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I'm really not getting why some people think 10Mb is not enough, there seems to be a lot of theory and not much practice on the part of those complaining. My camera, Lumix FZ2500, produces a "small" jpeg file along with the RAW file, this small jpeg is 1920 x 1280 pixels and, for this image, is 427kb in size; This is it reduced to 1024 x 683 pixels which produces a 180kb file; And this is the original image reduced to 800 x 533 pixels which gives a 133kb file. With the 1920 x 1280 size 20 images could be uploaded without reaching the 10Mb limit and if the 1024 x 683 was used you would surely have more than enough. I used GIMP 2.10 to reduce the file size but I'm sure very similar results can be obtained with other programs, a little bit of online research might be need to show you how a certain piece of software does things but that's the way many people learn.

Had a bit of a suprise today; volume 2 arrived, I wasn't expecting it until early next month. Just had a quick flick through, it doesn't disappoint, plenty of good photos to inspire wagon modellers.

Listed under "New Books" on the second page; http://www.crecy.co.uk/the-acquired-wagons-of-british-railways-volume-2-all-steel-open- where they state it will be in stock on 31st March, I think I'll have to pull my finger out and order it! Regards

Towcester, had 3 platforms with lines to Stratford on Avon, Banbury, Bilsworth, and Bedford.

Taunton, county town of Somerset.

It's all about being pragmatic, not about making things difficult. For some smaller supliers selling kits and componants doesn't generate enough income to make a living, so they have to pay the bills by going out to work, that unfortunately limits the amount of time they can devote to the hobby business. In the case of Brassmasters they have stated this on the website, and what potentional customers can expect which is actually good customer service. It's the way in which they do business; if they couldn't do it that way they probably wouldn't be about to do it at all. It's fine if you don't like the way they do things but that's what works for them just accept it, many do and I sure are happy to do so.

It has already been mentioned that they might not be aware that automated replies can be set up and if they do they might not know how to set it up. It's all very well saying that it takes a couple of minutes but that assumes that the person doing it has the knowledge in the first place, if they don't then it might take far longer to find out how to and then actually set it up, it could take a hour or more and it might be considered by the business that actually answering emails would be a better use of time. They have already stated on the website that it is a part time business and that replying may take a bit of time, so with that knowledge how are they winding up prospective customers? I wonder how many emails go unanswered after 28 days for example? We're not talking about a corporation supplying critical components to industry but instead basically a bloke in his spare bedroom supplying bits and bobs to hobbyists and possibly not for much if any financial gain.

Neuss, Germany, on the west bank of the Rhine, founded by the Romans and shares with Trier the title of Germany's oldest city.

Looks like I might occasionally be late home after an early shift!

There's just the email address on the "Contact Us" page, the links to email on other pages lead there. So no form as far as I can see just a "mailto" link that opens a new email in your email program, which might be part of the problem as the address is vulnerable to collection by spambots. So Brassmasters may have a problem with spam email and genuine emails might get caught in a spam filter. If you don't get a reply after a reasonable time don't just send the same email again, as there may be something in it that got it filtered as spam, but try rephrasing what was in it and that includes the subject line.

As far as I'm aware they are still trading, here is an entry in the blog section of the website dated 01/01/2019. I've only purchased items at exhibitions so have no experience of emailing them but it might be worth noting from their Price List and Trading page , that; "This is a part-time hobby business. Sometimes we will be able to deal with orders within a day but on other occasions it can take a week or more." and "Please bear in mind that this is a part-time hobby business for us and that we only collect our post from the PO Box once each week." The two statements suggest that response times might be a little longer than we've become accustomed to with online shops, work and personal lives may limit the time available to deal a part-time hobby business.

Lutterworth, where Frank Whittle developed the first jet engine, also had a station on the GCR's London extension.

The RTCS Zenfolio site has a picture of C75 W1413 which shows the lamp bracket just above the left hand buffer, there's also a picture of C66 W4264 showing the right hand side of the end which doesn't have a bracket. Unfortunately the site won't let me link to individual pictures but there are several showing other NC coach which appear to have the same arrangement, so it's worth a browse. Also on page 193 of A Pictorial History of Great Western Coaches there is a very good picture of the end of a D117, which again seems to have an arrangement similar to the C66/75.

Twickenham, home of English Rugby.

Eling in Hampshire, just south of Totton, home of the Eling Tide Mill.

Not off the top of my head but the manuals are available to download from their website; http://www.zimo.at/web2010/documents/handbuch.htm Regards

David's site has been archived on the Internet Archive "Wayback Machine" and can be found here; https://web.archive.org/web/20181227035554/http://www.davidheyscollection.com/ I've checked about 10 or so random pages and most are complete, a few have the odd picture missing, hopefully the other pages are there too. Looks like I'll be spending a fair amount of time this week going through David's work!

It seems that this is a bit like searching for the Holy Grail; it may have existed and might still exist but there is next to no hard evidence of it's existence. The Narrow Planet link was provided as a quick way to make the plates for LNWR No.136 actually exist and save a lot of frustration, they are £3.50 unpainted and £4.25 painted which includes postage. So carry on flogging a dead horse if you wish just understand that it had been lead to water but somehow died of dehydration!

I assume that the GWR in that period used dark blue cotton for footplate crew's clothing, if that is the case then there won't be one colour unless it was new and had never been washed. Heavily soiled clothes would have been boil washed with washing soda to remove the dirt, this would have caused a gradual loss of dye in the process. Colour photos from the BR era show a range of shades from Dark Blue to very light grey with just a hint of blue, so I would assume that a similar range would have been seen in the clothing of GWR footplate crews. To recreate this start with a dark blue and add light grey to fade it, although for extreme fading start with light grey and add a little of the blue. In the past I've used Humbrol Oxford Blue with one of their light greys but for the most recent ones I've used Vallejo Model Color Prussian Blue again with a light grey.

Narrow Planet do custom LNWR numberplates; https://shop.narrowplanet.co.uk/collections/number-plate-styles/products/npp-418

Why not? It's not as if they are going to be displeased, sorry, unhappy, or ashamed to reveal their Deltics.

It certainly is a disappointment that Peco have reverted to using the boomerang sharped timbers, after the points I was hoping they had left that sort of nonsense in the past.

I used Microscale's Micro Sol and a blunt cocktail stick to remove the number, builder plate and lining from MSC 11. Hornby Peckett Hestia by Martin Weller, on Flickr Brush some of the Micro Sol over the bit you want to remove, gently rub the number with the cocktail stick, be patient and the numbers will slowly come off. The only side effect I've had is the surface may be a bit glossy afterwards.

The pot of that type is worth getting, they are available from most retailers who sell airbrushes, it will contain the spray when flushing out the airbrush saving on mess. I wad mine with several peices of kitchen towel and throw them away once they become saturated.