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Admin: don't know where to post this other than in Miscellany. Please reposition if somewhere else is more appropriate. Many thanks I'm not normally a 4mm/00 modeller but I want to do a cameo pre-grouping WW1 era yard in my existing GNSR/H0 fiddle yard. Is there a thread on RMweb or anywhere else that identifies which (if any) r-t-r wagons represent pre-1923 types, esp open wagons?

Which companies/areas will vol 2 of the pre-Grouping Liveries cover?

Both of Aves'books show such guns being moved by rail in France and they don't look in any way dismantled. Can anyone tell in what way(s) the WW1 and WW2 versions will differ? Am I right in thinking the WW1 version will only be available as a package along with the Dean Goods? I want the gun for my ROD layout but not the loco as I'm going with J14, J36 and Caley (when the last two appear)

We will need a model of the fire coming out of the gun. I've seen this for gunpowder Napoleonic artillery on a wargames table so it is possible. What's needed is a colour photo of a large gun firing - doesnt need to be railway gun, a naval gun firing would do. What else? Sound effects? Some nice video here: And here's a good one showing naval WW2 guns - the fire and smoke shown could easily be "constructed" If you can stop the video at 0.19 you can see what the fireball looks like with smoke reaching back to the gun. After that the fireball disappears and its just smoke.

Found "Blows Against the Empire" (Jefferson Starship) in a second hand record shop in Edinburgh this past weekend. Ben playing it ever since.

Nice. Found it on their site. But if I read the piece correctly, it will only be available as a set with the Boche Buster railgun. Will retailers split them? There will be some people who just want the loco and some who just want the gun. After all the loco never ran in the UK in that livery.

Found elsewhere on RmWeb. Shells of various types available from these chaps: http://www.wdmodels.com/page9.htm

William Aves' second book on the ROD (The Lines behind the Front) has two photographs showing artillery shells for the big guns. One on page 44 shows hundreds of shells of various calibres sitting on what looks like a raised wooden unloading bay. The second, a couple of pages later. shows shells being carried on a petrol tractor train and piles of empty shellcases strewn alongside.

Its a pity the Dean Goods will not be available with (as per Aves excellent books) ROD markings. As for the railgun, I think, at the price it is at, it will sell like hotcakes. I've already started converting my fiddle yard into a ROD depot and gun siding. But what aout shells? I want a pile of them stacked beside a siding (again as per Aves photos), ready for delivery to the gun. Does anyone of a military modelling bent, know what could be used, in any scale for rail gun shells?

Only one coupler pocket supplied with my model so I wasn't sure about the front end. But yes, as you say, too far out once fitted. But also far too low. The easiest solution may be to omit the pocket altogather and put the 17 directly into the locator with a touch of glue to hold it. That seems to give the right height and puts the kadee jaw much closer to the front.

This may sound like what we call a "daft laddie" question in this neck of he woods but I'm genuinely puzzled. I've just bought my first r-t-r loco, a Hornby J15 for my projexted ROD layout, (all my existing locos are kit or scratch built) and I want to use kadees. In the pack with the loco I find a NEM pocket which clearly goes on the rear of the tender. What about the front end? There is plastic slot/cut-out which might takes a NEM pocket)(?) or perhaps just a kadee 18?

I contacted Precision yesterday afternoon, redrew the letters/numbers in plain type, ordered an A5 sheet and, lo and behold, they arrived by post this morning in Aberdeen! Keeping 8 lines (4 locos worth) for myself I have another 4 locos worth I can pass on at cost to anyone wanting them for £2.00 a pair (one loco) inc post. Just contact me at kennclark@btinternet.com. It seems to me that there was some inconsistency in letter heights with larger locos like the Baldwins and the tank losos sometimes having larger ones. I've used Arial and the regulation(?) height of 20 inches.

Here is my attempt. It is in Arial in 28 point white on black for a printer which can't print white. Obviously if I could get someone to print white transfers it would be a lot better. I've used the letter l instread of the 1. Looking at all the photos it would appear that the letters were different sizes on different locos but this size seems average. Lettrers and numbers could be cut out separately and placed to suit tender length.

