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Prices up for the Mk2f on the website. We had better start saving!

http://www.Bachmann.co.uk/product/graham-farish-br-mk2f-fo-first-open-coach-intercity-374-762/

Excellent news, you can NEVER have enough pway wagons. I will be ordering some for Olympia.

Nearly a month since the last posting, not good. Off to the NGS meeting on Saturday where I might make some progress on the TWA building. I did spray it with the stone effect paint and it looked.......bloody awful.......so it’s been resprayed in undercoat for me to hand paint it with lighter tones.

 

I like ferry wagons and this is very interesting shame it’s to 1/160 but I might still get one or two

https://www.en.dm-toys.de/newsletter.211/items/newslettere464.html

Southampton had loads as well

As did Brighton and Eastbourne.

My first visit to the Doncaster Show, bit closer living in York now rather than Brighton. ECML blocked for engineering works York to Doncaster so only one train an hour, HSTs, diverted via Knottingly so a nice little trundle round the countryside.

 

Doncaster bus station, New but depressing. Shuttle bus went from A1 not C6 and not well signed. Service good.

 

Show was very good, busier than I expected. Some tight spaces between stands and some large empty areas. Good balance of layouts and traders.

 

My favourite layouts Shirebrook- brought back memories. Lime Street - unbelievably good and the Forth Bridge well that was amazing.

 

Food court not enough tables and seats and the less said about my Pie peas and mash the better.

 

7/10 Overall an enjoyable day out.

Just out of interest, is this research, planning and design process for the model buildings of interest and worthwhile posting?

 

G.

The research is often the most interesting part of our hobby....keep going please Grahame

Does anyone do a Bedford TK in N scale?  Kit or RTR would do.

This is the PG models cab married to a modified BT models box van chassis and enlarged body. This will gain some Harrods logos eventually.

 

 

And whilst being worked on.....I changed my mind what it represent hence the change of colour.

I’ve got an article on the Transfesa vans and some RTR substitute ferry vehicles if you’d like that first?

Not much progress on anything Grahame, been busy with the first of the books. I’ve done a little more to the TWA building but the Interfrigo van hasn’t been touched. Most stuff has been packed away, maybe a bit prematurely, as we are expecting the builders to descend on the house shortly.

I’ll probably take the Interfrigo van to the next NGS meeting and do some work on it and get some photos taken then.

Andy,

Have you seen the article in this months rail express February 2018

There is an article on the west London line

Lots of pictures on Olympia as well

Yes I have, thank you, one of my old work colleagues tipped me off. I have bought a copy. Most of the pictures I have seen before as they are from the Rail online website. The photos at Wandsworth common were new to me. Useful article with details of the many freight workings, wish they had put in some dates but the article is subtitled 60s and early 70s.

This appears to be the type, from Paul Bartlett’s site. Oh for them to have been to 1/148.

https://goo.gl/v5qcsZ

Osbourne Models are showing an N Gauge LD van in there 3D printed series, only seems to be available painted.

http://www.osbornsmodels.com/arch-laser-a3d0037-austinmorris-ld-postal-van-44620-p.asp

That’s a whole lot of Minix.....looking good. I always felt they were underrated models.

Same with the Mk2Fs; RRP will be £42.95 but Hattons will be knocking them out for £36.51 according to an email from them today. When I preordered them x years ago, the price shown was £17.81!!!

Sept 2014 on my preorder.....

Mk2 FK due for a second issue this year, Mk2 BFK should have been a no brainier as it uses the existing BSO body.

It's a Blue/Grey FK that I'm really after. I'm not sure if such a thing even exists.

Long sold out and no second issue yet. I do have rather a lot of them as I need them for my Motorail services...sorry.

With GF issuing the first sound fitted class 47 under the Colas body I can see some body swops coming on.

It looks like 47727 has mark lights fitted in the former headcode area.

 

Now I’ve only got 47/0 and 47/4 bodies either with marker lights or headcode boxes and no headlights.

Looks like you would need to swop the bodies and fuel tanks to get them sound fitted. Is the headlight just another light tube or a separate piece that would need to be swopped too?

I think the class 47 retool is the chassis as it will now be speaker fitted.

Hattons have the Blue Pullman listed as 322.96

Some odd choices there. virgin 47/8 why not an IC one to go with the forthcoming IC Mk2 air cons?

sound fitting the Colas 47...really? I suppose it will shift a limited Livery version.

Still no second issue blue grey Mk1 FK.

 

Overall a cheap year for me, nothing of interest today apart from 47018.

Good news on the planning front, hobby room looks a little small have you thought about installing a beam through to,the outside wall on the left should you ever want to knock through into the garage space.

Loving the minion lights

Ha ha, that’s an idea I don’t think I’d get away with. Room is more than big enough for Olympia and work bench etc and leaves the garage big enough for our current car. One of our goals was not to make the house any bigger than the existing footprint, just much more useable.

 

The Minions came from Aldi Christmas 2016.

I’ve been running mine in on my Kato test track loop, standard radius curves no problems, about 9 1/2 inch radius.

thank you, Digitrax Manual says refer to decoder instructions for reset, nothing like that with the loco though.

I have managed to crack the problem F7 speedlock was on. The sounds are back up as I was using F27 and F28 button wrongly. Thought you just held it down but it’s touch on touch off!

All systems go now.

My 40141 arrived yesterday....just had a ‘play’.....sorry testing session this morning. All works fine excellent sounds etc.....

However being a DCC novice and DCC sound virgin I’ve obviously done something. All the sounds are now very quiet and the loco will not move. I’m using a Digitrax Zephyr. Is there a way of resetting the decoder back to factory settings or something even easier?

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Prosperus New Year...........................and in a not so serious mood.........the alcohol hasn't even started yet!

 

The Minions dont seem to be getting much track laying done on the layout, lying down on the job too!

 

 

The Brighton Corporation bus destination is finished and blinged up for Christmas..........

 

 

We had some good news on Friday that our planning permission has been granted........for hobby room read layout room! and I'm doing my first Railway Book which hopefully will be out during the summer next year.......then probably five more afterwards.