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Very neat lettering there.

Tony

Nurse will see you now Geoff.....

Tony

Keep ‘em coming Ray.

Tony

I used Modelmaster plates on my Duchess of Atholl conversion/restoration: they are excellent and, as you said, designed to fit the overscale raised plinth used for the original HD transfer.

Tony

I do like the red plates Ray.

Tony

To be frank, this is a very big ask. Hornby's renditions of various company liveries can be variable at best: GWR Brunswick Green in particular. Railmatch and Phoenix will give you the correct paint, but whether it'll match your loco is another thing, as Bigmet suggested. I think you have two option...

Impressive running Geoff - as usual....

By the way, have you tried these? I swear by them.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-1oz-Self-A ... Swmq9cuK0r

Tony

Things do get a little tricky when your loco laps the Guard's Van!

Tony

Can hear those flanges squealing from here! I was waiting for the Black Five to reappear before the guard’s van had passed! Very nice train there. Are the Iron Minks Ratio?

And baking? You are truly a New Man, Geoff. You shame us all!

Tony

Actually Geoff, I’d not want to see old-fashioned Elsans return: the chemicals used were highly toxic and wouldn’t really help the environment! There is a lot to be said for composting toilets though: if managed properly they don’t smell, are good for the soil and it’s only peoples’ squeamishness th...

As promised, the link to the build:

https://srmg.org.uk/camping-coach

Tony

You really need to fill the windows properly to get away with it and that can be very difficult to do convincingly. Why not just build a Ratio four-wheel Brake and paint it olive green?

Tony

Cutting clear plastic to glaze windows is generally easy enough as long as a] there aren't too many to do and b] the apertures are fairly regular in shape. In this case, none of the windows are regular and all are quite complex curves, too. It just isn't feasible. Further, there is no way in which t...

Thanks for that Ian. I think G'n'G is a sort of PVA-type mixture. I tried it on a Dinky Dublo Morris pick-up as an experiment: the dried window was more than translucent but not wholly transparent [as in perspex for eg]. It also seemed to bow inwards slightly. I have a white metal Ford Pop ['53] in ...

I would be interested in views on the efficacy/realism of this material for glazing smallish windows - that's glazing as in simulating glass rather than use as a glue to hold perspex windows in place.

Thanks

Tony