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- Sat Sep 12, 2020 7:26 pm
- Forum: Product Information
- Topic: Brian Rogers
- Replies: 4
- Views: 913
Re: Ultrascale Updates
I had just seen the same sad news reported over on RMWeb.
- Wed Mar 29, 2017 12:30 am
- Forum: Exhibitions
- Topic: Scalefour North 2017
- Replies: 67
- Views: 17495
Re: Scalefour North 2017
This weekend already 
I have my shiny membership card ( I book early!)
But my "mojo" (dont like that word, at all) has been posted as "Missing" - I hope a trip to Wakefield will go someway to restore it somewhat.

I have my shiny membership card ( I book early!)
But my "mojo" (dont like that word, at all) has been posted as "Missing" - I hope a trip to Wakefield will go someway to restore it somewhat.
- Tue Feb 14, 2017 3:21 pm
- Forum: jim s-w
- Topic: Brettell Road
- Replies: 599
- Views: 168122
Re: Brettell Road
With regard to the weather sheets on open cabs, I see that Mikkel on his ever interesting Farthing blog has used some 0.05mm aluminium sheeting to replicate wagon sheets
http://farthinglayouts.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/fake-news-and-wagons-sheets.html#more
http://farthinglayouts.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/fake-news-and-wagons-sheets.html#more
- Mon Jan 30, 2017 1:51 am
- Forum: Exhibitions
- Topic: Lincoln Model Railway Show 2017
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1548
Re: Lincoln Model Railway Show 2017
Lincoln show is to be held somewhere near Newark
Might not be a bad idea to put that info in the title 
Still its just about walkable/accessible from the stations in Newark and what I see of Tredethy on your blog and another look at Diesels in the Duchy could make it worth the hike


Still its just about walkable/accessible from the stations in Newark and what I see of Tredethy on your blog and another look at Diesels in the Duchy could make it worth the hike

- Tue Nov 29, 2016 8:20 pm
- Forum: Devon Riviera (DRAG)
- Topic: Back to a circuit of 'O' gauge on the floor!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6831
Re: Back to a circuit of 'O' gauge on the floor!
They are rather characterful those railbuses - ideal for some North Kernow style carryings on
Should it be not be Commodore Kernow now, if you have a bigger fleet at hand?
Should it be not be Commodore Kernow now, if you have a bigger fleet at hand?

- Sat Aug 13, 2016 11:35 pm
- Forum: Product Information
- Topic: C+L Finescale Special Offers on P4 Products
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3297
Re: C+L Finescale Special Offers on P4 Products
Thank you for the "heads up", as they say 

- Wed Jul 13, 2016 8:22 pm
- Forum: Track and Turnouts
- Topic: Goods Yard Point Lever Position
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2026
Re: Goods Yard Point Lever Position
There is one at the bottom right of this picture of a class 25 in the sidings at Liskeard - Seems to be what I would recall as standard distance 
http://www.class25.info/photograph_pages/individual_photos/760615_25080_Liskeard.htm

http://www.class25.info/photograph_pages/individual_photos/760615_25080_Liskeard.htm
- Tue Jul 05, 2016 6:52 pm
- Forum: Track and Turnouts
- Topic: Interesting modern track joint
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1820
Interesting modern track joint
Well I thought it was....
I presume the wooden sleepers are used specifically for the joint between the FB and BH rail? But neither m friend or I, who are both pretty familiar with up-close views of railway lines, know not why this may be so....
I presume the wooden sleepers are used specifically for the joint between the FB and BH rail? But neither m friend or I, who are both pretty familiar with up-close views of railway lines, know not why this may be so....
- Tue Jul 05, 2016 6:18 pm
- Forum: Exhibitions
- Topic: Exeter MRS Show 02/03 July please any directions
- Replies: 26
- Views: 9185
Re: Exeter MRS Show 02/03 July please any directions
Thank you for all the pictures 
Seeing as I dozed off about at the Warren and woke up at Tiverton for just long enough to go grrrr! they are most useful to show me what I missed!

Seeing as I dozed off about at the Warren and woke up at Tiverton for just long enough to go grrrr! they are most useful to show me what I missed!
- Tue Jul 05, 2016 6:16 pm
- Forum: New Products
- Topic: Attwood Aggregates - new ballast supplier
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5727
Re: Attwood Aggregates - new ballast supplier
Modern ballast is graded to pass through a 3" riddle, so 1mm is about right for 4mm scale 

- Sun Jun 26, 2016 10:33 pm
- Forum: Exhibitions
- Topic: Exeter MRS Show 02/03 July please any directions
- Replies: 26
- Views: 9185
Exeter MRS Show 02/03 July please any directions
Evening all Could anyone advise on the easiest way to get from St Davids (or any other station) to Matford to see the show on the Saturday afternoon I know where Matford is , but only vaguely from post work taxi travel, nearly a decade ago,in the dark!...... IF any can help, I'd be quite grateful :)
- Wed May 25, 2016 4:59 pm
- Forum: Product Information
- Topic: ABS Models
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2819
Re: ABS Models
I believe he is a member on one or two or forums if you wished to mail him.
- Fri Apr 22, 2016 9:16 pm
- Forum: Railway Buildings
- Topic: Keep Down Smoke
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4554
Re: Keep Down Smoke
Buy a wood burning stove and see it all in reality - its just the same; but it doesn't move. In large engine sheds, one sees "canopies" where the locomotive engines were fired up - They are not to take the smoke away, smoke obviously rises anyway - They act like an extension to the chimney...
- Mon Apr 18, 2016 10:06 pm
- Forum: Railway Buildings
- Topic: Keep Down Smoke
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4554
Re: Keep Down Smoke
As above
any fire when newly lit tends to create a lot of smoke, if it is "over done" with fuel, compared to one that is slowly brought to life with care - My neighbours know I know this well
any fire when newly lit tends to create a lot of smoke, if it is "over done" with fuel, compared to one that is slowly brought to life with care - My neighbours know I know this well

