Mike Harvey

I played with that sort of sound set on a little N scale moving diorama about 10 years ago. It was better in the cardboard than on video. https://youtu.be/lfQw1PguzvU

What do the instructions say?

But would you have made your first run in public view? Or would you have done so privately? Just imagine the impact of that annoying piece of swarf in the drive system. I think that KR were sensible not to demonstrate the model until they had the chance to run it themselves privately.

I am pleased to say that this cab and the wheels are now in the standard RTI range, amongst other new items released for November. I have the bits now to make an East Kent service truck. http://www.roadtransportimages.com/online-shop/item/579-fordson-model-61-25-35cwt-1936-cab

Delighted to see that Graeme had several new items available on his stand at the Warley MRC show at the NEC this weekend. I just had to get the bits for FOR14 the Fordson Model 61 which Frank Waller had never released although I managed to buy one Frank had put together as a GPO van. The November new items appear on the front page of the RTI website:- http://www.roadtransportimages.com/

This designer has some British outline cars in 1/160, and might be persuaded to scale them up to 1/148. https://www.shapeways.com/shops/3dcerebro?section=1%3A160+N&s=0 Some of the French and Italian ones were seen regularly when I worked in the docks at Dover.

In the recent UK newsletter Rapido said they had found 20 unopened sets so potential there for replacement working chassis.

Sunrise have an extensive range. http://www.modelbuszone.co.uk/tmb/kits/sunrisetransfers.htm

Might be easier to contact RevolutioN direct with that question, because it is not something anyone else can answer., and they did already ask you to contact them directly following your previous questions on here.

How big/what scale is the school building? You could make the hinge integral with the printed walls so no need to drill anything.

The final two orders for SNCF’s Corail open saloon coaches (Vtu) were fitted from new with sliding plug doors. These were 110 in the Vtu82 order made up of first class and second class versions plus some specials for the ill-fated “Fédora” special train project. The Vtu84 build was made up of 100 first/second class composites. The original Lima Vtu coaches included a plug door option, but the more recent Piko models are uniquely fitted with the inset folding doors. At the request of a French enthusiast I have just made available 3 sprues each of 40 doors (10 vehicles worth) for either just Vtu82, just Vtu84 or a 20/20 mixture of each. The doors are handed so different at each end of the vehicle when looked at from the side. The Vtu84 has the door opening button about 25cm lower than the Vtu82. The new doors can be fitted without dismantling the Piko coach. The conversion instructions in English are here:- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UbaXmYjEQHKYwv8kAu1-4sIBI6R5Bw1-/view?usp=sharing It is a really simple conversion. This is a screen grab from the drawing file for the Vtu84. This photo shows the 3D printed doors fitted to a coach in TER Rhône-Alpes livery. I was surprised to find that I have only ever photographed one of these coaches which is seen here in a poor quality image taken at Lyon Part-Dieu on 12 August 2004. The doors are on Shapeways now:- https://www.shapeways.com/shops/moving-buses?section=Portes+Corail+1%2F160&s=0

The final two orders for SNCF’s Corail open saloon coaches (Vtu) were fitted from new with sliding plug doors. These were 110 in the Vtu82 order made up of first class and second class versions plus some specials for the ill-fated “Fédora” special train project. The Vtu84 build was made up of 100 first/second class composites. The original Lima Vtu coaches included a plug door option, but the more recent Piko models are uniquely fitted with the inset folding doors. At the request of a French enthusiast I have just made available 3 sprues each of 40 doors (10 vehicles worth) for either just Vtu82, just Vtu84 or a 20/20 mixture of each. The doors are handed so different at each end of the vehicle when looked at from the side. The Vtu84 has the door opening button about 25cm lower than the Vtu82. The new doors can be fitted without dismantling the Piko coach. The conversion instructions in English are here:- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UbaXmYjEQHKYwv8kAu1-4sIBI6R5Bw1-/view?usp=sharing It is a really simple conversion. This is a screen grab from the drawing file for the Vtu84. This photo shows the 3D printed doors fitted to a coach in TER Rhône-Alpes livery. I was surprised to find that I have only ever photographed one of these coaches which is seen here in a poor quality image taken at Lyon Part-Dieu on 12 August 2004. The doors are on Shapeways now:- https://www.shapeways.com/shops/moving-buses?section=Portes+Corail+1%2F160&s=0

I think that should be 37.5 inches = 953mm. This was the widely used standard when these were built.

By association with the poster's screen name, I would say that the front loader is the work of JPModels, proprietor Jeff Pike. So it likely to be a radio-controlled model built by him, and may or may not be available as a kit. https://www.facebook.com/JPModels2018/

The DC-Car system has been available for about 10 years to provide road vehicle control using infra red signalling systems. The system is designed around automation and anti-collision because controlling more than a couple of road vehicles is beyond most of us. http://wiki-en.dc-car.de/index.php?title=Introduction_of_the_DC-Car_System

I think it will be a slow-speed fitted Class 47 to pull a long rake of their HAA wagons.

Trade announcement being made tomorrow. The 5 page pdf is available to members of the Facebook Group.

Daryle Thanks very much for that reassuring news. Good luck with the 00 range which is a nice fit with your existing range, with happily few duplications.

Good news for N gaugers. Daryle Tonye has confirmed that Rod Parker is continuing with the N range. Phew!

Daryle, by any chance do you know what the future is for the N scale range?

For the EFE range the first 3 digits represent the shape/type and the last two are an ascending sequential series broadly in order of release. So the higher the last two digits, the more recent is the model. These are the numbers for the original and improved versions, excluding the 4 prototypes RM1/2/5 and CRL4 and the single decker. EFE 315xx RM (old version 156xx) old 178xx/179xx RM open top 317xx. RMC (old version 256xx) 318xx RMA 319xx RML (old version 255xx) 321xx RMF 331xx RMC open top (platform doors) 385xx RMC open top 362xx RMA with trailer 389xx RCL Bachmann 423xx RML

There is a message on another board on RMWeb to say that most of the R Parker 00 range has been taken over by John Day Models (Daryle Tonye) and will be absorbed into the John Day range gradually.

There are some anglers O rings which come out at 3.7mm diameter, with a 1mm cross-section. Probably suits the Cortina better.

Getting inside bearing wheelsets to roll requires a combination of design, material choice, testing and manufacture to the required tolerances. Every HotWheels model car has inside bearing axles albeit usually with wheels free to revolve on the axle. I can think of at least two continental N gauge manufacturers who have failed spectacularly with getting pinpoint axles to revolve freely - LSModels on their French stainless steel stock and Belgian Railtour/couchette stock, and Piko with their first generation SNCF Corail open stock. Piko made replacement bogies available, and LSModels just ignored the issue.

These might help the appearance, but probably still too big. https://www.en.dm-toys.de/produktdetails/items/dm17600.html