Graham456

Yep your right Nile I do feel a bit of. deja vu Your link to the other thread just took me to where I had all ready looked and received no sighting of 136 ! On any of them though admittedly madelmasters the most likely to have made it but has no list or any available plates So my question still stands with out getting a special which seams a bit mad if it's all ready out there

Haveing plowed through the web for the last two days looking for replacement cabside number plates for a Old Brassmasters kit built London and North Western prince of Wales class loco I have which has lost its cabside number plates some how, now it was No136 Minerva (well it still is Minerva) but has lost 136. I know London road models used to do LNWR plates but their is nothing in any form of listing on the web site, anyone have a clue who might have made these plates or better still who does now Pretty please?

Crowcombe Heathfield still has allotments inside the fence in the late 2010's (i.e. Now) and had them in the 90's Their you go prototype for everything is out there (You didn't say not on a preserved railway!)

John why does this surprise you! I Would have thought it standard eBay madness! P S bringing this back on topic........just bought my third K's condensing pannier tank kit for a tenner this time, getting quite good at plonking them on Bachmann chassis now, So what have I done with my K's kit? Only gone and bought another blooming one

Well keyser's did for their motor bearings.............Which worked well!!!!! And as for rocket science, I never could under stand that comment! Don't around 15 million of us in the UK launch rockets every year for around a week in November! Hardly difficult! Light blue touch paper and retires........simply rocket science

problem is that one of the first lines is. "having just finished a layout" layouts are never finnished as you just found out there is always something to do!

Ha ha haven't noticed what spell checker had done to my it's , thanks for pointing it out and the laugh. Put right now

Well try it if you want you have nothing to lose but the money you spend on the paint, in my experience it works on something like a heated rear windscreen of Old with the silver lines across, but anything that involves movement like point blades or wheels runnng over the paint will lead to very rapid failure due to the weakness of the paint, it's very soft and can be rubbed off with no effort even when its had weeks to cure

Initially I also couldn't see anyone with such a collection, but then I thought back to my young free and single days when I had two free unused bedrooms, storage not a issue, but I didn't get beyond two hundred locos in them days as two thirds of my collection are kit built which takes time, Both the rooms and time evaporated when I got married

Time in Mauritius 15.13. not the 11.13 in england Well sat here in the sun in Mauritius for the last two weeks reading this I wonder why people are listing what they have when the question was how many! Nothing else. I also wonder if some one really has 1500 locos? A friend of mine sat out to have,build one of each type of lsteam loco BR took over in 1948 ,he did and ended up with 850 ish locos (a long way from him to check exact no) so even if you one of each you have a lot of doubles, actually as I type this I realise they probably have them! P S can you two let us know who you are so we can quote you as excuses for buying more (not serious)

I tell you what anyone who thinks railway Modeling is all about the trains is so wrong. I look forward to Dave jones results of I'll do a bit more research! And all because someone noted there not many lime wagons around. The interesting picture of the cattle vans pre the banning of lime wash at launcston is intrestingnot just for the weathering on the cattle vans, but also the sheeting over round ended open being unloaded whilst still sheeted, You never know what's comeing up next with this railway Modeling lark

Being currantly in Mauritius I am a bit far away to check but Ballest on ships was stones to keep the ship upright. Now why carry ordinary stone from one port to another if you can carry a paying limestone as Ballest I might have worded it wrong but you do use limestone to make lime mortar as you do for quicklime,limewash,and in my previous life working in the restoration and conservation industry gloves had to be worn when useing lime mortar due to its alkaline nature being far from inert Here is a link to the coshh data sheet of your "inert" substance https://www.mkmbs.co.uk/Root/Documents/B016156.COSHHData.pdf

No lime kilns north of the Yorkshire moors ? Go and have a look at this link if it works http://www.brocross.com/industrial%20history/limekilns.htm You should find all the ones you don't think exist, and were used to put the stones of that station in the picture together

Sorry can't resist With a moniker of Panzerjohn you'd expect it all to go like a bull in a China shop or a tank through a house, so it's just living up to your name..........

