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  1. 19 hours ago, Oldddudders said:

    Jest not! Getting back into England, even with a valid passport, now takes a lot more effort than before Covid! 

    NOT for some lucky members, I. Have a bus stop out side my house and the 28 stops very close to staplegrove hall ten minutes later ! No passport required but I do have to go through Bishops Lydeard 

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  2. 16 minutes ago, Blobrick said:

     

    Hi Steve

     

     Thanks for that, l had wondered about using fine wet & dry. Its an option if l can workout how to fold it over crisply at the corners

    Cheers

    Bob C

    Please don't use wet and dry no matter how fine a grade,roofing felt is far to fine for the lumps to scale down enough whilst i haven't tried it the toilet paper but to me this sounds like a better bet to repasent roofing FELT !

    notice it's called roofing felt not roofing gravel

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  3. 2 hours ago, Esmedune said:

    I could do with a photo to see what the actual problem is.

    Thanks, i know a picture can be worth a thousand words But haveing only a Old I pad taking a picture is no problem but shrinking to a reasonable size is, especially with a Internet speed of 2m bit out in the sticks,

    but thanks especially to Robert smith it looks like new one is the way to go at least from tonight's answer

     

  4. I was luck enough to buy a Hornby Schools at the exmoor models showc in Minehead at the weekend, a small but very good and enjoyable show it was, on the club's stand among the items  I bought a Hornby Schools,Wellington, sold as spair's  or repair,  well I have done very satisfactory repairs to it reattaching bits and repairing the cab roof, apart from the loco to tender wiring connection where one of the wires has pulled out of the plug.

    can any one recommend a way of reconnecting the wire back into the plugs pin? It's tiddly and fiddly sized, am I best to get a new wireing and plug if you can ? Or hard wire the engine to tender or does any know a way of reconnecting the wire to the pin as it very fine to get the soldering iron in the plug !

     

  5. 2 hours ago, chrisf said:

    In this part of Bedfordshire they are known as Clangers

     

    Che=ris

    And in this part of Somerset...... Clangers are little pink knitted sheep like aliens that whistle ! That as far as I remember don't eat cake,pies or weird pasties and they never ate the soup dragon  gwiwer

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  6. 1 hour ago, Captain Kernow said:

     

     

    While I am about it, I would remind you that the excellent Devon emporium from whence the food comes, also offers the superb chicken and ham pies.

     

     

    There is also a new savory pastry offering, filled with deliciousness, which I will inform you about when you've all calmed down.

     

    O god I have forgotten about the chicken and ham pie !

    but then we have had two years off talking about the annual pasty event in fact I can't remember if the crimp goes over the top like a Devon pasty should or if it has the oggie around the edge crimp in the ones we get at the show

     

    new savory item !

    i think I will come back in two days and six pages of dreaming about it will be in the hope trains might get a mention

    still only six months of drooling over the food to go.

     I just hope it doesn't clash with a series one Land Rover gathering up at maunsal lock yet again

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  7. 3 hours ago, rab said:

    In that case you'll need three tables:

    One for pasties

    One for scones - jam first

    One for scones - cream first

     

     

    No No No

    please remember Staplegrove is in SOMERSET we do not need to cater for Devonian or Cornish people who get all in a twist about wether  their crimp goes around or over, 

     Just don't put peas in my pasty like the bakers in Williton do YUCK ! YUCK ! YUCK !

     

    jam or cream first ? Don't care! Just put another scone on top sandwich style so you can turn it over if. Your fussy!

     

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  8. Thank you friends 

    so I have something unusual !

    i haven’t been able to reply for the last week as my I pad is playing up it won’t let me press agree to allow cookies before I log in,

     it looks like it’s part bissel tank front end, the coal bunker is moved back out of the cab, the footplate must be from  another kit as it’s longer than the bissel tanks kit would have and the chassis being white metal and about 2mm to long in the rear axel placement might be from the same source as the footplate (GEM)?

    it also has the wrong number plate 3329 which was never a coalsaddle tank still I can sort this now I know just have to wait until  show and hope 247 will be their

    thank you kevinlms you got !

