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I think the Dick Kerr's used the same engine as a 40hp simplex, I'd have to confirm that though. I wonder how much noise the electric transmission would have made? The preserved Hunslet will hopefully be up and running in a few years and there's the Baldwin 4-6-0 running (or it was recently if not now, I think at Leighton Buzzard?) The Hunslet is coming along nicely, I won't be putting sound in mine as it would mean sound chipping a 20hp simplex and a 40hp as well. Thanks Mike

Hi, What are you planning to use as the basis for the sound file? I'm assuming a generic 2 cylinder loco? Thanks Mike

Thanks, we're looking forward to that one, we also have a couple of copies of the forthcoming railway gazette reprint pre ordered. Currently working on the pontoon, photos to follow soon

Probably about as many as in the first photo.... I reckon I have enough strip wood for about 150 or so. The a4 sheet I'll be ordering should have 84 on it.

Next up, duckboards. MINISTRY OF INFORMATION FIRST WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION. © IWM (Q 5000)IWM Non Commercial Licence MINISTRY OF INFORMATION FIRST WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION. © IWM (Q 8664)IWM Non Commercial Licence We're going to need loads of these so I thought it best to get the planks laser cut in a fret so that we don't have to cut and align thousands of tiny bits of wood. (Bearing in mind that a complete duckboard is 49mm x 10.5mm.) Fortunately Ben found a dimensioned drawing on the net somewhere and from that I produced a cad file to send off to be laser cut. The prototype arrived from York Modelmaking this morning looking like this: With the addition of 2 bits of stripwood of an appropriate size, they need fixing with one piece offset more than the other, I added marks to the fret to align them. Once the glue has dried, run a knife down both sides and you have a completed duckboard Next up is to order a sheet of them, and also build the pontoon for the river Mike

There wasn't any pink wine, there was Japanese lager though....

There was a bit of a north eastern invasion last night while setting up.....

The second DVD is mostly American light railway footage plus WW2 railways. I can only agree with you on the commentary of the first one,

Hi Wayne, There are four boards, each is 95cm long and 73cm wide Mike

I recently stumbled across this DVD at a show a little while back, it has quite a bit of WW1 narrow gauge footage in it http://www.cherryred.co.uk/shopexd.asp?id=4063 combined with the Ton Pruissen DVD mentioned earlier there is a surprising amount of film out there http://camden-miniature-steam-services.myshopify.com/collections/archive-films-from-ton-pruissen/products/wartime-rails-1918-1943-1950-dvd-55-mins-b-w-and-some-colour (No connection etc. etc.)

A few photos of the 8" howitzer, this now just needs the shell crane constructing although it will likely be removable as it will be delicate Next up will be the traction engine to pull the gun

Excellent! We are currently working on the stock for the layout since this has been on the back burner for a while. I'm also constructing a traction engine and 8" howitzer for the road at the rear of the layout. Hopefully I can get a few photos sorted soon. Mike

Or maybe the baby deltic? http://www.thebabydelticproject.co.uk/about-us/4534158054 Mike

Your Hunslet is looking good, here's one I built up with a rigid chassis http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/12881-on-mikes-multiscale-workbench/&do=findComment&comment=516329 Cheers Mike

Nice photos. I'm fairly sure all of the Sabres were withdrawn by 2009, so they are most likely Scimitars. Also I seem to recall Sabres have a collar fitted underneath the turret to increase the height inside. I bet that Chieftain took some sorting out...

You just need a piano on its roof now...

In just the right place for the flash to temporarily blind layout operators...

Or eat timber buildings and fences, knock walls down, escape, turn fields into a decent recreation of the Somme..... I suppose its not all bad though Mike

Thanks for the book link, we'll have to have a good look through that. There is a possibility we may be working on the layout this weekend so hopefully there'll be some progress to report Cheers Mike

Thanks, There will be a road bridge over the river behind the 2 timber bridges, hence the name. The control points and junctions often had letters assigned, or codenames, although since the farm is going to be a control point we are taking the farm name to be the control point name. The engineers would likely have used the british name for it though as you have said. The trouble with vehicles is that next to none of the photos we have seen have a tank and the WDLR in them together, in fact I can't think of one. I may be pushing it a bit by building a traction engine to tow a howitzer down the road at the back of the layout, ideally we need a horse drawn general service wagon or a suitable lorry, I also have a model T to turn into a staff car. Cheers Mike (Best ask Rob to alter the thread title slightly....)

Thanks everyone, Hobby Holidays sell a WW1 tank kit, its very nice and although it is tempting, we are trying to avoid clichés where possible. The only way I could see us getting away with one would be if it had been destroyed, and the kit is a bit pricey to do that too it. The name might be incorrect, I'm not sure though as I don't speak more than maybe 2 words of French... Its supposed to be a translation of Bridge Farm, or Farm by the Bridge (I think) Cheers Mike

Looks like it might well be PLM, I think one or two figures look familiar. If its someone else's range I'd love to know whose it is! Mike

It might be PLM castaways http://www.ukmodelshops.co.uk/suppliers/40796-PLM_Cast_A_Ways We have a few of their figures. Whereabouts on the 7mm Assoc. website did you see them? Cheers Mike