- Mon Apr 18, 2016 9:50 pm
- Forum: Exhibitions
- Topic: Scalefour North 2016
- Replies: 50
- Views: 14233
Re: Scalefour North 2016
I rather like this photo so I thought I would share it with ya' all http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll185/Mickey_Matn/WP_20160416_15_39_40_Pro_zpsuy9ep4b2.jpg oh and this one! http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll185/Mickey_Matn/c570944c-3abd-4970-9b04-52f96c62433c_zpsdomyix3k.jpg
- Sat Apr 16, 2016 6:51 pm
- Forum: Exhibitions
- Topic: Scalefour North 2016
- Replies: 50
- Views: 14233
Re: Scalefour North 2016
Very good show I thought, though I only had a couple of hours there today - May have to return tomorrow and spend some money on proper things - All I bought today were some sheets of Exactoscale "road setts" (they are near enuff to represent breeze blocks in 2mm scale :shock: ). I didn't v...
- Thu Mar 31, 2016 10:25 pm
- Forum: Painting and Weathering
- Topic: Problem with non-drying paint
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3818
Re: Problem with non-drying paint
I would just spray it with some random (choose to taste) enamel paint....
Don't go over thinking about it works sometimes.
I used to paint vintage R Royce chassis when I was 19ish, we used [i]hammerite mainly - Its not what you use, it is how you use it
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Don't go over thinking about it works sometimes.
I used to paint vintage R Royce chassis when I was 19ish, we used [i]hammerite mainly - Its not what you use, it is how you use it

- Sat Mar 19, 2016 6:34 pm
- Forum: jim s-w
- Topic: Brettell Road
- Replies: 599
- Views: 168122
Re: Brettell Road
I like that :) I glued a Wills Flatiron body sort of together when I was but a child! IF you invent a line of rail, it obviously never really existed - But all the locomotives that did really exist were already busy elsewhere , so in one way you have to invent engines in order to fill your locomotiv...
- Sat Mar 12, 2016 7:57 pm
- Forum: Track and Turnouts
- Topic: The 2mm Society'Easitrac' Point Kit
- Replies: 45
- Views: 12573
Re: The 2mm Society'Easitrac' Point Kit
DCC Concepts appear to be going to enter the field......
http://www.dccconcepts.com/catalogue/g/track-and-track-making-parts
http://www.dccconcepts.com/catalogue/g/track-and-track-making-parts
- Sat Feb 27, 2016 10:19 pm
- Forum: Starting in P4
- Topic: Hornby CDA
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4662
Re: Hornby CDA
A "box fresh" CDA weighs 60g according to my kitchen scales.
- Thu Feb 25, 2016 8:54 pm
- Forum: Other Buildings and Scenery
- Topic: Green grow the rushes 'O
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4386
Re: Green grow the rushes 'O
Something tells me that high quality note paper cut into fine strips would do the job of looking like the leaves of larger marginals...... At the bottom of the garden, I have some Yellow Flag (iris) that I borrowed many years ago from the St Erth reaches of the Hayle River - I am sure they will gro...
- Wed Feb 24, 2016 12:23 am
- Forum: Operating in Practice
- Topic: End to.end compromises
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8871
Re: End to.end compromises
Take a look at Chris Nevard's Catcott Birtle layout - a simple (but very attractive) through station fed by a sector plate fiddle yard at each end (4 roads each, allowing 7 trains to pass through the scene before the sequence is repeated - you need one free road in one of the fiddle yards at any on...
- Wed Feb 24, 2016 12:14 am
- Forum: Other Buildings and Scenery
- Topic: Green grow the rushes 'O
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4386
Re: Green grow the rushes 'O
I believe it was the shape of the tool used to make the indent that actually looked like a Frog; which if you think about it; it probably does!
- Mon Feb 15, 2016 10:59 pm
- Forum: Materials and Techniques
- Topic: Exactoscale Architectural Surfaces
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3012
Re: Exactoscale Architectural Surfaces
I do yeah but it must be 20 years ago! The texture,relief and colour of the bricks was fab and it seemed to tell you how to make it look aged!! Very gently as I recall, and careful in the applying of it to would be walls with its one-hit stickyness! Wasn't it "printed" in someway to get th...
- Mon Feb 15, 2016 10:52 pm
- Forum: Other Buildings and Scenery
- Topic: Food for thought on weathered buildings
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6112
Re: Food for thought on weathered buildings
If you look carefully at old photos, and indeed at some buildings you can still see nowadays, we have had our fair share of buildings in this country that are not in the best state of repair and decoration. It's worth trying to capture that appearance, rather than trying to create a 'perfect' world...