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Blimey, look at those FILFY windaas!! ..... "Well, don't just stand there Corp, Orf ye get to stores to pick up 3 buckets of Windowlene and take a couple of Airmen from "See C" Filght, wiv ya. Shouldn' take more than half a day." Kind regards J

On reflection, after the event, that Brush Washing Jar was a considerable improvement on my attempts at the culinary arts .......... The jar is a truly great idea 'though ................... Noooo!!! ........ not for dinner! ............ Oh? ... Well maybe? ....... J

I was just about to go and cook dinner, when I looked at those pictures ............................................................ was!!!!! J

I reckon on the West Country area, wiv a woppin' class 37 at front and back. Still can't justify it ........... J

You might get your chance to buy one yet, have you seen the RHC sets that Hattons are soon to Beleaguer our wallets with? I have to admit that, having not the slightest real reason to buy a set, I found myself working out how it might be possible to fill one of the water tanks with cleaner fluid and fit a weighted slab for fitting corduroy cleaning pads too!! J

I did, but the one before the 732. I would have put a picture, but I only have a video, which seems a bit excessive. However if you imagine a 66 with the same colour scheme as the one in David's picture, the number one less than that and called Europorte, your'e pretty much there. J

Did you buy the loco from UHWEBO, resprayed by Lees Locos? Kind regards J

New word - "multicons" ... J

OR .......... maybe add some more ore tint to some of the others ..... Kind regards J ​PS. Not too much ore, otherwise those Gov't prospectors will feel they are obliged to pay you a visit.

Really good to see you back again. I'm looking forward to seeing the progress on the layout. Fantastic news. Kind regards J PS. How did you get 12 cylinders firing on your V8? Ducks and heads for the door ............ [again!]

How about putting some similar looking low profile scale buildings in place of the photo ones, in front of the Castle bit? Kind regards J

It all looks to fit together very well, dt. How does it look scale-wise behind the station? Kind regards J

Looking at where you are thinking of putting the trees, with the steep bank behind, it might be appropriate to put some decorative, non-triangular, form of conifer. If you want tall, then Cedars of Lebanon get tall and are sparce branched, so the layout behind can easily be seen too, scenic but not a barrier. We had 2 in the garden which were over 100ft tall. You would have trouble modelling them, but they had to grow through from ground up, so could be any height you prefer. Interesting mix of trees by the track. I'm no tree expert, but my parents were obsessed by gardening, with field sized gardens. The firs, in the picture, look a bit like the Douglas Fir shape, rather more foliage than most, but that may be a function of location and climate. The other split chassis ones, mainly visible on the right of the track, look distinctly Beech like with smooth bark and sort of knobbly knees, which might explain why some look distinctly dead. That must be the sum total of my tree knowledge, except they don't look like Oak, Plane or Holly. I expect someone with a proper understanding of trees might come along and educate us all. Kind regards Julian

Poplars. It is my understanding that the French planted Poplars, as RaR described, as is evident in many pictures of the French countryside ... along long those straight roads between fields of waving crops .................. apparently planted to provide welcome, cooling shade from the hot, dry French Summer Sun, for the Legions of German troops marching their way through France. Kind regards Julian

Massive, spectacular - will you be moving out to move it in? Kind regards Julian

Nice one David, I like it very much. I recently had similar thoughts, when I saw a picture of a discarded layout at the rear of a picture someone posted. It had a murky flat-grey background, looking just like a British Summer's day sky. I thought it would make a perfect, non-distracting backscene. Looking at yours makes me think it could well work Regards as always J

WHAAAAAAATTT!!!!!!!!!!!! You have time for reading as well as everything else you did??????? Kind regards Julian

I rather go for double sided tape.......... Julian Oh bother, it's cold and wet outside ..... Oh well, hat, coat .....

Yep, me too .... clasps mouth tightly with both hands! Kind regards Julian Actually, it might be totally politically correct, but just not done!

Didn't know you were Israeli? Regards Julian

I have recently been looking at PL - 15 SPDT twin switches, to Juice the Frog and isolate a line on the approach from the non-selected heel of the points being changed. This should prevent driving a loco at the heel of points set against it. It's the black plastic board with two micro switches and a moving actuator between them. My actuator will be moved by a control rod from the same Servo Bell Crank which drives the Stretcher Bar between the Points. PL-15 Switches Simple enough, particularly as the switch contacts are visible. Move one way and switch one sets the frog polarity. The same Frog Wire connects also to the centre contact on the second switch. The other two contacts on the same second switch go to power the two rails connected [with isolating Fish] to the Frog. Points get moved by the crank and polarity gets changed by the first DPDT micro switch, the polarity also gets changed at the centre contact on the second DPDT micro switch and onward to feed the approach to one or other Heel of the frog. Confused? Sorry about my sad attempt at a written description, how about a picture? Not as complex as first look, just a Crossover with 2 sets of points back to back. Servo Plans Double Let us concentrate on the right side of the picture, by the Bus Power Input. The Servo is, central, at 1 and a single rod drives the long arm of the Bell Crank to no 2, at the end of the rod. The small arm on the Crank drives the brown control rods to push / pull the points Stretcher back and forward. The left side is just the same connections on the other set of points of the Crossover. Quite simple really and 2 point controls from a single servo [and safety, knowing that both points get changed together]. To the Frog, halfway down the longer Crank arm at 2 a small control arm moves the actuator, between the PL-15 DPDT switches - positive connect one way and negative contact moved back the other way, on the first DPDT switch. The green wire from the centre contact powers the Frog accordingly, so far quite straightforward, one way, frog positive, the other way the frog goes negative. The green wire also changes polarity at the centre contact on the second DPDT switch. Now to the heel, the second DPDT changes the feeds at the red circle marked 3 to the rails attached to the heel of the right hand Frog [one of which is also the heel of the other half of the crossover]. These are the light blue and orange wires from the right hand PL-15. While feeding the correct polarity to the route selected on the points, the DPDT switch also disconnects power from the non-selected route. No power on the non-selected route means approaching locos will stop before running onto the back end of points selected for the other route. The left hand end of the picture is a straightforward mirror of the other end. .............. YEA!! fantastic!! ............................ ???? Now the disappointment - - the wiring will work just fine for a single set of points at a junction - BUT will simply not work for two of them back to back on a Crossover, all because of the 2" of the Stock rail beyond the Straight Closure rail toe! Should've had that extra glass of wine and left the plan at a single set of points .................. now where did that bottle get to. Happy Christmas all. J PS. Apologies for the DPDT repetition, but I wanted to avoid confusion over micro switch control of power to point switches.

Good fireman, nice clean burn. Season's Greeting to all. J

Nice idea for picture taking .......................... Kind regards J PS. You got a licence yet?

Those look like the Costa ones, which, back then were finer dimensions than the rest of the opposition ones. ........................ Mind you, I had to send other friends and relation in, to drink the coffee - bit "sussy" to walk in, check out the stirrer basket and then walk straight out!! Kind regards Julian PS. Blimey, I've just had to edit my own name/signature [4th time in a week] - I daren't go the the Doc again this year!!

Those passengers are imaculately painted and are beautifully visible in the coaches, too. Mind you there's a fair few of 'em for the Camel Estuary .... :jester: Kind regards Julian