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  1. Hal Nail
    Not in any way taking sides but this highlights why some manufacturers have said that the comments can be a minefield they'd rather avoid: I've read other people who claim to have sanded through the paint and were equally adamant it was not electric! ps no wish to re-open this debate - merely giving an example of the conflicting info they have to sift through.
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    All of my neighbours have noisy work done throughout the time I have been stuck at home. As a result my amplifier has slowly increased from 1 to 11.
  3. Hal Nail
    I would argue yes! Theres a whole section of the forum on track and most of the layout builds I read discuss the merits of handbuilt track, point rodding and prototypical safety features etc.
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    1/50 is much smaller, not bigger. A lorry with a driver posed alongside would be very obviously too small for example. That doesnt mean every model is accurate of course.
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    Similarly i was asking about lamp irons the other day and just noticed CRT do them after i shelled out on Slaters!
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    CRT on their compensation unit etch https://www.crtkits.co.uk/index.php/9/94114/
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    I think theoretically the physics says it is rubbish but fortunately no one has told Jimmy Anderson that! Conversely of course, everyone knows a shiny new bike goes faster.
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    In cricket, I believe reverse swing, when the ball is older, involves the rougher side going through the air faster than the highly polished shiny side (hence reverse).
  9. Hal Nail
    I stripped a Dapol brake van in IPA and the lettering came off well before it had any impact at all on the body colour. No guarantee that would work when needed of course!
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    Problem with the speaker or the chip?!
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    I must put some shots up but I've been working on a second hand ABS LNER high goods which I picked up for £15: generally in pretty good shape but was missing the yokes. I confess I was going to make do with just the visible rod between the brake arms but I have a slightly looser attitude to the underside detail!
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    Hi, About half way down the text it says price list (underlined) and still links to the old one, so you've got both up at the moment!
  13. Hal Nail
    For what its worth my Dapol locos (14xx, 57xx, 08) all run impeccably smoothly and if I had one that didnt, I would check it is actually ok before modifying it.
  14. Hal Nail
    I live in West London on the Greenford branch right next to the old GWR sports ground but mum lives in Allbrook. I got drenched just cycling the couple of km from parkway up Twyford road!
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    Not a phrase you hear often! I'm heading there now to see parents and I suspect I'm going to get very wet.
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    Ayr Road

    Hal Nail replied to jcarta's topic in 7mm+ modelling

    I do like that carflat. Did your Wayoh bogies turn up? I've just got some GWR 9 foot Americans and the cast sides are a different wheelbase to the brass etch (the sides are in between 8 and 9 foot). I've got in touch with where I bought them but just interested if that's normal? Are the carflat bogies Wayoh or the Easy builds own?
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    Funnily enough I read how to do this 2 days ago (may have been on PWR's thread come to think of it). A wooden peg, self tapped using the nut. I've never had to do this but such a neat solution I'm looking for an excuse now!
  18. Hal Nail
    All looks very convincing. Is the frame dirt a blend or just one the standard colours?
  19. Hal Nail
    Yes and the other method, covering the lot with rust, letting it dry and then roughly removing it, works best on a factory finish, otherwise you just take the main colour back off as well!
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    Its working fine now. My phone has being doing random things for the last few days - call me a cynic but I suspect they send stuff overnight to mess them up once they decide its time you spent more on a new one. Anyway enjoyed that vid. I've tried the salt method, and covering the lot in rust before rubbing most off but haven't done the sponge yet so will give that a go.
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    Is this a new format? Phone says it doesnt support it although I think my phone is on its way out so may be me.
  22. Hal Nail
    Presumably if you are doing something long like 90 degree turn in a solebar, you just have to do a section at a time and only bend it slightly, then move along and do the next bit to the same shallow angle, then go back to the start and bend a bit more etc so the "twist" in the bit being bent up is never very great?
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    I wanted a lined green without topfeed in 7mm some time ago and as a result did loads of research for a west country loco c1958 and drew a blank. I ended up doing 1451 and bending the timeframe as it lost its topfeed c1961/2 after a boiler swap. I now have a Dapol as 1419. ironically their black version has a top feed so I used their 58xx which came without and retro fitted the autogear.
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    Now for many years I have been convinced that mr mmp has an extensive spy network - like a sort of modelling secret police - that picks up whenever his kits are discussed. We shall soon see if I have a mole
  25. Hal Nail
    How about two next to each other and create an incline railway?
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