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Just found this and I am seriously impressed with this brilliant example of modelling using everyday bits and bobs. Superb results, looking forward to the finished article.

Anybody heard any news about these recently?

Celtic fan?

Talisker for me. The peaty smokiness is divine. I successfully converted the missus after I popped the question on the footbridge at Sligachan on Skye 6 years ago, and subsequently consumed a significant amount of the stuff at the Sligachan Hotel straight afterwards to celebrate (she said yes btw!)

Really enjoying this!

Optimism required here please gents, a spot of lube and a quick polish, that's all she needs......

Congratulations RMWeb! Here's to the next ten. I dread to think how many hours/days/weeks/months I have spent on here cumulatively if It was all added up. Perhaps the tech guys could put a little 'time spent on site' feature below our icons? Maybe not though, it might come as a shock....

I'd like to know what the third coach is, the one hiding behind the bridge parapet!

Aside from steam, the Wanaka Transport Museum is fantastic, hundreds of cars, planes, trucks, etc. Lake Wanaka is nice to cycle around. Are you going to Milford Sound? It would be a shame to go all that way and not see it - it is breathtaking. There is a lesser known Sound close to Milford, less accessible but not nearly as busy/touristy, and by all accounts even more spectacular. Its name escapes me I'm afraid. The long drive to Mount Cook is fantastic, as is the 60 ish mile drive back up the same road you've just come down! Lake Tekapo is bleak and beautiful, or at least it was in the Kiwi winter when I visited.

Love this. 28/07/86 was my 13th birthday, and about a mile and a half from where this photo was taken, up on Firthview Road I would soon wake up to find a Hornby Class 47 (BR blue 47568) as a present from my parents. Happy days.

Perhaps you'd be kind enough to tell me!

Hi all, Merry Christmas to you. Thanks for the kind words regarding the 83, all is very quiet on that front I'm afraid, fatherhood taking priority over modelling activities. I will finish it one day, just don't know when!

Love this so far! More please!

Interested to see the K4 project moving along nicely. Any chance you may ever market one or two of the resin body castings? It would be such a shame to underuse that beautiful master mould!

Chaps, some of you are getting confused between two entirely different prototypes. The one Bachmann have produced is an ex-LMS Inspection saloon, originally a non-passenger carrying vehicle (apart from some use on the Kyle line in the 80's as a revenue spinner when redundant from its main role) used by Inspectors to inspect track, lineside equipment, engineering work, etc. I think Rick and BR(S) are confusing this with the ex Class 101 DMU vehicle converted for use on the Kyle line in the 80's exclusively as an attraction and as a means of extracting more cash from tourists. The latter is not available in this configuration as an RTR model.

The Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway's line from Spean Bridge to Fort Augustus has a bit of infrastructure still in tact. I cycled the Great Glen Way from Fort William to Fort Augustus yesterday and although I knew of the I&FAR I had never before explored the route. I couldn't help imagining the fantastic travel possibilities had this line remained open and indeed been extended to Inverness as originally envisaged. My Dad told me a story of an American woman who enquired of him (at Inverness Tourist Information Centre where he once worked) what the train times were between Inverness and Fort William. Apparently it took several attempts to explain to her before she finally understood that there were actually no direct trains between Inverness and Fort William, indeed there wasn't actually any track physically connecting the two places, and that she would have to travel via Glasgow if she wished to make the journey by rail. It was the lack of a railway line that really threw her, she just thought my old man was being difficult! There is a group trying to restore Invergarry Station and relay some of the track. I have no connection with them, their details are in one of the photos I took yesterday of Invergarry Station. Also attached are some photos of the features just to the north of Invergarry, including the bridge over Calder Burn which flows into Loch Oich. The 1931 photo of the station complete with covered subway makes a fascinating comparison.

Go on, share the love. Lots of us on here would love to see some 86/0 action. I personally have all the bits, no time to build however. What's the plan Wombat man?

E3123 was a Class 86. Or are you talking about the lower locomotive identified in the caption as a Class 85?

Agree with above, more pics please Lee, especially the completed model.

No! Finish it, don't let all your work go to waste. See if you can beat Rapido trains to it.....

Bought a couple this morning at Westwood Cross Shopping Centre. One left now in WHS. K4 here we come!

Thanks for the photo at Beeston chaps. If there are any more hidden away out there I'd love to see them.

That's interesting; I don't suppose there are any photos of it at Beeston Freightliner Yard that anyone knows about? I'd love to see them if there are.

I wouldn't consider paying £59.95 for a regular 'service' coach that would run in a rake, but for a one off, high quality single item that can run by itself behind a loco, and finished to a higher standard than I could achieve with a kit, I don't object too much at the price of this item.