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The points will be hand made in the UK, and are designed to use existing Peco products for their actuation, so the PL10 and PL10E solenoid motors. The design uses the Unifrog system already included in some of Peco's ranges http://www.peco-uk.com/product.asp?strParents=&CAT_ID=3360&P_ID=18132

Re vertical movement, there's currently negligible movement on either axle, I'd guess that there is opportunity to perhaps add a bit of movement vertically on the front axle by modifying the baseplate to allow the axle to 'drop' a few thou. The chassis block might also allow a springing a bit like the Bachmann 08 centre axle on the leading set of wheels. Here's mine earlier, like Paul J I've also removed the number, my technique, Tamiya cotton buds with Humbrol thinners. This leaves a duller patch that I've refreshed with T-Cut.

I think its got real potential for EM/P4 conversion by contrast. There's more pictures here of the chassis. https://albionyard.wordpress.com/2016/12/25/Hornby-masterclass-peckett-w4-r3427/

Best wishes to all :0)

It really depends on the footprint you have available, and the scale you're working in. Designing a plausible layout for a small space, particularly in appearance is more difficult than designing a medium or large one. This is 'shelfie' if has a 4ft x 1ft footprint and has a runaround that works with four wagons and brake van. Using Y points and curved points saves space as well as making the track 'flow' nicely

The EP at warley today, very promising and potentially excellent value at £22.00

Well there's plenty of room, I'd guess four ... There's more images of the black one here https://albionyard.wordpress.com/2016/11/23/wordless-wednesday-dapols-08/

Time for a brew..

From small acorns. :0)

Parkend, looks really good, love the Vauxhall tales too it took me a long time to find my 'perfect' car so I feel your pain!

Lochside in P4/Ian Futers, Woolverstone/Iain Rice, Retford/Roy Jackson, Hursley/Martin Welch, Pempoul/The Gravetts, and there are many many more.

Grahame, as I understand it, no, and no.

Pub? ...

8749 prepares to depart Albion Yard

Regarding painting, I'm not keen on the contemporary Humbrol and Revell paints particularly for brush use. I da make sure I use brand for brand thinners too. A good deal of my painting is done through airbrush with acrylics these days. For Matt black and undercoats my preferences are very much towards the Halfords spray cans, which are also very good for silver metal colors too. Apologies for polluting the thread with a heavier than air machine, but this is Halfords silver straight from the can on to plain pastic, no undercoat. Just misted on in a few passes. the scale is 1/72 so the little metalic 'grain' in the paint colour doesn't show up, where as on the smaller scales its more obvious. To offset the plane picture and demonstrate the Halfords undercoat to those who may not have used it here it is on a GWR Toad, The RHS is in effect unmodified, the LHS has a new etched chassis, removed handrails. Still a way to go yet, but its showing promise so that I can do others to the same standard, rather than the Mainline version seen here, somewhat showing its age against other items of my stock.

If the DJM J94 I've reviewed is typical of the breed and has the same motor as the 14xx will have, it is most definitely not suitable for the H&M Duette on any of its settings. My J94 is unmodified (no chip) and runs very poorly with the Duette. I suspect the same will be true of the typical 'train set' type controllers such as those supplied in Hornby sets. With the Gaugemaster 'W' my J94 runs acceptably well.

On the subject of the venerable Lima Cl40, here's a Hornby Railroad version of it with Shawplan detailing bits and a good bit of scratch items and mods on the body shape. The rocket site at Bawtry is/was a Bloodhound defence site, not only was RAF Finningley next door, so was No1 Group HQ in Bawtry itself. There were other RAF stations in the vicinity too e.g. Scampton. The site is now a military surplus vehicle disposal company. For me the texture visible on the coach side would make it a no go for me, I can see the value if it's something that passes through for example, but on a train that may get looked at reasonably closely for me it wouldn't do. I'm hoping to see one of Bill Bedfords examples soon to see how they look. Re Modelu Tony, the signal box figures are 3D printed too, so have a close look at the comparative lack of texture on those. In simple terms printer definition is a big factor in the quality as I understand it, as well as the actual material the prints are made from.

There's an 07 on eBay at the moment if anyone's desperate for one

You may. One element that photography and zoom lenses accentuate is linear issues, track, lining, lettering etc can look fine to the Mk1 eyeball but looks far worse with magnification The track here 'shouldn't work but it does and consistently well with fine profile wheels such as Alan Gibson. I visited Tony's earlier this year, and like Roy Jacksons Retford when you turn a controller a train moves, and moves well. There were no derailments of any of Tony's stock on my visit, and we ran a cross section of passenger and freight stock with RTR and kitbuilt motive power, I've no reason to think that was a fluke. I've seen weight and lack of weight being an issue particularly on long trains and tight curves, coupling types are also a significant element as is back to back. Consistency from trackbed to chassis and powertrain/couplings etc etc all make the difference in my experience to a layout that runs, or runs well. (Postal order payment to the usual address pls )

' healthy'' I've got the pre-prod worth valley No72, and at least 30 standard 10ft wheelbase wagons is no problem