Horsetan

Yes, but it's practically all beach where you live

I'll wait and see

The really strange thing is that when I paid for the second Park Royal, this came via what looked like an automated e-mail rather than me having to contact Support. Not had the same for the Hunslet yet.

Not had mine. My order seems to think the Hunslet is still on the production line in China....

Based on your own calculation, how many points do you think you think you should have?

I have no idea at all what points I've been awarded - the last time I looked, it was showing about 700 - having bought items from both IRM and Accurascale brands in the past. Update: it sez here that I now have 873 points and a 2 quid discount coupon. Might use that when the Hunslet bill comes in.

In that case, I'll have to look into getting my set gold-plated....!

All that's left is to work out how to re-gauge to 21mm.....

It's this group

It would have been very tropical today (Sunday), rather than merely airless yesterday. The general smells would have been more interesting than yesterday also.

I can't see that one. Looks to be a different group.

I was in a bit of a hurry, and the hall conditions were subtropical.

Someone on this private Irish model group is asking quite a pretty penny for the IRM RPSI Mk2 set.....

They were at Stoke Mandeville show today. Anything that makes 21mm gauge pointwork easier has got to be a plus.

The only thing that those things have got going for them is that they may assist the generation of a fart in a confined space.

This looks like those terrible "healthy smoothies" you can get from those middle-class café and deli chains.

'Tis all Greek to me

Interesting. I remember using Loctite, which proved unable to hold on.

Plastic Magic didn't exist when I had Lima items in the 1990s. Roughening the surface didn't work for regular superglues, and the plastic was also resistant to solvents like Mek-Pak and Daywat butanone. Araldite would hold for a while but the bond was quite weak.

The trouble with the Hornby Black 5 (and the Dapol A4) lamps is they're in fixed positions. As everyone knows, in the UK, lamp positions changed according to the type/class of train being hauled. The Southern group of railways were even more complex, as they mostly relied on disc headcodes according to the route taken by the train, and you could have anywhere between one and three discs showing on almost any combination of six lamp iron positions. Dapol are trying to address this in their new Bulleid Light Pacific, which has six switchable headcode lamps in front, and the same again on the rear of the tender.

If it was a Weinert loco kit, you'd be doing the Neubaukessel Rhein in 12 parsecs

Lima were quite fond of that weird grade of bendy plastic that they used in their bogies and associated parts. It was virtually impossible to glue anything to it.

Might do. Want to give it a go?

The ideal solution would be a 2mm o/d bush pressed into the new wheel and bored 1mm/1.5mm for the stub axle. That's the only way of retaining the original "live" function for lighting and other things. It's not meant to be easy. When Rapido started doing RTR OO, it was quite clear that it had been designed to prevent people from tampering with the model, so rewheeling to a wider gauge was very difficult indeed or virtually impossible.

To be fair, with the number of thefts of farm equipment by feral gangs nowadays, maybe more farmers should go the full Tony Martin on intruders. Perhaps the message would then get through.