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For your coffee stirring sticks, don't go into your local CostaNeroBucks........ find a packet on Ebay. They're not very expensive, you can use the bent ones to stir paint and mix glue, AND you can enjoy your coffee with a clear consience!

Maroon?

Another method which works.............. Buy (pauses for cries of "Shock!" and "Horror!") a bottle of Indian Ink from a craft shop. Take one of those little jars that jam and marmalade comes in when you go for an afternoon tea, almost fill it with water and add a brushful or so o...

I think your ironing board layout would be ideal in Cheap n' Cheerf.... Sorry, Budget Boulevard ! *ROARS of laughter!!* I wanted to call it Cheap 'n Cheerful Corner but got overuled! The other issue that has come to mind in my observations is that while the local groups provide somewhere to run for...

Crackingjob:122161 wrote:Unfortunatly due to me dithering due to a combination of uncertainty re work and family problems I failed to reply fully re my invitation to the 16mm show and had the invitation withdrawn.....there's a first!

Laurence may well keep your details on file for 2018............

Joinery on your garden railway won't be a problem, then...............

Looks well - at least you don't get anywhere NEAR as much frost and snow as we northerners do!

Soar Valley Light:122113 wrote:Is that the Eurostar from Brussels Brian?

G - R - O - A - N!!

(They actually come from a line that sprouts off HS1............)

I don't know how well the "paper" would survive in a garden environment.........

Killian Keane:122040 wrote:Now, lets hitch it up to a line of slate wagons and put it to work!

If they were plastic slate wagons, I don't think they'd survive for long.........

Perhaps fortunately, NG wagons can be used for carrying many things........ http://mdlr.co.uk/images/xmas08.jpg

http://mdlr.co.uk/images/xmas07.jpg

I used to work at the Derby Land Rover dealership. Myself and a couple of apprentices went to an Induction Day at Gaydon, and we looked at their early Series I. They were astonished at how little there was under the bonnet, compared with the modern ones they workd on.

I will be DELIGHTED to (hopefully) be proved wrong!

Delightful!

Happy New Year to all - I look forward to seeing some of you at shows and at Butterley this year (though I doubt Christopher will make it down from Cumbria to Peterborough )

That's a nice build - more power to your elbow! If you want more of the same (and are within reach of Peterborough on 8th April) you will be able to find more of the same on Budget Boulevard at the National Garden Railway Show.

http://www.nationalgardenrailwayshow.org.uk/

You might like to take a look at: http://mdlr.co.uk/saloon.html............

Charles M:121813 wrote:7/8ths scale is alive and well ! Garden Rail featured a series on building a 7/8ths Scale Hunslet Jack using RH parts last year.

That's interesting.................................. (enigmatic smile)

With greetings from the staff of the (former) Mid-Derbyshire Light Railway and the Flagg Fluorspar Co...........

Why on earth not??