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There's a thread elsewhere on RMWeb. The last comment I saw someone said they hadn't been charged either.

I see they had trouble getting their texture paint to work on that wall , prototype for everything.

Great collection of drawings. I downloaded all the Cholsey' ones and a lot of the other ones on the portal such as College Wood Viaduct which is in Cornwall. So thank you very much for the link. Simon

If it's in 'Clay Country' you'll need to mist (in fact thinking about it, a thick mist would be a great scenic effect for the whole layout) everything in white and the van will need almost white wall tyres. Cheap white 'watercolour' (probably gauche) would work for the crevices. It was said before the 1990s that you could always tell if someone lived in 'Clay Country' by the state of their car. English China Clays or whatever they were calling themselves at the time were always touchy about the dust they caused. Even on their official bus tour they wouldn't let us take pictures at Carn Point of the exact place where the powdered clay went into the ship. A large number of pictures are on Cornwall Railway Society website though.

Sorry to highjack the OPs thread but I suppose the two main questions are:- what type of controller will damage which type of motor and secondly which type of controller will give the best performance?

The Carrier, whomsoever that may be, can and frequently do, ask for the import duty which is quite separate from VAT. Unfortunately most carriers, ie Royal Mail, UPS, FedEx etc don't bother to check the status of the items they try and collect the duty for. Arguing with the delivery driver is a fruitless task as they are bound by their employer's instructions. I believe that it is as stated here, the responsibility of the seller to collect and show any VAT charged. I am pretty the that it is an offence to state a VAT exclusive price and then charge a VAT inclusive price, ie add the VAT, for any items sold within the UK to a non VAT registered person/company (in general that means an item that would only be sold to consumers and not businesses) but I don't know if there are any new rules/laws about imports from countries that charge VAT at source. It is a minefield of confusing and contradictory information and I am still trying to recover from reading HMRC's latest bulletin earlier today.

Have you ever tried reading and making sense of a VAT notice? Don't bother ringing them either as the help desk operator will just refer you back to the same VAT notice or one that is so similar you won't be able to tell the difference.

I am a Typographer but couldn't tell for certain which typeface/ don't that is, but I have a feeling that looks like a precursor to Helvetica or Swiss as it is known on most computers. There are several websites where you can search for type faces or Fonts by uploading a photo or defining the lettering you have. One is here https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ And another here https://www.fontsquirrel.com/matcherator Or here https://www.whatfontis.com/ The first site you can define by choosing which style is close and narrowing it down. Another way would be to screenshot the photo and load it into a Vector illustration package like Illustrator or Inkscape and trace the outlines and then clean it up and print on inkjet decal paper. The problem you are going encounter is that you want white lettering on a dark/black background which is difficult with home printed decal paper. Good luck.

I would think it highly unlikely that there would be any man made structure at the top of an embankment like that. There may have been a low wall at the bottom of the embankment if the ground was unstable, soft earth or clay or chalk, but not for any longer than strictly necessary. Railway companies tried to use quickest and cheapest solution wherever possible. Just a bit of darker flock like you have at the bottom of the embankment but as narrow as the paving should look fine. The rest of your scenics are looking great.

Faller, Noch, Langley and Scale model Scenery do etched or laser cut drain covers in a variety of sizes and shapes.

In case nobody else mentions it last of the bullet points ... to attach additional (add the last l to the word). I am a graphic designer so unfortunately still notice 'typos' whenever I read anything. Otherwise your instructions are looking excellent.

And very good those bits look too, the beams of the goods shed look brilliant. I shudder when I remember my early scratchbuilding efforts. I think you have the skills to scratchbuild anything, just take it one step at a time and you won't get frustrated or annoyed with yourself.

Pity we can't go in the pub that's behind you in that shot. Of course the inner harbour used to have an extensive rail network accesed from the incline. It's Portreath in Cornwall for those that don't know, I'm sat at home about 1 and a half miles away.