No No I did not say where you find limestone you will find lime kilns totally the reverse.of course lime mortar was still need in areas of limestone so there are some there as well but it will not be needed on the fieldsBoth in bromham in Wiltshire where I come from and down in Somerset where I now live which are sandstone areas poor in lime on the fields,you will find lime kilns the stone was imported from limestone areas like the mendips or South Wales through watchet near where I currently live and burnt in kilns close to the feilds where it was to be used to be burnt As stated lime stone is safe to transport linemorter/quick lime being a alkaline burns so is not safe to transport which its use as a cattle van disinfect was banned As for kilns being large? You could fit one in a shed if you needed to say eight by twelve if you google street view for Lynmouth next to the cable car lift there are three in a row taking less room than a house on the sea front, conveniently for lime stone brought in as ships ballest along with the coal from Wales Remember the use of lime way predates railways by at least a thousand years and most of these lime kilns pre date railways lime kilns only dropped out of use slowly when transportation made it posable to have factory's

Well as you all seem to be doing it ! Good Afternoon all its One Fourty in the afternoon here in Mauritius where the sun is shineing at 28 degrees Some one say it's cold wet and windy in England did they........HA HA Still if it helps No railways over here! If anyone wants cheering up about me being surrounded by Sun sea and golden beaches have a look at the state of the preserved bits of rolling stock on Mauritius .....O dear

Maybe the reason for the lack of lime wagons is due to it being made on site? Down in Somerset their are lime kilns by the hundred, their are three of them in my little hamlet of Seven Ash, it being a sandstone region (quantocks exmoor) and lime or quicklime being corrosive stuff is safer to transport as stone than as lime, which would just need a open 5plk wagon

Can I borrow that grrrr! As a sound for my diesels ? Having been their I can just hear it and think it might sound just right

And it's not shaken to bits by a delivery driver, stomped on by a sorter, and in most places you can see it run before you go home, even the toy fairs around me have test track come layout you can talk nicely to to run them

Well not a direct help. But the suppliers or makers that go around shows down in Somerset will make them to the size you want you just tell them what you want! So just pick a supplyed and ask!

Your not jealous .....RIGHT ! Still if it softens the blow their are no railways over here all closed down in 1964

Lovely job mate looks very nice,and you have the knowlage that no Mazark rot. axel muff bush failure, inability to get spairs six months after production stopped problems will affect you and your 4F Another reason to keep building them Old kits even if a rtr version comes out How many Hatton garrets are still going compared to the Old K's kit.....so long as it wasn't built with a HPM2 ! That is PS not currently in seven Ash but swanning around in Mauritius but still getting my daily RMweb fix

[quote name="kernowtim" post="3289774" timestamp="1536161693") I thought the Dapol chassis was a more modern plastic unit Your right despite what johnster says the nine foot chassis is all new, well last five years and dosent have out of line brake shoes but the ten footer is a bit older in the tooth being a copy of mainline/Airfix chassis (warning not bought many of these recently as 10ft are to New for me) having said this Iain Rice sings the praises of the ratio chassis for replacement rtr stuff

Well I don't consider it a strange place but on going to Railwells this year I parked in the show car park at the other end of the moat, only to find a small car boot going on, now by the time I got there the show had been open a hour so a lot of attendees would have passed one stall where the chap was haveing a clear out A dozen Unboxed Bachman tank wagons £1 Half dozen Boxed Bachman wagons £2 inc bogie bolster, One lone mark 1 coach £4 Bachman SDJR jinty £20 Bachman pannier set complete £25 Scaledale type buildings between £2 and £5 each Two return trips to the car later the table was nearly empty ! BUT HOW COME HALF THE SHOW HAD WALKED BY FROM THE CAR PARK WITH OUT HIM SELLING ANYTHING IS THE STRANGE THING

Thanks ! I was hopping I could use them under something interesting other than feed wagons of which I have a few ! Any other uses for these underframes please Hopping ! Try hopeing