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Hah. Hah you got it!....Ray only ever painted the viewing sides of his stock!

Also if you research the p4 layout St Merryn, I believe they have straight forward RTR converted stock.

Hi Dave

I can only speak from my own experience. It's the same for every guage. Make sure the track work is as good as everything else and the stock will not fall off.

I must admit that my early conversions,I chose those locos that already had one driving axle sprung.

Bachmann N class

Bachmann standard tank 2-6-4

Bachmann Jinty

Hornby Battle of Britain

Hornby Black5

Then they stopped producing to the same quality, but I have no trouble with the Bachmann Class5, Hornby 8f,

Bachmann S&D 7f

Hornby Class4

I've run them on other friends p4 layouts down to B6 turnouts with no problems, in fact the only problems I've had is with the bogies I,ve altered!!!!!!!!

I,m very fastidious about loco movement.....the only Rtr loco to fail is the Bachmann BR Standard Mogul, that constantly derailed,and this was due to too much slop in the chassis axle guides for the 3mm axle Gibson conversion set. She will at some time go back to the bench for 1/8th axles.

I will be posting blogs on some of these when I've mastered this website!

Regards

John

Hi, no not at all..... Your not the only one that has mentioned that . But I am pressing the add entry button!!!!!

Yes! Dental resin at that. I bought four, but only this one has survived until now. Even when the body sides and roof are Araldited together ,the resulting wagon is only as strong as a ginger biscuit, so if you drop it, it will shatter into a thousand pieces, which is what happened to all the others !!!!!!

Yes  I`m building Cole station in the 1950`s/60`s  Blogs of buildings etc to come!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks Nick,

Got a bit confused about constructing a blog. I've numbered and retitled my blogs in sequence to help.

Regards

John

Thanks Baz,

I`ve begun to try my hand at weathering, but hav`nt gained enough experience to do the coaches yet. I`ve got a Tim Shackleton DVD to  study tho

John