bgman

Captain,

Having joined this exceptional site in recent months, I am encouraged by modellers like your good self to raise the bar just that bit higher each time.

I have time on my hands to produce a layout ( working on initial thoughts currently) and keep getting sidetracked by articles like yours!

Each time I give a cursory glance at the site I find myself discovering new and wonderous things, could it be I'm back in the sweet shop wearing my shorts and several shillings to spend ?

Now, to my trained eyes and background I have always tried to keep everything in harmony, meaning the use of one'ish material for all.

You have led me up the path of brick papers and by judicious use of these with other materials I find myself ignoring my own rules and wanting to throw myself into the waters of mixing and matching, to which you sir have made an excellent example, thank you.

Great locomotive, I bought two from them! DCC'd them both with sound chips and really happy I did so. Main comment is really about the pulling power, which, if you wish to run a full compliment of coaches lets it down slightly.

Still makes for a great period locomotive though.