JackB95

Yep, the Dapol sound fitted ones are Lego sounds. Confirmed in this web page.

Thanks both for replying. Never noticed Precision did a version, so it's interesting to know such things exist. It's just a shame that it's for the older tooling. Still, shall be interesting to see how this develops.

Evening all, Does anyone happen to know if someone produces transfers/sticker overlays for Hornby HST light clusters to correct them? I've recently acquired an East Midlands powercar pair but they have the wrong light clusters and ideally need some overlays to turn them into the 3 circles as per prototype. Does anyone do such a thing already? Cheers, Jack

Merry Christmas everyone! Now the parents have returned to the mothership, I decided to get a small project over and done with in between flicking through the forum. I managed to source another Hornby London Midland 153 off a mate, and decided to strip it of its branding and turn it into one of the dogboxes that made their way to the West Country. The usual T-cut and cotton bud trick left me with a blank canvas... and it wasn't long before the new branding appeared. The running numbers still need to be altered, but at least it's in a runnable condition now. Have a good New Year everyone!

Recently ordered two Hornby Midland Mainline Mk3s for my BSO/TSO coaches. The latter was stripped down no issue with all glazing popping out without much force. The same can't be said for the horrendous TGS tooling which is built in a different manner. Another post on here from several years ago suggested making a split down one end of a gangway (once the clip-moulding was taken off the end) to ease getting the roof and glazing off. Managed that without a problem. It was removing the old glazing where the issues arose. I scored heavily (several light scores) between the roof and glazing to then bend and split it off. All went well, until one end! Despite the scoring, the roof decided to come with it, and so a long slice of roof has split into 3 small sections. It's not too bad as it'll be a case of carefully glueing these back on and then putting some filler in and carefully sanding it down with fine grade paper. It's just a shame that Hornby decided not to retool the TGS (and the SLEP for that matter) and stuck with the original Lima shambles. Still, the two models are physically stripped ready for getting a bath in Phoenix paint stripper.

Evening all, Thought I'd set up my workbench thread as I'm going to be doing some modelling over Christmas period hopefully. I've recently built up a GWR Night Riviera rake using Hornby's offerings and been looking into how the rakes are actually formed. As always, it's not going to be as easy as I expected thanks to coach 'A' being a BSO. Luckily however, the prototype these days won't be hard to do. The current plan is to get a Hornby TGS (currently £12 for a Midland Mainline one on that famous Widnes model railway shop), open it up, sand down and fill in the small window at the TGS end. I'm not going to push the boat out all the way and respace a window as the real things do have an annoying wider window pillar at one end. In a recent purchase, it came with a FGW TGS vehicle, but unfortunately I didn't realise I'd need it for coach 'A' so decided to sell it on. It does however mean I don't 'ruin' a valuable coach and instead do something a bit different and spray one up. I have currently got myself five FGW blue sleepers, two of which will get renumbered and relabeled so there's not two coach H and G carriages. I also snapped up a professionally resprayed Hornby RFM with the 4 large windows as per prototype on the sleepers. However, I noticed that they predominantly use converted FO carriages which have full height windows on the corridor side, whereas the model I have is of the more traditional HST-style shallow windows. Luckily, there were a few loco-hauled Mk3 RFMs with the shallow windows that operated on the sleeper (carriage 10232) which gets around that problem. The other coach that I've not mentioned yet is coach 'B' - the TSO. I had hoped to purchase a GWR green standard for this job, but I was reliably informed that the GWR livery is 'flipped' on the sleepers with the green matte banner on the left. I've got both FGW blue and GWR green spraypaints knocking about from previous projects, I'll see how I'm feeling with regards to how the BFO and TSO go. Cheers for now! Jack

That aerial photo really does the trick. Spent many hours at that station back in my platform spotting days, and really like what I'm seeing here. Will you be fitting the layout with DCC sound to capture the noise of the factory in the background?

Really been enjoying this thread. Especially liking the platforms. A true inspiration. Keep it up!

There's a familiar name! Hello Jeff

Always nice to see a video of yours Richard. Been following your videos for a while now. Glad you've managed to get hold of someone and put an order in. Very much looking forward to the next major update.

G'afternoon all, I'm Jack and have decided to return to RMweb after a spell of being absent for a number of years. I currently live in York and have done since March this year, although I'm originally from North Wales. I've been in the hobby since late 2007 where I received one of Hornby's first DCC starter sets. Since then, I have built and dismantled various layouts of various sizes, including 'Edinburgh Junction' (which was featured on the old RMweb forums), 'Basford Parkway' and a couple of small exhibition layouts. Unfortunately these have all been dismantled or sold on as I moved into a small 1 bed flat when I relocated from Manchester. However, I am now a homeowner and luckily have a decent loft space which will get boarded out and turned into the train room at some point. I model modern image 00 gauge and am currently just buying stock here and there ready for when I actually lay some track. I'm also the brains behind ModelSigns4U of which I am aware a number of RMwebbers have used before. I'm currently a glorified tail light/flag waver/conductor/guard or whatever you call me based out of York station and have been on the railways since January 2015. It's certainly provided me with lots of inspiration for my next build... Looking forward to relearning myself around these forums and meeting old and new friends along the way. Feel free to drop me a message or say hello on here Cheerio for now!