Penrhos1920

I use Vallejo Airbrush Thinner, 71.161 which comes in 200ml bottles. "Dilutes color without loss of adhesion, resistance or consistency." I prefer to use Model Air colours where available as I've found that some Model Color paints don't airbrush very well. A classic example was copper which came out gold and then a big blob of copper when I stopped spraying.

LH 9' loose heal 1:6.2 RH 15' loose heal 1:8.25 RH 9' loose heal 1:5.75 RH 9' loose heal 1:4.25 LH 9' loose heal 1:6 Enjoy. me thinks that the second one ought to be a bit tighter.

I recieved that email maybe 9 months ago and have had to pay the extra.

So how much extra is the 'Seriously Brilliant'? Ddwyieithog?

Neal,I see no real reason why a kickstart project won't succeed. It will take a lot of hard work. If you are lucky there will be drawings that you can scan and send off the China. Or maybe a preserved example but what will be original and what recent changes? If you do pick up the batton and the run with it, follow the poll leads, I'll support you, but first you need to speak to someone like Dave JM

Would the Comet replacement sides be easier? http://www.cometmodels.co.uk/modules/viewcatpic.php/8/1103

Will they be easy to convert to P4? I can't resist a lovely little tank like this even if now got to Caerphilly works.

Ah but DJ Models have just announced a 59: 59002 ‘Yeoman Enterprise’ in Foster Yeoman Livery, 59103 ‘Village of Mells’ in ARC Mustard and Grey livery, 59204 ‘Vale of Glamorgan’ National Power Livery, 50206 ‘John F. Yeoman’ DBSchenker Livery. Why did a couple of 59s transfer to operating the Llanwern iron ore trains in July 1998? Does anyone have a complete list? So far I can only find evidence of 59004, 59103 & 59104 on the Llanwern trains.

Com'on Charlie post a piccy and get us all drooling

Are you planning the earlier livery: https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2659/4005144560_e7c9a22cf2_z.jpg?zz=1

How do you gauge the market and determine whether something is going to be profitable? Does that mean a small loco is more profitable than a wagon? That surprises me. I'd have thought that a wagon had less parts and would sell in much bigger volumes.

They spent most of the 1980s trying to clean West riding stone. When was No10 Downing St painted black. I've seen some colour film, WWII I think, showing it yellow.

Great pictures. What are the buffers on the conflat? Are they different at each end?

Lovely. My loco, exactly one year before I was born!

Although the GWR built coaches with gas lights from the mid 1880s gas lighting was only fitted to these coaches between 1894 & 1898.

Yes please. The frosting is actually a problem when you do not want to paint the print as it is going to be used as a master for resin casting. Some colour would be very helpful in seeing the surface detail. PS What solvent are you think of?

Can Scarm import track diagrams from other software like Templot?

Where's me loco gone?

What is the unit with 3 bogies on the first coach?

It's much easier to buy these: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/30x-SMD-LED-0603-SUNNY-WHITE-WEISS-mit-Litze-warmwhite-/321148825898?pt=DE_Modellbau_Modelleisenbahnen&hash=item4ac5f6312a They are absolutely tiny. You can thread the wires down the inside of the lamp post. For less than 50p each I think they are a bargain. The same seller also sells dual sunny white and red LEDS for loco head lamps. All his LEDs are available with wires or without wires (at a significant saving) if you really think you can solder the wires yourself and are insane enough to try! (I was insane enough to try, but not insane enough to succeed.)

A couple of comments about other photos: The photo of 666 in post 70 is definitely at Newport as I have several other photos of 666, usually with it's sister 667, at the same location which have Newport written on the back. Regarding photo of 386 in post 86. The second loco is ex Rhymney A, A1 or R rebuilt with standard GWR boiler, not ex Barry. The cab is higher than the Barry B1 and B behind. The odd Barry B1 was given a GWR boiler, but also received a full GWR cab. The Rhymney loco in post 104 is a P1. One of the larger 5'3 passenger locos vs 4'6 freight locos. Compared to the freight locos it looks taller, but of course isn't. What gets me excited though is the ex Rhymney bogie coach behind it.

Definitely an ex Rhymney A1 class. The sandboxes are the give-away. The first 2 batches of A class and the M class where the only inside frame 0-6-2T Rhymney locos with sandboxes above the footplate sand boxes. M class side tanks over hung the footplate. At sometime (sorry I don't have my books to hand) the boiler was changes to a Belpaire firebox type which made it almost the same as the latter batches and it became an A1. Given what has been said about the first wagon of pit props I reckon it might be 57. I have various photos of 57 with the correct GWRified bunker. Only one is dated (1938) but it had a flush riveted smokebox. A much later photo shows it with proud rivets. It's not 53, as 53 received an inverted V shaped rain gutter on both sides of the cab roof. The second wagon is a GWR iron mink with post 1927 doors. PS The earlier photo of a Rhymney tank is an R class (no.42). It is very difficult to tell the difference between the later 2 batches of A1 class and the R class.

Same here, I've had a model printed elsewhere and Shapeways have rejected it for FUD printing because the detail was too small! The competition must either be able to ignore the fine detail or interpolate better. One printer even complimented me on the quality of my CAD yet Shapeways wouldn't print it.

And in 1:76.2 please

Beware of drawing full size and reducing down for printing. Shapeways are getting tough and rejecting models where small detail is less than their resolution. Also wall thickness can be an issue.