Blandford1969

Definatley Saxby - If its allowed can I recommend (if you do Facebook) and have railway images which are a mystery the Railway Identification Group . We started it to help identify our own negatives and it has grown to cover all eras from Victorian to the present day and all around the world. The just over 3000 members have such amazing knowledge and we get recommended in other groups as the people who can generally help.

Evening all, I have a pair of LSWR B4s ,but I'm not sure what motor / gearbox combination is recommended now that Mashima's are no longer avaiable. Can anyone recommend any please? Thanks in advance

Thanks , yes, lesson learned and it has been added. In fairness if the thing does not sell this time I might take the motor out myself and sell it on.

Not sure if its maddness, but tthat moment when you have listed a kit with potescap and someone who breaks locos up and sells the motor, wheels and engine separtley sends an offer which is so low as to be not even worth what they would list the motor for,

Thanks, I now understand where some of the other parts go through that as well. Do you know what wheel size they are the kit does not say are they 14mm Maunsells?

It's had quite a few bosses in recent years including a former SVR General Manager - saying more would be an ecumenical matter

Thats coming along really well.

Thanks, yes thats the one. That would be so helpful. Probably for anyone who has built a D&S kit before it all makes sense, but this is the first one I have ever seen.

DS 174

After months of searching I found and bought a D&S 32' luggage van, as one of the more unusual vehicles that came through West Moors in one of the push pull sets in the 50s. The instructions are not great, no exploded diagram of the chassis or where things go. The first part of folding up the basic frame and adding the buffer beams was fine. However it then talks about "b(14), (15) end tabs and fit spring suspension units to slots in the solebars, mount on the inside and tabs from the outside face" Does anyone have any idea what that means or a photo of what the underside of one of these kits looks like please that may help to unpick what and where these parts go. Thanks in advance

Sorry Mike I've posted in the wrong place. I will make a separate thread

Sorry for jumping on an old thread. I have managed to get one of these kits, but am stuck. It talks about fitting the springing units 14 and 15, but I have no idea as the instructions do not help as to where they go. Does anyone have a photo of the underside of one of these that might help please?

That looks amaing

Thanks I have, I'm Head of HR and some agencies are rubbish but am registered with lots. I had an interview 2 weeks ago and the General Manager turned round and said I had not talked enough about administration. Shows what he thinks. There are just not that many jobs, you apply for lower roles and you are over qualified, higher ones and you have not got the experience as you've not had the job title, you can't go to the public sector becuase they only want people from that sector. It feels like really they think I'm too old. Peeved does not cover it. In the meantime I'm just trying to do everything i can to make the redundancies as fair and human as possible and do things like helping people with cvs and keeping my eyes open for jobs that might suit them. If they weren't decent, nice people it would be easier. To see good people who work for me saying 'am I affected' and I can't answer because we dont yet know is really hard. But as they say I have to keep going, do my best for everyone and keep my fingers crossed for a breakthrough in a market which is vile. Sorry for the ramble.

How is everyone doing. My mojo has started to take a bit of a hit with my anxiety going up. My company is not in a good way and I am once again leading redundancies which includes sadly senior people as well. At the same time I keep looking for and applying for jobs. However most of the time it would be quicker to throw the email in the bin for the level of response. My mother in law said I needed to pull my finger out which is great if I were not applying for jobs. I will be honest that I'm scared of the company going under, having no job and not being able to get another. Ironiclly I've managed to do a bit of modelling, but most of my time seems to be staring into space and just wasting time.

How do you mean its wrong?

Looks really good.

Looking amazing glad that the sun roof is open. First thing you do in the day is get it open and them always being closed on models always confused me.

It will be interesting to watch as you move forwards with this

A good deal this week was a complete Finecast O2 complete with etched chassis all for £33. Horribly painted, but I only wanted the chassis so the body can have a strip and then go back up for sale.

Here is 53804 in 1960 at Templecombe Here is 53805 in 1950 - I doubt they changed much from S&D days, you just have to be careful what tender they were fitted with

I'm sure a batch of them just as etches and just with a drawing would sell, most buying it would have probably purchase on of Arthurs before.

I'd certainly happily just buy a set of etches if made available for the Q7. Maybe Arthurs daughter will read these comments and who knows .... it would be wonderful.

Bassed on the quality of the D20, that we will not get Arthurs Q7 is a real tradgedy

Its also will we be able to buy spare parts, in some cases that could be brilliant