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Good point. Re "your dancing pan 86s on Dagworth" - any chance of a link? Richard

Interesting that PECO mention the AS Class 92 (with a nod to its trick pans) - perhaps that is motivating them, so let's hope so...

Here's hoping, although the crouching gentleman fell of the roof of the wagon and broke his measuring stick, so I'm not sure... ... hope he's okay...

Once the glue had set any gaps were treated with Plasto Filler and then the lamps were sanded with emery to prepare them for painting.

Then a slit was cut along the length of the tube, so that it could be slid over the lamp. Once in place the slit was glued and the assembly clamped with masking tape.

Then I cut two slots in the side of the tube, using a pin drill and knife, to accommodate the lamp arms

I wanted to use the "lamps on wooden 'telegraph' poles" type of lights for the platform and yard lighting. To achieve this I converted some layouts4u Lamposts, 3 of the OO Scale ones for the platform and 2 of the O Scale for the yard, However the posts on these lamps with a diameter of 1.5mm are for my eye too thin. So I have clad them in 1/8" diameter Evergreen Plastic Tube. First thing to do is ream out about a 6mm length of the tube so that it will go over the sleeve at the base of the lamp:

More weeds, this time applied using 2mm & 4mm static grass to the sidings' / yard's ash surface... The grass was applied using puffer bottles, with hairspray as the adhesive, so as not to lose the underlying ash surface which was made using fine black quarz sand.

@Accurascale Fran WIll they be available to purchase at Warley this weekend?

There was quite a lot of "overflow" from the static grass application. I have been collecting this with a vacuum and saving it as a mixture of different lengths and shades, which I am now reapplying around the base of some of the buildings to represent weeds.

More trees, bracken and ground cover. In addition to the clump foliage I am also trying feligree to represent bushes...

Additional static grass was then applied to the cuttings, longer 7mm length light green mixed with 4mm Straw. Again Woodland scenics. I used Woodland scenics Clump foliage to represent small bushes / bracken, which also serves to conceal the base board joins. The trees are from Noch.

Having painted the white wall filler surfaces of the landscaping dark brown fencing was added and a base layer of static grass applied. The grass is made up of Woodland scenics light green for the cuttings and medium green for the rest. A mix of 2mm and 4mm lengths was used. The wire and post fencing is from ScaleModelScenery, the wooden fencing is PECO.

Checking the exploded parts diagram: https://rapidotrainscouk-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/operations_rapidotrains_co_uk/Ebv_Bm5v--BKsfKM9MN-ar8BLeVLZgNgDcs9bXv3MV9FoA?e=qPCDX0 The tooling for it might well not be separate, but the part for the engine bustle (number 68) certainly is. Of course that wouldn't help for the Bristol as the front panel (which appears to be integrated in the main body moulding - number 5) would also need to be modified.

Its interesting to note that Rapido are Including the rebuilt 1965 Fleetline BON531C in this release. This bus had an interesting feature in that its 1965 Chassis was 8' wide but its 1970s MCW Body was 8' 2 1/2" In wide, resulting in a noticable step between the wider body and the narrower engine bustle. Its 1965 tail lights were also different to those on a 70s vehicle. In 4mm scale the step is about 0.4mm on each side. The question is have Rapido planned for this in their tooling with interchangable engine bustles? If they have, is there a possibility of seeing WMPTE Bristol VRTs with MCW bodies in a future release?

The onloading she has been modified, so that the base of the posts are embedded in a concrete foundation and the gantries have been replaced with elements from a laser cut kit for a Locomotive shed working platform. The kit was also used to provide the external staircase.

I have finally finished painting and glazing the Grain Elevator, and have installed a base for the unloading shed with laser cut card grids representing the top of the unloading chute.

So the roofing has been replaced on both of them with some Scale Model Scenery Laser Cut tiles, painted with Revell acrylic paint.

Scalescenes recommend using some sort of fixing agent like a spray varnish on one's home printed roof tiles. I didn't so when I left the window open and the rain got in the Goods Shed and Station Building found themselves subject to the wrong kind of weathering...

Fantastic! Thanks for sorting this so quickly, 2 sets duly ordered!

Will the Class 37 Drop in Wheel Sets be available on the Irish Models / (redirected from Accurascale.eu) website? Currently I can't find them. I've tried to order using my accurascale.co.uk account but when it comes to speciifying my address, I am unable to because the drop down doesn't include Germany :-( Regards Richard

The accumulation of grot in the base of the vee looks quite convincing...

One important thing to also bear in mind is that when you print them out you do something about "fixing" or sealing the printed surface - the Scalescenes instructions suggest some sort of spray varnish. I didn't bother with this and lived to regret it when the rain blew in through a partially open window... Not the weathering effect I was looking for :-( For what its worth I didn't cut slates individually either but applied thim in strips. Hopefully the picture shows how they turn out (if you look beyond the raindrops...) Regards Richard

Having finished painting te road overbridge it was glued in place. Wallfiller was then applied to provide a a hard surface for the polystyrene landscape form. Here is a picture showing this, with the fiddle yard in its stowed position. I will need to bear this arrangement in mind when it comes to positioning trees etc. ;-)

Wooden strip was used to create a locating guide for the buildings. Inside this guide a hole was cut to feed the lighting wires through.