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Rgarding the butresses, You cannot fail to miss them and certainly if you were modelling Didcot, then you would expect to see them there. But this kit is of a generic GW coaling stage and not specific to any particular location.

'Tis looking good Steve. Don't forget, there is an 8 page illustrated article about painting our models, which can be downloaded as a PDF file. You can find this by going to www.timbertracks.co.uk and then clicking on 'Gallery'. I look forward to seeing more pics.

You have my sympathies - they are not cheap. But my laser setup costs £20K and is expensive to run - a set of replacement filters costs £450. And although lasers are brilliant, they are very slow. So, even at the prices they are listed at, I make nothing from the kits. In fact Mrs. L and I are thinking seriously that the current two kits being developed - 4mm Tetbury Goods Shed and a 7mm LNWR type 4 Signal Box, may well be the last. What pays for the laser is the one-off bespoke work and I have a 1 year backlog of these. I can remember the time when it was Superquick or nothing, but now you are really spoilt for choice. Just look at the recently released Bachmann low relief shops. Brilliant - and real value for money. Timber Tracks kits are aimed. not at the mass market, (how could they be - I only produce 30 or 40 of each kit), nor at the person who wants a working layout quickly. Rather they reflect my own approach to railway modelling. In truth, for me, all the fun of model railways is in the building of them and I find operating bores me after a very short while. Folk may remember Chagford, my P4 layout. I built it, took it to 4 exhibitions and then sold it. We then spent 11 years building Llaniog, a 45 foot 7mm layout. Same thing happened - I took it to 4 exhibitions - the last one being the Warley/NEC show. Whilst there I sold it and delivered it to the new owner the next day. Now I am back to P4, building Tetbury. I am sure history will repeat itself yet again, for Richard and I are planning our next layout now - Twyford, a four track main line with a branch to Henley. An ambitious project - the station area alone is over 30 feet long in 4mm. So perhaps, at my age, I might keep it this time. Regards Brian lewis TimberTracks

Oops! Guilty as charged Sir - and when we looked at our stocks, we found two more kits that had the same problem. Mrs. L and I really try so hard to get everything right, but we are not gods and do make mistakes. (Bear in mind, we are both the wrong side of seventy, so our powers of concentration are not what they were). There is a way round this - we could tab everything together, as if it was etched brass. But the parts are so delicate and cutting items off an etch is one thing I just hate doing - you always seem to distort or break something. Regards Brian Lewis TimberTracks