The Dorset Wanderer

Hi Steve, can you expand on that please? For a start what does Gkn mean? And what does RH&Co stand for?

No idea what RH and Co means.

GKN- Guest Keen and Nettlefold were the casting company which made these chairs for the GWR-marked 6-40.

Steve

A GWR Gkn chair from Staverton

Steve

This and other threads you are posting on

This is becoming childish and not constructive

Steve

Hello Steve, you don't look that old, just a year older than me eh ?, and I've been living in Dorset half my life - well there's no way I'm ever going back to Essex

Tfic

Steve

Both Devon & Cornwall are a damned sight wetter, Dorset is lucky as they both take most of the rain out of the prevailing winds. But don't tell anyone or it'll be flooded with 'grockles'.

But Paul as I have lived here for 67 years- we say come to sunny Dorset- but we don't tell you when!

Steve

Both Devon & Cornwall are a damned sight wetter, Dorset is lucky as they both take most of the rain out of the prevailing winds. But don't tell anyone or it'll be flooded with 'grockles'.

Would be very interesting to learn the prices- are they Scenix or Bachmann/Scaledale level?

Steve

 

I wanted a definition of "finescale wheel and track standards"  ie; is say SMP copperclad ok , or C&L, does it have to be EM or P4. Is 16.5 acceptable. "favouring" is another big word there. so unless it's EM. please tell me.

 

Colin  

So- what is the answer?

Steve

Looking forward to showing Teignford in a different configuration from its first appearance.

Steve

https://dorsetrailwaymodelling.blogspot.co.uk/

What you're talking about is fine if Hornby can get as many production slots as they need with their manufacturers. But things aren't like that, and so any reruns will have to be fitted in with all the other production that those factories are committed to.

You really have to understand how China works. Having dealt with them over several years and visited once- these factories churn out thousands of products a day for many customers worldwide. If your order is for$50000 and you are promised a production slot- then someone else comes along with an order for $60,000 then guess who gets the slot? Only when a container is booked on to a ship can you be reasonably confident that its on its way- provided there isn't a fire!!

Steve

The production sample seen at Ilton and Shepton Mallet drew no such remarks so the consensus is that it is just about right- I can't remember 1935 in detail so I will just enjoy my locomotive when it arrives.

Steve

Had copies at Platform Models and Bournemouth Model Railway exhibition so it may be specific sites have been targeted

From what I heard the container was being loaded ten days ago which would mean despatch from China before Chinese New Year which if missed could delay nearly a month

Steve

New Bagnal and Scargoey(hope that's right or the trolls will get me ) plus Roco and 3D printed on Kato chassis. Modified 3mm brake van plus coaches by Peco,Egger, Parkside and Roco- does that make me a Phillistine? No it makes me a modeller!

Layouts in 3mm- published twice in RM,exhibited twice at Warley, 4mm awaiting detailing and 009 just for the hell of it!!!

I have never had a roundy roundy layout before so I will make one in 009.

Am I a bad person?

No-Just a modeller.

Steve

Well said...

Steve

Don't think anyone called Jeremey will get the job

Tesco sell Whitefurze 9/10 litre boxes which stack with R/U for £4

Steve

Bought one today- one word-Fantastic

As I understand it, packaging is something of an obsession with the Chinese and has to pass certain stringent official tests which - at least one manufacturer refers to as 'The Chinese Drop Test' which I believe is a drop onto concrete from a certain height in which the contents of the package must emerge undamaged. Given that storage is really an issue for the customer to deal with, I think it's likely that packaging design will always concentrate on passing the official tests. On a personal basis I dislike most of the modern model packaging, based on years of having to unpack and re-pack models in a dimly lit photographic studio! I prefer the foam liner type of packaging used by Kernow but the bit of yellow ribbon is a pointless complication. (CJL)

Actually from 1 meter is the norm. Mostly demanded by various UK and HK based companies- has to withstand the rigors of delivery by various courier companies(loose term) attempts at destroying the contents. You have to see it to believe what some attempt to deliver.

Suggest looking at Cambridge Custom Transfers site- most if not all can be produced in 3mm scale. Write to S/H trader of 3mm Society- ask him if he has what you want - AGM at Swindon in a week or so worth making the effort.

Satisfied 3mm member for many years see my blog below.

Good luck

Steve

Whatever you decide, I can assure you that the first taste of the new barrel will result in the reaction "It's not as good as last year".

I heard it often in Young's houses when the first Winter Warmer arrived.

Youngs Winter Warmer- takes me back nearly 40 years to the Crooked Billet on Wimbledon Common- frozen pond then YWW- memories!!!

Worsley Works did offer a Leyland Lynx 'scratch-aid' kit a few years ago (not sure if it's still available though).

It is as far as I know- contact Allan.

3MM Society produce an AEC Regal half cab plus Brynkits do or did an OB Bedford both to 100:1. The Minix model was more N scale.

3SMR advertise a Routemaster also.

Steve

  

I test-drove a C5 when they were new, at a demo event in Hyde Park. The experience was, errm, unnerving.

I remember going up Tottenham Court Road on day two of C5 release and they all had a flimsy pole with a flag on top.