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If the temperature changes much where your track is you may experience expansion/contraction at the joints depending on the length of rail. If so just glue the fishplates to one rail only or they may come unstuck. We found this by experience building a layout in a club room then going to exhibitions where it can get very hot!

Hi Wayne, I see you plan to produce an A6 turnout in P4,  do you plan to produce an A6 in EM and 00 please?

Thanks Tom.

Thanks, I have not seen this photo before!

Hi, I recently obtained a nicely completed 4mm scale model of the Wills/SE Finecast 1854 pannier tank. I have two photos (one is in GWRJ 66) of the real locos showing the tops of the boilers which show a slight hump in the cladding over the boiler and raised area above the firebox relative to the tops of the pannier tanks. The smokebox is also raised. I also have a copy of the excellent instructions for the Martin Finney 1854/1701 etched kit which has information and parts to produce the above raised areas. I have no doubt that Martin Finneys instructions and kit are prototypically correct as per my photos. References to boilers and tanks in RCTS Part 5 suggest this is also correct.

However, on my Wills / SE Finecast kit apart from a nominal hump over the smokebox, it is flat on top of the panniers without raised sections over boiler/firebox, so is this actually prototypically correct or an error which I will need to address?