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I have kits from both and as far as I can tell there is no difference indeed the Brassmasters may have improved castings and the instructions are on larger paper.

Are you planning to represent the springs behind the wheels? If so, that might prevent the wheels from dropping out.

In terms of spacers, I have seen this done with small washers.

This may be P4 heresy but, as the axles are supposed to move up and down with the horn block guides, the wheelbase is a moveable feast.

For the same reason the brake shoes can't be too tight against the wheel.

I have used Narrow Planet who are the only ones to do bespoke number plates to my knowledge. I have also bought from some of the others who have limited choice of numbers which are searchable online.

What you have built does not match the drawing in that the gearbox sides are now much lower than the axle centrelines. I would question whether this leaves sufficient clearance over pointwork. You can guess how I discovered this kind of problem using an underslung gearbox with relatively small wheels!

I have the cross slide; it's great for doing straight lines of evenly spaced rivets such as along the edge of a footplate.

It came with two 4mm points one of which is for half etched rivets. There are also 7mm and 2mm points.

Peter

David,

Which size Mashima motor did you use in the High Level chassis please?

I managed to use an old Sagami 1428 (I think) for mine in my etched GWR class 517 as I didn't need to shoehorn it into a DJH body. Still just protrudes a bit into the cab area but I can cope with that.

Cheers

Peter

Would there have been a seasonal local crop out such as sugar beat too? I only say this because such traffic was on my layout being modelled.

Largely agree with the previous two comments too and I face similar dilemmas as I am modelling Summer 1912

Should there not be some inclination in the rail. No. 4 seems straight to my eyes

On attachment to the rail, mine were all bowed but, blissfully unaware that this was not how they were meant to be, I stuck them with Butatone but only with a count of 12! No problems to report thus far in over 3 years. I did mix in some soldered joints too based on the Iain Rice book. My bullhead r...

From gwr.org.uk: "...Brake van handrails were originally body colour (grey), but were thought to have been first painted white during WWI..." http://www.gwr.org.uk/liverieswagongrey.html I just happened to have researched this yesterday as I am finishing off an AA12 van

Very impressive overall!

Can I ask how you did the road surface on the road bridge please?

Tank engines could possibly go a fair distance between watering locations. On my line, tank engines were rostered on local passenger trains from Ludlow to Hereford which is a distance of 24 miles.

I have a explanation sort of, unsolicited, for the mystery building in the loading dock area from the current owner of the station building: "...in the picture, you can also see the black P.Way and staff building built where the goods platform was for the staff who maintained the small sleeper ...

David Knight wrote:Are there any templates for "Wye" turnouts? I'm thinking about either a number 5 or 6 for a layout currently in the planning stages.

Cheers,

David

Not sure this is what you mean or if it's of use. PM me for high res version scan. I have larger angles too.

Peter

Before ballasting using the GordonS method I stained my sleepers with a mix of Colron wood dyes, thus preserving their wooden appearance. I did not seal the Templot base as i needed to see it in order to lay the track - had that not been the case I'd have painted it grey. The PVA did not seem to ad...

Peter, Although I laid my track after ballasting, my situation is pretty similar to yours. I stuck each sleeper individually onto the templot print out and the paper wasn't sealed. I ballasted portions of track dry and tamped down (I can't see that actually having the rails in place is greatly diff...

Thanks again. As I alluded to in my last reply, a number of responses here refer to methods that predate Templot or at a stage of building that I am beyond as I have already attached the rails and electrics before considering ballasting. Let me expand a bit more on the construction method used some ...

Thanks all, quite a lot to mull over here. The Templot advice that I took at the time of starting the track build (many moons ago now) was to fully test the track before ballasting. And that is what I did and there's no going back now as it's all built. Having followed Iain Rice's book to a certain ...

I have laid plywood sleepers on top of a Templot paper template, then ballasted using Deluxe Materials ballast bond. So far no problems. IMG_20180713_153058 A.jpg Gordon A Thanks and I have some of that too. Your track appears straight whereas mine is entirely on a curve so there will be tension in...

I have searched the Forum for advice on this but thus far have not found the answer I'm looking for. Received wisdom is that ballast is laid onto the trackwork and then fixed with water and dilute PVA mix. But water and thin ply may not be a good partnership. In addition, my track is laid directly o...

Every time that I see this title, I think that it is another Great Eastern layout emerging ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye,_Suffolk Lovely looking work though! Cheers Flymo Haha, no it's here - firmly in Herefordshire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berrington_and_Eye_railway_station

Serjt-Dave wrote:That looks great Peter. Any more pics please?

Dave

Not painted nor weathered yet

My long-term layout project has it's first building; a weighbridge office. Looking a bit lost alone with its weighbridge but the footings are in for the station building too.

Next it's all about ballasting once I've finished installing the platform edgings.

Hi Peter. No, not really. I will cover slips in some detail later, I have been having to deal with other matters recently. I start with a length of rail several mm longer than the final length and produce the first switch blade. This is then held with the tip of the blade in the correct position to...