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Insulation will be money well spent, fit as much as you can and your dividend will be a loft that is inhabitable for a lot more of the year as well as being a better environment for valuable models. I additionally recommend investigating upgraded lights to replace your flourescent tube, I have several LED light battens which create a daylight like effect.

1. There is a picture on Bartlett's website of a Salmon fitted with cranes DB996536 at Crianlarich in 1977. This has the cranes located in the most common place that I have seen namely over the ends of underframe, out another way I think your cranes are currently too close to the ends of the wagon. That said and as you point out, there are numerous variations on this. At the end of the day I'd suggest that working to a picture will give you the best way to achieve something you are happy with. In terms of your cranes I think you have a similar issue to me in that they are not quite wide enough and need the spigots on the ends trimming off so that the cranes sit flush to the bed of the wagon.

Having woken up the layout I spent a short time moving some of the engineering trains around. The tribometer train also did a lap despite, to the best of my knowledge, the trib never appeared on the WHL but I like the colours. The train is pictured at Crianlarich heading south.

Yes, there is a single picture of a Salmon with crane in the Key Publishing bookazine volume 1 but it's not the best as a reference picture. There are also several pictures of model Salmon built from Cambian kits with cranes from other producers. The weathering on the Salmon chassis is a little monotone for my liking, it is just a coat of Railmatch frame dirt and much the same can be said about the Queen Mary brake van and several other wagons. I have jars of Railmatch oily steel and brake dust which should add some variation when I get around to doing some more airbrush work. Thanks for your input on this, it has been most helpful. The instructions with the cranes suggested using primer as well, I chose not to because I wanted a careworn appearance which I aim to achieve by painting the cranes solely in yellow using my aincient faded yellow enamel paint. I have fed back to the seller of the cranes, they are 13.2mm wide compared against the 14.7mm width of the Salmon. I will probably fabricate some end posts for my cranes out of plasticard which when painted I hope will blend in.

Following a discussion on @thegreenhowards Glenfinnan thread and guidance from @Darius43, I recently acquired 2 reasonably priced cranes from Ebay for the Flangeway Salmon wagon. These appear to be resin 3D prints which are a fair, if not perfect, representation of the real thing but more than good enough for what I want. I struggled for decent colour reference pictures, this is as good as I could find which shows the cranes. Out of the packet the 3D prints are a grey colour and need a little tidying up with abrasives. They are not quite wide enough for the Flangeway Salmon which meant I had to trim the end fixing bolts away. A coat of paint and the 2 cranes plus generator look pretty good to me. Before glueing them down I want to get a second coat of yellow and pick out a couple of mechanical bits in a steel or similar colour.

I did read the summary of how the class 100 could be built but I would not feel confident it building my own even if the parts could be sourced. Hopefully a manufacturer will get around to the class 100 at some stage, an increasing number of first generation DMU variants seem to get produced these days. I am happy to wait and if I get around to respraying the coaches, I will attempt the creation of one of the other spray coaches Fisons used which are more easily done using existing models. Having got the weedkilling train out of the sidings it seemed sensible to give it a run.

BSOT 9011, formerly E9370 is reported as being on the Embasay railway, not Wenslydale. A slip of the pen or has it moved? Interesting that they have reverted to the original BSO number, presumably to match the livery. It is the internal pictures of the buffet counter and its surrounds that I am interested in, I do'nt suppose that you got any of these?

During the summer months I do'nt tend to do much modelling but this does'nt mean that I stop thinking about modelling. 03060 recently pointed out to me that the July edition of MLIPlus has an article on weedkilling trains and so it was off to WH Smith to buy a copy. Previously I have relied largely on an article written by Peter Hall of Platform 5 fame for the RCTS on the subject. The MLI Plus article fleshes out the detail a little more to the extent I feel confident in what I want by way of the WHL4 Fisons weedkilling train. Here I am short a class 100 DMU driving car, a DTCL which to the best of my knowledge is not available currently in model form. The weedkilling train was an annual visitor to the WHL although I anticipate it getting more frequent usage on WHL4 using the engineering path in the WTT. At present the WHL4 formation comprises a CCT, 3 water carrying TTV's, 2 ex LMS staff coaches and a Triang inspection coach as a spray coach. I have already accepted that the livery of the ex-passenger coaches will be the later Scherings Agrochemicals colour they were painted in 1987 as this is the colour factory painted in creating the various limited editions from Invicta Models. One day I might attempt a respray in to the previous red and yellow Fisons colours but for now my efforts are focused on the DTCL to replace the old Triang inspection vehicle. The 1988 picture below shows the weedkilling train in action at Tulloch where the consist matches the WHL4 one almost exactly.

