john new

Given your curved sidings I recommend that you do some pre-build tests to check that whatever couplings you choose will work to couple and decouple on curves. Not doing so is mistake I made, the modern tension locks are less reliable in practice than I expected when I laid the track.

Personally I think introducing any new scale/gauge combination would lead to bankruptcy in a very short time frame. Some of the other suggestions though do make sense, especially the idea of reintroducing the plastic Big-Big range but with radio control. Summer use in the garden, especially with the plastic track, but in brown not red plastic!

Roof line above front elevation Window ledges on the stairs wall and some cleaning off around the windows etc. Roof. Are there other more hidden changes too.? Cracking work as usual in such a small scale .

Not just the current lot either, the A358 upgrade from the A303 to the M5 has been announced, and then reannounced, several times.

I may be having a wrong memory moment but weren’t the PalVans built for the Channel Islands to UK traffic (tomatoes etc.) coming in via Weymouth (and therefore logically also Southampton) but then when they arrived it was found the pallets were a bespoke size to the trade flow and didn’t fit the vans?

https://www.crecy.co.uk/railway-cranes-3 Vol 3 pages 143-8. Sorry for the delay in looking it up. Excellent book, thoroughly recommended. EDIT 18 Nov 2022 - This had an image of the cover which was lost in the crash. Link to the book's web page at Crécy in lieu of the lost image is here on the Crécy website) .

But as it was an untaxed export originally, and you are now reimporting it, you always would have had to pay UK import taxes. Stopped me buying some old Hornby-Dublo (originally Canadian exports) in the past when I was actively collecting for my old exhibition set. The loco would have exhausted my then available budget with a fair whack on top for customs dues. Never have got one of the Canadian Atholls.

Been going under that M5 bridge regularly since 1986, never knew it was railway related.

If you want a good set with pictures, the Tatlow cranes book series as published by Crecy is excellent. Unfortunately I can’t remember the Vol No with this one in and a bit too late to look now. Will look it up tomorrow, and update.

On the wagon half in/half out the shot is that where a repair plate has been added (welded on?) or a diagram build that had that extra framing? Not something I have consciously noticed before but the two tones in the grey suggests a patch repair and partial repaint of the new panel only.

I use the gold route - Not sure about your (1), but I assume we lose them at the end as this is a bonus access not a purchase. The Exact Editions App gives me access via my i-pad and I-phone as well as through the browser. (Android use, presumably something similar) The i-pad allows page rotation to either portrait or landscape so for most pages is easier to read in portrait but double page images can be seen in l'scape. The bonus, and is why I think your (1) answer is lose them at end of subscription, you access the archive back to 2010 via Gold. I see it as a subscription to access a library not individual purchases. The BRM freebies I have, plus anything I bought pre-Gold are in the PocketMags app; that split in the Apps I think emphasises the difference. Hope that helps and that someone from BRM can confirm.

Walking the old Merchants Railway yesterday discovered the brambles had been cut back around one of the mile marker stones. Lots of old railway available to walk locally.

Non-sharp slightly curved edges seems to be a problem visible in a lot of 3D prints you see photographed on here and elsewhere. Is there a difference between the fluid light set types and the filament extrusions?

You might want to check re the liquid lead and PVA to see if it reacts the same way as traditional lead. My memory is of reading advice in several places that lead shot should not be fixed with PVA, for some reason it swells over time and splits any enclosing framework. Liquid superglue was recommended instead. IIRC the last warning I remember reading was in an article in BRM by Phil Parker on updating old wagons. Hope this helps.

What you see as wrong, and what you accept in context varies so much, so just a few observations of mine. I would rather get it right than wrong (ditto for manufacturers) but can accept oddities - examples:- I have an old Tri-Ang Sir Dinadan, I bought it 2nd hand painted black, it isn't a good Arthur nor is it an S15 (what it is numbered as) but I can live with it as it looks sufficiently Maunsell to be representative. The Hornby-Dublo Deltic, way out dimensionally but has the heft none of the plastic modern one's have. With both the above my brain fills in the errors. Watching TV tonight, several instances on the Susan Calman programme where the she was supposedly going south (the voiceover), from local knowledge of N Yorkshire she was obviously going north. On the Bill Nighy programme umpteen continuity boobs, the most obvious the O/H gear supposedly on the S&C if the voicover represented what was on screen. Dancing - my wife is a dancer and gets really livid when the dance steps don't match the music, I don't notice! One of the early James Bond movies, supposedly in the Med with a pronounced tide mark and motor boats to classic UK designs! My point is none of the above really spoils/spoilt my enjoyment, even when I notice the differences, unless it is so truly awful that I switch off, or in exhibitions walk away. I wouldn't notice some of the A4 errors mentioned above, I can accept a roughly generic A4, but that said if it is new tooling why get it wrong! The key - have they at least tried. What really p****s me off though is the haven't even tried brigade with layout descriptions like - "somewhere on the south coast" (Kent looks nothing like Cornwall and the points in between) and buildings using foreign kits that scream non-UK, modern diesels on a rake of PO wagons etc, etc.

Number thought to be guests now significantly rounded down but still far too beep beep high. Hope they can catch and fine all who were there.

Just looked up Wine, doesn’t work with current versions of the Mac OS. (Catalina and later)

Sorry if I am being picky but I keep forgetting when it appears on the New Activity list. Possibly my OCD'ness.

Will the OP please add JR to the title. This is not a thread about the Stockton & Darlington.

Enough to stall several steam specials in the last few years. 2 x 2-6-4T and a second one 76079 + 34067 Exeter Bank there are more I think if you search YouTube.

One hopes that, rather like when a magazine Editor is changed, the process will keep going with a new partnership of master editors at the reins, so many lines still to be covered.

Yes, along those lines, but I couldn't express it very clearly, yours is better.

Epitome of how not to do retail. My only comment on the postage is perhaps they see it is a flat fee for assembling the components into a kit and then the P&P. The OP does say that they had said it was better to buy the bits individually.

Will there be a Mac version eventually?

The fourth one in that report, mask wearing, raises a thought to me that may be daft but....? If you do get hit by a trigger droplet that gives you COVID then when you next wear a mask you will be breathing the bug out into the enclosed air zone behind your mask, including also presumably initially whilst in the incubation phase. Once infected you will then be breathing the bug out (why it spreads) and obviously concurrently back in to yourself, and logically much more so if the excluded air is enclosed for the rebreathing. If you get a subsequent attack in that way does the virus try to reinfect your blood and by so doing is attacking the previous version of itself somehow so the person has trace evidence of having had it but is asymptomatic as the bug was actually killed before the symptoms showed? One for the virology experts.