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1 hour ago, Ruston said:

Shelby Transport's Diamond T recovery truck. Or rather it will be when I've finished with it.

Looking forward to seeing this Diamond T Wrecker...
Beautiful layout.

Lovely stuff.
Who makes the steel bridge please?
Thanks.

^{Not a railway advert, but read the description. Quality}

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and dancing naked

Question is whether the winning bidder actually pays for it after.

Was watching this, but i lost interest in it after £30 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/190614533763 why would you pay this amount for it .

I wish Richard. It seems a job to get them to do anything these days

I have to agree, brought the brake tender off them before xmas, paid for it by paypal, then get an email. out of stock till the new year, yet they are still advertising forsale on ebay!

After a very nice weekend talking and actualy doing some modelling at the Ally Pally I just about finished building a JLTRT Fruit D kit. I drilled all the holes out at home last week and then made it all up at the weekend. The buffers are just pushed in at the moment as the chassis can be removed to paint it separately only when the buffers are removed.One small job to do is drill some holes and use wire to represent the fixing bolts at the bottom of the axle guards. In the kit the stretcher between the axle guards is a piece of lazer cut plasticard but a quick trip to Eileans Emporium to get some brass strip was called for. One little problem though was that the steps are made of white metal and bent very easily. I stiffened these up with a piece of brass at the back. There are no parts in the kit to make the lighting on/off handle that went across at one end I seem to recall. As I am going to do this as an ENPARTS van in BR Blue I doubt that the interior lighting would still be working so I will not bother with the dynomo belt either just make out that it fell off some time ago. All in all a very nice kit to build and really looks the part.

Hello Brian

Just looking at your ENPARTS van, you have used brass strip for the stretcher, can you remember/do you know the size of the strip please.

alan

Just found this article on your layout, fantastic! If this was mine, i would be well proud. Well done

Dear Brian

Just wanted to say how i enjoy your blog and all of the models you have kindly put up on your blog to show us how its done. You seem so humble and down to earth when someone asks a (simple) question etc. I have been to exhibitions and asked some questions to layout owners, "its a trade secret" one answered me.

I have just got back into the hobby in the last few weeks, as i lost my friend(2007) who was also a modeller, when he died, i lost interest in it, and in the last four years i have avoided my hobby room, but in the last two weeks i have now started to show a interest in it again, after looking at your blog. I showed your blog to my workmate, we were both blown away at the detail you go into.

Keep up the good work.

Thanks once again.

Alan