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I think some of the 51L (Wizard) are ex-D&S too. I understand the LRM ones have also been revamped to make them not only cheaper but better.

I've definitely seen that before - a flood of similar items once one has finished at a high price. When people say look how much Ian Kirk LNER kits go for, there's definitely a market for re-introducing them. Ok, so watch what happens to prices if that ever happens Same with D&S of course. Whilst production is highly restricted at best, they will command high prices. Ramp up production again and the bottom will fall out of that market.

I've been trying to remember where I got this picture to try and figure out the copyright on it. I've not managed to, but hopefully it is OK to post a crop of it here. It purports to be the inagural run of the Silver Jubilee with 2509 on the coaches and one of the other 4 silver A4s to look at and be a spare I guess. Not particularly clear but may be of use?

I have noticed that some of the rolling stock kits that normally command ridiculous money are now only fetching silly money - D&S being a prime one. I shouldn't be adding to the stash but picked up a D&S and a Connoisseur for both less than their starting price and the starting price this time last year would have been bid on I believe. The Connoisseur kit was about £40 less than I've seen them go for.

Methamphetamine like the person suggesting it?

Crimson Lake does sound good - even if it may conjure up images of a bloodbath (or is that just me being weird? :D).

I've always know it as Indian Red but Phoenix have it as Crimson Lake - https://www.phoenix-paints.co.uk/products/precisionrailway/bigfour/lnerbigfour/14p53

Oh I assumed it's because 006 was Janus and that's a mixup of 0-6-0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Trevelyan

The adjacent vehicle doesn't have buffers but going by solebar height the DD certainly appears significantly lower. I am assuming that even with it being DD the buffer height should be standard so it can be moved easily?

I'm fairly sure I got my current job because of football. I was asked if I supported West Ham. I said no. He essentially said "Welcome aboard" - it turned out that about 75% of the staff including the then MD were die hard WH fans (the Director who interviewed me supports Leyton Orient who I'd never even head of then!).

I think my Dremel must be pushing 30 years old now. The speed controller partially failed a few years back, but it still works, a bit, the slowest speed is fast, and it will go up to silly fast. I do miss the slow speed but not enough to do anything about it!

Three observations: 1) What's the loco bodies on the left, interesting colour livery. 2) Please tell the factory they don't have time to play trains 3) Cool

You want to try ordering lateral flow tests if you want a glitchy site It certainly has been a bit wobbly this evening, but it's not like facebook that has a gazillion servers in every incontinent. RMWeb is a bit of a victim of its own success really, and as it's run by a commercial venture getting the pennies for uprgrades etc. is no doubt hard work.

With car parts it is normally whilst the original purchaser owns the car, and as long as there is no sign of modification or misuse. He still owns it now (this will be the 50th year of ownership, however it is going to its new home this Wednesday hence it's very fresh in my mind). I think modern "lifetime" warranties pretty much always have a fair use policy attached making the lifetime bit effectively redundant.

My Dad bought a stainless steel exhaust for his Morris Minor in the mid-80s that came with a lifetime warranty. Circa 1995 it failed the MOT on a broken exhaust. Guess what? They wanted the receipt for proof of purchase. Guess what? My Dad keeps EVERYTHING

When a pacer turned up instead of the diagrammed 150 then suddenly the 150 seemed decent!

That's OK, nor do I

Not sure I will be using my models correctly if the above is anything to go by

This little beastie, that was fun...! Oh, wait, trains? Not so much take apart and repair as rewire the whole thing as nothing worked except the starter motors. Oh you meant model trains? Probably one of these beasties - Piko model of a Czech loco I think. I still have it somewhere, but not long after I bought it the motor, er, melted. It has a metal and plastic housing the plastic bit just flopped. This was when East Germany was still in existence so I had to write a letter in School German, wait for a reply, translate it, find out how to get Ostmarks to the value they requested and send that with a reply again in School German, then wait. Amazingly the replacement motor arrived, it was a bit fiddly to fit but nothing like getting the thing!

Thank you Eric Definitely in the top 3 comedy sketches of all time (IMO of course).

Funny you should say that, it crossed my mind to try blacktack - glad I'm not the first!

I read it as the originator of such kits as ended up in the Falcon Brass range... Some of those seem a little notorious. A certain V2 as well...

I always find this kind of thing a little uncomfortable. But then I also would never want to own a "flame cut" chunk of something that would just permanently remind me it didn't exist any more. Mind you, at least the ones done for the Warships had a bit of effort put into them.

Swarf is the word I meant not shards. I think I did it too lightly to begin with, it was very fine pieces coming off. It cut very neatly though

Good news! The olfa thingy has arrived and I've done my first cut with it. Bad news! I should have worn gloves, it's going to take a while to get all the shards out my hands