Graham456

Thank you for answering the question Brassey and Quarryscapes so if I can unplug the chimney and move it a bit (dustbin direction) their s only the washout plugs to fret over....mainly as the rest I can put up with I think! And hope haveing got rid of my standard unmodified mainline DG, the S4 boiled ones will have to stay with their gears whirling under the tender,to much work went on to them!

Well after. Two days and sixty eight pages, I am still wondering shall I get one? Despite plowing through all these pages I am still not clear about the cab profile, is the thin top bit just plain wrong or were some cabs that shape? Which is the impression I got from early pages of this tomb The 0.3mm over size of the dome I can put up with,but it looks like the saw will come out to replace the chimney Then towards the end red frames was mentioned to match the lineing......HELP! Bearing in mind I model pre grouping GWR

SO is it these coaches that lead you into Modeling LNER stuff?Which in turn lead to you producing the coach kits? Which in turn lead to me spending a frustratingly long seven years painting,stripping,painting,striping,painting ditto ditto Until I could paint teak,,the same year as Hornby brought out their new version even going so far as to number some of theirs with the same numbers! Still at least I did a good enough job that mine/Ian's can run in the same rake! As the Hornby Now as for you being at the SEC ..shame it's so far to Glasgow from down by the west Somerset railway I could get to see what you look like out of the flying suit and mask!

Ian years ago I made a lot of friends! Not at a exabition I was involved in, by running a 00 triang B12 (reduced flanges only black steam roller wheels) on a point free bit of a EM layout Sure pleased a lot of people that day, had to work at the other end of the hall the next day! P S edited to point out I am not saying EM is a waist of time only that as the Rev Awdry said in one of his books about steam roller wheels

Well I was going to post in reply to what have you done with your keyser s kit Bought another one!....... and it's a 97XX I was going to put it on a a Bachman chassis haveing enjoyed doing one already But now do I copy you to keep the detail with the Bachman cab? P S proberly not a lot of help but my hand wheel on the first one came from a etch of hand wheels from the much missed Dave Cleal (mainly trains) I only live in walking distance of the last address handy or what! At least it was! Anyone know if he is well out of interest

Well not sure which it is but thanks Jenny I had to go out and get one of these today whilst in exmouth, don't know why as it makes my mainline ones look sad.it was the last one in Collets models, every one else has gone and got one it seams!

Well I have successfully used the same stuff from the same place, But you do have to flood the superglue in as the gaps between the balls are quite large in volume so I built the glue up over several application/days allowing it to go off until the next dose Because of these gaps I use lead sheet as much as possible only useing the shot balls where the gaps are small.

Well the one I bought in 1980 still goes after thirty seven years ! Along with a much later bought but still Airfix then converted to a 31XX straight framed model. they have a few Hornby sisters. As well BUT looking forward to the new ones, as they are showing their age! Old but cheep! Just don't expect much from. Something that will be around a fifth of the price of a new one

As said by Kris, go for car paint spray cans, just get a gray primer and a black preferably in the same make to ensure combatability But ! Clean the loco first as the model will be greasy stopping the paint from sticking

Can I suggest you only put them into storage,rather than retiring them compleatly......thinking in case of zinc rot !

Well if prices are ! In the doldrums can any on help me find a copy of Russell's Great Western Wagons as I lent mine out years ago and it hasn't come back.....the model club we were in folded up and I moved away! Thank fully I have a copy of Aitkins GWR wagons bought new for £25ish so I don't need to spend £109 on that at world of books ! Cough! Cough!

I wouldn't think it would take much imagination to think of deep scaring on wheels.......now in normal use ok hard, but this takes out a former owner who is a bit of a bodger,who uses course Old files to clean up dirty wheel treads ! Worse things seen at swap meets in junk piles

Yes very funny........More helpfully.......just leave it for two weeks in a dry warm that's warm not hot place then you know it will be cured despite not knowing when it was painted so in a word ...time.

You might be on to something there? I wonder if the modifications stuffed up the injection moulding machine for the Cooper Craft molds as well ?All round living half way from where cooper craft started and are now (three miles eather way).....its a huge shame as I do enjoy building wagon kits and have far to many ! That's made ones not to do's

My understanding is that the fact that slaters continued production of the wagons with second set of mounds after the sale or deal with CC was at the bottom of the legal row between CC and slaters the expense of which is why CC can't afford a new moulding machine Could be wrong of course as I haven't heard slaters side of the story

Having made a couple of branchlines chassis up for smokie joe's I have wondered if I could use this chassis as base for a inproved 101 chassis a few times,but I have not bothered or got serious enough about it to check the wheelbase yet, may be even if it's out it would look better than what's their at the moment I wonder why branchlines haven't been tempted to do a 101 chassis there selfs like the pug as their must be nearly as many out their needing one

Hum ! I take it you regret sticking it and now wish to unglue it, the answer to that depends on the glue used..... OR cover it up as loads do go in as well as out. Hopefully the currant load doesn't stick up to far you could place something on top? Now a tarpaulin would imply it was still loaded but with something different going out and what ever you have stuck going in. A "smiths" tarpaulin folded or tucked around the edges/corners (corners stuck to its self like a lid) will do this but would be extreamly fragile off the wagon, or what about a snug fitting top half of a packing box made to fit on top of the currant load?

Do you know that's not the sort of blast holes in ! Reply I was expecting for some reason or other!

No doubt some one could blast holes in these models. And will point out Bachman do a new and improved But the best thing is your haveing FUN and enjoyment doing this which is the most important thing Keep going and enjoy Modeling

There you go then SNAIL MAIL lived up to its name

But ! Have they reguaged it to four foot one inch to match the model as well !

Well I am glad to hear that's the way you work But please get brookside practice in Bristol and the nearest Jahoots to understand the 28 pill to month difference I can assure you from years of actual use of the service that the practice receptionist uses the calendar month and has refused to accept repeats with in 24 days of the previous( leaving four days for the prescription to be made up) Thank god i moved!

Hum reminds me of going to watch Le Mans races in the nineties where one of the track side fire engines was a 1956 that's was by then a nearly fourty year old Land Rover fire engine, definitely the slowest vehicle on the track! Edited and edited again to correct the I pads american spell checker which just loves changing things because it doesn't recognise English english

Yes it sure can be done, I picked up the short triang brake van which had be converted into Tobyesk tram I only bough it because it was cheaper than a Tenshodo, trouble is the conversion was so neatly done I never did take the unit out for reuse, she still potters around amusing me,so if it can be fitted into the shortest of vans, Can you get one with the right wheelbase for the BR 16t or GWR toad?

My pharmacist pickup a conflict between two of my medicines getting one changed during a review so in my mind there a good thing, But my flash point at my old chemist befour I moved was putting my script in early according to them, it not being due as a month wasn't up ! Fair enough but when there telling you, you have had a month's worth of pills but you receive 28 pills in a pack that means only one month in four years do you actually receive a month's worth, rather than three days short changed of the potential 31 pills needed, this short fall builds up but try and get the pharmacy to understand that their ain't 28 days in a month! Very often