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Earlier in the week I decided to number my nine Peco Rugga hoppers. This was a little tedious as I haven't used transfers in a good few years, and the last time I did, it was on something I'd painted as opposed to got out straight out of a box. I opted to take the lazy route and just number them 1-9, and leave them as that. I've also had a new engine wrrive in the post, a small 2-4-0T with a Dolgoch cab and what looks like a Hudswell/ Hunslet saddle tank

Nice little delivery from the postie this morning, a Fourdees "The Pioneer" saddle tank body kit for the Kato-Peco George England chassis. Undecided on livery yet, but LBSCR IEG is screaming at me for some reason!!!

Whilst at the Statfold Barn show this weekend I managed to get my Bachmann 08 08833 (D4001) kitted out with high and low level pipes, as how the real one was. Looked the part on Beckwick. All thanks to Neil at Kitorama for painting them up for me! Even fitted a Modelu shunter to the front as well! On the Sunday morning the whole team went straight over to the driver for a fiver platform to have a go on Alpha! Only purchases I made were a England chassis from Invicta, and these six coaches from Elaine's Trains! Nathan

Pre night shift ramblings today saw me re-retrofitting Peco couplings to the four Dundas FR Style coaches' bogies following issues with the Hunts derailing them on curves. as a datum, ive used the small green brake van, which is a peco N gauge chassis with GR101's fitted. I've also grafted a pair onto the blue and white coach pictured next to the cutting mat. Next up it was stock box time. Four of these A4 size boxes fit neatly into an Rhino box from Tesco. Lastly, the final Dundas coach has entered the glazing process. Now for a gruelling 12hr night shift! Nathan....

The Vale of Rheidol coach is finally completed after a week of faffing with glazing. The roof is now secured in place, and I must admit, it looks amazing paired up with the BCC exclusive Linda! With this now completed, the final Dundas DM6X coach is nearing completion! This has been built during the week whilst waiting for the DM10A kit to dry glazing and paint wise. All that needs doing on this now is glaze in, and roof on. One final fix up, has been fitting a roof to my Dundas Toast Rack coach. Simply a piece of card cut to shape (over cut width wise) and painted RC417. Till next time... Nathan....

The DM10A kit has now been Teak'd and is waiting for glazing to dry before securing the roof down! Initially I grafted some Hunt couplings to the bogies however on testing against some Peco L&B coaches, they appeared to be just a tad too short in length to work well without derailing the coach, so I have had to resort to fitting BEMO couplings to them instead. Nathan...

The Dundas coach has been completed fully, with glazing plus glue n glaze, and the roof secured. With that, the next coach build has commenced, in the form of a Vale of Rheidol 3rd class coach. As many of you may have noticed, I'm a suckered for teak stock, so this kit is right up my alley with the paint suggestion being teak! The kit has been assembled in the usual fashion of poly cement and superglue (the latter for the whitemetal parts) and primed with Halfords primers. Now to get the topcoats on and teak it! Nathan...

This is a relief on my wallet!!! Got a very short notice week in NYC to pay for before July, so this news is actually welcoming 😅😅😅

Evening all! The Dundas coach now all painted up! I have used the following paints: Phoenix P84 SR coach Green for the body sides; Railmatch 635 SR Venetian Red for the interior; and Humbrol Acrylic 21 Black for the coach ends, vacuum pipes, and step boards. Now to let it dry before glazing and sticking the roof on, which has been painted in Humbrol RC417 Coach Roof Off White. I've also managed to paint up my Robex Flying Bench, which I have finished in Railmatch Royal Train Claret. Now the drying game begins (again)... Nathan...

A few bits from today's, or rather thus afternoon's session. Having found 90% of a DM67 Kit in a tupperware box, which i think has been in it since 2019, I managed to assemble prettymuch the entire kit, minus a few partition sections! I've decided to fit the bogies with Hunt couplings for the sake of matching the other two kits which have been fitted with them. Once fully assembled, I proceeded to prime it (minus bogies) with Halfords Grey Primer. As I was going to be spraying it, I decided to prime up a few other items including two further DM67 Kit roofs, a Dundas Quarrymans Brake Van, Peco GVT coach, and one of my first bits of OO9 stock - a Robex Flying Bench! Once dried, the Dundas coach will go into Olive Green to match the other two I have already done, and my Toast rack coach. The F.B I'm undecided on, the same with the GVT coach. Nathan....

Hiya, they're all DCC Fitted, mixed between hardwired and plug-n-play, and the only loco that worked was the fitted Ixion Hudswell Clarke tank engine which had an address of 10. The Sound Fitted Drewry was addressed 1053, and unresponsive on the app with Elite selected as the control style. Nathan....

Hiya Tony, I took my dongle down to the club room last night, and ended up testing it out on Medway Quay, our O gauge layout that will be at Ally Pally this weekend. I was able to control the non-sound locos, but couldn't control the Sound fitted ones for some reason.. Nathan...

Hiya, We have LZV100's at out club, all V3.0! I can't say I had any issues, apart from not being able to control my class 11 whilst running Lion. More testing will be done this Thursday when we have our test track up! Nathan...

Well, what a day its been! As well as painting up the Baguley Drewry (and then launching it off my diorama plank), I sucessfully managed to graft some Hunt couplings to some previously built Dundas kits, and this evening bought a second hand purchase back to life! The B.D has been finished in Humbrol Midnight Blue, and the bufferbeams finished in Phoenix Precision Bufferbeam Red! All it needs now is a driver, some proper plates, and varnishing! Nathan....

Recently I got the OO9 bug back having been discussing with club members about doing a combined OO9 and OO gauge club layout. Having found my left over Roco track, and two of my SMS diorama boards, I decided to put together a small demonstration plank of sorts. With this, I started looking at loco kits, and found a Baguley Drewry shunter 3D kit on eBay, and along with a Kato 11-109 chassis from Tramfabriek, it arrived in earnest last Thursday. After a dry assembly onto the chassis, and a quick run about on the plank, I decided to fully assemble the kit - lamps and all! I'm undecided on what livery to stick it in, however some other club members have suggested, for the frames at least, red fronts, and black sides. I guess I'll have to have a rummage through my vast collection of paints for that!!! One thing I did decide to do though, is add weight to the bodyshell. For this, I used 15g of weights that I had left over from a purchase from Roads and Rails, to which they fitted snuggly into the bonnet of the bodyshell. With this done, the locomotive was primed using Halfords Grey plastic primer. More to come on Sunday once I've decided what colour to paint the body!!! Nathan....