Mike Harvey

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-Mondeo-Mk2-1-76-OO-scale-Resin-Kit-Sierra-Cortina-lot-1/114424996016?hash=item1aa442e0b0:g:K1kAAOSwa4NfW555

Although they are limited to UK use now with their MODA registration, they are equipped for ferry operation, and similar wagons run around on the continent although for security reasons they are not seen much on the web. Here is a French wagon in the Netherlands I think.

Mine arrived today. Beautiful wagons in plastic sleeves with inner trays protected by a foam frame and fitted into a sturdy outer box with a magnetic closure. Run perfectly well round the one 9 inch curve I have on one of my fiddle yard tracks. I recommend using a re-railer to place the 4 bogies/8 axles on the track. The finesse of all the added handrails, hand wheels and brackets means the wagons have a jewellery quality about them.

I think he stopped advertising in Railway Modeller in the middle of 2019. I understand he is still operating. I’ll request an up to date price list. That should confirm, or not.

My 4 sets arrived yesterday. My layout does not lend itself to showing off wagons with much of the track viewd through gaps between buildings etc. So some static photos. The running quality is absolutely superb. The bar couplings within the sets look like couplings and air hoses. Spare bar couplers and standard Rapido couplers included with each wagon.

This is a selection of all round pictures of the as received trailer to show the quality of printing. My main observation is that the trailer wheels seem a little bit undersized, and there is no side under-run protection. Hooked up to a Tomytec Isuzu tractor unit.

Update on manufacture and delivery:- https://www.revolutiontrains.com/flasks-on-manoeuvres/

Jo I bought some scrap trailers which came as a set in three colours as in the Ebay listing. They are nominally 40 ft long, and the model measures 81.5mm using a ruler rather than a more accurate measurement. That makes them 1/148. The quality of the self coloured prints is very good, with the wheels, king pin and trailer legs printed in black. The king pin may have to be resized for some tractor units, but the trailers look fine hooked up to Tomytec, Oxford Diecast, and DMToys tractor units. I'll do a few detailed photos later. Mike

Some 3D printed Land Rover 110s with a variety of bodystyles have joined the trucks and trailers in this eBay shop. Easier to recolour than the Oxford Diecast models which are printed liveries on clear bodyshells. Seller:- shaunybaby11 https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/shaunybaby11/m.html?item=293719213384&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

Just announced that the Strathclyde and Silverlink liveries have past the order threshold. https://www.revolutiontrains.com/its-glas-go-and-silverin-thepink/

Yes, but sworn to secrecy.

Come back in three months when people have seen the motorised model and I am sure someone will give you opinions on what the chassis will fit.

Eligor make a 1934 Citroen van in 1/43 scale.

Do you have a shade reference for the roof that might help? Comparing the photos of the real thing outside in varying lights with the model indoors under artificial lighting does not seem to help much.

So there is photo of a review sample of the Class 17 over on the N Gauge Forum, and the DCC chip goes into the easy to remove fuel tank.

This designer has a track record in producing buses and fire engines. https://3dprintingcorner.co.uk/?fbclid=IwAR0dbTXTbkSqG4dKMUT2B2EFW1aacUB3_Og-v4pLc7KZumplrhc98gaQ1oI Photos of some of the commissioned vehicles are on this Facebook page. Select photos and scroll down. https://www.facebook.com/pg/3Dprintingcorner/photos/?ref=page_internal

Just to reinforce what @monkeysarefun has written, I have been using Sketchup 2017 to produce a couple of fire stations from the area of my boyhood home. I have applied brick and wood textures to the printing file and exported the textured elevations to provide the an accurately scaled printed overlay of bricks with accurately placed door and window openings.. It suited me to manipulate these in my ancient Paint Shop Pro to provide some overlaps at corners and in porches etc. to hide the joins. 3D prints should be here tomorrow for the detailing to begin. This is the country fire station from the 1960s. The roof is not part of the 3D print but added to complete the effect. In the print the appliance bay doors are printed separately to allow for open and closed doors. The stations to this design were built in several examples for Kent Fire Brigade. Using local builders meant that there were variations in materials used and in door detailing which can be catered for by varying design details and textures.

Rather akin to "Hell Drivers" there was a fleet of Fordson ET6 short wheelbase tippers used by Wimpey in their corporate dark yellow which ran through my home village almost as an all day convoy in the late 1950s. The load was chalk excavated at Dover and being delivered to the construction site of Richborough power station. At the time there was no speed limit through the village so the convoy moved very quickly. Our cat, Sandy, used to stroll out to the main road to meet my Dad coming home on the bus from a morning shift. Although he knew his Highway Code, one day the convoy clipped him and my dad carried the cat's body home. A few years later main drainage was installed which in my road required some extremely deep trenches. The starting machine was an ex-war Department John Allen Trencher, but it could not reach the required depth. I then had my first encounter with with a JCB shovel and backhoe - a JCB 3 I think resplendent in yellow. It was driven by a very tall man who had the distinction of being the tallest fireman in the Kent Fire Brigade at the time, and he turned out regularly as a retained fireman in the village brigade.

One industrial site I worked at had a small shunter which was yellow once, but not for long. Mind you it was so unreliable that almost daily fitters' attention with attendant greasy mitts provided an ideal environment for a quick aging job.

Jo Thanks for that info. Should have read the small print on the solebar. Do the HRAs still have swing motion bogies?

The different bogies are a clear distinguishing feature - the cut down EWS wagons having the Thrall swing motion 3 piece bogie and the HOAs having TF25 variants.

Kernow have confirmed today that the Class 17s are in the UK, and they expect theirs in store within 14 days.

On the other hand they may all have been made at the same time, shipped at the same time, and entered the warehouse at the same time, but are being delivered to the retail trade in two batches so the sales of the first batch can fund bigger orders for the second batch. At least they are manufactured, and coming soon.

Were the John Summers artics from the two austerity bodied trailers built by Roe on Dyson chassis and supplied to Liverpool Corporation in May1942? They used Bedford OXC tractor units. I did see a video of the Shotton ones once.

Agreed, as I did the same for N. You might confuse or excite the N gauge followers by not having 00 gauge in the title, though.