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I will be using Kadees for coupling. Decoupling will be done using Kadee permanent magnets. These are mounted on card flanges and then assembled through cut out holes from the underside of the base board. This brings them flush with the top of the cork matting:

Having verified the layout plan, the real track was cut to size and assembled to the board using drawing pins, so that the position of point motor slots, decoupler recesses and wire dropper locations cound be marked out. At this time the cork underlay was also cut to size:

I printed the plan out at full size on several sheets of A 4 to check guaging train lengths etc:

I thought I would start a thread to document the consruction of my new layout which will be a Scottish themed BLT in EM Gauge. Last summer I had been reading Ian Futers excellent books "Modelling Scotland's Railways" and "Scottish Layout Projects", which contained a plan called "Lochend" which was designed around a baseboard of 7ft by 1ft 6. During this time I was dismantling a previous layout, which was taking up too much space, that was built on a board 2m by 1.2m, in old money 6ft 6 by 4ft. Having seen the plan for "Lochend", rather than scrap the entire board and its frames I decided to cut it in in half longitudinally leaving me with 6ft6 by 2ft and disposing of the rest. The plan for "Lochend" is relatively straight forward using standard left and right hand turnouts, so I thought it would be a good place to make a start in EM Gauge, using the EM Gauge Societies ready-to-lay track. EM Gauge B6 Points are rather long and to fit the board I adapted the plan somewhat, the scheme of which is below. It is a tight squeeze, but as it can handle a BR Type 2 Loco hauled 2 carriage train (which isn't unprototypical), as well as short goods trains, I think it will work. In anycase keeping the stock requirements to a minimum means less to convert to EM Gauge!

According to the first video, he got it from a shop in Hong Kong.

Thank you both Robert and dibber25 for your help, I will give Corax White a go. I have already tried Revell 84 Leatherbrown on the doors, which seems dark enough for the brown. I am guessing that the key to a neat result depends on getting the masking tape to snit snugly on both the ridges and furrows of the battens.... Let's see. Regards Richard

Hi, inspired by your article covering the build of this kit, I thought I would try it for myself for a Scottish branch themed layout that I am currently building. I have got the stage where I wish to paint the battens (see picture) but can't quite make out what the lighter colour should be. Is it white or a sort of light cream? Could you tell me please what paint you used? Many Thanks, Regards, Richard

Perhaps these two books describing two routes that lie south east of Munich could be of interest? Eisenbahnen im Oberland: Die Tegernsee Bahn - Stefan Wittich ISBN: 3963032901 Eisenbahnen im Oberland: Von Holzkirchen nach Bayrischzell - Stefan Wittich ISBN: 3963032723 - illustrated histories of the routes from Schaftlach to Tegernsee and Holzkirchen to Bayrischzell. Regards Richard

I wonder how big a retool would be required to do the Park Royal bodied versions (the Rapido model is Metro Cammell bodied - as were the Bristol VRs), the main external differences being cantrail arrangement and different shape emergency exit on the top deck, different guttering on the emergency exit on the lower deck.

Don't forget that the separate NDM is meant to go with the 370003 /370004 5 car set which is carrying the older livery (pre black windscreen band) which had a white cantrail instead of an orange one : https://www.flickr.com/photos/14581588@N05/8637379192/in/album-72157638159566295/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/14581588@N05/8636272875/in/album-72157638159566295/

Apparently there is paint available (this might have been posted before, apologies if that is the case):

The first of mine arrived today including KON315P / 6315. I found the Indicators supplied as a seperate sprue hiding in the instructions, see attached. I also found a bag containing the later type of indicators supplied with WDA981T / 6981 which could be glued over the painted representations to create a degree of relief.

Looking at the service sheet for the DTS, the drawing of the lightbar shows the capacitor mounted to the light-bar circuit-board directly. If it's a standard part that might explain why it "couldn't" be positioned elsewhere. Moving it might also require the use of a soldering iron... It probably can't be seen in the DTS if it sits in the auxiliary machinery space, and if it sits in the guards compartment of the TBF it might not be seen there either. Wasn't the model on Waterman's layout a five car? In which case no TF, TS or TRFB.

Wasn't the real 6315 built before the design changed? i.e. Indicator above the drivers window / passenger doorway?

Allow me.... The vehicle it is sharing the siding with is some sort of hotel / restuarant car I am told.

You're not imagining it.... https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/uploads/monthly_11_2013/post-7286-0-78508000-1385570285.jpg

Very sound advice, BR Blue, looking again at the two orders I was referring to, the VAT had not been deducted from the locomotive, for whatever reason, so I will check for this in future... ... but it had been deducted from the wagons, as per McCs explanation. Thank you both.

That might be the case for a registered importer of goods, but that is definitely not the case for a private individual (in Germany at least) buying via the internet from a non EU-Country. Goods ordered this way are still subject to an import tax of 19% of the total value of the order (that is goods plus delivery cost) regardless of what they are. Being toys just means that they won't be subject to any further taxes on top. As such I have found myself paying an additional €57 for a sound fitted locomotive with an order value of £256, and €19 for a pack of three wagons which had an order value of £64. These additional costs are not trivial, so the fact that Accurascale will be despatching orders to their EU customers from within the EU is for me very welcome news.

I pre-ordered a Class 87 City of Birmingham on the day it was announced. Last week I recieved the cancellation e-Mail from the retailer explaining shortfall in allocation etc. Will I now pre-order from Hornby? No. If they don't want to sell one via one of their retailers enough, then I am not sure that I want to buy one enough.

@Rapidoandy, Looking forward to ordering one or several more Fleetlines, they look great. Regarding the revised head light versions, will they also feature the side indicators that were mounted just above the front wheel arches? Regards, Richard

... unless you are into P4 or EM and want to convert the model to fit those gauges, then they have to come off.

I have based my assumption on the annotated Powercar Layout Drawing that can be found in the British Rail Pamphlets "Advanced Passenger Train" together with the colourised cutaway in British Rail's "Tomorrows Train Today". It looks like the voids also served as inlets for the Traction motor blowers. See Below Copies can be found at APT-P.com: https://www.apt-p.com/DocAPTa.htm https://www.apt-p.com/DocAPTb.htm https://www.apt-p.com/DocTTT.pdf

I thought the voids' main purpose was to act as inlets for the hydrokinetic braking system's cooling fans, which is is why there were two, one over each bogey, with one of them also providing a covenient location for the pant and it's anti tilt apparatus.

Hi John Ks If you look at the cab roof in the photo you can see that the front end of it is reasonably clean where as further back it is quite dirty with a fairly pronounced looking tide mark (see black arrow in the left hand Image) If this tide mark is projected down the side of the cab it joins up with the border between the grey and the white that you identified (see dotted line in the right hand Image). Pure speculation this, but perhaps it is just that they only bothered regulary washing the very front of the Train (i.e. wIndscreen, quarter glasses, headlights etc), with the result that, in this view at least, the nose is a different colour? Regards

I think the 125Group are looking to do that: https://www.125group.org.uk/