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Code 120 would be a good guess for Wrenn, it wasn't much mentioned but I think it was code 124. I haven't handled any in a very long time. It wouldn't be out of place used for O gauge track or SM32.

Jaz wrote:3233plastic models often benfit from a paint job
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Same with diecast, The heavy application of gloss, allows too much reflection of the full size world, even if you can't make out the detail, semi matt looks better but needs careful handling to avoid tell tale finger marks.

Those rivets look like Wrenn to me. Early Formoway had fixings formed by half punched through fibre, later Formoway was a different story, it was equally as good as if not slightly better than Peco's production of the same time, it even featured live frogs long before Peco saw the light.

They announced it on Tuesday, on Wednesday it was not in stock, so I ticked the notify me box. I got an email to say it was in, and ordered it Thursday, arrived This Morning (Saturday). I already had a Landrover and the figure. It was the open back SWB version which he fitted with supports front and...

Any model preservationists made an offer on the coach body? That's not up for sale it's the engine crew's mess room. It's cut of in that shot but there's a post at the back of it with a power cable coming across from the end of the shed. Actually it doesn't have a floor in it and it sits over a ter...

mahoganydog wrote:Is it a good idea to post your address on an open forum Bufferstop?

Jim

It's not easily readable on my screen, until you shrink it down a little, not that it doesn't appear in a myriad documents accessible on line, but thanks I'll blurr it a little.

Procrastinates for the best part of ten years to sign write poor old Fred's Landy.......

and just to prove that Amazon don't have a monopoly in excess packaging, here's the box it came in

Who else, Hatton's of course.

The matchstick bearing works better if the axles have a longer taper, the point crushes the fibres of the wood and forms a bearing surface. When I first saw it done it was to fit Peco hard nylon wheelsets.

Hornby persisted with steel rails long after others had ditched them. As to the sleeper colour Peco have used various shades of brown, and had simulated wood grain, I'm not sure about Hornby track I'd stopped using it long before they made the change to N/S. I think you may come across some Lima tra...

There's two ways I've found to avoid warping, sticking a "balancing sheet" on the other side, or bonding to something with a great depth, eg joining the bottom of a wall to a floor, that's a bit difficult with the free standing wall of a goods or loco shed, unless you have pre planned and ...

I like the idea of the tears in the side of the slope. From my misspent youth I remember there was a slope just like that where we used to get onto the Tame Valley branch of the WCML (the original route via Bescot) The land was obviously unstable as the railway had enclosed twenty yards or so the no...

The classic pricing model that we are all taught at school has long gone out of the window. The models being shipped now apart from a proportion agreed in advance for payment on delivery and recently put aside, have already been paid for. What they will be priced at depends on, how much needs to be ...

The split half wheelsets were to intended to be free to slide from side to side and the wheels to be able to move apart to negotiate the early Triang points. One half was free to slide on the axle, the other half slid from side to side with the axle. They didn't take well to conventional points whic...

If you are still using sectional track from way back, I'd suggest check each section with a magnet. If it sticks put a mark somewhere where you can find it but it isn't intrusive, as it will be galvanised steel rail. Then as time and funds permit swap it for new sections which will be nickel silver,...

Jaz wrote:0413 i used to paint my scenic area green if i was going to 'grass'

Same here, but when I started using strips of brown postal bags soaked with dilute PVA, I figured if any grass rubbed off I wanted it to show through brown. It's what happens in real life after all.