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I understood that if you leave something in your will to someone, it becomes theirs, you cannot add conditions, they can do with it as they please, different if it is loaned, a piece of ground near me as "loaned" on condition it was used for a hospital, a hundred years later the hospital closed, the land then reverted back to the desendants. I stand to be corrected by persons more knowlegable than myself.

Artitec do some very nice kits, I converted thier Dutch sailing barge to an early Thames sailing barge, will post photos when back in the UK, they do a small rail ferry the Wittow, was surprised when on holiday on the island of Ruegen, it was moored next to replacement car ferry, I understand it is now out of the water at a museum.

Latest BBC report states, was not the fire main but the pumps were overwhelmed, so either the design was inadequete, the design was good but the pumps did not perform, or the system was not maintained so the pumps could not cope.

Also a common complaint is lack of information, even an annoncement that there was no new information would do. My wife once got strandard in Brussels, four hours no information, as She had passed security, could not access the station facilities, fortunatly She had food but others did not, at 11pm they were told all Eurostar could offer was their money back! and She would have to make a new booking the next day, terrible customer service, sorry for the rant.

In 1994 I was fortunate to be on the tug that helped the Jeremiah O'Brien into Chatham Docks, on the River Medway, we picked her up off Sheerness. I always regrete not being on the dockside when she left for London, as everyone was invited to come along for the trip, apparently only the bridge was off limits.

Thank you for amending the photos for me, the tug is a Frenchman River Works resin kit, correct for one of the New York Dock Railway tugs, Walthers also do a nice plastic kit.

Yes model ships are large, this my 1/87 model of the Liberty ship City of Ely, I started with the Deans Marine 1/96 hull, "sprung" the beam to scale, and built the deck and superstructure to 1/87, with some selective compression to allow for the short lenght, I enjoyed it so much I built a second, this time the Russian owned Collective Farmer. sorry for the lobsided photos as I am doing this on phone while away.

Maybe it was a bad car, but I never felt unsafe driving one, unlike the Morris Marina, the only car I ever lost control of and it almost killed me, a touch of the brakes on a damp road and it was gone, cars have improved alot, even my current van has better handling.

My first company car was an early Allegro, complete with odd steering wheel, basic mechanics seemed sound it was all the things bolted on that failed, speedo, wiper motor, dynamo, water pump and starter, a good car let down by poor quality control.

On transport, some years ago a freind had a Mini Clubman estate, his layout was made to fit,on the way to an exhibition along the M4 on a very wet night, he noted a car on the hard shoulder with a puncher, he then thought where was his spare wheel, to his horror he realised that to get to it the whole layout would have to come out! after that the spare wheel travelled in the passenger foot well.

My one renumbered, new wheels and couplings, looking at yours I will have a go at redoing the vents.

The Bachmann one looks similar to the Ring Engineering FRED, which I have used, I think looks very realistic, the Bachmann item is listed at Rails of Sheffield and House of Hobbies which is cheaper.

Virtually all of them would have arrived on normal general cargo ships, such as this Russian owned American built Liberty ship, (in post war condition,) Ro-Ros hardly existed then, the sheer volume of war materials arriving meant most was stockpiled, only moving by rail when capacity was available and final destination was known.

Just asking the question, I can see the advantage of stay alive in, say a 0-4-0, does this 0-6-0 really need one? is there a design fault in the pick ups? to me clean wheels and track are essential. As I say just asking as it is one of the locomotives I would like to have.

Avonside locomotive shunting at Janes' Creek, CPS models kit built to EM.

I've just completed my first CSP models kit, went together very well, I find etched kits quiet hard work, but the results are worth it, built to EM so had to move the cylinders further apart, did not fit the wheel overlays, fitted the supplied pickups which bear on the top of the wheel treads and also DCC concepts pickups which bear on the wheel backs, runs well and reliably, deciding which kit to order next. Photo on my Janes' Creek layout, I should have spent more time removing the mould lines on the sand boxes also need to touch up the buffer beam end, photos can show up all sorts of faults!

This is all covered in another thread, "Hattons to charge local taxes..." full explanation there.

Yes, that's what they all say.

The worker is not wearing a hard hat,😀 after climbing out of the window!

Yes they do, I have found them useful for all sorts of jobs.

Time goes on but I think very little changes, the youth of today are little different to my young days, yes old people were young once, at that time I had no interest in the current railway scene, but an interest in history, always fascinated by old photos which lead me to a lifetimes interest in pre grouping railways, for me my local railway the SECR.

Lots of good points made, just a comment, I did woodwork and metalwork at school, helps with baseboards but not a lot of use for the metalwork, unless you do model engineering, for my 4mm modelling I had to learn everything over time, now in my 60s, I used an airbrush for the first time only 5 years ago and learned a whole new set of skills, yes I cannot match modern RTR, which frankly have a superb finish, but I can live with my results, which are as good as my skills allow, and as you say a lot of satisfaction to be had.

I would go for soldered brass rod, with thin plywood for the scaffold boards, how far do you want to go on detail? scaffolding has changed over the years, when I started in construction, in the 1970s, it was all rusty iron tube, putlog scaffolds were common, wooden pole ladders for access, today it would be galvanised steel tube or more probably a "system" scaffold in aluminium, all erected as independent scaffold, with a staircase for access.

Following this thread, I went and bought an ALDI cordless multi tool, £13.99, have found it very useful, as it says it is low torque, so relies on high revs, yes comes with a 3.2mm collet, bought a set of collets and mini chuck from TEMU, post free, photo below, which makes the tool more versatile, defiantly up the model jobs I want it to do, caution on collets, this tool takes 4.5mm shanks, my 12v EXPO drill takes 5mm shanks, which do not fit.

Fox Transfers, have 2mm, 4mm and 7mm available.