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A big fat stay-alive will transform things IMHO. I had infuriating poor running with Dapol pannier and now it's excellent with ludicrously good slow running if that's your fancy. Can't speak for Heljan, but any kind of interrrupted pick up will be assisted by some serious caps. https://www.dccconcepts.com/product/zen-super-high-power-stay-alive-x-1/ The other possible cure is turning off DC in CV29. That can help too.

All you could ever wish to know about chimneys was in a 2013 thread by Ozzyo

Thanks. I have tried both the DCC bus and 9vDC (I assume) regulated phone charge to no avail. Tower Models tell me they have had many returned. Have not seen a video of the Dapol signal working properly like these from model signal master Jon Fitness

Anybody had this unconvincing non bounce? Does not bounce at all, more like a stutter. Very disappointing but no similar tales here?

Why not Warren Shephard's kit? He is upgrading this to 4575 with the larger tanks.

I miss Barrie's posts. I imagine the official "Inside Motion" has cramped him for content recently. I do hope he is OK.

I just stumbled on this in an attempt to find out if barrie Hughes is OK and going to keep his www going. Look at the situation ten years on and thank goodness there is positivity between the two camps. Two years ago little had changed. Russell to Beddgelert at last. A successful and size appropriate loco like that deserves to have a proper run on its original home.

This sounds highly suspicious. Have you seen any photo proof of any work? Five years of avodiance and sporadic "talks" is not genuine progress IMHO.

My point was that it was clearly not an option in a more stratified society of 80 years ago to have an authentic voice but an embarrassing cliche of what a “properly educated” person imagined a working class person sounded like, possibly without having ever spoken to one

I’m waiting for a 1222 from Dragon that should be a straight swap for the Mashima 1220 with 1.5mm shaft. Narrow Planet advertised a short re run a few months ago, not sure how many. i don’t build too many kits but they have all been a bit old, second generation at best. This is easily the most accurate and well thought out I have had. The cast gearbox is the answer to balance though the resin version is still supplied. a pig to drill for jack shaft but worth it. No thread as felt echo chamber syndrome last time I bothered

Another BGM with updated kit with heavy brass gearbox up front helping balance, but no longer supplied with motor hence rods not fixed whilst waiting for one to arrive. A very well thought out kit IMHO.

Treat yourself to the ABC, you will not regret it. You need 25:1 or thereabouts IMO.

Seems like a misfire given the OO9 4-6-0 looks superior and tends to negate the "better for the US market" argument. Surely they had all the information on the 4-6-0 and had proved they could get it right? Interesting to see if the alternative goes ahead.

US$459 with no valve gear? They must be joking. Looks like a poor OO9 effort. Unusual choice too as very few were built compared to the well known 4-6-0 which you might imagine would sell in droves

Let's not forget the tenders lived on for a long time and went onto Aberdares & many 22xx Collett Goods, probably saving a fair proportion of the knock down purchase price.

These are derivatives of the "small" Wolverhampton tanks starting with 2021 class & culminating in the Hawksworth 16xx. That's why I originally stated "large tank". The key point is that the 1854 is a direct ancestor of the 57xx with just the 2721 in between.

Well that clears that up doesn't it. 7'3+8'3"" is wheelbase for 633, 57xx, 94xx & Dean Goods and close relative the 22xx, not to mention the 1854

I am pretty sure every GWR large tank from the 633 through to the 94xx had precisely the same wheelbase. The Dean Goods and Collett 22xx also has the same wheelbase but larger wheels.

Isn't the easy way out a Bachmann pannier chassis? http://www.gwr.org.uk/pro2721.html

I did the full Griffin thing but honestly some non functional castings would do the trick by filling void.

I have the Dapol for reasons of price and inside motion. Visually the only jarring issue with Minerva is the non prototypical crease in the 8750 cab side sheet that is IMO toy like and I'm guessing hard to improve. I agree about stay alive. Transformed by DCC Concepts chip and supercap. As I bought the base model, this wasn't an extra cost and decoder is an easy install.

I have been trying to upload a pic for two weeks from different devices and keep getting this error message which itself is not true as I have wasted many ninutes writing mush more than 3 characters The following errors were foundYou must enter a message larger than 3 characters. This personal message has not been sent I just tried Harlequin's fix but same result

Then you need the super cap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBcZmlLS3vw