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You might get to see a train run in to the whole platform or even the yard, this year! Thanks for the kind comments. Station building and point control action also imminent.

I use Stuk precision masking tape for jobs like your platform shelter. It's tedious to apply a mask but that stuff makes the best sharp edges in paint I have ever seen and isn't expensive as well as being available in a variety of widths.

Hi Mikkel. He toured several key training areas and watched practice landings etc. I don't think it lowered his stress level much at times. I might have to make general Patton, got to hit the books to check.

There's a tank transport train to think about as well, not sure how much armour training was done there but they certainly practiced with DD Sherman's because a sunken one was recovered and made into a memorial. The mechanics had forgotten to bolt down a large cover plate on the hull, making it a wet and frightening day for the tank crew, who reputedly escaped in time.

Thanks Kris, feels like forever since I made anything. Squeezebelly has had a couple of operating sessions too.

On a historical note I rechecked my branch lore and it was Eisenhower who had a GWR Python, Monty's train was made up of LNER stock (sounds like an expensive excuse for something out of region!) with LMS Pythons.

Good luck! Will drop by this summer when I am there.

Can't believe it took so long for me to guess! Those large scale figures take a lot of painting. I did a 1/24 napoleonic calvary soldier for my mother in law, it took about 30 hours to complete. I am starting a 1/48th scale T34-85 today.

Very nice! The only bit you might need to add is to paint the diagonal strapping chipped and bashed white on the end with the door. This measure was introduced in 1943 for all minerals with end doors. I like acrylics for this type of work, I think they produce great results. The chassis detail looks really good too

The Rocketeer! Where is he going to go?

Looks like the aftermath of my first attempt at soldering white metal!

Or Metalcote gunmetal dry brush?

Look perfect to me, the heaping is excellent and the grading works very well.

Glad to help. Perhaps some pictures of current or previous layouts in a blog entry next? RM web is generally fairly easy to use and full of technophobes to help if you get stuck!

A riveting read, thank you. The detail is very good, I can see its going to look amazing when done.

Cutting and pasting from another blog site is responsible for your code errors and loss of pictures.

If anyone wants to read the full entry, which is quite interesting, the last link on the page that says "source" will take you there.

As above! I gave up trying to glue the Airfix plastic, nothing would stick it.

Glad to hear you have had some success with this problem at last! The row of terraced houses looks good too.

Remember that without the half holiday league there would be no football.....

I even put up the link or you! Here is the best place for this particular question,

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/forum/72-uk-prototype-questions/

The reason Mr Mod here is back is that blogs are used by most members to describe a project or model they are working on, either as a series of entries detailing a particular build or a single entry showing a part of their project. Otherwise we use the forums, click the forum you think fits your topic best from the list on the forum page and off you go. If in doubt modelling miscellaney covers most things.

The reason people get hacked off with questions in blogs are that often a blog entry will be the result of hours of work and writing up and every new entry on the blog page bumps you further down til your entry disappears off page 1!

Good discussion here about blog posts,

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/47303-blog-quality/

I just checked my coal stash and you were right, I was looking at the smokeless stuff! I guess the answer to the shininess is a coat of varnish on the loads that need it.

50 shades of black sounds like a Goth convention!

I have used lots of different coal too, often scraped from the bottom of my coal bucket or the bunker and then put it through two sieves to get the grades. The size of coal varied according to its use, as you have deduced and Anthracite is usually more "shiny" than coal. A firemen could probably tell you which coal came from which coalfield too.

I think the loads you have set up look pretty representative of different types, one thing someone here might know was wether BR coal trains were of a block type, i.e. from one pit/coalfield to one customer or were there different types of coal for a variety of customers grouped into big trains.

The forum you require is right here, simply click on the blue link!

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/forum/72-uk-prototype-questions/

There are two books about the exchanges, Written by Cecil J Allen, and published by Ian Allen, the titles are: "The Locomotive Exchanges 1870-1948" and "New Light On The Locomotive Exchanges".

Sorry to hear about your mishap, hope the P4 hammer didn't effect the guilty operator!

Great stuff, looks like it belongs in that photo!

Absolutely mental.

In a good way!

That looks really good. I am sure I have no more left as I found the empty box today whilst looking for something else!

Glad to see such fine progress, i have been eagerly awaiting developments following the last entry.

The second picture looks like my "finished" entry!