Jon Harbour

Got to try my six coaches out on the Hills Model Railway Society's NSW outline layout "Tulong" tonight. Video of a "night run" at HMRS!

Mine also arrived on Wednesday, but I wasn't in the office to collect them then, so I have picked them up today. Had them out of the box, but will be taking them to my local club tonight to try out. Very excited.

Looking forward to receiving my GWR livery four pack plus two other brake coaches.... According to DHL they are currently at Heathrow Airport - hopefully boarding a plane soon!

Glad to hear that - I work for DHL (albeit on the Supply Chain side, not freight forwarding!).

Just checked my trunk and the4 coach set and a 4BT and 6FB in GWR livery are there! Woo-hoo! Now I need to ship some things! I've been waiting to make it worthwhile shipping costs wise.

I just stumbled across your YouTube channel this evening and put a search into RM Web for Essex Brick in the hope hat there was a thread and WOW! What a goldmine! Really impressed with how you've made it all look so easy. Did you find the learning curve with the various software very steep? I'm sure to have many, many more questions for you.

Totally agree. There are some really good white metal kits. However, I'm unsure of options for buses. Any suggestions for bus kits of that era?

I'd like to see a few more vehicles from earlier periods such as the 1930s.

Oh my goodness! How tiny is that? Incredible!

Can't wait to see what you come up with Kevin. No doubt it will be very special!

Totally agree. Particularly now that a lot of the real quality OO items are only available if you pre-order. Saves heaps on postage!

How about a decent pre WW2 GWR Autocoach or a GWR B-Set?

You might be waiting a while... I don't see Lion listed on the Hornby web site any more...

Here's a link to the Google translate version of the page https://www-amf87-fr.translate.goog/prestashop/attelages/917-a265-interface-d-attelages-nem363-kadee-4000000012078.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp Postage for a set to Australia will set me back more than the components!

Collected my two SR Brown 7 plank wagons from work today. Superb.

Should get to try my two GWR ones out on Friday at my local club layout. Woo-hoo!

The dude in the trilby looks like Arfur Daley!

Looking forward to these! Excellent choice!

Got a couple of these pre-ordered already... My Hatton's trunk looks like it will overflow if everything arrives at once... I'll probably need a TARDIS to store it all!

My two GWR models arrived last week at my office. Sadly darling daughter tested +ve for COVID Thursday last week which meant I couldn't give them a run at my local club on the Friday. Good news is Little MIss is now -ve, but the bad news is that Madame is now +ve... she's fine and taking it easy though - almost no symptoms. So far, all that has happened to me is that as a close contact, I can't go out right now...

Beautiful work. They look magnificent.

I'm waiting for the "nothing in it for me" post here on the as-yet unannounced secret projects!

Even more interesting! Am curious to learn more!

Very impressive sliding door. Makes it look easy. Done using an Arduino?

A former colleague of mine once had three girlfriends on the go simultaneously and in fact two of them did have the same name! He didn't quite manage the trifecta. Not surprisingly, the one with a different first name was the first to twig what was going on.... In a similar story, when I worked for the nationalised offshore oil company in Abu Dhabi, there was a legendary British expat working on a platform in the Persian Gulf who convinced his wife in Britain that he worked three months on and one month off whereas in fact he worked one on one off. He found himself a second wife in Thailand and convinced her of the same. For ten years, he got away with this classic bedroom farce. Everybody in the company knew the story. His back to back, if quizzed about his colleague's whereabouts by one of the two spouses, would always respond with, "oh he's on the rig somewhere, I'll find him and get him to call you". He'd follow that with a quick call to wherever his colleague was currently holidaying saying that he needed to call the 'other site'. Then one day, his back to back retired and there was inadequate time for a proper handover with the replacement. Off he goes to Thailand in the middle of the UK winter. Pipes freeze in his UK home then thaw - result water everywhere. UK wife rings up the rig and the new back to back, the only person in a company of 5,000 people who didn't know the background innocently replies "oh, he's in Thailand with his wife"! The two wives did not have the same first name... nor the same husband after that!