Andrew F

I meant the frame. You won't have to bother on your coaches as the thickness of the plastic is already hidden by the dark livery, in fact they look quality.

Yes, SE Finecast flushglazing. You have to remove some of the plastic from the inner edge of the window apertures (scalpel/needle files) to make the glazing push into the frame without force. ;quite a faff but very necessary as the glazing looks terrible and distorted if it's forced into the frames. Also best to paint the thickness of the plastic out of the aperture with brown/grey paint.

Yep, I think I used what was already there; cut out the top ventilators and then carefully saw down each side of the vertical frame (give yourself a mm or two from the frame for filling etc later) from the top of the coach to half way down the window. Then two small horizontal cuts that then removes the top half of the window. Chop that removed bit down to size and glue back in position with maybe styrene slithers/shims to fill the saw cuts. Placticard to fill the top gap between the window and the roof line. The vents were just 0.010 round microstrip I think. Glazing just hand cut acetate fixed in with glue/glaze or canopy glue (that works best for fixing in the SE Fincast glazing too).

It's surprising how good beer from a can can taste these days. Thornbridge Jaipur IPA has been my staple lockdown can on a night along with Westons old Rosie cider until the end of March when hopefully my first batch of homebrew cider won't have turned to vinegar. It has been quite a nice new hobby, picking apples and pressing them, whilst pubs/friends and real trains have been removed from my life.

Carpet monster 1 me 0. Has anyone got a right hand side (as you face the loco) bufferbeam step for the Hornby class 50? It's the one with a shorter horizontal top. Here's hoping....it's not my 50.... Cheers Andy

It was called Space Precinct wasn't it? with the lovely Simone Bendix who was Verity in The Crow Road. Battle of the Planets will never be forgotten I reckon. Me and my mates still talk about it or did down the pub. What about Me and my Girl or Home to Roost

Weird; when I saw this thread I thought straight away of Driving ambition. Weren't there are a droopsnoot Firenza in that? One I've searched for and found on youtube that was on at Christmas in the early 80's was "Quincy's Quest" with Tommy Steele. A strange musical about broken toys. Crappy late 70's/80's American sit-coms anyone? Big John/Little John Charles in charge Small Wonder ....There was one with a talking urangutang but I forget it's name.

It's quite a simple job to just transplant the Bachmann motor/bogie and metal block onto the Hornby 110 plastic chassis.

Hello there. Does anyone have any Lima GUV parcels vans (the long BR 93XXX/86XXX) that they don't want?. I'm after X 2 of these; any livery/no boxes/damage/missing parts, anything considered. Also looking for a Jouef mk3 buffet; again anything considered. Thanks for looking. Andy

Hello chaps, I wonder If anyone has 3 old Hornby VDA 4-wheel vans they don't want (boxes/damage/livery unimportant) Also I'm in need of 4 extra "bogies" for same ( same as steel carrier SAA and OAA open wagon/PVA van) again damage/condition unimportant. All for budget Speedlink project so anything considered. Thanks .

If your average daily mileage is below 40 miles..... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle

£20 seemed to be the going rate for City of London on ebay last year; some BIN. One of these was unused in a perfect box with the instructions included. Phoenix tends to fetch a bit more but the IC 86's went for around the £20-£25 region.

Sorry, I might be talking rubbish and confusing the mk2 roof end fitting with a mk1. Yes, the roof on the mk2 has tabs at each end that clip under the domed roof ends of the coach body. If you trim off the side glazing from the roof mould you lose the mountings from the bottom of the glazing that hold the roof section to the body but you should be ok with just the end tabs. Another thing with the SE flushglazing is that you'll have to cut the three smaller top-lights away from the main window and fit them separately.

Rather than filing the excess plastic from the insides of the windows I found it was easier, quicker and cleaner to get in there with a sharp long scalpel blade. Don't be tempted to force the glazing into a tight aperture as it will distort and look horrible. The door fitting for the roof that someone referred to was probably the gangway doors You can saw off the side glazing from the roof but leave some plastic at the top for rigidity but not too much or it will foul the new glazing. I did a rake of these and the rooves fit Ok this way but you get the unsightly joins at each end. I wonder if it would be better to glue the roof on to the shell and fill these gaps. The chassis would then have to be modified to make it easier to detach from the bodyshell.

What is "walking"? Never heard that before.