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George she's still in regular service. She was out the day I took those pics. She's called the Ludwig Fessler. According to the wiki she was steam powered until 1973 when the Maffei engine was replaced with twin MAN diesel electric units. Interestingly the original engine now powers a different paddle steamer in Switzerland.

Yeah not just the UK but any third country. The old €22 minimum value threshold is gone. Every tiny parcel coming into the EU is now liable to be stopped and taxed.

Hattons regularly make this mistake when shipping to Germany (they are vat registered here also). Happened to me too. If you contact Hattons they will reimburse you your unexpected costs including the handling charges. I'd imagine this is the path of least resistance.

Lol correct! Real name Burg Hohenwerfen (a Schloß in German is a palace rather than a castle, which is a Burg). The name of the town below the castle is in fact Werfen, as it was in the film, but it's not in Bavaria, it's over the border in Austria and it had a fairly quiet WWII. The helicopter actually landed in the courtyard of the castle though much of the exterior is a studio model and none of the interior scenes were shot on location either. You can do some nice trainspotting from up there too:

A few pics from the Hans Peter Porsche Traumwerk (Dream factory) which we made a stop at today. Hans Peter was a son of the famous Ferdinand Porsche. He amassed a large private collection of toys and models, some of which is now on public display. The exhibit is housed in a purpose built facility and includes a large h0 layout based on Southern Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Fleischman ship: Märklin ship (real steam engine pictured also): Some tin plate stuff: h0 display:

The Spitzensignal is missing if it's Prater. It looks like there's a single lamp on the lower left as viewed from the footplate. I'm looking at this on my phone though.

A few impressions from the very short (2km) Chiemsee-Bahn in Prien, Bavaria. The railway was built from the beginning to shuttle visitors from Prien station down to the moorings at Stock, the same job it still does today. From Stock, boats can be taken over to the islands in the lake (2nd largest lake entirely within Germany, 3rd largest if you include Lake Constance). Terminus in Prien. Mainline rail running parallel out of shot to the right: View in other direction towards Stock with train arriving: After arrival in Stock on the return service which was the last train of the day, the loco is quickly uncoupled and heads towards its shed for the night: The coaches will spend the night in the station: The coaling station for the steam loco that only works weekends: And some models from the waiting room: And just for George, the beer I enjoyed over on the Herreninsel:

Lol yeah that's them!

We passed through Berchtesgaden yesterday actually George: That's the completely out of proportion Hauptbahnhof. Berchtesgaden is the smallest urban District in Germany with its own Hauptbahnhof. Built like that to receive you know who and his mates. The missus wouldn't sanction a trip up to his "place in the mountains" lol. Lunch with liquid accompaniment was had here on Wednesday George. Not Bavaria but Austria. Movie buffs may recognise this courtyard....

And they get used too! It's common to see two complete Railjet sets coupled together where traffic demands it. Plenty to be seen around here at the moment with the Bavarian school holidays just starting on Thursday last. This line is interesting because you have very many of these Railjets taking a shortcut through Germany. Most of them are actually doing Vienna - Salzburg - Innsbruck - (Zurich). Only a few are stopping anywhere in Germany. They are running "privileged" through Germany so even before Schengen and the single market they ran non stop through Germany back into Austria without any customs formalities. These days unfortunately with Corona that's once again a benefit.

A final couple of pics of Freilassing from today... The above Budapest-Munich train operated by the ÖBB would not normally stop here. The destination board advises would be passengers not to board as the train is only stopping for a "border check". A couple of federal police officers boarded the train and it departed again. We took one of these instead of a regional train because we'd just missed the hourly regional connection. Only cost €6.50 more for the three of us on the Railjet and there's a children's "cinema" on board to get 20 minutes peace lol.

Yeah a 103 hauling a Rheingold along the banks of the Rhine is especially hard to beat.

It's one of these: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian_B_IX

A couple of pics from Lokwelt (Loco world) in Freilassing, Bavaria where we are today. This is essentially a suburb of Salzburg, which is fully integrated into the Salzburg S-Bahn network. It's on the main Munich to Vienna route so very busy with international trains passing through. There's a small freight classification yard still in operation but virtually all the other "railway stuff" has gone. The museum took over the old roundhouse and has done a lovely job restoring it. The turntable dates from the 1920s. The h0 scale model is a good representation of the current facilities.

They look the biz. Extremely realistic.

There was no GSV made by MM to match the Cravens no. Silver fox do a RTR "Dutch van" which would suit if you don't feel comfortable building your own.

Yeah we have the tracking number and can see it's still in NZ which is good. As long as it doesn't get to our place in Germany by this Saturday I'm fine and I don't think it will now

Thanks very much. Should be back home in time so

Beautiful Ken, absolutely beautiful stuff. 21mm modelling is getting a lot closer to a lot of people I feel. What printer are you creating these on? Any problems with heat damaging the plastic during soldering in situ?

Can someone please check their tracking and give me the number of days from collection in Hamilton to delivery or first attempted delivery in Europe. I'm slightly concerned I won't be back from our holiday to take delivery and that the parcel will be returned to NZ. My post office keeps stuff for 1 week before returning to sender. I may need to take steps to get a neighbour to go round there and plead my case.

Nice work. I learned a lot from looking at @Noel 's Paintshop thread and @Georgeconna gave me valuable pointers on this livery too. I'll try to pass on some of what I've learned in the past few weeks as a total newcomer to this painting lark. It looks like you're spraying the white on last. I suggest you spray a white pigmented primer over the whole body first, then use good quality (eg Tamiya) 1mm masking tape to mask off the white stripes, then spray the orange, then mask off the rest. Leave the 1mm tape on, lay the lower and upper edges respectively if your upper and lower masking for the black band directly over the centre line of the 1mm tape. It's easier than it sounds. Then spray your black band and start removing masking tape asap in reverse order The last thing to come off will be the white stripe tape. Burnish the edges of your masking tape with the tip of a cocktail stick. If you take time doing this, you can eliminate bleed. Work the tape well into door shuts etc. What orange did you use? It looks well. Are you spraying with an airbrush or rattle cans?

Quick question about the Bachmann mk2a FK... The corridor side (only) glazing has a silver horizontal stripe painted along the full length of the inside of the glazing. Is this supposed to represent a handrail or something inside the coach? If so I'll need to try to remove it I suppose as I am sure this would have been removed by IR: Are there any appropriate window transfers available for these coaches from Railtec etc? (No smoking etc)

Googling through German seemed to help find this more detailed drawing, which might be of use to others: http://www.nlms.info/images/drawings/de3.jpg http://www.nlms.info/images/drawings/64Tloop.jpg The unpowered bogie seems to be very close. I believe it's a Plan U draaistel. This looks almost German. Loopdraaistel looks like "Laufdrehgestell" which is an unpowered bogie.

Oh wow that was quick. I guess I will be able to extrapolate most of the side on dimensions using a combination of the skeleton drawing and the pics. Much appreciated I'll probably end up with something that looks like it was made by Fisher Price but we have to start somewhere.

Hi all, I have decided to learn a bit of CAD in advance of getting a 3d printer a bit later this year. I fancy having a go at creating a simplified version of a Werkspoor bogie as found on the Dutch vans. To this end I'd really appreciate any good clear (preferably side on) pics or even better drawings of the things you might have. Thanks a lot, Phil