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Thank you both very much for your help. Stuart

Good Afternoon, I'm hoping someone here is able to help, I started to build the kit mentioned in the title a while ago, but took a break after finishing the bodyshell, I've now come back to it to get the underframe details done and have found that I've managed to loose the instructions, and definitely don't feel comfortable tackling the break gear etc without help. So I was wondering if anyone here had a copy of the instructions for the kit that they could photograph or scan and send to me? I've emailed Peco a while ago asking the same, but unfortunately haven't had any reply. Stuart

Certainly getting very tired of these emails, especially with there being so little updates on the projects that I've actually signed up for (Bellerophon and the 4DD).

I know it's a year since anyone has posted here, but does anyone know how the crankpins are held in to the wheels? My Victory has one that isn't all the way in on one of the leading wheels that collides enough with the valve gear while running to bring the whole model to a stop, gave me a huge fright the first time as it stopped dead and the sound went in to full speed chuffing.

Santa? I know I've got a belly and a beard, but I'm definitely not dressed in red and cheerful all the time!

Is the coach the LBSC Directors Saloon that now lives at Bluebell? If so then sides, ends and floor can be obtained from Worsley Works. Although the ends are for building it before the end doors and gangways were fitted. If you want, then I can get a picture of the etches I have sitting here for one, I'm just having problems finding out what the interior layout of it is before I start trying to build it. Stuart

Give me a shout if you're after one of these Phil, we have one doing absolutely nothing which you can have. Stuart

Hi Phil, Great to see you're back in action again! We really should try doing the same here, but someone keeps flying back to the UK to see the real thing when we have free time! Stuart

Does this happen to mean you'll be there on the 27th of this month? Dad and I are flying over on that day and making a trip up to the Cotswolds and had talked about making a visit to Didcot on the journey up there. Stuart

Edwardian's method is pretty much the same as mine, so he's saved me from doing the step by step i was going to do. Vallejo acrylics are a good choice (it's what I use, especially after games workshop changed their paint range), they have a incredibly large range and go on very nicely, but for metals I use their model air range and brush them on, as the ones I have bought from their main range seem to be very think and don't respond well to watering down. Also they have a much finer pigment than for example Game Workshop's range, so be careful handling the figures after painting as there can be problems with the paint rubbing off if they havn't been varnished. Stuart

Hi Gary, The fences have really framed everything nicely! It's interesting how just adding fencing seems to improve the look of layouts quite considerably. Those seem to be some very nicely cast Langley figures as well, we've had the bad luck of picking up some that were cast nowhere near as nicely. If you would like, I can throw together a step by step guide that I can put here or on our workbench thread of how I paint figures, as I'm due to do some this week. Stuart

We needed something small and sweet to counterbalance all these big beastly engines that Dad is building! Stuart

What with Dad's speedy progress on building things, I've been inspired to get myself down to the railway room and work on a few projects. The Q now has a fully functioning chassis underneath it (it looks a little out of line in this picture, but looks right in person). Next up for the Q is to get the tender chassis finished including electrical pick-ups, touch up the paintwork on the body and add some more details to it including brass clack valves and safety valves from Markits, and add a cab interior now that it doesn't have an XO4 taking up the cab space. The other project I'm working on is an A12 that I picked up off of a well known auction site. It ran very nicely out of the box, so all I have had to do is add a flywheel, paint the frames and do a bit of rewiring as it ran the opposite way to the controller and was wired in a way that took up a lot of space. Next up with this is also a tender chassis with pick ups (once wheels have been ordered from Markits), and then it's just the cosmetic work of painting and lining in olive green, and try to straighten the running boards, which I have only noticed just noticed after seeing the picture below. Stuart

I wish it was so easy obtaining the magazines over here, I don't know how people on eBay think £8 postage to Norway is reasonable! Stuart

Hi Mikkel, I was wondering if there was any feature or pictures from the Bergen model railway exhibition in the magazine? As they were taking lots of pictures of our layout when we were there, and we were thinking of getting a copy in case any of the pictures made the cut. Thanks, Stuart