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On radius 1 curves you will find two basic problems with modern steam locos - either the leading wheels on a six-coupled loco (0-6-0, 2-6-0, 4-6-0 etc) will ride up over the outside rail and derail, or leading bogies will catch on the backs of cylinders etc. You will not be able to fit some detailin...

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1st idea (for a styrene wall) - cut the shape of the arch out of styrene sheet, cut the mortar courses between individual stones with either an Olfa cutter (or similar) or a triangular needle file, round off edges and distress stonework to taste. If you need a bit of relief on the faces of the stone...

Hornby's A4 was retooled on a loco-drive chassis around 2004. The Railroad version (and 'Spencer' from the TTTE range) are a hybrid of either the old body or a simplified verson of the new one, the old ex-Ringfield tender, and the loco drive chassis from the retool with slightly more robust valvegea...

I think Super 4 track was Code 140 or similar, try Peco SL-117FB for O gauge track.

Their website says "Batch 1 due Q2 2021", i.e. April-June so it looks like they're delayed. Hardly surprising.

The saving grace of the less than sophisticated PL-13 is that it is easily fixed by pinging the bit of PCB out with the end of a screw driver and bending the contacts a bit. They're no more unreliable than pick ups in that respect. As for the PL-10Es, some of mine are 30 years old and now being inst...

I'm in the same position. The PL-10s on their own will work with the motor and points slightly misaligned, but once you add the PL-13 it forces the pin to stay perpendicular (ish) so what just worked before doesn't anymore. Try adding the switch to the motor first, testing, then fitting both to the ...

If 272 is the CR 0-4-0 then it has a shorter wheelbase than the others and is inherently more stable and harder to derail. The absurd top speed is a feature of the design although it has apparently been tamed a bit on more recent versions. Is your track fixed to a board or set out loose each time ? ...

So the "Unlikely to be ever produced again" Clan is back... Was that ever a thing though, or just speculation from people who didn't understand why it wasn't re-released quickly ? I thought the issue was that it depended on hand assembly skills which were not available (reliably) once Hor...

Shed ballast was usually ash and clinker. Quite dark where locos were dropping oil and coal dust, lighter elewhere. I'd start with something similar to Humbrol tank grey with a bit of dark earth mixed in and apply washes of slightly darker and slightly lighter until you get something which looks abo...

Tampo printed numbers etc are used on most modern Hornby and Bachmann models, they are essentially paint or thick ink rather than transfers. My slightly nerve-wracking method is to very gently rub a curved scalpel blade over the printed detail using absolutely no pressure at all, just let the weight...

A lot of 2021 shows are cancelled already, either because their venues are not available (SECC will still be a Nightingale Hospital so no AMRSS Glasgow show in Feb) or because their organisers aren't prepared to take the financial risk (York, others). It will be 2022 before shows get back to anythin...

0.45mm brass usually looks about right.

Is there also a rule of thumb for how long a bridge can be before having to add safety recesses? Apologies, I forget the correct terminology. And tunnels too? Thanks End2end For a modern bridge/tunnel, yes probably, it will be in a RIS or Group Standard somewhere. For older bridges, no, just put a ...