I'm trying to persuade a transfer manufacturer to bring out a sheet of ROD loco letters and numbers. I think Arial is the nearest to the lettering etc they use provided you substitute l for 1. But I'm struggling with the height of the letters. Somewhere I am sure I have read they were 3 feet high which would be 12mm in 4 mm scale but I can't find the reference again. Can anyone help me here? Well I've just found a line in Aves that says the lettering was 20" high.

Just back from Perth this evening - a Show that seems to get better every year. The highpoint for me was finding a second volume on the R.O.D by William Aves entitled "The Lines Behind the Front: The Railways in Support of the British Expeditionary Forces in the Great War. A Photographic Record" (usual disclaimer from me) Dated 2016 but I've never come across it before and £25 from Lightmoor Press this contains literally hundreds of photos of ROD locos, wagons and all manner of equipment from Rail Guns to Steam Driven Piledrivers that he seems to have managed to find since his first book was published. There are chapters on the Rail Construction Companies, the Australians, movement of tanks etc etc. all copiously illustrated. He can tell you everything you need to know about the locos etc but when it comes to the rolling stock (lots of photos here) all he can tell us is whether it was French or WD British. Now the opens may be pretty much the same but surely some knowledgable persons here would be able to tell us the company origin of many of the box vans in the photos? Similarly the wagons seem to have all manner of lettering etc on them but what do they?

Any idea when you will post this?

Been listening to Dweezil Zappa playing some of his father's stuff. A brilliant version of Inca Roads here on Youtube: Tremendous percussion. Wait until at least the guitar solo!

With the arrival later this year (hopefully) of the WW1 Railgun from Oxford I’ve at last been prompted to get my cameo ROD layout organised - in 4mm. Locos are no longer a problem with some lovely examples now available r-t-r such as the GER J15. Getting suitable ROD transfers may still be difficult though. It’s the wagons, especially the British wagons that are the real problem. The Railway Magazine No 429 of March 1933 has an article which lists all the wagons used by the ROD, both from the various pre-grouping railways and those specially built for the ROD and gives their ROD numbers. There are a couple of photos showing such wagons in Aves excellent book on the ROD, notably on page 42 where some 5-plank opens are shown being pulled by a Dean Goods,(a ROD version of which is also promised this year from Oxford). Can anyone tell me from the photo if such wagons are available in 4mm from any manufacturer, either r-t-r or as a kit? Indeed what other WW1 era open wagons are available in general, again either as r-t-r or in kit form? Most of the other wagons in the book are French or Belgian but on page 77 of his book he shows a tank wagon beside a Baldwin 0-4-0ST. Is this a British wagon and if so does any manufacturer offer it? Finally the Railway Magazine in its list of ROD wagons identifies wagons from 31501 to 31800 as “various four-wheeled passenger brake vans or compo. brakes” from South East and Chatham (with raised roof centre), Great Northern Railway, Great Western Railway, Great Eastern Railway, Furness Railway, North London Railway compo brakes, Midland Railway compo brakes, Caley and LSWR brakes. Again can anyone tell me if any of these are available in 4mm?

Gazumped again! It seems they already exist: http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=1873

What we need now are WW1 gunners to crew the railgun, officers standing around etc. as per tghe pictures in Aves etc., maybe even soldiers sitting astride the barrel.

Just back from a winter in Spain to find this latest MRJ in my letterbox. I have to say this is by far the poorest issue I have seen for some time - and there have been a fair number of pretty poor ones in recent times. Time to get a permanent editor, methinks.

Hiow difficult woulkd it be to get H0 versions of these wagons? Chassis kits are already available (as are appropriate wheels)

Easybeats Steve Wright died yesterday. R.I.P.

And here they are again in my local Lidl from this coming Monday 21st December 2015. The large ones are still £100 for two, wood effect or white, and the small ones £50 for two. I've had my two large ones up in my new shed since last Xmas and they are excellent for the money.

Listening to Beefheart these past few days and found this excellent live track on Youtube from Cannes: The studio version (from Safe as Milk) is better but its great to see the Magic Band again. The tracks are barely 2 minute long so listen to both: