great-northern-2009

good guess! afraid not though, check the latest update, i think it pretty much gives the game away

i spent a good £60 on a spray booth quality mask and never regretted it, cant even smell the paint. would that count as cheating or 'what the doctor doesnt know wont hurt him' or you for that matter!

theres something not quite right about any of the Hornby black 5 models, i cant put my finger on it but they just dont capture the look of a real 5.

im hoping Bachmann have a crack at it at some point as the damage here highlights a difference in quality...i fitted a seuthe smoke generator to my Bachmann jubilee and forgot to a) fill it with smoke oil B) forgot it was running round my layout while i went and ate tea etc, came back to it an hour and a half later and the smokebox was only slightly warm around the chimney.

good job repairing the damage though

by the way hows the stirling single coming on?

you can buy super-glue activator in an aerosol can, i use it to glue all my white metal parts together dries in 5 seconds, just make sure you dont have any superglue on your fingers otherwise...ouch.

ahh yes ive seen your layout before, very intrested in the mix of narrow gauge and standard gauge, was thinking along the same lines myself...great minds must think alike haha!