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That's something else.

Beautiful.

Hard to beat those hooks for couplings. I use 'em on everything.

Wouldn't that be a "Rust-ish?"

I couldn't help you on the boiler threads, but as for the running, your video gives me the impression it just needs a good few (8+) hours of running in.

Scrat, I must say it's nice to see buildings like that in the larger scales.

Really looking forward to seeing the entries for this one. Details are always fun to pour over.

Not a lot of detail on this one, but here's mine.

11/04/24 Cheers gents, glad you like it. I really do. :) Those of you keen to see weathering will either be intrigued, or disappointed - maybe both. I've decided for this one, to try something new. Something a little different from my growing little fleet. I want this one to look like a recent repai...

The all-over grey really suits the loco, and adds to the gruff charm of the thing.

I will admit I'm no fan of cheapy sound, but through the video, that doesn't seem half bad.

That quarry railway is really neat, too.

Got a real rugged elegance to it, love it.

Nothing better than hard work and good progress.

What a storm! What a set of photos! What a cleanup!

A lot of rain down my way too, for a long time. Nice to see things pushing forward.

Certainly a nice, big blank canvas to work with. You have my envy.

I like automotive filler primer. I've found "Spray putty" tends to be a slightly thicker filler primer, and for the same money it's better for smoothing printed parts. If you're any good with a spray can, it's fast, easy to apply and a can will do 2-3 average-sized loco kits. I like to eit...

I think you've perfectly captured the prototype's character.

Well, so far it's had an initial grey primer spray, 2 coats of acrylic black spray, a coat of black acrylic brushed on, and another coat of grey primer on top! Egg on my face, then! :lol: Perhaps a sliver of aluminium foil could be positioned in the 1mm slot, above the LED, with tweezers? It's thin...

Basecoating with black before topcoating usually saves me.

Looks right at home on the PLR.

12/03/24 A Deltang Rx63 receiver was removed from another loco and fitted to the Simplex, using some very small connectors. Surprisingly, (even out of sight 6 meters away) the whitemetal bonnet doesn't seem to affect the signal. The receiver (and bonnet) are held in place with blu-tac. https://i.pos...

Off-topic, but there's something very satisfying about how the track is laid out in that last photo.