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An SDS core drill is the answer for round holes in walls. Punches out really neatly.

Hi Derek, I'm really enjoying these sequences and the period evoked by them. Sometimes when you look at the turn for a crew, it seems quite easy, off shed, passenger to Kirkby Malham, wait 20 minutes, passenger to Leeds, etc for eight hours (or longer in 1908). It doesn't indicate the hard graft these men put in, trimming coal, wrestling with brake pipes and couplings, shovelling several tuns of coal, running around with lights, changing gear, topping up the water handling the big leather bags, pinning down brakes on a goods, and often in the pouring rain with one of Mr Johnson's awnings being the only protection. It would help, perhaps, if you could insert the pictures so the notes are captions to save me scrolling up and down as I read through.

Is the wine in a tanker or in barrels in an open?

The differences I was thinking of were actually at the sharp end. Particularly the cover between the frames below the smokebox and I think the saddles may be be different. For the sloping throatplate firebox ones the cab is fractionally bigger with the plating in front of the cabside window being larger. Jason has noted the changes to the cab door. If it's a domed boiler the regulator gubbins under a cover at the rear of the smokebox on the near side is not required. Also if your's is detailed as a Tilbury loco, it will probably have brackets for the destination boards. The Tilbury ones did get about a bit, including Saltley for a couple of them, but this was mostly in the war years.

This is a matter of the adoption by Stainer of the sloping throatplate firebox as opposed to the straight. On other locos such as the Jubilee this brought the boiler/firebox join forward on the loco, but with the 2-6-4Ts the firebox was lengthened in the cab are so the external profile was the same. These two types of boiler were not interchangeable because of differences in the frame. However domed boilers with a straight throatplate could replace boilers those with a topfeed only.If I recall correctly, there are differences at the blunt end between the Tilbury 2-6-4s and the 2 cylinder ones. My books are unfortunately not to hand.

The ROD can pop up in the LYR, LNWR and Caley lists with minor adjustments. Should OO works offerings be included, they are RTR although not widely available?

I think lamination with the gentle solvent you use maximises the advantages of machine cutting, particularly accuracy and regularity. Coupled with this embossing method some very tricky tasks become achievable. I wonder if a blunted gravity riveting tool on a low setting would work. Thank you for your imagination and experiments.

Just off Bennett Street in Gorton Manchester is the huge building that used to be the parcel depot for the Corporation trams. It's now used as warehouses and light industry. I had no idea trams provided a parcels service let alone one requiring such a large facility. There are some tracks visible and probably more under the surface. Access is possible as some of the firms serve the public.

Well Clive, if you abandoned your plan to model the entire EE Type 4 fleet you might find the time .

Hi Mike, are you only applying solvent to all the edges and then relying on capillary action to take it further or do you brush some on the faces of the larger parts?

Andrew at Wizard/Comet sells it. Otherwise an eBay or Amazon search will turn up suppliers.

As ever this is really good stuff. I think it was Jason (JCL) who said that cutting right angles was better done using a series of lines so the blade lifts and turns before continuing rather than asking it to run round a rectangle in one sweep. Can your file be adjusted to work with this requirement.

I was thinking two thin blades secured together and spaced to the desired width. You might end up sacrificing them, mind. Although if you could bolt them together and use spacing washers you might have a tool.

Hi Iain, This is really interesting and the finished article looks superb. How much should you have removed from the smokebox, I had them as the same length. In the absence of a drawing, I'm having to play with side-views in Photoshop and so at the edges of an image (ie where the smokebox is) there will be errors. Your amendments to the Hornby Stanier tender are useful too. Thanks for posting the details.

Hi Iain, Back on page 3 you noted the 2 boiler is 11 inches, less a tadge, longer than the 2A. From overlaying photos, the smokebox and firebox on a 6P rebuild seem the same as 6170, so how did you magic up 3.8 mil and keep the taper? It's well before your period, but I do prefer the raked back steam pipes 6170 had initially.

Following in your 1970s footsteps, Larry, (Precursors and Princes) we currently have Londontram doing the Caley. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/92190-steves-caledonian-loco-work-bench/

I entirely agree, Bernard, and when we get good looking quality track it will make sense to alter any wheels to suit. I wouldn't want the track compromised to be universal, I just think the information would be useful. Old Bachmann is a good example, there's probably more of those floating around layouts than Hamblings. In the end, those who like to run their old stock will still have Code 100 to use.

I hope Richard's testing, which I'm sure is comprehensive in respect of RTR, also includes Markits, Scalelink and Gibson wheels. If there is a problem with any type, I'd be surprised if we weren't told. It might even be worth DCC Concepts looking at some legacy wheel types that are probably still to be found on some layouts, Hamblings or first generation Airfix. It would be impossible to combine good appearance, smooth running for the vast majority of modern wheels as well as wide backwards compatibility, but t would be nice to know what works when the time is right.

That is a really attractive model. I have one on order to be re-done as LMS 16043 (ex G&SWR) so I am hoping the dome will remain loosely attached to make the change easier, the wing plates will have to go too. I am puzzled by one thing; 16043 has the top of the buffer beams level with the footplate whereas the prototypes of the W4 Hornby has copied had the top of the beam about 4 to 6 inches higher. The buffers on each appear to be in the same place on the beam, so where did that height difference get to assuming that the height of the buffer face centres is the standard 3'6"? It would be really nice if the motion bracket could be thinner, but I suspect that's material tolerances.

Hi Knuckles, I've just spent a pleasant couple of hours watching the videos, thank you very much for making them. I got some laughs and some useful techniques. They do go beyond simply getting your 3D print kits operational, so even if someone isn't keen on that aspect, there's gold in them thar hills. Although a big Seagull is high on my wish-list, I remain to be convinced by the current state of Shapeways output. There seems to be a contradiction between the high level of detail you can achieve with the process but then the risk of damaging or obliterating that as you clean it up. The chassis prints are a different matter, they can do without a serious scrape and obviously have applications beyond the prototypes you designed them for. Keep it going and I'm looking forward to Knuckles v The Airbrush.

Feeble list of excuses. Jason. I think you'll find the fourth one was buried in an avalanche.

I think you'll find that'll be an ecumenical matter.

I think it's something to do with telephone exchanges. Andy does appear to have some eclectic interests, wasn't it he who cut a gasket for an old car on the silhouette?

Slightly but I'm curious about how you get on with Dinghams on bogie stock or long overhangs (eg on tank locos). I think they're an elegant solution for wagons but even with 3ft minimum curves I get side-pull on longer stock.

Hi, I'm really enjoying the diversity of this topic. Really good stuff. Why stop at six Lizzies? There were only 12 in the class (13 if you count 6202). It simply cries out for completion when you've come so far. I thought the Kitmaster Garratt had the rotating bunker, was the older style an option in the kits or have you twiddled with it?