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You'll be lucky to get one. Joep told me in October "Because of retirement I produce limited numbers for the EU only (mainly Germany and the Netherlands).".

Other suppliers of coal-fired boilers are available.

Looks great! Brass name and works plates from MDC in about six weeks, about £26 a pair, and they were matched to the full-size plates and look great. To the best of my knowledge, other than when it was black (!), Linda has never had a black cab front. Blanche certainly did though, reminding us that ...

Nothing wrong with Humbrol now that production has come back to the UK. In particular, gloss red now goes on and covers better than it has probably done in the last 20 years. Great stuff, I use nothing else for detail work. And at about £2 a tin it is always worth using a new tin for anything even r...

Bio-ethanol may be your friend. It is an excellent substitute for meths and is available in the UK from DIY sheds where it is sold as patio heater fuel. I use nothing else these days as it burns hotter and without noxious fumes. I can't help with run times, other than to say that I have had my Dylan...

georgesheppard wrote: ↑Sun Jun 13, 2021 9:59 pm... looking at photos of the locomotive from above it seems the roof is part green part silver ...

The silver section is a new thing, the roof used to be all green.

A lot of the thin stuff from pound shops is, as you say, neither super nor glue .... I remember when SG first appeared. Early 1970s, I think. It was great. It would stick anything to anything and let off smoke as it dried. When I worked in London we glued a 50p coin to the pavement outside the offi...

ge_rik wrote: ↑Mon May 31, 2021 10:15 pm

TonyW wrote: ↑Mon May 31, 2021 7:04 pm

ge_rik wrote: ↑Mon May 31, 2021 3:41 pm... superglues ...

No such thing.

Neither super, or glue.

ge_rik wrote: ↑Mon May 31, 2021 3:41 pm... superglues ...

No such thing.

GTB wrote: ↑Mon May 31, 2021 1:01 pmNote, if looking for this, Sellotape label it as 'Sellotape Hooks & Loops' here in Oz. I'd assume it would be the same in the UK.

Ah yes, "Sellotape Sticky Hook & Loop Strips" here.

I had the same problem and gave up with sticky pads years ago. I now use Sellotape brand velcro. Works well, and it pulls apart and sticks back together!

Why don't companies make 3 rail more common... A Peco G45 point costs about £65. Adding the third rail would add to that cost, so they would probably be nudging £100 each. Also, instead of having only two options (left and right) there would have to be four: Left-hand third rail on left, left-hand ...

georgesheppard wrote: ↑Sun May 16, 2021 3:38 pm... I think the colour match is looking pretty good!

So do I.

The full-size loco wears BR Loco Green (dark) and Sherwood Green (light).

Not New Zealand but near Bill in the Powder River Basic in Wymoing, USA (between Douglas and Gilette) my wife and I were enjoying (well, I was) a warm (30degsC) and sunny June afternoon photographing the many 15,000 ton coal trains. Heading back to our hotel I mentioned "It looks a bit black ov...

And then there was this:

The doors lift off their hinges and can easily be swapped around. Quite why somebody thought the fuel tank needed a vented door is a mystery to me.

georgesheppard wrote: ↑Mon May 03, 2021 3:12 pmI've now fitted the side panels to the locomotive.

Something odd with those doors. The two with vents at the right hand end should be in positions 5 and 6, not 5 and 7.

The little vent on door 4 is for the exhaust from the cab heater.

The two sides are not mirror images of each other.

I absolutely agree with everything Tingewickmax wrote. Mistakes and errors happen, and the measure of the supplier concerned is not that it happened but how they deal with it. I asked above if you had contacted Yatton to at least give them a chance to correct the problems before being rubbished publ...

What did Yatton Model Engineering say when you told them of these problems?

GTB wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 10:07 amThe loco could have been steamed at this point, but I now wait until a model is painted before steaming it, as it it difficult to remove oil residues, especially steam oil, before painting.

That is the same way that I do it.

A lovely piece of work, well done.

philipy wrote: ↑Wed Apr 21, 2021 8:41 amWell, I think many, if not most, on here would suggest that you look seriously at the Deltang range....

Many, many locomotives have been across my workbench in the last 19 years, and I have yet to encounter my first Deltang installation.