Michael Edge

I just tape the Templot drawings to the bench with masking tape so it's easy to pick up and turn over once built.

When we have the etches, no idea how long PhotoEtch are taking but at least they are working again. No problem, we've already done the EE1, all 2mm etches are £18 including UK postage. The EE1 was out of stock for a long time but we have some now.

Don't try to pull the sleepers off the tape, turn the track over and peel the tape off the sleepers.

Looks OK to me now, the additional connections make your fiddle yard much more flexible in use.

Not Millhouses, not much engine changing in Sheffield. Patriots only Derby - Manchester as I remember.

When you've soldered up anything on a coupler wash it with MEK or something similar afterwards, otherwise the pivots and latch can get sticky. I'm getting a bit suspicious of blackened latches as well, a lot of them seem to get sticky, clean brass ones less so.

That's what I meant, a bit of memory fade there, Leicester shed was probably involved as well.

Mostly Scots and Jubilees until replaced by Peaks in the 1960s. They would mainly be from Holbeck, Derby and Cricklewood sheds.

You should definitely have had the tank wrapper, it's one of the biggest pieces on the etch. You seem to have made a good job of the replacement though.

About P4 then, only a bit wide.

They do an etch primer as well, that does seem a bit different from the Halfords one.

Back to the LSW C14 today. Motion bracket, brakes and crankpins (1mm brass wire) fitted, the slidebars are from .8mm square n/s wire. View from underneath shows the High Level Roadrunner gearbox, pcb pads soldered on for the pickups. Motor is from China but these don't seem to be available now - pity, these were very good. I ordered 5 in December but they only had 4 left. Ready for frame painting now, the splashers are a bit difficult to fit and will cause problems with clearance later. Final assembly under way now, the coupling rods had to be spaced off the wheels to clear the splashers - and this is 00 gauge. The crosshead mostly misses the leading crankpin but the back has had to be cut away quite a bit. Sanding arrangement is a bit unusual - back and front on the same wheel, nothing on the leading one.

No, what I need is another shed to store the layouts not in use......

Here in Barnsley (in normal times) Hycote is sold in The Range - which is next door to Halfords.....

We now have the etches for Caradon available, I've corrected some of the small errors and it will come with a drawing. We have a limited number of these, priority will be given to those who have expressed an interest. Price is £26 + £1.50 postage, payment details as on our website. At the moment we prefer payment by PayPal or bank transfer but cheques must be made out to Judith Edge. The etch for the other two L&L locos, Kilmar and Cheesewring will be available when we get our next order from PhotoEtch. The above etch also includes the long awaited production version of the LNER V4.

We now have the etches for Caradon available, I've corrected some of the small errors and it will come with a drawing, this is what you get: Price is £26 + £1.50 postage, payment details as on our website. At the moment we prefer payment by PayPal or bank transfer but cheques must be made out to Judith Edge. The etch for the other two L&L locos, Kilmar and Cheesewring will be available when we get our next order from PhotoEtch.

Two more photos from the turntable. Some modifications to the baseboard at the Dingle end and then I'll start dismantling it. Once the first board is down I'll be able to get the Wentworth Junction boards out to paint the track. The Liverpool end of the layout will stay up for a while to check the connecting bits on to the fiddle yard.

That looks a good idea but here in Britain setts were not usually laid in this brick bond fashion. I used grey tile grout in this way for the setts on Herculaneum Dock but all I had was a roller made from metal and greased to stop the grout sticking, this is a much better idea.

A couple of photos from Herculaneum Dock, my newish small camera gets into places others won't. The centre of the lens is 26mm above the base so gives more or less scale viewpoint from ground level. The view from the turntable under the coal hole is one you van only get with a camera. No special techniques with these, I'm not the world's best photographer, camera set on the smallest aperture, no extra lighting and hope for the best. The rest of the pictures from this latest photo session on my Herculaneum Dock thread.Tthe layout was put up in the shed to get it ready for the Bristol show, I'll take it dow again soon and get back on with Wentworth Junction.

Hycote paint is just the same as Halfords but cheaper.

It was started some years and several clubrooms ago, I wasn't involved in it myself.

The 70ft one from Dewsbury is now at Carlisle Upperby, still working after some modification and DCC fitting. John Aldrick has the 65ft one from Victoria for the Bournemouth West project.

That reminds me of wThey had the contract to rebuild hat was going on at LH when we went to measure up the MoD Vanguards and Steelman Royales in 2004. They had the contract to rebuild them all and when we got there the yard looked like this. All the locos had been dismantled and there were parts of them all over the place. Talking to the man who had taken them to bits he was bitterly regretting not marking numbers on them all as he did, he was having great difficulty piecing them back together with very few dimensions exactly the same. He had eventually learned the lesson of this though..... They all went back together in the end of course (and then got painted in DLO purple).

I've seen plenty of GA drawings with dimensions incorrectly quoted - including the Fowler one I used last year to produce our 150hp kit. Many have pencil notes on with different dimensions to be used - sometimes you can read these and understand why they were there. Ultimately, if it doesn't look right - it's wrong, no matter what the drawings say.

No, that's symmetrical on each side - this isn't. This is the opposite side to the compensated axles.