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I TOLD those firemen not to put their ramps on the rails!

Thanks, thats better!

Yours look just as good and in some ways better - more weathered. Is the thickness just down to lack of confidence in splitting them all again successfully, or is it a material limitation?
I'm seriously thinking I might have a go at it on a couple of buildings I'm planning.

I like the church, well done.

Can't see the other pictures though, just 'broken picture' icons and it says they "contain errors".

I understand your feelings about the inbetween time in the seasons, I also get impatient to see the green reappear, but actually I rather like the effect in your pictures.

To be honest you never had a great chance with this, IMO. Slaters already do the very similar Hudson skip wagon in 7/8" - 45mm at over 40quid and then of course the ubiquitous Binnie version in 16mm sells for less than a tenner. So the chances of commercial success with an almost identical mode...

Having recently aquired a 1/4 scale dismantelled traction engine I started cleaning many parts by soaking them in malt vinegar. This worked well apart from the steel parts like nuts and bolts which very quickly went rusty. So I am going to try soaking steel wool in Malt Vinegar and see what happens...

The Helpdesk said, "Just switch it off and back on again, that usually works"

Peter,
Happy Birthday , Happy Retirement and Happy Steaming

Leaving aside Brian's overridingly valid point about size of available venue, it then depends on how you define 'central'. Speaking purely geographically, Central between the top of Scotland and Lands End, probably would put it around Leeds/M62 corridor. Central between Aberystwyth and Yarmouth woul...

I have one of those but struggled to get it to sound the way I wanted and gave up in the end. I'm not totally blaming the unit, it may have been me or it may be that I was expecting too much.

That works, thanks.

What a fascinating article.

Graeme,
Could you check the link
http://www.navsea.navy.mil/nswc/c...ck/ ... 01.aspx[rl] please? I keep getting a 404 error.

You have every right to be precious about that! Lovely job.

I think my next project will be a vehicle with a padded cell at one end and men in white coats sitting at the other!!

It just looks 'right' somehow, well done. The De Winton somehow fits the scene too, they always look as though they were just cobbled together ( much as I love them!).

If you bought them both from chuffed2bits I suggest giving Mike a ring or drop him an email. Alternatively do a Google for Mtronics, find your two items and download the sets of Iinstructions from them direct. The ESC ones worked for me although I dont have a soundcard so cant comment on that one.

Items of real beauty in their own right.   Works of art, all done by hand.   Worth remembering this could be done without the aid of CAD. Absolutely, Peter. I once built a 4mm model of Brunels "Sounding Arches" bridge at Maidenhead. I somehow managed to talk Western Region into letting me...

The Acer *should* be ok light wise, for once your shady garden will be something of a benefit. I've a feeling that they are fairly particular over soil pH, so it might be worth getting a test kit. I have a cheapy Acer which I bought from Aldi about a year ago. It's close up to the wall of the summe...

Thanks guys, but what measurements do you use to make it 16mm scale? Do you just do it on what looks right? Thanks Whatever you do, don't start by doing it to just "look right" because its odds on that it simply won't. The trick of just looking right only comes from enough experience that...

Can't help with the actual source, but buying strip to those dimensions and in the quantity you will need from a timber merchant/sawmill is likely to be expensive, due to the physical time taken and the amount of waste. You might be better off investing in a bench/table saw and cutting up a plank yo...