Link below to WHL4 takes you to a couple of pictures taken by SC55015 of Salmon being using in a re-railing exercise at Rhu. Brake vans are not visible although I am fairly confident that there would have been a brake van for the mostly unbraked Salmon's. In more general terms I cannot find a picture of a Shark and don't recall having seen one on the WHL. Of course the Queen Mark brake that lived mostly at Crianlarich is an option in addition to the standard 20T although the majority of engineers trains that I have seen do'nt have a brake van.

A heavy shower of rain usually clears most of the detritus off of the panels although moss can be more of a challenge to remove. My window cleaner gives the panels a scrub every 12 months or so and I consider the outlay to be more than offset by the fact that clean panels generate the most electricity.

The attached thread is worth a read, Darius's work with the Cambrian kits and Shapeways cranes is impressive. I just priced 2 Shapeways oo gauge cranes which come in at over £55 when VAT and postage is included. Given that they are simple 3D prints, I remain of the view that they are excessively expensive and will continue to run my Salmon without a crane.

Given the different braking capabilities, you will need a brake van if you mix up air and vacum braked wagons. It is one of the reasons I only have vacum braked engineering trains on WHL4 which reduces the number of wagons in the engineering fleet. The 1976 picture typifies the short engineering train of the day and is a perfect size for modelling. I thought Shapeways produce the cranes in all scales but their website currently only shows them for 2 and 4mm. Scaling them up should not be difficult for the manufacturer although whether this is economic is a different question. I have been pondering how to buy a couple of pairs of cranes for some time but have always been put off by the cost and postage which I consider excessive.

Not sure where you have got to with the chimneys on the station building but to me it appears all you need to do is repaint them in a darker colour. I had a quick look through Flickr and it is fairly easy to confirm that the chimney stacks were rendered, the picture below is a 1988 vintage from the same SwissIrishErnie album. A 1985 view shows a similar arrangement. As does this 1984 snap. Also interesting to see the SCR have purloined a Midland region BCK! Another interesting picture found whilst perusing Flickr, a 1987 engineering train that should be fairly easy to recreate.

Loads of servo extension leads available on Ebay of varying lengths, you need male to female connectors. I have dozens of these used to run my Megapoints network https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/193481616595?itmmeta=01J0JEQ7826G74QA0MYVHTVQDB&hash=item2d0c672cd3:g:gmwAAOSwlc1fz91m&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA4M%2Fwthk63cQBByaz1Txbrt630dvXvP9DqBwbru4vM5hp9sbzca%2BHc1Ax28M3zGcN%2BmZ3geN7AFHdC%2FOQi1Dpaz0Hd7PLcYVPGI6LYgGsrPC%2B%2BqPOV7vHcaqZTLnqvQxcxl3YinxDke6U%2BH0AKMLDz8%2FTT%2FGcnGWIN1dMthX%2BzW7cRzilcvMv9J00UJ9oWrrUDuCcW5GFB2Sugmbs7yubpopjLFa8RIJa2xsHu7OTYBQjnm8wujs0owftMvQu28Ao9RZ61renYIQn47c4R%2FQegoH9Sf4POK%2BmDCwBa1ENngix|tkp%3ABFBMkPTczoRk

It is hard to tell what paint, acrylic or enamel, has been used. If it is enamel then a 30 minute bath in LA Totally Awesome (Ebay link below) and a few minutes scrubbing with an old toothbrush or similar usually removes the weathering and returns the loco to a largely new condition. The first link takes you to some examples of my using Totally Awesome. Please note that you might lose some of the transfers and/or some paint although I have yet to experience this. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174319653417?itmmeta=01J0AKJ92QG17C1B6729PBNRCT&hash=item289642d229:g:AhwAAOSwoKFa~KYG&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA4LOMEKdZ8ZTBnrzKJZbAJaJiIrhYQOgLZd3fNcRl6AivzTbkfpEFHsxhc2EPTMNeMFdYFYWhK4znr8MRnZhEGabupYvqnqYMqI960VOpn4K8SM84eUl2x1TGsN4HPnfHUHvmPL4ZsScJ4X0WKLxAbTraPdKh%2FjPLCw%2Bj%2FMeiIjnb4IXzw9UFd03bvv1wNEZtpLNVQxUx6RNIRxbURnB%2B5g9HYIhqDVUunyhDGjTV5eVDxR4kDlTxiDxrVeVWLXGeSUh1EV7Ly%2F0qvuuGZ8767wKUoEGytPQby%2Ftvm87cIm8g|tkp%3ABFBMuJHJ04Jk