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Chris Since I have the Tunnel board, let me know if you need my input.... tell me what to measure !! A

I'm with Chris, I thought flatting down the tyres with sand paper was finescale modelling !! A

We dont have sufficient sidings to work it any other way... Andy

Only if you can do it with a router !!

If you must, I personally would prefer feet and inches, metres or millimetres or number of mineral wagons !! A

I get Stanley to do mine A

The are Southern railway emoticons. The loco top left is under sadation due to its fear of heights and the one on the right has just seen what Chris is wearing - you can wear what you want in privicy of your own home Andy

At the back, the interiors are less likely to be seen but there is always the alternative view from the railway model photographer that finds angles not available from the front. If only we knew one to ask... A

Just for everyone else what train lengths does that give us ? A

can I just say... whilst I and others have been musing over buses I had missed just how good that Bedford Flat Bed is. Excellent work Andy

It appears as though the two wings were built at different times to a similar but different spec... this, I like Andy

What are kinky beam cradles. we were hoping eye to sky - less to make.... Andy

Surley the WMPTE daimler fleetline is the quentisential Bus for our area with over 2000 fleetlines in the WMPTE fleet. The earlier ones still had the birmingham corporation karki roof (of tram origins) - I know that your first thoughts are leaning towards Birmigham but in the 70's WMPTE's domination was all encompasing, Walsall, Dudley, Wolverhampton, Birmingham and all points inbetween. I was spotting Buses in the late seventies and the west midlands and the potteries was very much my patch. Midland Reds were a fraction of the traffic compared to the blue and creams. http://www.flickr.com/photos/walsall1955/4652408066/ Andy

By George he's got it.... bring on the whole manor.......... Andy

Andy Y. Sorry forgot you would know the Stafford puds.. Pub 1 Not sure if open or shut but last name was the Tavern - opposite the civic offices. In my day the pub was called something like the baths / the brine baths. Thyis pub is located on the junction of Greengate Street, Mill Bank and South Walls The Curry pub was was the Kings Head. It is situated on Foregate street opposite the old Stafford General Infirmary (the old building in front of Wickes). If you type "stafford kings head foregate" in google images you should see the Eagle Whilst checking my facts I have answered my own question: The brewery was the William Butler Brewery in Spingfield Wolverhampton and yes it is a hop not a bunch of grapes. Thanks for joining in. Andy

Can I add a very sorry caravan - the 1950's rounded type Andy

her's a question... I live in Stafford and there are two ex pubs (one's closed and the other is a curry house) that each have a moulded plaster sculpture on the pubs uprights (between the windows). It is circular, about a foot in diameter with an eagle and in its upraised claw there is a bunch of grapes or maybe a 'hop'. In Wolverhampton a similar design exists on a pub (about half way between fallings wood and Heath Town - on the junction of the A460). The pub is called the Golden Lion (I think, it's a Gold something) This is one moulding, much bigger and this time it is a 'hop'. Connected ? Does anyone recognise a long lost brewery logo ?

Andy Y... reference a comment you made a couple of nights ago, I have just bought an excellent book of aerial photography of the West Midlands (The broarder West of the Midlands area rather than the west mids). They take most of their photographs of cities in the winter, because as you said the trees disapear. They would be very different in the summer. A

Also in case of fire, even if locked those gates are not going to keep the fire engine out. Andy

Thanks Geoff, Nigel and the locks have a date with my chop saw on Tuesday night and that is just the angle we need for the bottom lock. Andy

Would be great to see banking on the main line but with an early Victorian line dictated by the viaduct and the tunnel we cant exceed 1:100 (it is about that sort number anyway) due to early whimpy engins. Anyway the fiddles wont be long enough to have a train worth banking. Andy

If you are refering to the ugly blemish that niggles at your eye making you think something is wrong and creating an urge in you belly to put it right... Those are Spam cans !! The optical effect makes it look as though the bridge lifts rather than bends. A

I may have been dropped of relatively early but at 1.00am this morning I was outside looking at the car and the trailer becasue Jane heard something.... She had to walk to work today because we needed her car to block in the trailer... she's a good Shiela Bruce !!!!

just be grateful its not yellow snow

I would say that such a small building could get away without a plug in base. I am trying not to be personal but it is about an inch and a half square at most and we will place it on the flat. I would say if you are confident, go ahead, fade it, weather it - if not present as 'mint' and let us apply the years. It looks very good so far Andy