wasn’t keen on the results. Difficult to manage and very messy. Perhaps worth a look before you commit.

Looks perfectly normal to me David 😀

Id have liked it in banger blue or large logo. I’m really after early 80s Eastfield locos but I’m pretty sure Inverness 37s from the early and mid 80s would be hugely popular.

37262 is nice, sadly in the wrong livery

Hi Jools, to post a video on here you need to post it on YouTube and then post the link here. It would be nice to see. Ah if I’d have kept scrolling before replying 🙄👍

The current fleet. However not all are sound fitted yet.

Trouble was of the 7 I will have when the Accurascale ones arrive 3 would have been namers and 1 would have the yellow wrap rounds so in my eye that’s 4 celebrity locos. I needed more of the more mundane fleet and I really wanted 051. I also want 085 if and when anyone makes a suitable RSH version. 188 would be nice too while we’re at it. Oh and 108…………. 😀

Just a little work today on 37192. The Railtech sheet I acquired for 37051’s numbers also came with West Highland terriers so I applied these to 192. Rather annoyingly 192 was an RSH example and my version is a Vulcan so it doesn’t have the correct contrail grills. It could be years if ever that a more prototypical version is available so I will have to make do for now at least. I bought some brass headcode plates back in the day from A1 Railmatch for £1.50 (I must have done an extra paper round to be so flush) and if I remember correctly they were earmarked to go on a Hornby model. These will go on 192 and tge primer is drying as I write this. This leads me onto my second request of the afternoon. Railmatch #202 Warning Yellow is not a perfect match for the Bachmann yellow end. Have any of you found a better match? Here is 37192 also at Mallaig.

With to almost imminent arrival of the Accurascale 37s of which I have had 2 on order since I started building the baseboards I was going to end up being a little celebrity heavy on the loco front. With 37112 in her wrap round yellow ends and 37027 Loch Eil, 37012 Loch Rannoch (renumbered and renamed from the second 37027) and 37026 Loch Awe I decided a long time ago that 37026 (MMRG exclusive from Bachmann) would end up getting renumbered. As this loco has the single riveted roof panels 37051 was a prime candidate so this work has now been carried out. I have been pondering how to fit the snow ploughs to it as the ones supplied use the NEM socket which obviously is a bit of a pain if you want to fit couplings. Earlier versions of the Bachmann ploughs came in 3 parts which were much better as you could fit the side sections to the bogie without the need to fit the centre section into the NEM pocket. This is what I’d done on 37039 and although the ploughs in reality should be fitted to the chassis rather than the bogie this would limit the movement of the coupling on my 4th radius off scene curves. One of those model railway compromises it would seem. I had another pack of these earlier 3 section ploughs so these were to go onto 051 but on emptying the contents of the bag I seem to only have 3 side sections but 3 centre sections 🙄 So I cannot complete the plough fitting. I have a set of the NEM mount ones and two pairs of the Rusty Rails 3D print but these are designed to fit the chassis. I will need to modify these somehow to fit the bogie. If anyone reading has done this themselves please don’t be shy as I’d love to hear what technique you used. 37051 still needs to be sound fitted but here she is at Mallaig today. Note the ploughs at one end only.

Will you also be using the Dapol back actor Paul? It’s nice and positionable.

It looks like Rob now has an excuse to venture up to the railway room and kill time on a sleepless night. Although perhaps not a good idea to have the sound on! Diggers do seem to be difficult to find for our era. I see there is one on Richard Crofts’ Roads and Rails display layout but that’s an up to date JCB. I have a JCB in the yard area on Mallaig but that’s an old one of sixties vintage and is therefore portrayed as somewhat knackered. I’m sure BR would also have had JCBs so hopefully someone will release an Eighties version. You will probably have to follow Paul’s lead and kitbash too. Somehow I managed to miss your earlier post regarding the stunning new signals you have for Fort William. I’ll certainly be taking a keen interest in their development.

Thanks for the photos. They look awesome. Excitement levels have just gone up another notch 👍

043 is in with the other large logo ones Billy