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The Pink Mercedes will be up there again next season, Perez has shown it is a good car, well it should be, it's a Merc that's been through the 3d printer.

His chances of winning multiple championships look challenging in the next couple of years: 2021 - no major changes and LH still driving - Merc will looks odds on to dominate again next year 2022 - new rules - should enable Ferrari to unleash LeClerc, likely LH will do another year as it will be a challenge for him. RB have to resolve their engine supplier matter and then bed in if they end up with something other than a Honda engine re-badged and developed for them by a third party. Return of Alonso, McLaren with Mercedes engines and Ricciardo. Max certainly isn't looking at an easy ride and who knows Vettel may be rejuvenated next year too.

If you look about a third way down this page, you will see something familiar http://bs1363.fatallyflawed.org.uk/ As mentioned above, Ebay will close down a page and another one will just spring up elsewhere.

GPS unless hacked by an enemy is reliable, it's a military grade system that the public can access a varying degrees of accuracy. What will be at issue will be the interface between the GPS signals and the database recording the statistics - might be software, might be hardware - NR will get to the bottom of it and sort it.

But would RB be good for Perez, there's something about RB and it's second drivers - all good at the junior team but in the main team they go to pieces. That said Perez has shone whilst knowing his team mate is the owner's son, maybe being a veteran driver is what RB need in their number two.

A Ying Yang sounding locomotive would be most agreeable, it would be a nicely balanced 2 stroke.

And to think Perez will be without a seat next year - he held it together to the end (ok they didn't pit him) but Stroll's race went to pieces once he was back in the pack. He's had such a season, he's 4th in the standings with a good chance of keeping that position to the end of the season whilst his team mate is 11th. Stroll isn't a bad driver, but even Daddy must admit that Perez is the more accomplished of the two.

The headlights were only on Scottish highland engines were they not, I thought it was specific to the routes out of Inverness. Bachmann were quite clear they would be doing the LM versions when SLW announced their plans for 24/1s - perhaps it was a way to put air between each other and not directly compete on two new models of the same class. Maybe one day they will do something I'm not sure what other differences there were other than the headlights and that might be behind the reason for each company to plump behind one version.

That's quite a normal assumption, our local council in Trafford had to point out to citizens that it was the leafy wealthy suburbs where the cases were growing.

The Bachmann model is a London Midland 24, if you want that Scottish feel go for SLW https://sulzertype2.com/model-catalogue/ They have headcode box / headlight models to pre-order.

He mentioned 8 hours ago he had found a product that didn't require bluetooth.

Happy days, cheque in the post from HM Taxes - £420 rebate! If nothing else it funds acquiring further point motors when the time comes. But first I do need to unbox the Sprog, set it up and wire it to a single piece of track - I was thinking of digging out my Hattons 14xx as it has a chip, but I think I will just wait for Rails to deliver as I really don't want to have to open my big storage box of OO.

I reckon it went something like this: Dapol (under he who must not be named) bagged the Pendolino in N Dapol quite clearly were a long long way off developing said Pendolino if at all A certain clever modeller who frequents this parish made his own Pendolino which probably sparked ideas in other people Two chaps in the pub one evening thinking about their exhibition layout future had one or two pints too many and decided to see what would happen if they asked a few mates down the forum if they fancied clubbing together to build a 9 car Pendolino. To their amazement, people were ecstatic about the mad idea, helped no doubt cos it's that bloke off the telly who talks about serious stuff (and they have a decent layout at exhibitions too) Luckily for everybody concerned Rapido were able to act as partners for the escapade and here we are now with an N 92 soon to hit the rails and lots of other stuff in between.

Until you mentioned it, I'd not thought about that with the traverser - but if I was to purchase one to sit on my frames I would simply screw it into the legs which are oversize and stick up above the horizontal elements so that when I put my baseboard onto the frame it cannot shift.

They will come when I have to wire up my shunters - will need tiny ones then and as someone said whilst soldering his in, if you're going to hard wire it's not like you can simply swap out for another later (well you can it's just solder after all). This is just to get me started on my older 6 pin Farish locos, still got to consider what I chance on my Dapol 26/27 boards. The plan is to start offloading my none DCC ready stuff to fund the chips and purchase of some sound locos (40s and 31s), probably should also consider thinning out the 00 stocklist as well.

Sprog arrived this morning, so stage 2 begun - wire ordered for the layout plus a DCC Concepts IP Digital point motor to test out the function side of things. Also ordered some Peco SL-82 rail joiners with wires which should allow me an almost non soldering wiring job once I order T-Taps. Two 6 pin decoders ordered - One of the new Rails ones and a Bachmann - I want to see how they differ and how they operate before deciding what else to order.

Even if it did carry the livery the loco is wrong for the livery in anything other than preserved form - it was rebuilt, at the very least the chimney is the wrong one for LSWR.

So the only thing wrong with the loco you have fixed. If you are really unsure about the wiring, you could pay someone to fit the decoder and remove the risk.

You've said it now, he'll have to sell the Stirling Single.

But what a drive that would be, all that M6, no thanks - though of course it may be a bit quieter these days. Given the TOCs have no incentive to fill trains and the Government actively discourage travel it is no surprise that any cheaper travel is curtailed at the moment. Luckily I have no need to make the trip, all done over Microsoft Teams these days, had an exam 4 weeks ago on Teams, another one on Tuesday with a remote invilgalator watching me on my camera.

I've made an order since the first lockdown and the boards appeared after about a month.

Throw in the cost too - I've just put in what would have been a standard business journey from Manchester to Maidstone - could have been done on Advance tickets for under £200 - now £430 Anytime with no Advance on offer even a week forward. That would certainly discourage business travel let alone leisure.

This is because they cannot completely recast the timetable, come May I expect they will do something more permanent - they expect it to be a long time before they need the three trains per hour again. Now this must blow a hole in the plan for 800 derivatives on Liverpool services - you've suddenly got a bigger WCML fleet than you need leading up to Phase 1 of HS2 if the drop in numbers remains sustained for a couple of years. Do they now need to think about what has been ordered and potential adjusting it down?

I went back up and saw the link. It really is one of those 'should I stick it on the shelf' models. Now this good news for London Road models as it opens people to testing LNWR modelling as clearly some LNWR models will never see the light of day in RTR but you'll maybe want to expand your range. Ratio had the range of bogie coaches too if you want more than just generic 4 wheelers behind it.

Wow, there isn't an emoji button for this one.