Jack

The chapel and balcony were full to standing room only this morning for Bob's funeral. A fitting tribute to a top bloke and a superb craftsman. He'll certainly be missed.

I hope the recovery is going well Dave? I always tune in here for my pix-fix. Looking forward to some more when you're fighting fit again. Thanks for keeping this part of the forum interesting!!

Huge thanks to everyone who came along. It was another fantastic weekend, and there were some cracking layouts. We really enjoyed ourselves 😊

My son did this badge a couple of years back. The scout troop had been able to buy a bulk order of Airfix Spitfires and me109s at a discounted price. The price per plane was very reasonable, and John made a pretty good job of it. it would be great to encourage more troops to do a railway kit, but the planes were quite appealing. For the price I think they'd only have been able to get some unsexy 4 wheel open wagons!

Not a layout, the Wagon Yard (Trader) has had to pull out, so we have an extra layout instead. I saw Brief Encounter at Maidstone last month. It's a really interesting layout concept, although it did take a few minutes for my brain to adjust! Definitely brings something different to the circuit, so hopefully other exhibition invites will be forth coming. Although, come on Dawn, could you not afford a colour layout license 🤣

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Back this year at St Anselm's School on the Old Dover Road. Saturday 10am - 5pm, Sunday 10am - 4pm Adults £7, Children (5-15) £1 Layouts, trade, demonstrations, food and (weather permitting) outdoor train rides. Please note, sadly as per last year, there is only limited parking (for disabled visitors) on site. We ask everyone else to either park in the Dover Road Park and Ride (next door) or use the bus (numbers 15,16, 17 and 89). See the club website for more details and updates : www.ccmrs.co.uk

That's great, thank you - must look harder next time! Ta

Which layout is this? There is no label above that I could see, and I couldn't see it on the show website. It looks intriguing, and I love the way they have done the bridges between modules!

Unfortunately I didn’t get any snaps, but there were some enticing samples of these at the Folkestone show today. Not my era, but still very tempting!!

Yes, the brake rodding unclips - it is also quite flexible, so you can almost work around it. The NEM363 coupling mount also unscrews, which makes life a bit easier. Be warned, if you take both pockets off at once, the screws also hold the body to the chassis. I went for the option of gluing an NEM pocket on because I didn't have any other bits in my Kadee box and I was being impatient. It would be good to know which of the 140 series couplings works best with these.

So, being a Kadee users I was a little disappointed by the lack of NEM 362 pockets. However, thankfully the coupling mounts unscrew, so I cut them down and glued a spare pocket onto the remains, then replaced it and clipped a #19 kadee in. All good 😁

Wow - we often bemoan the aging of the model railway community, but look how young those Morris Dancers are ... I don't think I have ever been out and about in the last 20 years and seen Morris Dancers looking that youthful!!! As always David, such a great thread, thanks for sharing all the piccies!

A great weekend show ... despite the lack of parking and heating! Some fantastic layouts, and a fun weekend. huge thanks to those exhibitors who travelled such a long way - hope you got back ok?

Please note that this year we have lost our visitor carpark - the school are re-surfacing the area we normally use. Parking is available next door at the Dover Road Park and Ride, and there is a frequent bus service into the city. There will be a limited amount of disabled parking on site, but I must stress this is limited.

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Details in the flyer ... Poster Flyer 2023.pdf

I've been trying to find out some information on this as well.

Black for those on home service from introduction (1943) until demob (in the 7xxxx number range), green or kahki/brown for those destined for overseas service ... except some of the green ones didn't go straight overseas , so you can justifiably run both colours on a WW2 era layout ... although whether the green ones would have been seen on Big Four metals is another matter. Post war / demob (1947/48) all the military ones went green ... aside from the LMR blue ones of course (1945 onwards).

Hmm, I can kinda see where they are coming from with the lack of NEM pockets, but it doesn't take into account those customers that want to run them with other stock. I would have thought that if those couplings had been mounted in pockets, everyone would have been happy. This does seem a little retrograde. On models of this price I'm not sure I'm brave enough to start hacking around too much ... ... shame, as they do look exquisite!

I put mine on the rolling road today to run it in (I know the instructions say there is no need, but it has made a difference to the noise level). It has left a couple of small piles of what looks like brass filings on the test track. I can’t see where these have come from. Anyone else had this? It doesn’t look like they’ve come from the wheels or motion.

Thanks John. I think you're right about the couplings and I'll try some different tools. As for Duck, well I stopped short of hacking a Dapol Jinty into Thomas 😁

Ahh, yet more glaciers go galloping past ... but there has been some progress this week. Construction and modification laser cut buildings to create the low relief structures ... ... still not sure about the 3-links, they are quite fiddly, and Im concerned that wagons are going to disappear into that goods shed never to be seen again! None of the buildings are fixed, they'll be coming off the layout for painting in due course. I'm also working my way through the kit box and finishing the wagons, including the two grounded ones. ... and yes, Duck is in use as the test engine. All my other stick is fitted with Lenz gold decoders and stay alive. Duck is still only fitted with a Lenz silver as I have a custom sound project to go in there eventually.

Fab, thank you Martin.

Does anyone know the name of the layout which features in the "Micro Layout" banner of some of the current Railway Modeller mags? Can you remember when it featured as a layout in the magazine? Ta muchly