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It's great that they're being allowed to stretch their legs a bit more for the Mallard 75 celebrations. Sure A4s are only getting into their stride at 90!

Nice one Seamus, like the way you went with different liveries on each!

Ha! Would you believe this loco had a similar experience? It held up quite well it must be said

great stuff Roy and welcome! Just wondering who makes the stock, the Deltic in particular?

Great model. Always loved the Cityswift livery. The Ps were dogs though! Much preferred ADs and VAs.

You don't look a day over 58.

Gotta love crocs. Must get myself one.

230 looking well worn these days. Excellent! Thanks for sharing.

You're looking at 100,000 euro up front before you get anywhere. Somewhere like this site is too small for such a venture. If there was a combined effort between ourselves, retailers and the model railway clubs around the country that may change but unlikely I would think sadly. Another business model to look at is the likes of what Rapido Trains have done for small interest Canadian models; namely invite pre-orders and deposits and a deadline set say 1 year away. Receive enough pre-orders and deposits and you can then go to the production stage as the demand is there. If you don't reach the target then the product is clearly not in demand. This is a flawed system too as people will want to see the model before they buy etc. You would also need a trustworthy company to invite the orders (best bet, someone like Murphy Models) and the deposit payers to follow through with their orders. Can't see either happening to be honest.

I've got to ask; what compelled you to post this in the British outline railway modelling section? Time to fly elsewhere.

Reckon they'll come back DCC ready like the 158/9s Seamus? Should be a few on the second hand market too.

I bet A4Mallard wish he thought of that when he smashed his bridge down!

Work on the Alco is still ongoing, I'm still fiddling with grab irons. I bought some wire replacements but they aren't great. I have since been bending my own but I'm not happy with they way they look either. If they were straight irons like on EMD units I think I could do them perfectly but as they curve around the side of the loco it's a bit tricky to get them all to match. So back to the drawing board. Once they're sorted I'll be on the home straight. In the meantime parts for my next project arrived. I have two ancient Athearn SD9s which I plan to do up. I will be replacing the motor with Kato and DCC them with LED lights. One was bought for the SSM Sulzer which I have since decided against buying, and the other was picked up cheap as a companion. First things first though, the Athearn bodies are too wide as their original motors did not fit within scale sized hoods. So I bought two railpower shell kits to overcome this. With Kato motors in place there'll be plenty of room for them to fit. Crude photo to show the width difference Now to draw up a shopping list for all the detail parts I need! In the meantime I really need to finish something instead of starting loads and having them partly finished all over the place!

I knew there was a reason I should've went! Great finds Anto,you'll have to do a bit of blog on the 800 build!

But you get some free mystery planes! Apparently... Hmm, Think it's in the maybe pile at that price, material and size...

Indeed. But it would have to be the Caspian Sea Monster for me.

At least measure it up for a good quality kit. She'd be on my list of builds!

And then there was the Ekranoplan The Russians have built some of the coolest things ever to move!

Would love to see this baby take off in Shannon. Having seen 124s a couple of times and the likes of jumbos and A380s this would be in a different league again. I know there was a second 225 partly built when the Soviet Union broke up and there was talk of finishing it off. Take it it still hasn't happened? Probably never will now.

As per the forum rules you must state an asking price. Many thanks.

That's a great bit of value Dave and a much needed bit of kit. Well done sir!

Thanks for the comments. I'd wager a Genesis SD40 isn't too far away.

Easy way here, just be careful with locos with traction tyres. Kitchen roll can be used. Warning, brass loco goes flying across the layout!

Don't want to fall out either mate, saw your post on the workbench thread and I think personally you phrased it correctly. We want top modellers on here helping the rest of us out and you have done that.