Graham456

Well at the Taunton show I bought some parkside wagon kits.......So around a week in their case !....... Posable not the sort of reply expected by trofimow when I started his post te he! I did Finnish the exKs 15xx the other year after buying it at chris Crawley models thirty odd years ago that was my longest hanging around kit, but it's disqualified by being built now I don't have any golden oldies of my ownership now, old kits yes but not long in my ownership

So ! How much would you charge to do mine only two of them........... Not expecting a reply just being cheeky in the faint hope,

Ah Ha! I detect clues to Stu next layout from this involving working horses no doubt!

Hayfield speaks a lot of sense about the fun to be had with Old K's kits, and I like your inprovment to the boiler to even think of filling in the boiler on your first build says volumes for you, also so one was smiling on you when the motor turned to toast so soon before you got to far in to the build, it wouldn't have been so easy when it happened after the build was finished, I all ways wondered if K's had bought in a motor rather than wasting a lot of money on designing there own they might have lasted longer? But haveing praised you for that Are you sure about your lamp irons comeing out of the front of the buffer beam rather than being mounted on top of the running plate

Loctite 662 and 638 are designed for this sort of use and can be unstuck with a quick bit of heat if you burn the motor out

Well that might well have been ME ! I ask you how can the human stomach tolerate brown sauce on sausages Uggh! Running a B&B I can tell you tomato sauce consumption far exceeds the brown uck! Tempted to go back to the show again today for more ! .....of the show that is

Yes just enjoyed the show, you can bring back next year H and A models a fest of wagon kits and paint and transfers, well stocked up with a winters worth of wagon building, layouts were OK as well all right more than OK excellent But the biggest problem was deciding between bacon or sausage rolls for dinner

Confirmation that once the grey paint is stripped off a Great Western wagon, it’s red underneath! Yes very funny ! Actuly it just confirms what I told you yonks ago it's a Ian Kirk kit ! Ian Kirk used a sh%#y brown plastic for some of his kits which you have uncovered in your archeological digging around under the paint Sad to say it isn't a original sample/shade of the long lost original wagon red we need to find, which I would put money on is nothing other than red lead paint?

Yes in full agreement with theses comments, but I mainly use carplan paints for my bulk sprays because I get them at a trade place and halford are very expensive, sadly though I have I have resorted to the troublesome RM cans because I haven't found a roof dirt coloured cars for example I was going to say for a quick small job a spray can is quick and lazy way of getting the paint on compaired to getting the compressor out setting up it cleaning up and packing away. But then if it clogs up and the hassle involved perhaps it's not so quick and easy

David in my post I said roughness to the surface, as in David Vizzard tuneing A series engines deliberately not saying tight bends, for reason,you can make turn on a inlet tract,but not a restrictive turn and get good flow. After all I can't think of a engine where the mixture doesn't make a tight turn at the valve to enter the combustion chamber, whilst the internals of a nozzel might not be the greatest air flow design, it works in all other rattle cans and like I said in air brushes (suction, never had a top cup airbrush) the paint is drawn up from a cup where the paint makes a very tight turn where the air blows across the top of the pipe,and that seams to work'...I admit my comment was a bit of a sturr up comment though.....sorry P S you still haven't said how the kettle is/was though!

Well maybe the thinking is as found in inlet manifold design for cars slight roughness causes swelling of the air paint mix assisting in mixing the fuel mix or paint propelent mix in this case ! ? , of course it just might be cheepness I know which one I would vote for.............. ...............option 2 David.. Never mind the hole in the ceiling, that can be cured by not looking up! There's all ways the floor boards above the plaster, More important is the disruption in the tea making facility's How was the kettle ? P S can anyone think of a paint can with a curve in the head on any type of can, even in my air brush the paint makes a right turn where the paint meets the air inside the handle.....well can you ?

Rather then poke with a pin my technique is pull the nozzel from the head then to use a small drill bit from one of packs of numbered drills to clean out the nozzel then squeeze it back into the head which you then refit to the can, The explanation I was given years ago was that railmatch cans had finer nozzel than normal rattle cans which is why they bock up easier....not that helps much with the frustration

As this has now gone off into general yours is better than mine! Talk, and not so much Scotsman stuff I will post this For those missing Flying Scotsman in somerset might like to know that the "Frying Scotsman" can be found still here in Somerset Parked in the gallegher retail park bridgwater, "..............yes it's a Scotsman frying great burgers! Far taster than a near by Big M Dunno if his van is any good at hills though ?

Noit much help to the original poster but my not very near local model shop still has stocks of the original mounts have you tried your local model shop! I can't see them being such hot stock to be sold out everywhere! Mounts ? Pockets ? Aren't the things made up of three items...1 .the mounts that fix to the wagon floor, 2 the pockets that fit in the dove tail on the mount and 3 the coupling which clips in the pocket?

Well as this happened in the view from my bedroom window, I can assure you on damp mornings it does happen to other engines quite often in the morning!

Yep like most modern estates it all looks the same,so you might end up going round and round, but being the only rank of shops in the estate anyone around should know where you want if you can find some one to ask!Clue it is not to far in the jungle of roads so don't go to far in! finisterre parade give a short cut rather than the long way around Phoenix way

Well this might get a lot of moans from the people on here who are interested in one or two items of your list But if you want to get rid of the lot in one go try Ray Heard who is a second hand dealer who does kits based near Taunton but will travel for collections Tel 01823 480 097 Mobile 07717 278420 You can find him on the web as he organises toy fairs like newton abbott and attends shows and the pictures from the search on his name usually come up with him stood in. Front of his stand of kitbuilds

At first I was thinking fast spinning paint rollers set up like a car wash to flick the clays around but now a spring has sprung So it's going to be like the pin ball wizard. ! Behind the scene the big spring is going to ping the wagons around.....can't see how there going to get into the dry though?

If any one is feeling rich I suppose one answer is to take a good chassis along to a machine shop and do as Peter spairs has done for the M7 and mill one or two dozen up in brass?

Retro man All right I am confused? ? ? I thought and have new in boxes identical motors to fitted to your L & Y engine but there Airfix/MRRC 1001 but you call yours a mw1005 ? This isn't helping as I get confused enough with which is which as in 1001= XO4 but five pole 1003= Airfix 61Xx/14xx slight difference I know but very similar 10??= keyser mark 1/2 double ended between frame motor(slimeline) ????= high speed double ended for slot car but identical to above usely have clubman on the box! Any one else help complete the list so we can all sing from the same sheet, even if it results in a wirring grind noise

The last few posts hint at the problem and why money is being spent on lawyers not the new moulding machine, which as a gardener not a lawyer paul can't afford At Wells there were a lot of sides and ends for the GWR four plank that has been discussed a bit on here just, got to cut out a floor and I can use up some left over solebars to keep me going ....FOR NOW

The motors made by MRRC for slot cars are to be avoided BIG BUT. The ones made for trains like the MRRC1001 are slow revving and a direct fit in a Cotswold kit I am a happy user of lots of MRRC motors in my kits but in my latest rebuild of a A class useing the old brass lump chassis used a slimline comet gearbox and mashima, no fileing required and smother than a old technology

String ! Remember a long time ago I did recommend swish curtain track!

Naw been suggested before ....the answer won't be that simple where's the fun in that It won't be batteries Radio control Live steam....actuly..well it might be Biro wooden push along version.........simples! Very big magnet! Who knows but Stu...... Awaits with bated breath next instalments