BG John

The magnets look a lot bigger than the York Modelmaking ones. Mine are quite weak (or maybe gentle is a better word as I think that can be a good thing for some jobs), and certainly wouldn't pull anything straight, except maybe a sheet of paper or very thin plastic sheet. I'd be interested to know how powerful the EDM ones are.

They've got it wrong. There's no join with a big gap at the bottom of the chimney . Plenty of potential for adding lots of tiny detail. Are you going to add it?

Does anyone make the Black Hawthorns? Don't know why I'm asking really, except that I've got a family connection with H&P, as my big brother used to work there, so it's tempting even though I've got enough projects to keep me going for years already. No 1 still exists up North somewhere, and is privately owned. I was one of the last people to drive it at H&P, although only a few yards as I was quite young at the time!

Will you be doing these in 7mm scale? I might have a use for a couple.

"hand painted by professional artist". My initial reaction is that professional was typed by mistake, instead of something with four letters ending in double s, but I suppose if there's a market for them someone needs to supply it! I could do with earning some money, so maybe I could set up in competition!

One of the activities on the site could involve the import of parrots from Norway, in Pollybulk wagons .

Which then raises the question of what make A, B and C were, and who makes them! And did they have more than one Peckett? http://www.huntleyandpalmers.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=huntley&f=generic_largerimage_postsearch.htm&_IXFIRST_=39&_IXMAXHITS_=1&m=quick_sform&tc1=i&partner=huntley&text=railway&tc2=e&s=mENkley6D5U

If the name of the yard appears in the wrong place, it may also appear as Nilap, so there could be a Python connection: Bolton/Notlob, dead parrots

The grip isn't incredibly strong, certainly nowhere near as strong as a screw or spring clamp could be, and I don't know how it compares with yours Chaz, but they are certainly useful and do the job.

Not sure if these are the same ones, but this is a York Modelmaking magnetic clamp on a Coopercraft wagon I'm building (first wagon I've built for a couple of decades, or more!). I put a piece of card packing on the end to get it square. I actually used two clamps on each corner while sticking them, attached top and bottom, ran some solvent down the middle of the side, then slid each clamp down in turn and applied solvent at the top and bottom. I'm still getting used to using them, as I've only had them a few days, so will hopefully refine my methods in time. This shows the clamps more clearly. This is a Peco wagon I bought not quite finished on eBay, whose end fell out when I was about to fit the buffers! The reattached joins are slightly better than they look here, as I was still working on it!

I don't. The photos I've seen of 3D prints put me off trying them!

I hope not, or I might have to model the West Somerset Mineral Railway, on top of all my other projects!

MAY post photos isn't good enough. You're committed now .

Would the Ixion Hudswell Clarke and Dapol Terrier go round that curve? No would be a good answer to save me adding any other projects to my to-do list, but I'm curious for future reference!

Or like this, that I'll just link to so people who don't like rude words can avoid it! http://weknowmemes.com/2012/12/-christmas-lights/

Or better still, pre 1900. Some could have dumb buffers, that would be a real novelty for collectors, and make me happy!

You're not planning to convert it to EM as well are you? If so, please warn me so I can stop following this thread. Otherwise I might be tempted to buy one to do the same, and backdate to early 1900s condition. This would mess up my plans for my GWR BLT, by adding extra work creating foreign trains with running powers!

Why do "collectors" collect working models that are made inaccurate in major details, in order to make them work for slightly less than 20%* of buyers? Surely displaying items in glass cabinets, with steam roller wheels a scale 7 inches too close together, big lumps of plastic on the ends to take unrealistic couplings, and that will never run, is a bit weird. If I collected models to put on display, I wouldn't be bothered about a motor and gears, especially if it blocked out daylight where the prototype had it, but would want correctly gauged scale wheels and accurate details at both ends, so it looked as much like the real thing as possible. * With a small percentage of P4 and EM modellers who have to go to great lengths to alter them!

I think you've helped me find what I'm looking for! Not American, but I might be able to turn Sutton Yard into a British O-16.5 layout. Thanks.

She was trying to impersonate the Husky that kept popping up in the corner of photos a while ago!

I missed the best ones! They'd been removed before I remembered to take a camera with me.

Can you find photos of other houses in the area with bay windows? They may well be same. I'd have thought they would have been built by local builders who did it the way they'd always done.

It would be useful to know with all these sophisticated new locos, what the scope is for converting to EM and P4, and whether it's been considered in the design. It may only affect a minority of modellers, but then modellers who really care about the detail may only be a minority of buyers anyway, compared to collectors and those who aren't too bothered about such things.

Earlier this year when new speed limit signs were being put up on the A484, a number of empty posts appeared along the road between Cardigan and Carmarthen. A phantom signwriter started making use of them, with a variety of hand painted signs. A while after the council, I assume, removed them, another would appear. I don't usually have a camera with me when I walk down the road, so only managed to record a couple just outside my village. The posts are still there, but the signwriter must be in hiding, or got caught!