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the layout covers the period from early sixties (steam) to near enough closure very late sixties (Diesels). So steam will reapear when I turn the clock back.

Could the line be due for closure????????????????????? A photo special has been organised.

The A N Other name was I believe used when team lists were published in the local newspaper and said player may have been off work.

Black and White at Blackney.

As usual Rob excellent work, but wouldn't it look good, better in 7mm.

The Railcar now has correct destination blinds and is now populated.

After a bit??? of a struggle I managed to get the cab off and insert driver and second man. To be honest I'm not too sure if it was worth the effort. I'll let you make your mind up. It looks like someones in there but-------------------- By the way the bent hand rail has been straightened.

I've been painting some Modelu figures, drivers and second men for the class 14 and Railcar and I will be doing some passengers for the Railcar.

very glad that it's back, Shame about the lost photos. And an even bigger shaqme that the VERY annoying non advertising videos are still on my tablet, meaning that it is almost impossible to read as the video takes up about 20% of the screen. Andy can anything be done about them??

That requires Tony, and the rest of us who have also lost photos from our own threads to remember exactly which photos we posted. Not to bad for posts in the very recent pst but far more difficult for ones before that.

" I have had quite a few subs over the years and certainly found Warners (BRM) and Key Publishing (Hornby mag) to be very helpful and accommodating, even when I got in a muddle." You can add Railway Modeller to that list, always extremely helpful and they do send you a reminder when your subs are nearly up.

Yes so I heard I am contemplating buying.

Couldn't resist this one

After dropping of the Van at Forest Furniture D9502 continued to the colliery and is now returning to Blackney to run round its train. Like the Sling Branch trains tend to return with the brake van immediatly behind the loco mainly for braking purposes as the branch is steep but it also simplifies the run round at Blackney. D9502 runs round its train and finally leaves

A spec savers moment. Upon reading a thread on WT it was pointed out that the footplate sides wers loco green, something I had not noticed before an looking more crefully at prototype photos realised i had missed that. I started hunting round for a tin of loco green. I didn;t have one and whilst pondering noticed that the backscene seemed very close to said green. I unearthed a bottle of Tamya Flat Green (the colour used on the backscene and tried it out some black plasticard. It was very close so I decided to risk knowing it would be weathered which would bring it into line if it was too far out. It seems to have worked. Remember that the body has already been weathered and the footplate edge has not been. It appears to be a very close match. I think when weathered it will blend in quite nicely. All I need now is the gauze@ wire netting to go behind tha cab footsteps.

Should have gone to Spec savers!!!! Re: my post above it has been pointed out to me that the 9 was actually the bottom of an X and the top of a Z. On re-examining the photos far more closely I was wrong and my informant was right. Now changed to 8H(barely readable)00 at one end and 8F00 at @tuther end.

Something slightly different. The Minerva O gauge Class 14 On my layout Blackney Before anyone mentions The second reporting number being a number not a letter I have several photos taken in the Forest of a goods/photographers train with the reporting boxes showing Blank 9 0 0 I've assumed that a few days later as it was now a straigt goods train they just rolled down the 8. After all the train only ran twice a week on a one engine in steam branch, hardly any need to show where it was going. there was only one destination on the branch.

Paulbb I used Tcut and a small glass fibre scratch brush, used gently in a cicular motion on the roundal, one side was removed with no problems, the other side did take a very small patch of light green off but luckily this was under the lion so was covered up by the new Fox transfer. I was working on the principal that if it wasn't it would be covered by the weathering

Looks like Ben Ashworth has been visiting again and it now being 1967 has photographed D5902 bringing down a Vanwide to be shunted up the branch to Forest Furniture. and had time to nip into the goods yard fro this shot.

Some initial weathering

My Cortina Mk2 estate did the trick too but the best "full length load area" (ahem) was in my later Marina van. I think my BX estate probably beat that.

The minerva class 14 arrived last week, and despite what i had heard I am very pleased with it. There slightproblems with it I'll admit, the cab door on one side is the wong way round, and the colour of the cab might be on the light side and the roundal has a black ring rather than a cream ring on the outside. All photos taken from the side with the correct door as that's the way it wil run on Blackney So as it arrived On running in the crankpin to the jackstaff came loose, just neede unscrew , a dab of Evo stick on the thread and then screwed back in, problem solved. The next photo shows it with the old roundal removed a replaced with a correct Fox transfer one, number to one that was in the Forest D9502 (transfer Numbers come with the model as do the builder plates and the train reporting numbers and windows for the same). The builders plate etchings are lovely, painted black and then wiped over with wet and dry used dry. As you can see from the cab front that light green really does alter its look depending on the amount of light/shadow on it. Oh by the way its straight DC and runs very well and contaolably. On the rolling road it dispalayed a bit of a wobble but not on the layout at least at the speeds I am running it at. Net the bit I'm rally looking forward to WEATHERING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

So True, or you contemplate if I have to get down on the floor to pick it up. how am I going to get up.

Interesrtingly when I was thinking of going O gauge I showed a photo of Gordan Gravett' second book on my then 00 thread. and looked what has happened.