Daddyman

The Connoisseur Models one represents one type used behind Y9s (and no other class in no other region, despite Connoisseur's best attempts to sell kits); from photos it looks like these became obsolete at some point in the 1940s. The standard one by BR days had a longer wheelbase. One at Kipps was converted from a "modern" standard goods open of some sort. I'd question the claim that the later late LNER/BR ones were converted from redundant ex-NBR wagons as the wheelbase matches nothing in the NBR diagram books. I seem to remember contacting the NBRSG some years ago and they also had no idea where the tenders came from. Dr Euan Cameron's authoritative articles on the class in the NBRSG journal make no mention of the tenders' origins. I simply scaled mine from side-on-photos, knowing the wheelbase of the loco.

This is the way I've always done it and it works a treat - idea of @Portchullin Tatty: https://highlandmiscellany.com/tag/6-wheeled-coach/ A lot of people in the Scalefour Society seem to be sold on it too.

Now acquired, thanks.

Nice project. Nice execution.

As in the title. PM please if you have one you'd like to part with.

Info in the comments here:

I bought the early ones too, which have an additional problem: the blue won't match these new ones as Bachmann have improved it in recent years. I bought s/h Bachmann Mk1 to try to make a decent job of it, using some of @jjnewitt's bogies. Spent a while trying to hide the gashes yawning chasm where the sides meet the ends and decided it wasn't worth it - it involved removing the bufferbeams from the body and fitting them to the u/frame so that body and u/f could be separated; the ends could then be attached to the body and the chasm closed with filler, but the sides and ends just wouldn't mate up. So I binned it - the model is too long in the tooth for all that; it would still have had no window frames.

That's what I'm seeing too. But the "gashy" original releases are then going to look silly against these.

This book had quite a few (numerous?) errors in it, including for either the NBR Neilson 0-4-0 (Y9) or the Caley equivalent. I think it was revamped a few years ago, but I'm not sure how many of the errors were caught.

Interesting article here: https://www.ft.com/content/9f7f044e-1f16-11e9-b2f7-97e4dbd3580d

Probably because of this kind of thing (not a railway example, admittedly, but I'm sure figures could be found): "Since the 1990s, investment from the privatised English water companies has gone down 15%, and they've built up a debt mountain of over £60 billion [...]. Meanwhile, shareholders have received £72billion - £2 billion a year on average." From https://weownit.org.uk/public-ownership/water#:~:text=Since the 1990s%2C investment from,billion a year on average.

Considering this is coming from the nutjob side of the debate, it's actually quite rational. However, I don't think the motivation for any of this is contempt. Rather, it's organisations and public bodies trying to protect themselves from a lawsuit culture that grew up in (?) the late 1980s. And in my experience it's almost always the ones who complain most about health and safety law and other regulations that are the ones most ready to invoke that same law in fantasy lawsuits (the "I can sue you for that!" sorts). At the end of the day, what do the anti-H&S "brigade" (and, come to think of it, the anti-climate-action and the anti-woke "brigades") think they achieve? Is moral indolence really worth all the effort?

Rub the salt in, why don't you. 😉

Extremely disappointed to see you softening your position on this, Justin. Looks like I'm all alone now then... 😉

I can't believe intelligent people are giving this model airtime and oxygen. It's Heljan; what did you expect? Select "ignore thread" and move on!