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65285 or 65287 - dare you!

Lets go round the EU before we leave!!

So we had Germany - now Holland,



Lets have some more EU countries

Jim

What you are planning is a recipe for trouble! Baseboard construction is where a lot of modellers try and cut corners so save money and end up with problems (I talk from experience with an early layout). Are the drawers/units exactly the same height? If not the board will be uneven and stock will ro...

Superb job Ex-Pat, I am told that soaking Plasticard in hot water for a while before trying to form it makes it more "plastic" (in the engineering sense of the word)

Jim

I had a similar if less catastrophic failure, it was the little white bearing that failed on one of the axles, it had probably cracked a while before and took some time to work free, managed to fix it with super glue.

Jim

Hatton's have announced a price - a reasonable £104 for the basic model, becoming even more tempting! Jim Apparently it’s an estimated price & people who place orders will be updated with the actual price once it’s known with option to cancel order I’m hoping it accurate as it’s much more reaso...

Hatton's have announced a price - a reasonable £104 for the basic model, becoming even more tempting!

Jim

Looks interesting, very much my era, plus you are an old school DC and code 100 man - good on you. Would like to see a track plan of what you are hoping to achieve - it looks nice and complicated!

Jim

Hmmmm! Nice looking loco, did they ever cross the border in BR days though! Ironically I have a photograph of one up here at Bo'ness, but it was in preservation days when the SRPS borrowed 2392 (65894) during a steam shortage in 1991 and I traveled behind it on the line. Edit - according to LNER.inf...

Could be Formoway, which was made by Graham Farish in 00 in the 1960s

Jim

The problem with dry brushing is that is that you always end up with some in the mortar! :shock: Painting the brick colour first then using a mortar wash sounds a better principle, but every time I try, I end up with mortar coloured bricks! I guess it is something that takes years of practice befor...

Yes, thanks, that section would just be used so they could swap to the other end of the coaches, so they would just have to enter that section, stop, close the points at the end they entered, open the other end, and then set off again. TBH the only 1 likely to use that would be my eldest and he's 7...

Todays job was fettling up the bridge then painting, I used a stiff plaster as I needed to make up a mix for the embankments to the front so two birds were killed with the one stone, The plaster worked out well and when dry I started to paint, For this process I split the boards up as the first coat...

There is a veritable treasure trove of photographs taken of old industrial sites on the Canmore Database, a source of much of my research https://canmore.org.uk/. This site should come with one of those warnings that you might spend a long time here once you start.

Jim

Hi Dont know if this applys everywhere or if everyone uses UHU glue but the UHU all purpose glue 60mm tubes i found in the st helens home bargains for 99p a tube (with the not quite precise nozzel but they not hard to change) just in case anyone needs any. Been buying mine out the pound shop for a ...