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I looked at the Proxxon but for the reasons given above decided against it and bought a Clarke CMD10 Micro Milling / Drilling Machine instead. More expensive but didn’t need any modifications and was suitable straight out of the box, particularly the RPM. 

Hi

Could you put me down for an LNER C14 as well please. 

Is the China Clay wagon available? 
If not please announce when it is. I have subscribed to this thread so hopefully I won’t miss it. 
Thank you. 

As a full time estate agent I can assure you your model railway will not be seen as a benefit but more of a hindrance. It is taking up valuable utility space and, if left, would require time and effort to remove with a possible cost if making good is required.

The mantra is clean, tidy and presentable. Add to that declutter. Anything that makes your property look spacious helps the sale. A garage dominated by large baseboards will make the garage seem or feel smaller. And if you add to that the possible additional clutter of storage boxes and the paraphernalia of railway modelling you are in double whammy territory.

If you have adapted the garage by adding insulation, semi permanently sealing up the door etc there is a minor advantage to mentioning it as a hobby room/gym etc but all the while stressing how easy it would be to revert to being a garage.

PS Good luck in your sale! 

No doubt the York Racecourse will be keeping a close eye on the St. Leger to see how that goes. It was going to be re-open to spectators but has just been declared a “Critical Incident” by Doncaster MBC, although that looks to be an administrative move so local Emergency and Logistical services co-ordinate. But if all goes well maybe York Racecourse will be in a better position to decide whether reopening is viable. 

Agreed.

They are criminals with criminal intent.

When I am sussing they are getting wise to me, towards the end of the conversation, I normally ask one of two questions.

1) Would their parents be proud of them and what they are trying to do?

2) Do they believe in Karma? And do they realise how much bad Karma they are creating for themselves?

Normally followed by the line going dead.....

If you have the time I think you have a civic duty to keep scammers on the line as long as possible because then they aren’t ringing a susceptible person like my 86 year old Mother who doesn’t understand the modern age.
Only after a visit to her bank did we (myself and the bank) get her to agree to never move any money without talking in person to one of us, or her neighbour who I trust implicitly, 1 hour after she had the call (to avoid the scammer keeping the line open).
By the law of averages the scammers must be successful in a number of cases. 

Doubt you will get one at a “sensible price”. I had to pay through the nose to get mine. 

There’s mischief in those eyes.....

1 hour ago, corneliuslundie said:

You may find this book helpful. There is a lot of detail:

https://hmrs.org.uk/publications/books/books-in-print/southern-style-after-nationalisation-1948-1964.html

Jonathan

Do you know if this book covers the Isle of Wight in the detail given in the book’s synopsis?

As a builder of indifferent chassis I took the plunge and bought a Hobby Holidays jig. Since then I’ve built four chassis (rigid & Romford wheels) and they all ran by gravity straight off the jig so to speak. I can not recommend it enough.

PS I’ve no connection with HH apart from being a very happy customer. 

Not a big football fan but I’m getting fed up of the sportsmen, celebrities and “heroes” of my childhood dying. So stop it. Enough is enough.
RIP Jack Charlton.

A man asked a waiter to take a bottle of Merlot to an unusually attractive woman sitting alone at a table in a cosy little restaurant. So, the waiter took the Merlot to the woman and said, 'This is from the gentleman who is seated over there.' And indicated the sender with a nod of his head.

She stared at the wine coolly for a few seconds, not looking at the man, then decided to send a reply to him by a note. The waiter, who was lingering nearby for a response, took the note from her and conveyed it to the gentleman.

The note read: 'For me to accept this bottle, you need to have a Mercedes in your garage, a million dollars in the bank and 7 inches in your pants'.

After reading the note, the man decided to compose one of his own in return. He folded the note, handed it to the waiter and instructed him to deliver it to the lady.

It read: 'Just to let you know things aren't always what they appear to be, I have a Ferrari Maranello, BMW Z8, Mercedes CL600, and a Porsche Turbo in my several garages; I have beautiful homes in Aspen, Miami and Windmill Hill , and a 10,000 acre ranch in Louisiana . There is over twenty million dollars in my bank account and portfolio. But, not even for a woman as beautiful as you, would I cut off three inches. Please send the wine back.

Never in the field of railway modelling has so much been written by so many about so little a layout....

But I have to admit there are many good ideas being propounded on here that have given me pause for though over my little proposed layout. The lack of goods facilities being the main one. Oh well back to the drawing board. 

Please put me down for one. 
Thank you. 

A very interesting thread which has left much to think about.

My new layout is a slight variation on Iain Rice’s Harestone which is his interpretation of Minories.

I attach a track plan prepared on Anyrail but I’m not quite happy with it, specifically the single slip access to the loco/turntable road and coal road. I guess I’m going to have to buckle down and learn Templot to obtain a bespoke formation that looks better. 
The layout is my first EM gauge one. Point work is mainly B7s. Era Pre WWI, Joint GNR & GCR. The fiddle yard is a Tim Horn revolving one I already have.

EDIT: I agree with the comment about the designers “optimistic pencil”. The original design is 6’6” which is wholly impossible to achieve. The 7’6” shown here is the minimum I could do it in in order to achieve roughly the same platform length.

I may have missed it on this thread for which I apologise but if not Mike Trice has a series of videos on his methods. They have given me the confidence to try.

I don’t mind the delay, it saves the wallet! Then just need to hope we get a CDA and a Clay Hood at some point and my micro clay layout can finally emerge from my head....

20 minutes ago, micklner said:

Todays 1,000,000 dollar question, its is very noticeable on RM Web in general , how so many of the loudest howlers and nit pickers , never show anything or very little of their work , some  are very good saying , I did this and that etc etc as well , perhaps they cant afford a camera.

Pot Kettle Black springs to mind ,

p.s I wouldnt have noticed the firebox !!

I take continual inspiration from this thread and many like it on here. But my work is nowhere near the standard on here etc so I prefer not to show it. But neither do I make any “snide” comments either because that would be hypocritical in the extreme. When I have something worth showing, and I remember to take photos, I will

post it on here. Hopefully that won’t be too long as I’m rather proud of a C12 I’m currently building.

No website I can find at the moment. I will keep checking back periodically to see if they get one. Does the shop have a direct telephone number?

Thanks for that. I will check them out. 

Wanted - Kernow Models Adams 02 in Isle of Wight guise.  Excellent price paid for excellent example. Or part exchange if you have a particular want I can fulfill. 

If the wheel sets are still available I’d like them please. 

Maybe the turned recesses are to accept some over thickness boiler bands soldered into them? Anything long and thin in the etchings?