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Thanks, Rob. That's just what I was wondering. Do I need a bending jig with this track, though? It seems to actually be quite flexible on its own. I think it would curve into a circle without being permanently bent on a jig.

Two last little projects, and I guess the locomotive is now "finished", although I have some little items to clear up, like painting the heads of brass screws, but I think I'll save that for sometime when I'm bored; they don't bother me that much. The cylinder covers and little springy bit...

I have just put together 60 feet of "Sunset Valley" 45mm track for my engine to run on. I don't have a garden myself but I bought the track because a friend of my wife wants the engine to run around a temporary track in her garden for an event she is planning this summer. (How many people ...

What I would really like is if Roundhouse made or partnered with someone who made some wagons for their engines. Having to order everything from the internet, I find it difficult to see ahead of time which wagons will look nice with my engine, it would be easier if there were some that were built or...

I guess I feel like I understand why Roundhouse builds their engines the way they do. If you, for example, really like the "Tom Rolt" engine (the real one), it's likely you are attracted to it not because of all the pipes and machinery hanging off it, you probably like its general shape an...

Described today to me by one retailer as "a big chunk of nothing" referring to the level of detail. I think that's a terrible attitude. I can't speak for everyone (or any one really) but personally I just couldn't care less about fiddly non-functional details. Some people like them, and I...

I think it looks pretty good with either funnel, but I think I prefer the thinner one. It has more character somehow. But they both look good, except I don't like the big black flange at the bottom. It looks lumpy with the smaller chimney. You should make something else there. I can show you what I ...

This is as good a thread as any to mention I ran my "Billy" for the first time on track today and was very pleased with how it sounded with the chuffer. Nice addition to the engine. Thanks Chris.

I'd better get my order for nameplates submitted quickly before the plans for this tender of Doug's get sent... who knows what kind of a job that's going to be!

THe first and third of these latest pictures are just excellent. You can barely tell it's not real, right down to the chewing-gum dispenser on the platform.

I suppose I threw scale out the window in the first place when I assembled my engine, it looks like a Koppel well-tank, but with outside frames and a tender, and its boiler has brass bands and a brass dome,(It does have oilers though) because that's the way the chief engineer (me) likes it on the Gr...

Accucraft are 116mm, or 7.5 feet in "16mm".

Since assembling a Roundhouse engine and starting to look at garden railways online, and participating in this forum, I've noticed that 16mm scale is a popular size for building to a prototype. I've also noticed that Roundhouse "freelance" engines are considered by serious 16mm guys as bei...

Oh, OK "freelance" it is then. I guess I'd better still hurry.

I usually make that sound when I've planted a big, fat thumbprint right in the middle of a freshly painted piece of metal.

The reason I'm saying nothing definitive is because he's been onboard for my topdrawer project 'Nova - he's cast new bodywork both side and cabfront, has fitted Talyllyn-a-like spokes to my Dream Steam disc wheels and is fixing a steampipe-lubricator for me. The first two pieces he has shown me pho...

Seems the only ones not on the ball are Roundhouse. Well then it seems like a sound business decision then doesn't it, excluding all the Roundhouse and Accucraft owners from your client base! Somehow I don't think people are going to stop buying Roundhouse engines in favour of something else which ...

I enjoyed that video. The locomotive is very nice indeed.

Seems the only ones not on the ball are Roundhouse. Well then it seems like a sound business decision then doesn't it, excluding all the Roundhouse and Accucraft owners from your client base! Somehow I don't think people are going to stop buying Roundhouse engines in favour of something else which ...

He looks cute. I'm sure he will enjoy digging up your railway!