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Status Updates posted by The Fatadder
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If anyone knows of an original style headlight lens for sale for a current spec Hornby HST please let me know. just had an ebay purchase arrive with the lens missing, hoping the seller still has the missing part (but want to be prepared)
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I wish I could remember where "somewhere safe" actually is, I keep putting things there and forgetting....
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Finally get my PDK 47xx running sweetly without the cylinders fitted, only to find I appear to have lost them. Very worried they might have fallen in the bin (which was under the shelf where the loco was stored...
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Looking for a source of Airfix 7ft GWR bogies (given the chance of sourcing the current Hornby Bow Ends is non existent...)
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Anyone know what colour the Hall Class / Star Class text on the splasher of unnamed locos should be. White or yellow/gold?
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Somehow managed to loose the handrail, buffers and nameplates for my Bulldog. I’ve put them somewhere safe pending the purchase of the final components for the build at Warley, but no idea where!
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Thanks to the fantastic weather I've finally been able to do some spraying, though I think I need to invest in some lighting as I seem to have missed a few bits.....
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Silly mistake time....
just painted my net installed double slip without wiring it up first!
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Made the mistake of watching the James May programme with my 5 year old. Now she wants me to get that dammed sound vent van!
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Shocked how expensive it is getting to build a loco chassis, for a Manor with Markits wheels it’s looking like being over £120 for the parts! Might have to switch back to Gibson’s...
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Trying to resist the temption for a quick build of a J12 sleeper instead of focusing on the Manor kit...
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1 hours work to make 1 pair of masokits screw links. I need at least 8 pairs by Feb 2nd
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I use Smiths 3-links more or less 'as they come', Robin and their screw links, albeit I make my own shackles, using an annealed brass lacemakers pin as the basis. I might reduce the size of the hook slightly, if I'm in the mood for it, but for exhibition use, I find that I need a reasonable 'target area' to get the loop of the adjacent coupling over.
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I started off with PC Models couplings which look nice and are an appropriate size. Since I ran out I've bought a few Smiths- the Smiths are oversized but at least I can see them. The only thing I wonder about Smiths is that the hooks stick out as far as the buffers and I fear when sprung buffers get compressed I might end up with a locking problem when pushing wagons
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I like the smiths 3links / instanters but always found the screw links looked really wrong. Will have a play with these Masokits ones this evening and see how I get on. The only coupling needed witll be between the loco and lead / last wagon as the rest will stay perminantly coupled in the fiddleyard
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Annoyed once again the postman hasn’t bothered leaving a card to say he had left 3 parcels in the kids playhouse. I could have been working on my TPO
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Love the collect at Sainsburys feature on eBay, great for reviving models without the wife asking questions
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Just sat down to fit Kaydee no5s to a batch of mk2s, only to find I have no top halves for the coupling boxes!
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Sat down to apply Intercity red stripe transfers to my mk2F RFO only to find I don’t have any. Paint it is then!
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Make that does anyone have instructions for a Masokits spring tender chassis please (dammed autocorrect)
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Alternatively, just follow my assembly photos from here: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/image/11571-masokits-sprung-tender-underframe-etch/
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Does anyone have instructions for a Markits sprung tender chassis please?
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Just found my DRS 20 project, now to finish it off
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Just found a pack of Markits Hall wheels that I lost (and replaced) a year ago
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Just managed to put my finger in the glue while working on Brent, only problem being it had just come out of the glue gun! On the plus side I cant feel the pain from my broken finger.....
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Just had two bids on items I’m selling on eBay removed with no reason given. Not happy!
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true, but I have never seen this happen before, must be yet another shift of balance from seller to buyer. Typically everytime in the past I have bid and regretted it I have not been able to retract. in this case both items were as described, with an opening bid at £25. I don't see how someone can retract on that.....