Edwardian

Great idea. You should. My compliments to Mrs Lightening

Or the day after, when it gets separately applied cab-side hand rails? Just the one wheel?

Yes, I am sure I was psychologically scarred by that scene, the sort of school summer holidays, afternoon on BBC2 flick. Can't remember the fillum either!

There is something sinister about 'him'! "This way to Brighton.... , no, a single fare is all you will need. Mwahahahahahahah!"

Welcome, TheQ, and thank you for those kind words. It is always good to have someone join us from the county with which I am taking so many liberties, if not a little worrying ... Had our situation been a little different a few years ago, we might have moved to Norfolk. As it is, I have come to love the county and its railway history as a visitor; it is one of the strangely relatively neglected but wonderful parts of England. But, then, Betjeman esteemed it, which is all the commendation anywhere needs. What a wonderful edifice. Wymondham Abbey! Oh, I do love the diversions and digressions we have. There is always something interesting that you did not know that someone will write about here. Which is fortunate as I'm sort of stuck in a too much work/over faced by multiple Inkscape false starts rut, but I must find a way of moving the project forward. All aspects of it seem just beyond my grasp at present. I have found a box of Triang clerestory bodies, a hangover from my adolescent attempts to produce more prototypical rolling stock for that inevitable Great Western childhood layout. I did not get beyond attaching Slater's C10 (All Third) sides to a Triang body. Armed only with an Exacto knife and a tube of poly cement in those days, I am surprised that it went off OK. In contrast, my ham-fisted attempts to attach the clerestory sides to the Triang roof have had to be dismantled with care! Thank goodness that I purchased Slater's sides for the Third and Composite all those years ago, because you try prising any Slater's stuff out of the cold, dead, grasp of Coopercraft these days! Wish I'd purchased some replacement bogies at the time, too! Not West Norfolk or Great Eastern, but perhaps something to keep my hand in until I can produce coach sides for myself?

Good to see some greenery; it brings the scene alive. Keep up the good work!

Kevin has been spotted out and about:

Of course, I should have thought of that. I believe that it could also be the basis of a "Steamroller", a LSW 4-4-0 with solid bogie wheels! Thanks James

I agree. I took your point about the height of the motor with regard to the Claud and the T19; I did not make myself clear. I was simply pondering on what might be used as a chassis for a T26. I don't know of anything on the market with anything even close to that wheel diameter and spacing. I am content with a good old No.1 Class for GE through services on Castle Aching. If I progress to a GE layout, I would want to add a T19, T26 and Claud (and a brace of Y14s, which, I assume, can be jacked out of the Hornby J15). Of these, I really only see the T26 as a major problem for an RTR conversion. How touchingly naïve of me!

Indeed, there may be no better match. Seven foot is large for a 4-coupled engine driving wheel. Thinking of what is available, I think GC Directors, SR Schools, LNER Hunts/Shires, and 4-4-0s of the Midland Compound ilk all have drivers under 7'. The larger wheeled GW 4-4-0s tend to standardise at 6'8 1/2" and at 8'6" centres, so the County won't do either. I suspect that, with the correct driving wheel dimension and only 1mm out in the w/b, the Claud chassis is as close as anyone will get with an RTR chassis to a T19. What about a T26 - same 8'9" centres, but 5'8" diameter coupled wheels?

I apologise, I'm afraid I did not read Pint of Adnams' list. As to my post, I'm afraid I don't speak "LNER", as I have no interest in modelling the ex-GER. Next time perhaps I should include a translation for those who don't know these classes by their "old money" terms! But then again, no, because I said what I meant and it was evidently understood! Pint of Adnams, please raise your hand once you've worked out the point of your comment.

Or an M15

I agree. I think 3D print could be great for hard to make/obtain stuff like pre-Grouping company coach and wagon fittings. Coaches would benefit from printed roof fittings, buffer shanks, bogies and axle-box-spring assemblies. Smooth sides of coaches that require rubbing down at the risk of fine detail are not the best uses of this material, IMHO. One glaring market gap is an available range of pre-Grouping roof profiles, particularly trickier ones like semi-elliptical. A number of companies had distinctive roof profiles. Could this be a great use of 3D print?

In an effort to segway from road transport to Pecketts .... The container ship has docked and, now, Hornby's new Pecketts are rushed across the land to the eager retailers ....

High Court Judges? and, err, Me, though I abbreviate it to 'bus.

Gorgeous and utterly charming. Edwardian on colours: 1. Conduct thorough and up to date research. Canvas many opinions, preferably contradictory.Spend some time in doubt and indecision, so you feel you've done a proper job. 2. Find the colour that, in your entirely subjective view, looks nicest. 3. Keep adding white until it looks right in your chosen scale. 4. If it's a wagon, skip steps (1)-(3) and just paint it "dirt".

Just don't put the 'bus on the bridge(!); MRJ correspondents may be watching and we don't want any cliché-induced apoplectic fits! Dear Peckett Derailer, Believe me, here at BG John's Agony Column, we have a lot of readers who write to us with similar problems. You are not alone! So buck up, there's a dear. Now then, the most common cause of ceiling derailments is modellers laying their track on Artex. So, if you have an Artex ceiling, you need either to strip it back to a smooth plasterboard surface, or, rebuild all your stock with fully compensated chassis. Dear me, I don't know which would be worse. Personally, Dear, I'd be tempted to burn my house down and start again! If you are still having problems, try power base under-track strip and super strength magnets! If you are still having problems, try moving to Australia, where your ceiling would be the right way up! If you are still having problems, try not being such an utter [enough - Ed.]

A Royal T19 and a Royal Claud! Many thanks.

Yes, entirely your fault. We should have had a sensible, dignified, pause, now that everything actually Peckett-related has been discussed, pending arrival of the actual models in our lily white hands. Upon which, the topic should experience a new lease of life with posts: (1) Displaying our proud-owner pictures of the gorgeous little fellas, which allow us all to go "ooh, ah" like women with other people's babies (I am not sexist;I've been there for Helen Tichner through it all!); and, (2) Complaining that "my new Peckett derails every time I run it over the points at 150 mph round my radius one curved track nailed upside down on the ceiling. Is anyone else having this problem?"

You mean as in "you wait years for an RTR Peckett, and then 3 turn up at once"?

Generally more horses in The Archers omnibus.

Right, yes. I'll start again with that, thanks. I'll have to work out how to do this enhancing myself, though.

I'm confused, Didn't I send this drawing out in the first place! I better go back to the email and see what I have!

No, which was doubtless my undoing. I suppose that if I am to master this I need to be able to import a decent image! I will give yours a go! Thanks again.

Flanders: "Omnibus", my friend Mr Swann informs me, comes from the Latin, "omnibus", meaning to or for, by, with, or from everybody - which is a very good description! This song is about a bus, it's wittily subtitled - (I thought of this) - "A Transport of Delight". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVHbF0jAzMw