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Well as it 'appens, they probably work better that way round. A very clever bloke, a real rocket scientist who also happened to hand build a race motorbike around a snowmobile engine, turned up at a friends house in Florida during Daytona Bike Week and relayed this pearl of wisdom. If you take a brick, put in a wind tunnel and get it's Cd (drag coefficient), then round off the front face of the brick and you'll find it's Cd drops as you'd expect. However, if you now pick up the brick, spin it 180* so the flat face is now facing forward and the curved end facing backwards, the Cd drops even further! How the air leaves the object is just as critical, if not more so, as the shape of the front.

I'll be very interested to hear the outcome of the gas pipe query. It's something I'll need to know for a few of my future builds and possibly for the Siphon C that is languishing in the "To finish off one day" box. I really need to check if they still had gas lighting in the mid 30's.

They must be Hornby panniers.

A bit late replying to this but anyhow... Rapido have got it pretty much spot on to me, a very close match to the Phoenix colour. Some kind soul also sent them the LMS paint schedule to work off too, so they had the recipe originally used to mix the paint. 😉 This contains an amount of black, making it more brown than the orangey BR colour that springs to most people's mind when they hear "bauxite". Phoenix also have a reputation for getting their colour matches accurate so I'm more than happy that they have got this right too.

Hopefully they realise some requests are just daft and not worth making and would result in a drop in quality.

I'm not a fan of Railmatch, their colours all look off in one way or another. Their light and dark stone are well off and GWR freight grey is way too light so not surprised their LMS bauxite is wrong too.

Easily. 🙂 The push rods line up on both sides.

Whilst mere mortal drivers get 3 place grid penalties, it seem the Lord God Max only gets a slap on the wrist for impeding. I thought the FIA were starting to be more consistent in their handling of penalties, but no. Max Verstappen escapes penalties for impeding in nightmare Singapore qualifying | F1 | News (crash.net)

After his antics in the pit lane and impeding on track, he got his just deserts. I too laughed heartily.

I think you have it bang on Corbs.

Nope, the LMS paint recipe for bauxite has a fair amount of black in it, making the colour more brown than most people have the misconception of.

This one ^

I'm glad to see you are keeping your sense of humour under arduous circumstances Jim. Hope it all works out!

Yes, don't be the muppet using his lathe to turn some steel, halfway through the job thinking "maybe I should put my safety glasses on" and then seconds later seeing a slow motion vapour trail heading right for their eye. Luckily it was steel, Igrabbed one of my welding magents stuck to the dexion racking in my workshop and the chip of steel pinged out of my eye. It still hurt like f#@% though. I don't think ally would have been easy to get out. Now I always remember to don glasses first.

Agreed, somewhere like A Nod To Brent could be more neutral ground for comparisons. I have deliberately refrained from comparison comments with this being the manu's thread , limiting any comments to the AS model and posted the pics only due to the request.

When running my AS one on a test loop, pure DC controller, it needed to be wound up to 2-3 on the controller before it took off. 0-10mph in a fraction of a second. I never got to try it on my normal ECM PWM controller, I would hope would have responded better with that. That is why people like to see the ability to do a slow crawl (well it is why I look for it at least), not to run it like that round the layout at that speed, but so you know that moving off will happen gracefully with no sudden bursts of speed.

Here's some I took the other week. Side on view with camera staying on the tripod and locos carefully lined up to marks on the track to ensure no differences in perspective. Also a top-down view.

Shakespeare was a doddle. Try Chaucer.

You keep repeating this strawman. Moving from a fixed water charger/rate based on your property to a water meter is not comparable with changing the type electric or gas meter you have. For gas and electric, I have always paid for what I use. Moving to a water meter did allow me to save money, but only because I was being overcharged for my actual usage before on the fixed charge. Totally incomparable and trying to claim otherwise is extremely disingenuous.

Same here, had an IT director who liked to use that phrase. What he really meant was don't tell me things that mean I actually have to do some work. Like finding the most appropriate person/team who can resolve the actual problem that has been raised.

There's a whole book's worth of management speak that is just as bad, including some pet hates, lets not boil the ocean, let's circle back around to that.

Thanks, Simon. No need to apologise, better to get it all right and be happy with pushing out the best product. :)

And they're on the bottom, you can't see them, so who cares?

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Hi Simon, is there a date for release of this book? I had a look on the Wild Swan site but couldn't see it listed yet.