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A question to the knowledgeable, would these coaches have ever run in shorter formations such as 2 or 3 cars?

All that's needed now is a loco to pull them. Not many current RTR locos could be turned out in LSWR livery.

Have a look at a Dapol B4 with its rocking front axle.

All the goodies can be found here: https://Bachmann-spares.co.uk/ apart from Bill,Tim and Graham. I forgot to mention that, possibly a first. Rocket may be another case eventually.

Some simple RTR conversions that have passed across my modelling bench recently. 1. LNWR Improved Precident 'Lucknow'. The problem with this model is the lack of coal rails on the tender, which were fitted at the end of the 19th century. The model of Hardwicke has them, but it has other post-grouping fittings such as the buffers. I considered making them from strips of metal, not an easy task. But it turns out there is a much easier option, buy the correct tender top from Bachmann. Which is what I've done. I've cut off the top of the lamp iron at the back to make it look more like a socket as used by the LNWR. The next one is a bit more involved.

Progress seems very slow here, as usual, but there has been some. The Midland 1377 body was ready for some primer, it was now almost the right colour. While I slowly turned it crimson I put together another recent purchase from LRM, a LNWR small cattle wagon: Seen here with matching brake van, also from LRM: Back to the loco, painting it crimson is only half the story. It then needs lining: Not sure about the rear weather-board. I originally painted it black, but thought it would look better crimson. Probably no way of knowing for sure what colour it was.

Or just use Windows Defender, the built in AV that costs you no extra.

D&S are still selling 7mm kits, they were at the GOG spring show at Kettering. Not all kit producers have embraced the modern electronic world, or want lots of orders.

But then it wouldn't be to NEM362 standard and would make fitting alternatives difficult.

See also this: if you really want Humbrol enamels.

Was that a pipeline or pipe-dream?

That's a lot of toilets, reminds me of a Not the Nine O'clock News sketch.

It looks like those gons have both air and vacuum brake parts fitted underneath. Nicely painted and weathered.

Even an 'official' supplier (RoS) is cheaper than that, an odd situation indeed. I'll be removing the buffers from the red ones to use as freelance stock on my own railways.

Linux and Firefox here, so can't blame M$.

Some of us have had this problem for years , welcome to the club. Currently I find it rather random where I end up after clicking on Next page (top,middle or bottom).

Let gravity be returned to normal- Better looking than me at 50.

From elsewhere on t'internet, way back in '08 I found this quote: "we discovered a scale error of roughly 8% in virtually all dimensions of the production Manor" which I calculate made it 1:137 scale. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Hot on the heels of the brake van is a box van in matching liveries: This uses the same body as the brake van, but without the duckets and foot boards. A useful addition to the SR stock.

There now seems to be so much RTR 009 available now this topic has mainly become redundant. One notable omission has been a small goods brake van suitable for a freelanced railway. This gap has now been filled by the latest release from Bachmann in their Skarloey Railway range, available in two liveries. Here used as intended: I think the red one works well as a generic brake van: The finish is a bit glossy and could do with toning down. The buffers and coupling hook will probably be redundant in most cases. The Bachmann 009 couplings plug into NEM sockets.

Not amused with this change, making it opposite to every other (non-Hornby) controller I've used. Ideally there would be a setting to change this.

Not the first time we've seen a strange colour variation in a model, that only manifests itself in a digital camera: Must be something about green and sensors.

Back to the actual model, the only new parts I needed were - dome & safety valve cover (AG) and numberplates (247) , bought at the recent Railex . The crew are Hornby figures, the driver had to be shortened by 2mm as his head was hitting the roof. He was originally 6ft tall, I removed the 2mm from the top of his legs.

Even 10 years or more ago in Sketchup it was possible to change the (rather low) default setting for the number of segments in a curve, if you knew how. This had to be done before drawing the curve. The quality of a printed model can depend as much on the skills of the designer as the actual printer. Another thing about this model - the Nylon material is very tough. The body won't break if I drop it. Some bits I add may break off, but the body will survive.

Some points: 1.This model was printed at least 5 years ago, maybe 10. It hasn't warped or changed in any way . 2.It was relatively cheap compared to other higher quality prints of the time. 3.There were no print layer lines or 'striations' apart from those on the smoke box door. The lines on the saddle tank are present in the design file, due to not enough segments in the circle used to draw the curve of the tank. If this was printed in a modern HQ printer these lines would be even sharper and still need sanding down.