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Taking pre orders for a June delivery of an item aimed at Christmas, is only one step better than missing an early December delivery date. Such is the price of trying to minimise inventory cost.

I built my own "electric tea strainer" with bits from the pound shop, flyaway £1, set of three seives, £1, wire and crop clip from the spare box, as I still have two unused seives total well under £2. I'm cover my ground with strips of brown paper sacks soaked in PVA, then paint with neat ...

Doesn't strike me as aimed at anyone. Standard products given a no effort makeover. Anyone running a book on the final clearance price from Hattons or Rails?

Welcome aboard. What scale are you going for? The loops you want will be a bit tight in 00, especially for express lines but it would be a great space for N gauge.

If Hornby is going to progress saying goodbye to any tooling that hasn't already been re-used is probably a move for the best. Some owners of Triang items in good condition will probably be quite happy to see their rarity value increased.

If seven compartments is too long and five too short, try a pair of Hornby four wheelers and some plastic cement

Needs footboards and the roof toning down, the bogies came out of the odds and ends box.

You would from time to time seen almost ever variation on brake van design in your area/time span. The most obvious being double ended ex LMS and BR types. You would get the occasional LNER and GWR/BR Western toads, probably never saw a SR Queen Mary (bogie) type. As the period went on fewer and few...

Yes I decided to build my current layout as a series of interlinked dioramas, working on each a stage at a time. It avoids those huge mountains, track laying, wiring, ballasting, etc. You get to do a bit of each and see some results much sooner.

Blending the road into the backscene was a great bit of modelling. Some might say, "repeating the trick with water is just showing off". Nice work.

If you don't want to track down large carbon brushes, get a carpenter's (flat) pencil, sharpen it to a chisel point, then use it like a scraper.

Need new crossings on the level, tight curves along the route, sounds like a job suited to the tram/train solution.

Definitely! It happened often enough for it not to be commented on.There's also disc with 0,2 or 3 holes, but I think disc without holes was more likely to be the larger diameter coach wheels. Remember that some Dapol wagons have shorter axles than the Hornby and Bachmann ones. if you are going to b...

EDIT: NEVER WALK AWAY FROM A SOLDERING IRON LEFT ON And never put it away until you can hold the bit in your hand✋ A telephone engineer of my acquaintance finished work for the day, hung his overall in his locker, put his tool tray in the bottom, and hung his soldering iron over the open metal door...

If you are in or passing through the Vale of Evesham a new outlet that has opened at "The Valley" in the Vale of Evsham Country Park, is Crafter's Companion, a similar range to Hobbycraft, very large stock of Javis Scenics, and a huge range of cards, papers, mylar film, paints, glues and t...

Parallel routes, demands parallel crossovers, with multiple heavily trafficked routes it had to be possible for two trains on parallel tracks to cross over to parallel lines out of the junction without conflict. Even if platforms were reserved for up and down movements, it would still have been nece...