Quarryscapes

Sorry I'm at work without a screen recorder, but this should make it clear enough the intersect method: Start with the side profile: Then add a top view: Extrude one of the profiles: Then the other using the intersect option from the operation drop down: et voila

2 options: 1) do as suggested above, create a top view of the lever with the bends, and a side view, extrude one then the other as a boolean intersect and job done. 2) create the lever as sheet metal and develop that way. A lot more convoluted for a printed lever, but if you ever wanted to do an etched one this would be the way to go.

My Peco England is the best running 009 model I've ever owned, better than the Bachmann Fairlie and leagues ahead of their Hunslets. (On DC only, I'm sure DCC would being the Bachmann models up to matching perfromance)

There used to be a program called Multimedia Builder from Mediachance, it was a very basic program to make your own programs - originally meant to make your own DVD menus. When I was a kid I used it to create a game of chance based on random number generation. It's really hard to find a download for it these days, but I've just managed it and will see if it still works on Windows 10/11. Might be a good option for creating a tailored solution to your needs. The free version just has a little watermark at the bottom of any app you make syaing it was created with the free version, it's otherwise unrestricted (or was when I last used it).

Wonderful news! I'm now looking at Quarry Hunslets in a 4th scale! On the whole looking good however I must point out that the handrail knobs look a bit naff, hopefully to be replaced by proper ones in production. I note the bracket securing the cab sheets to the tank is not shown on the cabless, hopefully an oversight too. The crossheads as well look a little bit clunky, again hopefully better on production models and lastly to question what the cabbed variety with rounded front beam is meant to be? The square corner one is clearly Btitomart. I do hope we don't just get a rehash of the 009 identities when they are made public. I will be ordering as soon as they're out in any event!

Thankyou Giles, looks like Mr Greenly was quite a prolific writer on modelling in all manner of scales, I have a few of his books on order.

I'm after book suggestions on 5/7.25" loco design and construction. I see lots on general workshop practice etc but what I'm after is practical stuff about the design of locomotives, generally accepted standards, that sort of thing. Is there such a book?

If you haven't already found them, Amayama is an excellent place to get Japanese parts from, they've kept many of my cars going - including sourcing the new rear quarter panel to repair my FTO aftert he accident. This is what yours should have looked like from the factory Jim with the standard wheels and pre facelift spoiler. Many people in FTO circles incorrectly called the facelift spoiler the Version R spoiler and thought it was somehow sought after. The version Rs had nothing special, the spoiler design just changed in the 1997 facelift along with the front bumper, and version Rs weren't available pre facelift. (A version R was a GPX but with all the extras removed that you paid extra for, making it a GP with a GPX engine and the unique trimmed front seats. A Version R Aero Series got you to pay extra again to put back some of the bits Version R took off - foglamps and sideskirts)

Wera do some nice ones, including 3/32" https://products.wera.de/en/screwdrivers_series_kraftform_micro_2069_micro.html

Cats are required for imports if there's a matching entry in the big MOT books that says what needs a CAT between august 1992 and august1995, after that eveyrthing MUST have a CAT, so depneding what the V5 says you may not need a CAT. The FTO was never sold on the UK market, however there were some sold through UK dealers after being put through an SVA (IVA now) by Ralliart. These are easy to spot because they have a horrible great red foglamp embedded in the rear bumper rather than the usual add ons people use. Mine had a red bulb in the right hand reverse lamp and the wiring suitably modded. Just noticed as well you have a facelift 'aero' spoiler fitted rather than the original one.

Beauty, love the Car of The Year models. Is it manual? If you want an exhaust I have a lovely almost original looking Stainless one sat in the shed, still in the packaging it came to me in as I never got round to fitting after the demise of my beloved GPvR.

I've spent ages hunting for a camera battery that I could use in the bunker as I don't really want Lithium batteries inaccessible and semi permanently in the loco, but the only sizes that fit are too puny so I'm now considering a 3400mAH 18650 in the boiler, a combined charge and step up module in the bunker and the RC gear wherever it will fit. I will get there one day!

That's a really beautfiul Hunslet there sir, the paint and finish is stunning! How is the R/C arranged in this one? I still haven't finalised what I'm doing with mine!

Can anyone provide pipework photos for westinghouse pump? I need to do the same on my S&M terriers at some point, and SM&M photos sowing the top of the tanks are non existent -all I can say is the Dapol pipework is wrong, but can't see what I shoudl actually have.

Sorry but that's utter nonsense. Those engines are in use across loads of different Ford, Mazda and Volvo models, and there are further 2.3 and 2.5 versions as well. The only real clanger in their design is that the crank pulley sits only on a taper, there is no key. For racing it is common to have a key machined in, but we are talking on engines that are seriously abused, and highly tuned. We don't key our 2.5s, and apart from fitting ITBs they are in standard tune.