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Excellent! Thanks Tom! Now to see if Kent Garden Rail have ACTUALLY got some L&B axleboxes in stock - unlike most suppliers, their website says they do, but - like loo rolls - there seems to be something of a national shortage... This project won't see the light of day for months, but I'm trying...

Hi all, Would anyone happen to know, or be able to measure, the diameter of Accucraft wagon axles? If I can get hold of some I'm I'm thinking of using some of their "Z7" axleboxes in a future scratchbuild, but need to know if I could use them with Binnie or Cambrian curly spoked wheels. Ma...

Think what you could buy for the price of all that track...

Hello! Nothing much to report on the signal box (apart from a door knob - hold the front page!), but I've used various leftover bits and bobs to create this little shed: Hut 1.jpg Not sure what it's for or where it will go, but it's rather fun, as my Grandma would have said. It was designed to use t...

I've been using 1mm and 2mm half round nail art gems/pearls as rivets for a while. I'm sure I picked up the idea from another forumite. According to this very thread, I started using 'em back in June 2015, so unless anyone's use of nail gems predates that, I'm claiming it! One of the benefits of ha...

Hello! According to the 7mm Assoc's book of FfR drawings, "tractors, introduced during the Stephens period, were plain green with black running gear. The Baldwin may have sported red painted rods and fly cranks". I guess that's either the kind of mid, kind of municipal-looking, green seen ...

Should it be cannibalised to make something else? Ooo-er! I imagine, judging by the width of the locomotive to the track, it must be loosely Gauge 1, which would be too small for me. But we'll need to get some dimensions! Yes, I wondered if it was too small - could it be the basis of a B Scale &quo...

everyone who’s interested has seen it... I somehow hadn't - but I have now! I'd watched lots of the videos before (through this forum), but hadn't visited the site, which I think is fantastic, refreshingly different from so many other railway websites. I must give mine an update, haven't for years....

Sorry, can't help with the couplings, but the wagons look very nice indeed! They'll look even better behind your Baldwin...

All the best,

Andrew.

I have been wondering if I can somehow make a plaster cast of a load of heads and backs, maybe using plasticine as a mould.... ???? I was wondering that - or I think I was! Model the sheep jammed in tight so that you don't have to worry about detail? I'd wondered whether suitable shapes could be ca...

They're looking very good Rik, as do the figures - and it's great to see the PLR gearing up for another season!

Cheers,

Andrew.

Yes please, I'd like to contribute if funds are running low. I think I missed this the first time around, it may have been during my time away from the forum - rather naively perhaps, I hadn't actually realised that money was an issue.

Cheers,

Andrew.

Thanks chaps, much appreciated! Peter, prosaic as it sounds, I'm afraid Rik's correctly identified the writing on the wall - "signal box back". I'm very impressed you could read it from the photo Rik, I had to check on the real thing! Glad you like the planking effect too - although, since...

Thanks Andrew, interesting stuff... I hadn't realised that trailable points and weighted ones were different, maybe the author didn't either? And green levers sound great - really, all I'm after is a reason to have as many different coloured levers as possible without compromising too much on realis...

I just made the fatal mistake of typing a long reply and then finding it didn't post and lost it! My fingers are tired so here's a brief summary of the bits about signalling layouts. Thank you! I really appreciate it! And sorry about the aching fingers! Your comments on looking for material on WHR/...

Wow! This is spooky. It certainly is! Nice 'box, Bertie! The additional detail you've added looks fantastic, a huge improvement on the basic Jackson model - I didn't recognise it! As you've seen, I'm using Jackson embossed sheets too, and I'm guessing we'll go for similar colour schemes (my guess a...

My short-haired cat is black and white, can he have a mention? I'm hoping to hand cat-painting duties over to my wife when the time comes - send me a photo (or one of each side?!) and I'll see what I can do! I use acrylic spray paint, Halfords etc. and it stands up to all weather conditions, so you...

Nice figures! As I recall, the dancing chap used to be sold by Brandbright as a ticket collector, and came with a tall stool to sit on? His left leg was on the floor, with the right one on a strut between the stool's legs and one hand holding clippers, the other reaching out for a ticket... I wonder...

Hello again, I'm on a bit of a roll with the 'box now, aided by a couple of days of annual leave. Here's the current state of play - externally it's essentially complete apart from a few details and some filling and sanding: Signalbox 8.jpg Signalbox 9.jpg As you can see, this part of the railway is...

Does anyone know how I can get in contact with author Bernard Rockett? Reading 'The Old Tal-y-llyn' book from his 16mm scale drawing series he gives a c1878 date for Talyllyn returning to Whitehaven but I can't recall any other book suggesting this and am curious to know where the footnote was pull...