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How about the Titanic museum in Belfast?

Andrew.

Those look great! A carriage a week is incredible! I reckon on 6 months each for mine, although most of that time is usually spent finding lost bits and tools due to the muddle I work in...

Good luck with 'em,

Andrew.

Take care - and get well soon!

METHSSNIFFER:86708 wrote: a hand painted crest and First on waist door panel both with a brush!

Wow! Nice work...

Very nice - I'd be tempted to add a white square on the bridge behind the signal to aid drivers sighting it as they hurtle along at, err, 15mph... OK, not very narrow gauge, but I'd still be tempted. I like it when you see the ghostly remains of those squares long after the signal has gone... Cheers...

Hello again... I've been doing a little more scenic work recently, adding the rear wall of the short cutting pictured up the thread a little. It was a very tight location, with little space between the railway line and the fence, but I managed to scrounge some thin bits of stone from some friends wh...

Having waited three years for a decent summer so I could do some serious tracklaying it went and got far too hot to be digging holes and mixing concrete. So I retreated indoors and got stuck into a model of the WHR Gladstone Car that I've been working on for a while now. It's a "scrimpbuild" - part ...

Nope, but I'm working on an IMP Gladstone at the moment and found the instructions something of a challenge! I had to read them about three times to understand each bit, and then every time I put it down for more than a day or two I found I had to start the process of comprehending the things all ov...

Hi Tom,

Dunno about the first bit, but 7x229% is 16.03, so I think that's the answer to the second bit. I've done it lots of times and that sounds about right...

Cheers,

Andrew

P.S. Andrew, thanks for the advice, hope you like what your seeing so far?  :lol: Yep, looking good! I built a couple of Ashburys (aren't they tiny?!) but plumped for a red livery for those - looks nice in green. It'll look good with your Birmingham bug boxes. Are you going to pick out the footboar...

I like Peter's boards very much. If you wanted a simpler solution you could try the "twigs on a roll" screen stuff - sorry, don't know the real name! It's quite expensive but you can cut a 6' high roll down into two or three useable bits. I used it to hide concrete blocks on my old line and reallly ...

I had to file down the weight to get it to fit under the box Looking good! Just in case it helps with future projects, I discovered the delights of fishing wrights recently and found that they can be reshaped very easily with club hammer - I managed to get two of 'em (probably smaller ones) underne...

Impressive progress, great idea too. Those houses and shops need a nice cobbled street or something to sit on, wonder whether you could use the same technique as you used for your tunnel mouths to create one? What do you use to waterproof? I'll be making some ply buildings of my own at some point an...

Thanks for all your thoughts so far folks, much appreciated - good links Big Al. The batteries are Ni-MH, so that sounds a little more positive. If I can find a way to revive them that would be good because yes, the battery pack does seem to be "hard-wired" into the circuit. Guess to replace I'd sni...

Ah, there's something very special about looking out at the still and silent garden railway - all that potential, just like in this photo... I actually enjoy washing up, because the window above the sink looks out over the back garden and I can just gaze out at the waiting rails and imagine... Cheer...