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I wonder how the Aussies got these into sausages? http://www.outback-australia-travel-secrets.com/boab_tree.html

SE Finecast do larger sheets - http://www.sefinecast.co.uk/Building%20Materials/Building%20Materials.htm Slaters also do larger sheets but in different style. Much thinner which means you construct a backing structure and attach the sheets to that. To obtain a 45 degree angle: file roughly to shape with an ordinary file then use a simple jig to finish the angle. It is easier if you hold the Wills sheet and have the file flat on the workbench. It sounds like you may have already tried this but I am slightly confused by what you have said above. You would only mitre joints at corners. For straight joints in longer or taller walls it is simply a case of taking your time - file a bit, check the fit, file, check... Make sure you have all the sheets the same way up as this helps. You might find Plastic Structure Kits by Iain Rice, Wild Swan a useful book. Jason of "The Mill" is a bit of a wizard at joining sheets. He's also done some nice corner joints using filler to create quoins too.

Ah ha. Perhaps I haven't been paying attention. (Nothing unusual.) I'll be ready with the Like button.

Like the parcels train. Don't you think it needs a Gresley 61' 6" full brake or two though?

I wondered about the slidebars too Graeme but having looked at a few photographs of the real thing there does seem to be a slight downward slope. Since none of the photographs are side-on I can't say I'm 100% convinced but so far I'm leaning (ha ha) towards a slight slope being correct. An example: http://www.train-photos.com/picture/number3910.asp I wonder if the angle is slightly out on the model or if we're seeing photographic distortion? Looking again at Coldgunner's photo: I wonder if the slidebar 'unit' is not properly located since the plastic piece doesn't look vertical. Do you have any convincing images of the real thing? No idea about the chimney. How far out do you think it is?

Sandra can't hear you. She's locked in a cupboard.

You're very welcome Tony and thanks again for such an enjoyable day. It was great to see Little Bytham in the flesh and also to see how well it is progressing. We've already seen Norman's wonderful trackwork and the excellent locomotives and rolling stock, and now there are some lovely signals, telegraph poles, scenery and buildings being added, all of consistent and coherent quality. (It's a good job the platforms are far enough from the viewer for those dodgy barrows not to be easily scrutinised. The Likes and comments are flattering but they're not that good you know folks. Credit should really go to Shire Scenes for making the etches.)

I was thinking there might be a slight risk of the wheels not remaining perfectly aligned (in rotation), but perhaps that doesn't matter anyway. I was thinking out load really Stubby. I have no experience of doing anything similar. Whatever happens, there is probably little risk anyway, since one side could be remodelled to match the other if the two-sided approach doesn't work. In fact, as I type this, it occurs to me that the long rods on one side will keep everything in line anyway. (I'm almost tempted to delete the second part of my earlier post, as it's b#####ks.)

Yes, it does make sense. You'd have to make it the same on both sides though.

Nice surprise. Can't help thinking it is a pity they haven't played around with the locomotive & tender combinations a little more and issued an LNER one with D-shaped cutouts and/or with Westinghouse cylinders. Perhaps that's on the cards for later. This is the kind of "milking" of a locomotive most people will be happy with though.

A single blade chucked in the recycling may get stuck in something else or in someone's finger or simply end up in landfill because it is too difficult to sort it from the bulk of the waste. A pile of blades packed inside a suitable container that holds everything together will get picked out, probably automatically by a magnet, and recycled along with the rest of the ferrous metals. On a similar topic, it was bugging me that our local recycling system didn't cater for aluminium foil, so I made a few phone calls and eventually established that although I could not put foil in the recycling bin (we have one wheelie bin for rubbish and one for recycling) I could collect it over a period of time and put it into a can bank. So we now save all our milk bottle tops, foil wrappers and roasting foil, and when I have several can-sized balls of foil I put them into can bank the next time I pass one. Dead simple and requires little effort. (The reason it bugged me was that recycled aluminium uses 5% of the energy needed to make the stuff from scratch.) With only a little thought, recycling is dead easy.

I think for 7mm they ought to be 3D, don't you?

Amazing how effective those leaves are. Great work Peter. You appear to have put on some stems prior to applying the leaves which is a nice touch. In the past I had a problem with the colour fading on woodchip scatter. The mixing with PVA may well prevent that. I don't know why you feel down about these houses. They look good and I'm sure will be raised significantly once you finish detailing the windows. I think you are being far too harsh on yourself.

Not Worcester Parkway but it will connect Foregate Street station and does feature the viaduct. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-31715853 Looks like they've worked out the least direct route from A to B. Interesting idea though. If only it had funding. Should be just a few metres above the water when the Severn floods!

...or thread the rod through some lengths of tubing?

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Hmmm. Well it has never not worked for me. Perhaps you should try Coachmann's suggestion and if that doesn't work report it.

Seems OK now.

Nigel Kennedy's version of Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

See post 288 above.

"Hornby's biggest challenge is that it can't work out whether it's a toy manufacturer or a modelling company..." If the "Simon says" article on Thomas and the J15 are anything to go by it seems like they've decided to be both.

LNER version has the parallel slot tender and the smaller (10mm) cab openings.

Thank you Bernard. Strange that Hornby supply an accessories pack that neither matches their own instructions nor has the correct fittings for the model it issupplied with.

Can anyone explain the assortment of pipes please? The instruction sheet for the R3230 LNER version shows three to be fitted on the front (locomotive) buffer beam and two to be fitted on the rear (tender) buffer beam. However, the sealed accessories pack only contains one pipe - the vacuum pipe for the rear. Are the others (two on the front and one on the rear) all Westinghouse pipes and therefore not applicable to 7524?

I agree. Just collected mine today. Definitely yellow. Looks yellow and also compared it to the P2 and it is unambiguous.