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Excellent work as always. How do you align the components together after you've moved them off the canvas?

@Mikkel as you know I'm about to embark on the bashing of some Tri-ang clerestories for my LBSCR layout, and I was wondering if you had any tips re: bogies (i.e. is there any way to save them, or are they best replaced completely? If so - how?) and on cutting the body since it seems the floor/sides are one piece!

Hi Dave, 

That makes alot of sense, I'm not very au fait with railways north of the border, to my shame. I do like the deep CR blue and have thought that it might make a nice scratchbuilding project one day, buy your layout is so closely linked with the CR that I would feel quite awkward in imitation! 

Cheers,

Have a free 'like' for the mention of Harveys 👍  

Lovely wagon. I think the major issue for kits is how long lived they are - kits from the 1960's rubbing shoulders with modern (ish) kits makes a sharp contrast. Certainly the 'new old stock' Cooper Craft wagons I built that still had HD coupling types included was a bit of a shock.

Colour perception is one of those weird things-  It all works seamlessly, until you have to try to mix the colour your eye is actually seeing instead of what it THINKS it's seeing. I recently mixed up some paint for the inside of a coal wagon from mid-brown and mid-grey and it looked like the colour you'd see on a WW1 tank: but when it was slapped onto the wagon sheeting it was a really good fit. If you'd have asked me to pick that colour out of a line up as 'most suitable' I'd never have picked it because my brain was telling me the colour of wood should be lighter or more brown or whatever.

Thanks chum! 

I was flipping through an old RM and saw 'kelvinbank signal box' drawn up for scratchbuilding in card and ply and I thought, "Hey - I've seen that name somewhere before..."

Sorry for the slightly OT question (I did go back to check your plans but the RMweb image massacre of 2022 has rendered them invisible) - what's your rough distance between the rear track centreline and the backscene? You've got a really effective low profile thing going on beyond the railway boundary!

Bought without reservation! What colour did you use for the red, please? I think mine is too close to the SER and P.O. oxides.

Would that Hybrid livery have been seen circa late 1890's also? Or is it purely a 1900's thing?

Looks lovely, and so neat!

I'm backdating my own dodgy Peco Iron Mink and I need to figure out lettering among other things, I don't suppose I could buy just those required from you for a single van, could I? Or if not, where you could get these? I couldn't find anything from Fox, Modelmasters or HMRS!

Lovely, thank you. And thanks for the link to the easi-liner. As you know I'm struggling with my LNWR horsebox lining out and that looks like just the ticket...

Does she play with the layout too? I'm expecting a girl, but not holding out much hope for sharing the model railway bug :)

Wonderful, and some fantastic inspirational photos. I have a feeling my next layout is going to involve a good deal of london brick, so keeping a weather eye on the developments here.

I'm just coming across Dr. Lardner in both Red for Danger by LTC Rolt and "GWR in the 19th Century" which I picked up from the Talyllyn bric-a-brac shelves based entirely on being better educated for your posts, Mike!

Glad to hear it. I'm revisiting my idea for a laoyut and I have a visible space of 125cm x 25cm - I wonder if something like the Billy Bookcase layout might make sense...

This blog has fast become my favourite - thank you for continuing to post. I would pay for a bound book of 'Modelling the Broad Gauge with a 3D printer; Ruminations and Redrawings'  !

Found this picture of a Corsair and thought you might find it interesting,

https://i.imgur.com/1wA1CGO.png

Very nice. I'm not far down the road of S&T in the grand scheme of things but I feel like I want a proper signal box on my layout with interlocking, etc. which precludes rods like this - but I guess it could be done with cranks?

Is there a link to your new look?

Mike you're a terrible tease

I really enjoyed the small amount of S-scale that I did; it felt far more substantial than 4mm. The problem I had was that so much of it needed to be fabricated and though I enjoyed scratchbuilding it was a little fatiguing to do every little thing. Your work with the 3D printer however is really inspirational. I've been following your work for a year or so now and gone through all your articles.

Any more progress, @Jonathan? Hawkhurst has been a long time favourite of mine, my family hailing from that town - I also had the idea of using the buildings as a basis for a fictional station!

I have Vol Two (LBSCR) and Three (SECR) but generally not much use for One - if it's at all possible to scan that single page I'd be most obliged. Speaking of iron frames I was quite struck by the number of LCDR goods wagons (such as they are - not many!) which were delivered with high ends, tarp rails and steel solebars. If I can help with any scans you might find useful please let me know.

EDIT: Actually, don't worry about the scan - one of my (many) layout ideas has a stone yard, so trio of these wouldn't look amiss and I can take advantage of the economies of scale with postage from Gramodels. Do you have any other insight on pre-1900 wagons that might be suitable from him?

@5&9Models I'd like to build a couple of those Booth Bros wagons - do you happen to have any measurements for them, please?

Thanks for the link to this for the interior - Pale Sand apparently is the manna from heaven for alot of things. Unfortunately, Gramodels charging £6 postage minimum rules out this one for me - maybe worth a scratchbuild! May I ask the wheelbase and length over headstocks?

Well, that's precisely the concept behind MIkkels' bitsa - something that I think has a great merit!