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You're very kind Bill, the seat pattern is a bit on the bold side I think I may airbrush a fine coat of blue to loose some of the boldness, the roof is a better fit than it looks in the pictures as it was just resting on for the photos, 2 screws from the under side of the floor up through the toilet and kitchen compartments hold it down tight with brass nuts soldered to brass off cuts epoxied to the inside of the roof. I don't fit the roof permanently to any vehicle with glazing in case something comes loose inside. The interior comes out in 3 sections at the moment, handrails and windscreen wipers, curtains etc will be fitted after painting and glazing.

Oh dear Bill, I was hoping you had forgotten about that.... you should know how long it takes me to complete anything, I’m still building the layout I started 42 years ago! The observation saloon has stalled at the painting stage, having had problems with my airbrush and loosing confidence in my painting abilities but at the moment I’m working through my many half finished projects hoping life will be long enough to compete them so it WILL get finished in the not too distant future. Here’s a few pictures:- Westward 4mm scale BR/WR dia Q13 inspection saloon.

Hi Bill, I'm sorry to hear of your 16XX problems, mine runs superbly on my 30+ year old home made controllers. About 32 years ago I was sent on an electronics coarse at work, part of which was to complete a project back at my work site before returning to complete the second part of the training, for my project I chose to build toy model railway train controllers taking the design from a model railway electronics book I have and ordering the parts to make several controllers, which I have to say look very like John's voltage regulators, these I have powered from the 16v ac outlet of my old H&M controllers or the 20v ac outlet of an ancient transformer that my father procured from somewhere to power my boyhood Scalextric set.

Full brake and pigeon van please. Could use the auto too, happy to pay postage.

This has disappeared from TMC site again, what does that mean?

DW150285 at Laira in 1969 looks to be very similar. https://flic.kr/p/2iik57v

and another...

Does this help? Shepton Mallet.

I've just had an email receipt for my payment from the Guildford shop, so will the model come from Stoke road, Guildford or Trelowarren Street, Camborne? I used to work from Stoke road Guildford back in the 1980s when motorcycle dispatch riding for Cycle Courier.

Thanks for the reply, good to see these will be back in stock soon, are the treble pigs also becoming available?

I can't seem to find the pig iron loads on the TMC web site, is it not available any more?

At what sort of dates did the 117 and 118s get fitted with corridor connections, were they still green liveried when this happened or had they been repainted blue by then?

Yes... saw that one coming. Just thought it was worth a mention, someone may know what the markings were? At least having noticed these it will give me (and maybe others) some 'improvements' to make when the model arrives. I didn't mean it as a criticism.

In the picture I mentioned in my previous post which shows the veranda end to the right, I noticed there is a ‘NOT IN COMMON USE’ marking on the right with a plate above this with further marking which I’m unable to make out. Also the buffers are black ribbed and the sole bar is black, is it too late to incorporate these? The picture was taken in May 1958.

Having got the late Peter Gray's book 'West Country Railways' for Christmas which has a loverly picture of the BR liveried road van on the Wenford line I think I really must order one.

When I ordered my 16XX they said they didn’t need my subs number, hope I don’t get charged the full price!

Is this too good to be true? https://www.vvaidheeki.com/32067a-Bachmann-oo-gauge-class-43-039warship039-d836-039powerful039-br-blue-p-468773.htm

I have been following this thread with interest and I'm currently adding pictures of the line through Okehampton to my Flickr pictures just in case anyone's interested. See link at the bottom of my posts or ‘click’ on the picture.

As you say the tanks are present on the CAD images also the guard irons so hopefully these will be on the model, no sanding pipes but at least this will give me some 'improvements to make. Yes I probably should have raised this earlier but thought maybe it was just me and it was a general feeling when viewing the pictures of the pre- production sample. I hadn't pined it down to any particular thing until recently viewing the drawings, and I guess the items I mentioned are important for the look of the 'face' of the model.

I know it’s a pre-production sample, and I have kept quiet till now but I was a little disappointed by these pictures, the extra orange/red lining will help but it just looks a bit devoid of detail, for example the tanks under the buffer beams and sanding pipes are missing, maybe these will be added on the production models, after all this is price wise quite a high end model, and yes I have paid my deposite.

That looks very good Adam, I have built 4 and have 5 more not yet started, can I ask who's transfers you used.

and DW150302 at Laira, but it still seems shy about showing its compartment side. From Fred Caster on Flickr.

I beleave this to be DW150302 attached to the Laira crane at Burngullow in Cornwall on May 1, 1977 attending an engineers steam crane which had toppled over.

I’ve just fitted David’s 3D printed auto gear to my Bachmann auto coach having received them on Monday. The baggage end I managed to split in 2 while filing out the slot for the coupling spring but this made it much easier to fit to the underside of the coach around the coupling, I used an Ambis Coupling hook with Smiths LP8-A links, the hook was set back as closely as possible in order to get the buffers touching the buffers of my Bachmann 6412 pannier tank. Nothing in my opinion looks worse than the coach bouncing off the buffers of the loco, my corners are a minimum 3 foot radius with points mostly B7 or larger and this I find work fine with the buffers just contacting on straight track and buffers compressing on the inside of corners, the pannier has sprung buffers but the coach does not......yet. In conclusion I must say Davids prints are very fine and really give the idea of all the mechanical gubbins under the ends of the coach.

Waterslide. Do keep us posted with pictures of how you get on.