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How many wheelbarrows do you need? Noch garden tools etc kit no 14800 includes one wheelbarrow and quite a lot of other stuff you could use around a layout, but you're talking about €10 a set: http://www.modellbahnshop-lippe.com/produkt/NOCH/27-4-004010-1694-004010-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-gb-p-0/produkt.html ...

allan downes wrote:Hi Chris, no, nothing on the go, in fact I'm now retired and just left to ride on the back of past glories !

Cheers.
Allan.

Stunning work Allan... are you sure you couldn't be tempted to do the odd commission?!

I'm not at all sure barrows would have been wooden by 1950-ish. Something like this would be pretty typical... http://www.dreamstime.com/old-wheelbarrow-thumb22751278.jpg I'm no expert but I grew up in a suburb in the 1950s full of people gardening and I don't recall ever seeing a wooden one. The wh...

It's not cheap, and there may be an element of profiteering in some aspects of the hobby (£3 for 14ml of paint anyone? That works out at £215 a litre). That said, I know people who do boats, or classic cars, or skiing, or golf... If I want to take my family of four to see a show in the West End, say...

Just to say neither ply, MDF nor chipboard (or for that matter seasoned heart of oak!) is "soft", and sticking trackpins in will be tough, and is likely to result in a lot of bent pins and bruised fingers. I use trackpins (on 12mm ply) to temporarily fix track pending ballasting/gluing dow...

Just to add to the above, as I'm doing the same calculations right now... Peco Code 100 track is roughly 4 mm from baseboard to rail top, indicating a nominal 16mm platform height. If you have 2mm of underlay below the track 18mm will do you. Otherwise, 15mm is a pretty standard thickness for both m...

DonnyRailMan wrote:I have a pair of fans pugged in one either side of my working space

So do I. One is 6 and one is 4. Both chatter a lot though.

Air coolers can allegedly reduce a room temperature by 2 - 3 degrees and can be bought for £70 - £80. They are not to be confused with air conditioning. You can get portable air conditioning units which don't need big flexible outlet hoses etc for £200 or so. I've never used one and don't know if th...

More of a worry at the moment is getting it into my friend's VW Fox to get it from Homebase to my flat so maybe necessity will see it cut into 2x 4' boards but put back together again as an 8' board. Wickes will deliver an 8' x 2' sheet of 12mm ply to you for £25: http://www.wickes.co.uk/hardwood-p...

Another vote for Eurostar from me.

No train bargains, but I found a couple of original 1960s/70s Celestion Greenback 12" guitar speakers for £10. These can fetch £100 each on eBay. So I built a seriously over-specced cabinet to put them in and it's the best sounding guitar cab I've played through in 50 years.

Looking at Dave's track plan (see here http://www.newrailwaymodellers.co.uk/Forums/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=42253 ) there is no obvious position where you could split it into two halves without cutting through points. It might be possible to have a joint somewhere around the entrance to the fiddle y...

Velux windows. We have several in a "proper" loft conversion (not specifically for modelling purposes but to provide two bedrooms and a bathroom) and I am completely sold on them. They are not vastly expensive and a good roofing company will be in and out in a day. There really is no subst...

8 ft is 2440mm, and a standard kitchen worktop is 600m/2ft deep. Kitchen base units are "drawer line" (there's a drawer above the cupboard door) or "highline" - it's just a cupboard with no drawer. You want the latter. You can then work under the baseboard by just opening the cup...

I assume this is for the steam depot plan your other thread refers to. A few questions/comments: 1. Is the 6" important? I ask because 8 ft is a standard timber size when buying plywood/mdf etc and you will save money going to 8' x 2', and have the possibility of a join-free board. 2. Do you wa...