Horsetan

As someone who generally only goes for models of preserved stock, I went for 102 Falcon in fairly late NIR livery. It has been said in the past that the Hunslets owed their styling to BR's Class 52 Westerns, but I'm not so sure. The general look of the Hunslet has much in common with metre-gauge diesels that were supplied to South East Asia, particularly Thailand and Malaysia, and there's a bit that seems to resemble the 5'6" engines that went to India and Sri Lanka. For something relatively compact, the model is quite heavy. There's a mass of fine detail, much of it underneath, and a small bag containing even more detail to be fixed to the model. Both bogies have chains, actual miniature chains, attached to brake levers on the bogie and on the underframe. These are likely to pose a problem if you’re opening up the bogies for general maintenance or regauging, as it means that you only get a certain degree of clearance to get into the geartrain or to remove the wheelsets.

Well, here we are now.... The box is massive. Possibly bigger than it needs to be... There's a bunch of paperwork that you get for free. And a spares diagram that shows around 200 parts went into the thing.

I wonder if the H/4 was derived from the HG? There's a very Robinson Great Central 8K look about it.

Skip lorry. Driver didn't hang around either, but was arrested later.

Good luck with that, so

Anyhow I don't see your EM check clearances as necessarily a problem. My back-to-backs and flange profile should allow my stock to negotiate your points without falling off, but your EM profile wheels won't be getting through my P4 check clearances....

The question you have to ask yourself is: "Do I feel lucky?"....

There's Irish solutions for Irish problems...

...there's going to have to be an attempt at an Irish FREMO network one day.

Don't frighten the lad. An XE is enough to be going on with for now.

All you need to complete that commuter train are teeming hordes of passengers.

Is yer man going the whole 22mm gauge?

Indian standard gauge

Used to be the norm, but this disappeared once the Covid era started, so couriers ended up marking their own homework, so to speak, and that persists to this day.

Do you think you might all be played off against each other?

That option didn't exist at the time of my orders, so....

In the case of the Hunslets, they are irreplaceable since there may not be another production run.

Yes, they were three separate ones. I didn’t think it worth trying to combine it all later on. DPD - and others - regularly leave things exposed if you're not in. I wonder what the theft rate is nowadays.

Logic? It looks like they pack whatever came out of the consignment boxes first and get those away. I had the black/orange Park Royal turn up on Saturday afternoon (Royal Mail). That was followed by the Hunslet on Sunday (left exposed on the doorstep by DPD), and the green Park Royal some hours after (Royal Mail again).

If it's anything like the "A" and the BR Class 31, it shouldn't hold any surprises....

Looks like the green one was delivered today.

Seems my Hunslet was delivered by DPD to the doorstep yesterday. Regauging should be gas.

I only wanted the preserved examples, so two were quite enough. Regauging is the important thing.

For a 1:87 model, it would have to be regauged to 18.37mm to represent 5ft 3in.

Ah wait....hang on....I might be confusing that with the Worsley Works kit....which Mike Edge built some years ago