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  1. billbedford
    I think I'm with Terry Pratchett on this -- Always be wary of any item that weighs less than its operating manual. But then, I would tend towards the opinion that providing copious instructions is an admission that the kit has been designed to be over complicated. But hey, I do understand that there are people that enjoy building 1000 piece bass three dimensional jigsaw puzzles.
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    This is where most people's troubles lie. Taking plastic wheels on and off axles will almost certainly lead to them not running true.
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    I think you are picking on the wrong people there.........
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    I just love the way that people sure that everyone knows they use Romford wheels by leaving the slots in the nuts in plain view. Didn't someone once make a quip about things below the footplate being essentially invisible?
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    Sometimes whats not said is as important as what is said....
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    Can you remind me which railways used demountable wheels?
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    Originally the NBL A1s had round Hyde Park Works plates with on the smokebox or the front frames. These were either supplemented by or replaced with standard LNER 9" x 5" ownership plate mounted on the middle splasher.
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    Something else to concede on a loaded wagon, it seems the crates were always covered with a tarpaulin. presumably this would have to be put in place before the holding chains were attached.
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    In 1942? Perhaps they had properly working pony trucks?
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    Musing on the idea of a BRM/H16 article I starting wondering just how many companies have actually producing new kits in the last couple of years. The ones I can think of are: London Road PDK Judith Edge and that's about it. I haven't counted Brassmasters updating the Finney range or SEF reissuing the Cotswold/NuCast kits.
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    The pins were likely to have been varnished. Just rub them with some fine wet 'n' dry before trying to solder them. If you are clever you could try leaving the varnish on the bit that you don't want soldered.
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    That's not what I had in mind. It's more that I was trying to understand which models you were suggesting were inaccurate. I'm guessing that these would be the old Bachmann Thompsons and the Hornby corridor Gresleys?
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    You don't need a PayPal account. The PayPal login page should ask if you want to pay with a card.
  14. billbedford
    Wouldn't that depend on the date you wished to model? and, of course how finicky you were about your models?
  15. billbedford
    Art training would have given you hand - eye co-ordination that would be directly transferable to other hand tools -- that is unless you were heavily in to Conceptual Art:-)
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    I've met people like that, and all I can say is that they are a brilliant source of inspiration for how not to design things. I find it remarkable that most interested 10 year olds can put together an Airfix (or Kitmaster) kit with reasonable competence, but that so many adults baulk at building model railway kits. So I am lead to ask myself questions such as 'what is it that so many people find difficult about building kits?' and sometimes even 'how many way could this possible go wrong?'
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    I'm disappointed, when the video said 'new lift bridge' I was expecting a bascule like Tower Bridge or Keadby....
  18. billbedford
    I model shops I know of in Greater London are Jane's Trains and Roneo Models, but I've not visited either.
  19. billbedford
    The answer to that is 'not very well at all'. I'm a manufacturer and there just isn't room in the flat to display any products.
  20. billbedford
    Nope. mainly because a ) it was built 17 years the Berne Gauge was invented, b ) the French Nord lines were not rebuilt to the Berne Gauge until after WW1 and c ) no one gave a thought about how to up grade the MET and SECR lines.
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    I've put some photos in their own thread
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    This really invites a 'Go on then..' type comment, but I will resist.
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    I thought it was telling that the guy from the Railway Action Group was standing in a field of ragwort. I suppose, though, that for such people an introduced noxious weed would count as 'natural' in the way that railways don't.
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    Do people actually care about how the world they live in looks, or is it a case that they do not want what they know and are comfortable with to change? I seem to remember there were many similar protests when the railways were first built the the early 19th century. Since then, of course, our collective aesthetic has changed to accept railways in the landscape.
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    Maybe, in the interest in pushing things to the limits of the absurd, someone should suggest that they get these people to design the new OHLE :-)
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