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    • Kadee user expects NEM user to conform to their niche standards, got it. But these were and still are the standards laid down by others, we just conformed to them. We even had to compromise on fidelity to achieve an NEM pocket. After all, there is a reason that Kadee make a host of couplings to adjust height, prevent buffer lock, allow for distinct distances between wagons. This, at the time, was not an issue we could put resources into to cater for, not even a minority. Please show me the source of how we were NEM Non Compliant as this standard was used across the board, not just Ballast, Cement and others. Same pocket height for the A Class as the Tara Mines wagon.   
    • Back in the day before the Ballast Wagons were released IRM issued a press/media release in the Modelling Press that it was not feasible to fit the NEM pocket at the recommended height because it clashed with the brake gear detail at one end of the wagon & had adapted a lower than reccommended pocket and a cranked coupler as a solution.   Interestingly Kadee's title page on European NEM HO OO conversions features a photo of IRM/Accurascale Ballast wagons https://www.kadee.com/convpl apparrently fitted with Kadee NEM 363-Series Adjustable Height Couplers. The Kadee NEM coupler Fact sheets recommends fitting a 363 series coupler in combination with 362 series adaptor in cases where the NEM pocket is not installed at the recommended height.  
    • I can remember vividly there was a layout in a toy master in Ashbourne haven’t been able to find any photos of it but can remember barely able to see the full scale but clearny remember a dark green steam loco zoom right past me  Would anybody here have any information on it?
    • i think that if it looks right to you, then it is right. Each of those blue shades looked right to somebody, but yet they all look different to me. Blues I can do. My point is that once you take a photo of it, even a digital one, and post it to a site or publish it in a book, then it is likely to look slightly different. [Edit - if we work from the colours in site images and books, then the same applies] There may be a scale element as the eye/brain are constantly making adjustments. My layout is under flourescent lights and looks different in photos unless I correct the colour temperature in the camera settings. Daylight varies throughout the day, the eye constantly corrects for this, the camera doesn't. Thus different film types respond differently. So maybe we should hang loose and accept there will be small variations in the way colours are reproduced in books and on computer screens.  Anyway, it gives us plenty to talk about. Jim
    • Is there a 'scale' element to colour as well as everything else? Colours that are accurate to the prototype but look wrong when applied onto a model. It's often the case that pure white looks wrong on a model and needs to be toned down with a bit of grey to look 'correct'.  Those Rathbone paint jobs are exquisite. I picked up a second-hand copy of his book recently. It's really informative and totally demoralising in equal measure!😄
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