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Georgian Terrace Houses like those in the squares of London. 1920-30's rows of grimy 3 or 4 story Tenements. (Low relief & Full size).

There's a two week holiday in sunny Preston thrown in as well

Colour blindness is quite a common thing you know

I suppose you could put it on YouTube or some other site & link it here.

I'd nearly buy it just to see what was in the photo

Hi Colin. Don't use frog juices myself but as a matter of interest how do you manage that ? Tony.

If you click on that link & go visit shop it takes you to their Uk shop with Uk prices but if you select an item it takes you to the US prices with all the associated import duties etc. All very confusing

And don't forget the import duty thanks to E bay's Global Shipping Programme

And there's 5% off If there was 95% off it would still be too expensive

Run out of paint again Colin

He seems to although E Bay feedback isn't always reliable if you get what I mean There was a time when his postal charges were often more than the cost of the item of tat itself. Nowadays he seems to offer free postage although the prices being sought for the items themselves are still off the wall. Perhaps he does have items at reasonable prices if you're prepared to put yourself through the torture of finding them.

The seller is a well known E Bay purveyor of tat & general rubbish at exorbitant prices. Stuff you or I might give away or throw in the bin. Being old, dirty & preferably broken makes it rare & collectable. According to this seller that is. There are one or two others as well.

Weathered More like left out in the weather. You only have to look at who's selling it

Not down to you at all. E Bay seemed to have made a mess of it.

Didn't work for me. E Bay withdrew the discount voucher. Just had murder with them about it.

Here is some useful information taken from the above mentioned book by Carter. It may be of benefit to some. "1894. Wolverhampton abandoned the 1880 livery and fell into line with that used at Swindon. The old livery could however still be seen as late as 1900. 1894. For some time after this there were two locomotive greens in use, one described in sources as “Deep Holly” used at Wolverhampton and very similar to the previous Swindon green and the other described as “Middle Chrome green” used at Swindon. This latter shade was introduced on the 7’ 8” 4-4-2 engine No 3031 “Achilles” and was eventually adopted as standard up to 1951." Tony.

Yes it has samples at the rear of the book. I have a copy here myself but the samples are quite small. The samples are numbered rather than named.

Absolutely. Back when they used cellulose paint on cars, trucks etc you would notice that red vehicles would turn a shade of pink after a few years. The older varnishes made a huge difference to what a colour looked like. Sometimes an item that received two coats of varnish looked very different to an item that had received only one coat even though the base colour underneath was the same. Of course paints back in time were full of compounds that are unheard of in today's world. That's why when we used blow lamps to burn off old paint you were warned to wear breathing gear if the paint being burned off was pre 1960's. Tony.

People also need to remember that even though there was a set shade for a particular colour the mixing ratios of these shades were often in someone's head. Yes there was a set mixture ratio but it differed from place to place. That's why there were variations in the shades. When I started work in the painting trade over fifty years ago I learned how to mix shades from people many of whom were in their seventies. They had nothing written down, it was all in their heads. They used their eyes to tell when a colour was right. The strange thing is that they could produce the same shade over & over again with very little variation in the different batches. Try & get someone to do that nowadays. Tony.

Yes a lot depends on the time period being modelled. I can remember cobbles back in the sixties & sometimes they were all over the place. However I'm sure that they weren't always like that. I do like that photo which shows them having moved about. The rollers are very good but they look too perfect for me. Tony.

I have emailed Roco about it. EDIT: No reply yet up to now 15th.

Just revisited this thread after over a year to see if there are many updates. Is there still no way to use a background photo like you could in the old app ? I've been trying out the new app on my android tablet but can't seem to find if you can use a photo or not ? Cheers.

There's a video here which might be of some use.

Fortunately I don't live near Birmingham

Return it. The DC cv would have no effect.