Mike Harvey

Officially the £135 always applied to the total value including shipping, although local interpretation could vary.

Westwood has split personality. The postal address for Wonder Works is Westwood, Margate. Just along the road towards Westwood Cross, the street address becomes Westwood, Broadstairs. So Wonder Works IS in Margate as far as Royal Mail and mapping systems describe it, and anyone from outside the locality would likely rely on those for the location.

I am sure if there is someone who enthusiastically supports this and believes that it is a good business proposition, they would be happy to commission someone to make what they want. It would be a surefire business success for that person. 😀 And almost certainly easier than trying to convince someone else to spend their money on it. They might only need to convince a bank to lend them the start-up capital...........and away they go.

Ronnie Corbett (or an enterprising Japanese supplier) may be stocking the correct size of rub-down letter “O” in a weathered wheel shade. Pack of 16 should do it.

The Hobby Shop Tilmanstone wagons are being dustributed now. Based on the Rapido 1907 RCH 7 plank.

Whilst I agree with the basic thrust of your argument, I can understand why so many of Simon’s files have not been printed. In many cases the same basic file is used across several scales adapting wall thickness and level of detail to be appropriate. That does not mean that they are unprintable, just that they have not all been printed. My SNCF Corail compartment stock files were made freely available to anyone who wanted to print them. But they were only in 1:160 scale and many had not been printed by me. Each file is an amalgam of standard pieces - basic bodyshell, standard windows, standard doors, standard air con grilles, etc. and all are perfectly printable. A friend in France has printed hundreds of them for those without home resin printers. And the files are free to use though not free to redistribute. I have been asked to rescale them larger and smaller, but unsurprisingly no-one so far has been prepared to pay me to do that. Simon has already completed all that rescaling work upfront and has found , like me, that there are not customers wanting to pay for the rescaled file.

Thanks for the exploded views. Very interesting. I have a few buildings and facades intended for printing in N that could benefit from a "kit" approach in the roof areas.

In Lower Marsh, by Waterloo station, there is a hotel built from a 5x5 stack of 40ft containers.

Were they the ones with the very large rooftop ventilators as originally built? I do not think that Revolution are tooling this variant in N.

I am not sure that the Airfix Appreciation Society cares about the Quickbuild range. The release of the Borismaster bus showed a late change of specification, or production missed out running the mould for the seats. The instructions make no mention of the seats but the bus interior has the characteristic Quickbuild “Lego Style” mounting points in the seat bases, just no seat cushions or backs to fit. There was also a curious 20% drop in the RRP on release! Late change of plan, problem with the seat mould, or manufacturing error…..who knows.

Generally yes. The Class 77 variant has roof mounted air-con units which would be out of gauge in Britain.

The NEM geometry calculations for close couplers should not produce a conflict between vehicles even on smaller radii. The rigidity of the couplers is a variable though.

The windscreen popped out on my first Class 800 when I fitted lighting. Since then I use a piece of Tamiya masking tape to hold the nose cone, lights and windscreen in place as all are easily displaced. With the new run now there should be more spares coming but not sure that I ever saw the windscreen listed. Could be worth alerting Gaugemaster and TrainTrax to feed back to Kato so they supply some with GWR 9 car when that is produced.

Be interesting to learn whether the extra inside bearing coaches have an impact on performance. Hornby seem to be having an issue with that on their nine car sets in 00 gauge.

The 9-car LNER Class 800 now has a release date for Japan - 18 June 2024.