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Thanks for all your helpful comments. If I take the plunge, I'll keep you updated.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/232260554127

Very tempted to go and kick the tyres. Does anyone have any vital knowledge to share on these before I do?

I have just built a larger signalbox from two of the 1990 version of the Hornby kit - suitably painted and with a little extra detailing, this has gone together easily and neatly to create a lovely model, larger than the out-of-the-box kit. Assuming that the Gaugemaster kits use similar plastics (depends on what the moulds will accept I guess), then these kits are fine. They're not up to the latest Ratio/Wills standards but then they're cheaper and of differing prototypes. I also have a small collection of the footbridge kits awaiting completion of some platforms on which to mount them! Good luck!

I have two of these kits to do precisely the same for Stourhampton North. If you have any hints / tips / regrets / photos of yours I would be very grateful to see.

One Fine Day - Chiffons

A Man I'll Never Be - Boston

Sweet Little Mystery - Wet Wet er.. Wet.

Crazy Horses - Osmonds

Live Forever - Oasis

Baby I'm a Want You - Bread

That Old Black Magic - Frank Sinatra

Good question, Jon. Similarly, we are told that tenders got swopped around as they didn't need as much / as frequent attention as the engines. Black and white or even early colour photos wouldn't show differences in paint batch or levels of fading, but the human eye would notice.

(I have three tiles in my kitchen from a different batch which annoy me still after 13 years).

Rochdale Cowboy - Mike Harding

Good to see another OSB baseboard. You won't regret it.

Sisters are Doin it For Themselves. - Eurythmics / Aretha Franklin

Midnight Cowboy - John Barry

Park Life - Blur

Bostin air kid.

Right Here Right Now - Fatboy Slim

Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - Charlie Mingus

A woman is on trial for beating her husband to death with his guitar collection. The judge said, "First offender?"

She replied, "No, first a Gibson, then a Fender".

Rock & Roll Band - Boston

I don't know if it helps with your era of layout but I used to own a Volvo 245 in 1982/3 and it was LHD. I used it a lot in the UK although I was technically resident in France at the time.

 

I'm not sure what the car on the left is. Looks like a 4-door Forsd Capri! The others are quite good.

 

Generally, I think that resin casting is a better option.

Mk 1 Cavalier / Opel Ascona

Moonlight Serenade - Glen Miller

In Worcester, Waites built council properties using pre-cast concrete panels, held together with nuts and bolts. Inevitably the seals between panels failed and the damp got in and rotted the bolts. All replaced now with bricks and mortar.

All the things she said - Simple Minds