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It's up to you, really.

Nice tank engine! Does it run well?

Nice tank engine! Perhaps GWR green or Private Owner liveries wold be best for it?

I've had experience in spray painting - long story.

Well, maybe not, but I prefer brush-on methods rather than spray methods as you will need ventilation and it can be rather messy.

The varnish I used on my models is the brush-on type. That was when I was getting back into the spirit of model railways in my teenage years.

Quite lately, I have watched a number of videos based on mate crime and disability hate crime documentaries having since been a victim of one on more than one occassion (a long story I wish not to discuss) and it shows how society has failed numerous times to help those who cannot always look after themselves. It's too bad that some people take advantage of others with their kindness as their are two kinds of kindness - true and false. True kindness is appreciating people for who they are and being honest, respectful and loyal even without expectation of something of financial worth in return whereas false kindness is taking advantage of others just to see how far they can do so without landing into trouble which they do eventually. Gifts do not make the honest friend but the deceitful exploitation makes the lying traitor. If you haven't read or listened to The Devoted Friend by Oscar Wilde, you should know of the applicable moral which is not stated at the end but is instead implied so by reading the story and listening to it, only then can you truly understand what Wilde was trying to teach us like Aesop with his fables or Jesus with his parables. So what if a story with a moral is a bad and dangerous thing to tell a stubborn person? If they do not heed the lesson from that story, then I'm sorry to say it's their loss more than the person trying to each it through stories because they're the ones who ultimately learn them or end up learning them the hard way. However, in all fairness, if they can get the message across, then that's good.

I have and it's interesting.

Well, perhaps the LNWR was not afraid to experiment back in its early days. Considering that the new LNWR Bloomer model is gonna be another fully-working new-build that I would happily support, here are some pics from last November at my regular annual attendance at Warley. I apologise for the motion blur as one of the ladies representing the project was trying to take the perfect picture. And yes, that's my in the red rainjacket, black hat, black jeans and red Dr Martens. I did get some good pictures of the replica myself which I will be sharing in the future. One day, I hope to make a model of it using the Budget Model Railways 4-wheel coaches to make up one whole vintage high-speed train. (Eat your heart out, Pendolino!)

What about West Midlands Railway based on the train service running in my hometown Kenilworth right now? It was either that or the Great North Western Railway.

That is just what my collection of Pre-Grouping steam locomotives need!

Seeing as Pre-Grouping is mentioned, I'm making on in N Scale called Crowmoor set in the South East of England in the Edwardian era. The only loco and rolling stock on the layout in this scale used is the SE&CR C Class 0-6-0 No. 271, two maroon 4-wheel coaches painted in SECR maroon, three plank wagons in SECR grey a brake van in SECR grey.

Impressive tank loco! It looks like a Pre-Grouping design with a hint of freelance in children's books.

So far, so good. It's like Hornby would've re-introduced this model in the late 1990s and 2000s.

Your welcome. I'm planning on a freelance Mogul seeing as your Atlantic is freelance. The 1F does have a late-1980s feel to it, so using Hornby's Margate/China Jinty is an option.

Your Midland/Freelance 1F looks nice. I take it it was an original Hornby Railways model you used, right? It's like something Hornby Railways would've have produced in the 1980s and 1990s as part of their Top Link Range by simply reusing their ever-popular Margate/China Jinty 3F model tooling albeit with slight adaptions.

I like your Atlantic model. I bet it runs well after conversion. Also, I like your RWS Percy model which is much better than Hornby's now-retired model.

I guess you can say it's the Sound of Mazak. The Hornby Class 31 was based on the Lima 31 as we all know it. Heljan do actually produce a more detailed and (hopefully) reliable model in good ol' 00 gauge so maybe worth saving up for perhaps. Even I do the same when it comes to saving up for models old or recent unless there were clearout sales.

Blimey! It looks like something from a Ronald Searle drawing or an illustration from a children's book!

Gosh! What a model this is! If it was decked out in a silver livery with gold streaks, it would be amazing to have on your layout! It would be reminiscent of the American streamliner toy train sets of the 1930s but still in a British flavour.

They look like something of LSWR origin!

Would it be possible to convert it into a Midland Spinner 4-2-2?

It looks fantastic! It reminds me of the NER J27 0-6-0 which happens to have a sole-surviving member.

What a fantastic model! It reminds me of the Kenney illustrations of how Thomas looked until the Post-Breakfast crash.

Just like the old coaches from the Pioneering and Pre-Grouping era.