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This is going to be one superb layout Dave, as it's looking so good now. I understand the small niggling difficulties of things like point blades not throwing over properly, but fitting individual half chairs on every sleeper is something else, and only for the absolutely dedicated. In an endevour to eliminate Bachmann couplings, I've been messing about on some reverse curve 32" rad track on the workbench, and that's bad enough.

I'm hoping Bachmann will announce they are doing a BR Standard Mickey Mouse Dave. Nice workmanship on your models as usual and being P4, they look right.

Looking at your pictures, this is the first time I have seen one of these Airfix LMS corridor coaches. I haven't built any postwar 60ft corridor coaches with the extra corridor doors, but if the corridor third is anything to go by, the LMS squeezed the corridor windows to allow more 'meat' either side of the added doors. It would not be a simple conversion doing this....Blimey, it aint simple the conversion you're doing anyway and I take my hat off to you!

You said in your intro not to ask why you didn't use comet etched sides, so I won't. Although I will continue to wonder why you didn't.

Looks terrifying Dave but good luck. Glad my take on wiring is minimalist...

Larry

Very interesting coaches there Moz. I notice you seem to use a lot of Bill Bedfords etches for GNR coaches. Do you buy the sides seeing as yu mention using 257 parts as well?

As usual, Dave Studleys paintwork sets the coaches off nicely.

Larry

Thanks Andy. It is certainly a very neat diaramma, small enough to lavish lots of attention on when it comes to fine detail. I wonder sometimes if we (me included) go for 'too big' and never quite finish it.

After sterio, your Avatar.....in 3D.

Nothing fancy Nick, I just moved the camera 1cm to the right for the right-hand shot.

Too much time on your hands Andy............ You don't mention your layout much. Is it this part to a fiddle yard or is there much more and is it still being developed?

Nice looking coaches there Moz. Dave Studely, king of teak!

If it is of any consolation, wasp stripes............ I hate 'em to peices! Masking over radiators and other detail has never been a fun job and it aint got any easier. I brush Mascol into awkward bits of the masking tape where it will not press down over fine detail (coach door handles for instance).

When I saw your heading, I thought you'de found a large wasp in the living room, as I did this morning!

Larry

My oh my, as I scrolled down these pictures the goods shed got better and better. Then came the final pictures with the roof finished, not just finshed but subtly carrying the green moss that is so familiar and yet hardly ever modelled. I'll have to do mine now.

The work of a real pro. No wonder customer Dave is over the moon! What's on the cards next, the stationmasters house?

Larry G.

Tried it but all the information blocks are off-screen on my PC. Never mind, maybe something will be sorted one day to make access to the varous and very numerous Blogs and workbenches. It has all got very 'bitty' and we are only 4 months into RMweb4...

I've tried to keep mine in one place but as only 10 entires are available in the Contents Block, it has meant joining some threads together.

Cheers,

Larry

'Delph Goods shed' in search produced no results. Niether could I find in in scratchbuilding (I didn't try too hard earlier today........in a hurry). Please can you provide a clue (link) as searching out Blogs is becoming a big problem now that RMweb is so big.

Cheers,

Larry

It looks dangerous.....Get back man!

Very neat. Your treatment of the roof is inspiring....it really looks like rotting canvass. Is this 4mm or 7mm?

Larry

My eyes are watering with being on here all day re-building some RMweb3 WB threads, so apologies for not noticing the text at the top of the page.....

Nice one Moz. I fancy building one too. Who's kit is it?

Sadly I cannot reach them owing to your contents listings being off screen stage right.

Larry

PS; Found a way around it by clickcing on Gravy Train Bog at top of screen...

Hi Dave,

I have taken the liberty of lightening your picture and posting it on my blog. hope this is okay. I cannot finish my roof as the LNWR carriage book is up at the farm and that is snowed in!

Cheers,

Larry

That K3 looks pretty damn good. The big boiler is really emphasised in your excellent front ?? views. The pictures in the catalogue just don't do this model justice.

Hope you are making a good recovery.

Larry

I remember it well Dave. I'm etching my own as a testbed for a number of ideas.

Corgi and EFE produce suitable North Western Road Car double deck buses for the routes 13 & 14 that pass Delph Station, but you will be struggling for an Oldham Corporation bus. There is a Manchester Crossley DD42 but its not appropriate.

Your layout is going to look the bees knees particularly in P4 as well.

I wonder what your reaction will be to the news that I've just sent off a CAD drawing for the LNWR D333 suburban brake third. Always promised myself one.

Larry

Can I presume from the lower level you will also be modelling the road that passes the coal shutes and paralleles the branch? If so that should give the layout an added dimension as well as extra depth. It is something I have been considering when Mk.III Greenfield commences...

Sparthbottom PCD, sounds like one of our Gracie's songs...

Interesting you are going for P4 this time. I thought you were fed up with converting locos and stock to EM?

Larry

That's a frightening curve off into the mill yard, just like the real thing. Must have made the loco's flanges complain a bit!

Larry

You've made a damn good job of weathering those signs. I always keep an eye out for printed signs and posters in railway monthlies after discovering the computer printed things fade and loose their colour. Sad really as I had a lot of LNWR black & white 'finger' signs printed but they simply fade so quickly.

Larry