Should have mentioned that the Tuckingmill picture is looking almost exactly due East. Carn Brea (hill with, probably after your time scale - a mock medieval castle and a obelisk monument on it). The Red River - so called because it actually was red from the mine pollution ran from around the site of that picture to the north coast. Nowadays that area is covered in horrendous modern housing and retail sheds. I wouldn't dally too long in some of the buildings though as there are still a very large number of uncapped mine shafts, allegedly there are three under one of the supermarkets. More pertinent to your era was the distinct lack of any substantial tree growth. Also a lot of the trees literally grow almost horizontaly in a north easterly direction as they are battered by south westerly gales. https://www.google.com/search?q=cornish+wind+blown+tree&client=ms-android-motorola-rev2&prmd=ismvn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjD5Z7WopLvAhXUqHEKHeZfAvUQ_AUoAXoECAMQAQ&biw=360&bih=592&dpr=2#imgrc=fwPLMcjkVbQoYM Hopefully picture or link above.

The sudden expansion of housing would very likely coincide with the discovery of a seam of Tin or Copper nearby. The area between Redruth and Camborne at one stage looked like a cross between the surface of the moon and a bomb cratered area. Just look up Tuckingmill, see below:- Edited to say there were/are over 100 shafts within a square kilometre of that photograph. Simon

Hello Annie, As a current resident of Cornwall and someone who worked on the digitising of the mapping of a large part of the footpath, bridleway and byway network I do have some understanding of the topography. I used to live in Camborne and I think you will find that, perhaps surprisingly, it only expanded relatively late on in the Industrial Revolution. Yes there were a great many mines but apparently Camborne was still a village until the railway helped it expand:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camborne Sadly it now has some of the most deprived areas of the UK within it, luckily not relevant to your era though. Redruth on the other hand was once the richest part of the UK thanks to mining. Truro where I now work also didn't expand until recently, it only had around 20,000 inhabitants in the 1980's. I don't know if you have found the Cornish Studies website:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kresen_Kernow which has a massive amount of information (Kernow is the Celtic name of Cornwall). I see you have found the Cornwall Railway Society website which is also a mine of information, if you do a modern version of Cornwall's Railway then you would need a character based on Roger Winnen carrying a Lidl's carrier bag in which he kept his 'croust' or lunch and his notebook, you will have seen many of his photographs on the CRS website. Good luck with your work on the Cornwall route and don't hesitate to ask, I may not be able to answer all your queries but will probably know someone who may. Simon

Just a gentle warning, it's spelt Camborne without a 'u', I've heard the people that live there can get quite tetchy or as they say Teasy or Mezzed if you spell it wrong. Some of them are also quite annoyed that Bradshaw skips past and says it is of little importance. Am I right in assuming your Cornwall layout is set before they built the Newquay branch?

Nice use of parcel tape.

See the previous page, warning it's not a pretty sight. Annie, I think your coaches are a great improvement, much better than the Hornby ones.

There's a thread in 3d printing about outsourcing companies, I haven't tried any of them so can't recommend one but some look okay and apparently allow you to see a approximate cost of the finished item. I would offer to print it for you but my Aldi FDM printer is not a good enough quality ( I only paid £150 for it). Simon

At least in the simulation of Hayle viaduct there isn't the abominable crime against architecture that is the recent Asda superstore. I gather it is supposed to be like a ship, I would never trust any ship that architect designed. https://images.app.goo.gl/DEbLFuwZsywrFvLT9 And that picture actually makes it look better than it does in reality. Simon

I went to German model exhibition in Cologne and it had a whole floor dedicated to Lego models. There were hundreds of them, one was a model of Notre dame, about three feet tall!

Having Arthritis of the spine in two places I can empathize with you. I bought an old bureau secondhand for £20 as well as a gas lift 'computer' chair for the same amount. For any cutting I stand up to do it and as has been said, take short breaks, I have some modelling items purposely just out of reach to make me move.

Hi Harry, The following thread has lots of information:- RM Web thread on Parry People mover

In lithographic printing it was found that 1,250 lines per inch showed stepping on curves, but 2,500 didn't show any stepping to the naked eye. Under a scope you could still see the steps though. So in theory a layer height of 0.01mm should be invisible to the naked eye, of course that doesn't always work. It was strange how a tiny speck of white (or clear on the film) would show up but not a speck of black on white. We used to use neg' film so that's why I know, it wasn't until you checked the finished plate that it showed up. I would imagine that the stepping on 3d prints will show more on a 'flatter' curve ie the long edge of an oval rather than the short edge, as it will be a greater proportional jump in height.