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OK, I thought I could get away without comment on this topic but no luck, had a dig around to illustrate some of the ads in the first post.. Utility vans, just a bit heavy being all white metal GWR shunters truck MR brake vans plastic kits ESANEL MR white metal kit Peco wagon kits, geat conversion fodder as the chassis is almost as good as the 00 version. I have a few Triang cattle wagons, 12T vans and 16T minerals with peco chassis. Strange thing is they are not all numbered/finished. Was this a way to use up unsold stocks of body shells? BEC type 4, not the most accurate model, especially front on but easy to motorise with 2 bogies. Accessories, the GEM signals for TT are excellent looking models Wrenn accessories, uncoupling ramps, or a 2 inch piece of acetate and buffers

J2808 is very interesting, I had often wondered how far into the 70s did maroon coaching stock last, so the two vehicles in that rake are quite a surprise. Cant say I have seen any other maroon coaches in the pics that late.

Working Class Man - Jimmy Barnes

Now this is plain madness http://www.ebay.com.au.....tem33c2fdff88 Needless to say the umpteen other listing for the same book at around $11 looked a little more tempting until I found one at 3 pounds.

Well I sort of have a lot of Triang TT......nuff said

Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight) - ABBA

A couple more, this conversion process is really quite fun. K3 on Hornby Ivatt chassis, makes a nice margate looking loco and was a very good fit. Butler Henderson on an L1 chassis, nice fit but alot more involved cutting the body apart. Not helped by the brittle nature of the plastic moulding and inability to take any form of glue. At least the backhead fits behind the motor well enough.

A latecomer to this topic and the GBL series. I only discovered these from looking at RMWeb and somehow totally missed the partwork here. Looking at the efforts to motorise and given a nice scrap box of old triang 00 got me thinking. A quick browse of ebay and I found a good few of these including the C class, Director, T9, K3 and caley single all for around $10 each. So a plan was hatched, given the good but crude nature of these models, a workplan is underway to convert as many to triang mechanisms. The plan is T9/Director - triang L1 k3 - Hornby Ivatt C Class - jinty Caley 123 - triang Not sure about the royal scot just yet, was going for a shortened princess but even that is too short. First off the line tonight C with jinty chassis in the triang midland 3f style Motor in the cab..... This conversion worked first time with no accidents apart from cutting the wrong end off the part under the boiler. Might have to do a proper conversion on the other one I got with a 20 pound Bachmann jinty chassis from ebay.

Radio Free Europe - R.E.M

Blue Sky Mining - Midnight Oil

A Day in the Life - Beatles

All around my Hat - Steeleye Span

Together in Electric Dreams - Philip Oakey/ Giorgio Moroder.

Down Under - Men At Work

Have done it once on our local railway here. Was actually alot of fun. However the trip I did was about 300 yards and cost $20 so well worth it in value for money.

Crazy for you - Madonna

My Lovely Horse - Fr Ted Crilly and Fr Dougal McGuire

Foxy Lady - Jimi Hendrix

Crazy little thing called love - Queen

I'm Still Standing - Elton John

Computer Games - Mi Sex

Dancing Queen - ABBA

Over here with compulsory voting, being in hospital is no reason not to vote as they have special hospital booths for just such an occasion. One of the issues coming up with the last few elections here was the very large increase in pre-poll, absentee and postal votes, would appear that voting on the day is just too inconvenient for some.

And the time to eat the Pizza afterwards, apologies to Arnie Rimmer

The right Bond for me, just as Tom Baker is the ultimate Dr Who. Octopussy was the first Bond film I saw when released, if seeing it on a 747 on the way to the UK counts. Good old BA, giving us the Best of British entertainment.