Kylestrome

You'll be telling us it's an AI generated image next. 🙄

You can call it what you like, but I'd say it's strikingly similar to a Tang Band TO-2008S! 😎 PS. Sorry. I'm a bit late to the party ... 🙁

P4 is no joking matter. I had to suffer all kinds of pain to earn my hair shirt! 😢

Guilty, m'lord:

But throwing your toys out of the pram in public is so satisfying, don't you agree? ... 🙄

I doubt it would make it any worse.

It's possible to buy acrylic polish, but failing that you could try polishing with a little toothpaste.

Norwegian?

Now I'm getting ideas about making an extension, or maybe a second BLT?

It's a 'might have been' which can represent any company in any period (but not 'modern image', as that would be well after its sell-by date).

The trouble with these highly detailed Read To Eat jobs is that bits tend to fall off them. You've lost your tomato!

It's from a kit I stashed away in the eighties, but with extra details.

Not quite what you were expecting, am I right? 😁

You forgot the additional 6 Euro DHL handling fee (at least in Germany), regardless of package value or size. David

Mr & Mrs Blue Tit have moved into their summer residence at the end of our back yard.

This should be compulsory viewing for all those who worry about getting the exact correct shade of bauxite paint. Together with this one:

This thread hasn't drifted, it's been blown off course!

What a glorious mix of imperial and metric measurements! Quite useful, just the same. 👍

Tim, how do you make all the bends in the copper pipes without them going flat or kinking, or is that not a problem? David

I've found them to be the most frustrating wagon kits I've ever encountered, and the only way I can make anything usable out of them is to replace much of the under frame with accurately cut pieces of Evergreen styrene strip. HTH, David https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/118922-kylestrome’s-4mm-workbench/?do=findComment&comment=4303865 https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/118922-kylestrome’s-4mm-workbench/?do=findComment&comment=4980054

I find the that the best way to kickstart the modelling mojo is to break out another kit. Wagon building is my favourite aspect of railway modelling and I’ve got to the stage now where I can almost do it on ‘autopilot’. Unfortunately though, that can also lead to the odd gaff as it did with this BR 13t Medium open wagon. The kit contains two different sets of side frames and it was almost inevitable that, once I’d achieved a perfectly square and smooth running underframe, I would discover that I’d fitted the wrong ones! I decided that the easiest (!) way to solve the problem was to carve off the spring details and replace them with the ‘J’ hanger spring mouldings from the correct side frames. All-in-all, a couple of hours of delicate work with a scalpel. After the solvent had hardened, the rest was a restful process of detailing involving the usual mix of brass, nickel silver and styrene bits. A false floor of lead sheet provides a bit of useful weight. It will be mostly covered with a load of spoil when the wagon enters service with the PW department. It still needs some vacuum pipes (funny how you notice these things just after posting the pictures here 🙄). David PS. No prizes for spotting the part that launched itself from my tweezers and had to be replaced with white Plastikard.

Hands up everyone who klicked that link! 🙋‍♂️ PS. I also had to check what a "Prince Abert" is ...

Whenever I write more than a few lines for a post, I usually write it in a text document first. That way one has the original data in case things go pear-shaped on the forum. HTH, David

I reckon the guy in the blue hardhat has a guilty look about him.

I'm past tense.