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  9. I have a white metal kit built loco of a LNWR square saddle tank , also called a Coal saddle tank,

     now I bought this at a show, toy fair years ago and it has given good service, today I was titavating it up  and was just wondering whose kit it is, a afternoon searching the web has drawn a blank about who made a kit in 4mm out of white metal, I assume it must be quite old as it appears to have a cast chassis potentially also white metal but I haven't scraped any plaint to check for certain that it is a white metal chassis but I would put a 98% certainty that it is a white metal  if that helps identify the maker to you, please help me so I can list it properly in my little book I carry around shows to stop me buying duplicates even though this really only applies to rtr stuff  and not something like this thank mates

    graham

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  10. I am sure we all suffer from the carpet monster eating our precious only one I have bits,lamanate flooring doesn't help as it just bounces further, but when I moved house. And the junk room had to be cleared out before the removal men took it all away I stripped the room packed all the kit and bits dismantled everything so I had a empty room , then with clean new vacuum bag fitted did the room. Forensic search was then carried out of the dust bag , but still bits were never found ! Only a few hand rail knobs that had pinged in the past.and other replaceable bits

     The worse thing you can do though is move!  I can not find the chassis for my M&SWR no27 Albion models kit, that was being built before I moved, its large enough as the main frames were built, but no wheels fitted so it didn't roll away ! Where is it ?

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  11. 35 minutes ago, Gordon A said:

    How on the real thing did the hinged front platform fold down?

    it looks as if the front lamp brackets would get in the way?

    Gordon A

     

    Looking at the pictures the plate fits between the two outer lamp brackets and isn't that a hole in the plate for the central lamp bracket to pass through!, I know nothing about the real thing just going by the pictures of the model

    so might be wrong

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  12. Sorry to a misery but judgeing from the pictures it doesn't look too different from the results I get from useing a black Sharpie felt tip pen ! 

    It might be longer lasting but the sharpie touches up easy

    of course the pictures might not be doing it justice and I don't do the wheel treads and flanges with the sharpie

  13. 11 minutes ago, Prometheus said:

    .....or chop them up to make Siphon C vans?

    Tony

    Yes but !

    shiresceens etched brass sides on ratio coach underframes sorted my need for siphon C's out !even if the foot boards are a bit fragile so you then have to buy a brass detailing kit to sort that out

     

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    I cannot resist cheap buys either. I bought a still-shrink-wrapped-on-its-card K’s Dean PBV for an extraordinary £15 the other day. I’ve three built already, but they are such attractive vehicles.

     

    but at least with these PBV you can ring the changes livery wise   And yep £15 is good 

     

    anyway just about to start. On a keyser L M S cattle wagon haveing two coral A,s awaiting HRMS transfers to go back into production so I can say 

    what have I done with my keyser kit?,,,,,,,,,,,built them

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  14. 4 hours ago, Prometheus said:

    . You can never have too many brown vehicles!

    Tony

    eer um well I have built. Six keyser' siphon F's  the same as the GWR had all acquired at toy fairs cheep and built by previous owners, stripped and detailed by me with bits added that you could get from CPS before he died to do this (Mainly brake gear,) 

    now the problem is haveing two more kits which would make eight two more than really exested  so you can have too many ! No I can't resist temptation.when it's cheep

    Perhaps! I can experiment by shortening the stretched middle panels on these and fit the right bogies to the ones that didn't have the American ones, why did I miss that detail ?

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  15. On 24/04/2021 at 09:22, hayfield said:

    Crikey

     

    I have had it 10 tears and still done nothing with it !!!

    O dear ! O dear !

    why does this sound to familiar!

    at least with this lock down and no guests at my B & B this year I have got some of the pile done

  16. During the last week I have been having fun ! With a Bill Bedford GCR D13 goods van kit, not helped by their being no instructions with the kit ! Most likely lost in the years since I bought the kit at railwells at least two years ago, thankfully it's built and sat in gray paint awaiting G C transfers but who does them for wagons, not hrms or fox ? And a search on the web has got me nowhere  HELP ?

    also what colour for the roof before adding the dirt ? Don't want to add to much dirt as the wagon is in only a year or two out of the paint shop condition? White lead on canvas ?

    should add it's in 4mm scale

  17. And it's a gold star from me as well,

     used  their click and collect of a sort service to day, well phone and collect! To be honest 

    didnt even have to get out of the car, Maria delivered my pre payed Hornby north british six wheels to the car door in full protection gear whilst Jess waved through the window, their now sat on the windowsill at home  looking grand and awaiting the D51 to be put on the front in the morning day light

     excellent service 

  18. That is a HP2m nothing like mk1 or mk2 which were larger and longer lasting than that THING !

    anything from a modern supplier will improve your model

     depends on your skill level comet gearboxes are fairly easy to build I think DJH gearboxes might be to big for a terrier, Highlevel probably your best bet but a bit more fiddly if you have never built a gearbox before, the highlevel website has a useful gearbox size chart to give you a clue

     personally if they are OK I would reuse the wheels to keep it as period piece fancy wheels would be a waist of money as the cost would go a long way to better detailed rtr model and take away from feeling of a K's kits

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