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Also a drawing in the Railway Modeller, November1973. The Chivers CCT/PMV kit is nice, but it's worth replacing the truss rod with wire; easy enough during construction. The kit could also be used to build the 'Night Ferry' brake with a new bit built into the middle.

If you're using 00/H0 track (16.5mm gauge) then you'd need to work to 1:23 scale, so a 24 foot coach would be just over a foot long.

There's probably some Evergreen rod that's around the right diameter. With that you could drill holes and insert them. They'll glue to the styrene barrel fine and they could then be filed down to the appropriate thickness in situ.

You'd think this would be a 'no brainer' for both 00 and N; several liveries, only minor differences (if an AF in Birds Eye colours can be an AFP we are talking very small 'sins' here!) and around a good few years now. And the bogies are already done/planned by both Bachmann/Farish and Dapol.

The photo just to the left of it looks like it might be Stratford Freightliner terminal too.

Probably only a few bits and pieces of plastic trim, glass and alloy worth saving.

Yes, misprinted labels! Ooops... Well, the website is now corrected, anyway!

They're coming together nicely. Very distinctive coaches. One hung around Derby Research for a long time, though in a pretty tatty state. Are those the Southern Pride seat mouldings too?

What great photos! The NBR coach looks like a 9 compartment Third, the elliptical roof making quite late, I should think - note it's a different elliptical shape the the CR one which is nearer to early LMS in shape. The NBR coach would have had raised panelling on the panels and doors ('Scottish' 3 layer pattern) as built. Replacement horizontal planking was quite common in later years. The first LNER coach looks like it was probably a catering vehicle originally. And in the July 1976 photo there's a beige Austin or Morris 1800 in front of the Land Rover - very much a period colour! An appropriately super detailed MINIX would add a touch of individuality to a 4mm model layout.

Interesting old coach. Looks like a late CR 57 foot corridor brake.

Those 'boring' bodied SBs were also popular with local authorities for school buses and the like. Somewhere I've got a photocopied 1970s page, perhaps from a brochure/handbook, of a variety of municipal vehicles, including the SB.

For maximum width you really need to use a Minitrix 9F!

You might have to raise the bridge a bit then, Simon

Given you've got the modified grille on the bodyside, the later maroon must be the way to go.

Oh, the almost forgotten Astramax! IIRC Herpa did one in 1:43 scale for a short while.

No problem, Jo. Effectively the 'tool' is guided by the edges of the slot so if they're straight, the 'drag' will be too. I found the same method (but different, round shape) worked for the concave edges of my 4mm Capri II dashboard as well

Interesting project Jo. I reckon you could get the angle in the recess fairly easily using Milliput white and a shaping pice - in fact a the end of a square section of Evergreen would probably do it. Basically just fill the entire recess with the Milliput, then, making sure both the plastic and the surface of the Milliput are well lubricated with saliva (OK - yuk, but who's going to know?) carefully drag the styrene along. It should ride along the edges of the recess squeezing out the excess filler as it goes along and form the angled shape in it. The same priciples work for curved shapes too, just use a round former. It's easy enough to practice the technique before trying it on the wagon too - just glue down two strips of a backing piece of plastic, fill with filler, then wet and drag. It will probably take a couple of drags, usign a sharp blade to lift off the bulk of the excess from the first run. The smaller amount on the second run can probably be left to harden to be smoothed off after.

The top view of the AL6 shows how much squarer the ends of the cab were very nicely.

Got to be towards the latter end of 1962 to have Mk.3 Zephyrs and Mk.1 Cortinas on.

It could only be right when running light engine. The back of the whole train should be 'marked' (normally a white painted tail light on the rear coach) not the back of the loco!

The model features on the cover of the 1962 edition of the Ian Allan 'abc of Model Railways' and is listed as being a Liliput model. Given the real loco only appeared in 1959 it seems unlikely to have been by ??, then Trix and then Liliput in that brief time.

I bought the original ones from Howes of Oxford, but that was a long time ago! The size is not quite the same as 3512 are 73mm long, 21mm high (excluding pods etc.) and wheels at 14.5 & 51mm. Neat stock boxes!

These buses are Tomix ref:3512 (available unassembled as 3599), converted using my ref:1100 etches to represent Duple 300 and East Lancs EL2000 bodies. They look to be a similar size.

This one http://www.80mbusmodel.com/eshop/photos/150801.jpg is still listed as in stock. The one above can't be a Dart as the windscreen is split level - actually reminds me a bit of old Metro-Scanias and MCWs!

Cars Workshops produce a Plaxton Pointer 2 that would be more appropriate for your period than a National, Simon http://www.80mbusmodel.com/eshop/photos/150801.jpg Worth looking through the 80M site http://www.80mbusmodel.com/eshop/ under 'Toys Model' as there are other useful 1:150 vehicles like fire engines, ambulances and construction equipment too. Note the dollar prices are Hong Kong dollars, not US ones!