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Looks good Chris - can I ask how you did the rivets? Impressed through on the reverse of the card or....? Keith

Ah well, I'll be nowhere near Worthing Chaz, so will have missed my chance! Still, I've really enjoyed watching the layout develop through this excellent thread and thank you for taking the time and effort to update it. If you have a chance a small video of the layout's final appearance would be good! Keith

Only found this thread a few days back Tom and have really enjoyed going through it - absolutely superb weathering work on display. I have to agree that the latest A4 is really stunning - could I ask that when you say 'weathered from a photo dated July 1938', is that a rare colour photo from that time, or are you able to interpret weathering from black and white pics? Keith

I guess it's too obvious to call it Thomas? I've got my coat, and I'm off... Keith

Many thanks Rob, very helpful. We were in Ikea on Friday and I couldn't remember what you'd used to have a look at them! I've written it down now! Glad the show went well! Keith

Rob, my apologies, but in the 248 pages of the thread I've been unable to find what piece of Ikea furniture you used for Mutton's baseboard - would you be so kind as to remind me please? And if you wouldn't mind could you let me know the dimensions too please? Some lovely pictures of your lovely layout by the show attendees! ATVB Keith

Seconded.

I'm gutted that I'll miss seeing your marvellous layout 'for real' now Chaz, but like others have said I've thoroughly enjoyed following your thread and thank you for taking the time to post and allow us all to see it develop. I do wish I had both the cash and space to give it a new home, but I can only hope to win the lottery for that to happen. Looking forward to your next project! Keith

That brings back happy memories! I wonder where my suspension bridge went.... Keith

Really good work with the pointy thing Rob! Keith

Don't know about that tbh Bob, I think my son's Mazda RX8 had different profile tyres front to back, but the wheel diameters were the same. Keith

Do you mean width or diameter? Lot of cars still come with larger width rear wheels - Porsche 911's as just one example....

That is indeed a shame Rob as it was the main thing I wanted to see.... never mind, life happens, and I hope things turn out OK for you. ATB Keith

An 1100 was my first car too, in RAF blue/grey, with twin Strombergs (or S.U.'s, memory fading!) & a 6ft long fibreglass 'whip' radio aerial in the nearside rear wing! Bought in the early summer just after I passed my test, I thought it was the best car in the world! But when we started getting some rain the interior started to get a really damp, musty smell. Investigations showed that under the carpet the front passenger floor consisted of a piece of soggy plywood & a couple of damp Daily Mirrors...!! I learnt a bit about buying cars from that....!! Keith

More like £30 a pint there! And last time I looked at a map it was to the west. Has it moved?

That Dolly looks lovely!

Thanks for the heads up,I do like Guy Martin and his infectious enthusiasm!

Yeh, I know that's the theory, but I'd still like to see them take that Nordschleife yump flat out! (and Hamilton et al are still prima donnas...!!) I enjoy Martin Brundle's drives of classic F1 cars on Sky's F1 channel - he recently drove his 50th different one, Mike Hawthorn's Ferrari 246 (I believe they said it was the actual World Championship winning car) - & he did the report dressed as Hawthorn did in white shirt & bow tie!

There was an elderly couple around the corner from my son who had a lovely turquoise 111 4 door that was kept in lovely clean condition, that I saw regularly when walking my son's dogs. Then it didn't move for ages and was getting to look ever more tired, so I assume something must have happened to the gent who was the only one I'd ever seen driving it. Now builders have moved in & are renovating the bungalow - & there's a skip where the Rover used to be. Always strikes me as being a bit sad....

What a marvellous locomotive - most excellent modelling Chris! Keith

Gawd, I remember watching that at a motor club film night eons ago!! I'd love to see Hamilton or any of the other of today's prima donna 'racing drivers' yumping their cars like that...!!

Any hints on how you got that excellent effect please Rob? Looks really good! Keith

IIRC Chris Sclater had one, but that was a works supported car, & I think Andy Dawson built & ran one for CCC magazine. Memory might be wrong on the latter though... I had a 'replica' Avenger Tiger, fully prepared that had been rallied for years before I got it. I only did a couple of road rallies before writing it off (& not on an event either!) There were quite a few club & international privateers running Avengers back then, competition parts were readily available and not that much more than Ford bits.

Later works rally Avengers were two doors - blue & white colour scheme & IIRC they were Chrysler Dealer Team branded....

Spotted one just like that heading east on the M4 when driving home from Hampshire on Sunday - might have been the same little beauty - one of my favourite ever cars in it's best colour scheme (only IMO of course!!) And Nidge - saw my spot of the century when driving up to Hampshire - a grey Lambo Diablo - fantastic looking thing, & I'm 99.9 % certain the first I've ever seen in the wild! Keith