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I have a tin of Precision GWR green and have made a start on a spare Bachmann body (one of those mis-numbered ones that appeared on ebay several years back at a silly cheap price). Was hoping just a touch up will work as it's already in the "Great Western" Livery I want.

Have you done any in GWR green or are they all black ones?

Have a look at the 4th picture down in post #1 here. Not a cattle wagon, but DCIII brakes set out in the same layout on a GWR open wagon. Edit: adding pic directly here.

Only just discovered this very informative set of pictures while on a Google search. Thanks for taking the time to take and post these, Ernie!

Similarly with Fairford, the line was supposed to have ended at Cheltenham and so all the facilities such as the turntable and goods yard are beyond the station.

Not all of us, I use the Phoenix Precision NE freight grey on all my unfitted NE wagons, it's pretty much the same colour as on Nelson's above.

The only reason there is two sets of brake gear is that is easier to produce. They are on the same sprue as the solebars, so by putting both side brake gear on the sprue, they just put two of the same sprue into the kit. These sprues are not used on all the GWR kits, this is an 11' wb wagon, only the Q1 provender in the CC range would share that wheelbase. I think the one's Jason is recalling is the 9ft wb sprues which have two different styles of brake hangers on them. The two sets on the cattle wagon are identical. If you are building a W1 with cross cornered brake levers, this would be a W1 that was converted from DCI or single side lever to DCIII and would need a left over right and right over left on the opposite side.

Using HTTPS does not mean you have to login. It secures the transmission of the traffic between the site and the client by encryption at the transport layer. You also get certificate authentication so you know you are on the right site.

It's been over 5 years now since that stopped. I can remember in an old job when the report that was sent to Capita (not direct to the BBC...) was found to be failing and was then discovered to have been so for several weeks. People were running round in a panic as it was a known legal requirement to send this info, but no one in IT had been told of the change in the law about 6 months previously and the report was left churning away until it failed!

I would have thought that "reasonable" would be a letter sent to your address with a name of someone who doesn't live there and there is no RTS address on the outside. You'd need to work out what was going on, fraud, mistake by a company etc so you can notify the sender. If, as often happens to me, you get a letter for a neighbour, then it is clearly not addressed to you or your property and should not be opened.

Credit ratings are on people not properties. The old days of a property giving you a bad score are long gone.

Do they offer an analogue version for those of use who haven;t moved over to DCC yet?

Dart is my "go to" place for wagon axleboxes.

It's one thing being able to create a statistic. It's something completely different being able to understand it and apply it correctly. Unless you are modelling the whole of the UK rail network, then this statistic is completely useless.

Have you fixed the wiper for the centre wheel yet?

That's one reason the Ignore function is so useful. A long while back, I got fed up with product threads being spammed with "look, if I photoshop this picture of the loco, it's a really nice model" pics, totally irrelevant to the actual models themselves and the faults people are trying to bring attention to.

Sprue cutters? Oh you mean side cutters. That's like "wedding flowers" or "funeral flowers" same normal flowers just with the price jacked up because a word have been added on to describe them. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-2-pcs-3-5-Precision-Flush-Mini-Wire-Cutter-Pliers-Cable-Snips-Side-Cutter-UK-/113005027756 will do the job, same tool, half the price, no fancy name or repackaging.

It's not just BG "engineers" that are full of it, when the pump on my boiler went I got in a local plumber heating "engineer" to replace it. He was very full of it, telling me all sorts of things that were obvious rubbish and eventually told me (after I watching him cross-thread one bolt...) the hex bolts on the pump were a special size and his hex key set cost him £100 and couldn't be bought by the public. After he'd replaced it but yet to fit the cover back on, he disappeared for 10 mins to take a phone call. So, knowing he was a billy bullsh*tter I popped open my toolbox, took out my hex keys to see what odd size is unavailable to mere mortals. Eyeballing the bolt, I nailed it first time and found the 5mm key fitted. That was the first and last time I used his services.

As Ron^3 says, Kingspan/Celotex is not stable and I would not recommend it after seeing first hand how it loses rigidity after the foil is removed.

Cars....

I have one part built (must get a round tuit...) for my PW train too. It consists of the crane, two P15 ballast wagons, a T12 sleeper wagon, a Macaw H, an AA6 PW van and a U12 brake composite pressed into PW usage.

The TAG branding is just that - commercial sponsorship branding, in the same way the RB car is not an Aston Martin. The new MGU-K was only introduced for Austria so has not been a factor for the previous races and Red Bull elected not to use it in Austria to prevent grid penalties for both drivers.

Let's not try to boil the ocean here...

Any comment? Ok - looks bloody amazing!

They do.