Horsetan

Interesting that the website doesn't mention that omission....

So that's eight etches so far.....

I think they have to cater for the surprising number of people who still use Code 100 track.

Not all hornblock bearings are alike. AGW and LRM bearings are similar, but AGW has the sliding groove running down the centre of the sliding surface, whereas LRM is biased to one side. I've used AGW bearings in an experimental LMS Duchess chassis, but I didn't use the 0.45mm guide wire supplied as this makes the bearings too loose in the guides. I found 0.6 or 0.7mm wire to give much better sliding characteristics. High Level bearings are smaller, as are the guides. Then there's the rectangular Brassmasters/Comet bearings which are designed to slot into the frames directly without needing separate guides.

I'm after pre-ordering another Park Royal just in case the first one goes missing.

You must be joking! Irish stuff is usually beset by price-gouging!!

My points have transferred over together with my basic details, but that's all so far.

I've just checked into the Accurascale account. The basic details have been retained, but unfortunately my previous IRM order history is not visible, and my existing pre-order for a Park Royal coach is also not shown....unless I'm looking at completely the wrong bit or unless the Accurascale account system isn't supposed to cover that type of thing.

They're not. Charlie Petty stopped production of all of his kits years ago. Something about it not being economically viable to carry on, especially as the RTR lads muscled in on his DMU territory. He earns his money from that bewildering range of DCC sound chips, DVDs and books.

He might need a new printer after doing my batch. Replied.

The Worsley Works one is probably the one with the most potential, but you have to make your own detail castings.

Same here.

Count me in for one set. I'd like to see if they can be adapted to take the Dave Bradwell sprung cradles. EDIT to add: and a matching set of 3D-printed detail parts

Hiding in plain sight?

If it's there you want to be, I wouldn't be starting from here!

He can do that anywhere....and frequently has

I frequently had to use them between Victoria and East Croydon when I was acting for clients in the Croydon area. The other thing about the Southern 377s is that they played a major role in some of the Microsoft Train Simulator add-ons: London South-East, and South Coast. I had the original MSTS and "drove" the 377 to various virtual destinations including Brighton, Ford (change here for the open prison), Littlehampton, Bognor Regis, Worthing, etc. Hmm, I think 100mph is equivalent to 161km/h. 128km/h is more like 80mph

Mine was a Sinclair Cambridge Memory. Looking back on it, the digits would have been the correct size for theatre indicators on 4mm scale colour light signals.

My first calculator was a Sinclair pocket thing, with red 8-digit (not LED, but sort of electroluminescent) display. Cost ten quid from Lasky's, the hi-fi specialists, in Oxford Street in about 1976.

Fleischmann wheel profiles were always coarse, but then Roco models weren't that much better back then. Nowadays most Continental HO models try to conform to NEM profile (2.8mm wide tyres), which is still quite coarse. Roco in particular still can't decide what profile to use - some models look as though they have RP25-110, others are NEM. I have a model of the famous 18.201 and that seems to have three different wheel profiles on it

The Class 5s were supposedly capable of up to 50mph if occasion (and track condition) allowed it.

Sometimes improvisation is the only thing available.

So, a 100% result there!

Code 75, I would have thought. EDIT to add: I did wonder, if you were just wanting to mess with 21mm first, whether there might be some mileage in taking a short length of RTR 16.5, sawing the sleepers down the middle and then inserting/glueing in your own plasticard fillers to space things out to 21mm. I remember reading about someone who did this when he needed some quick plain track for a fiddle yard in P4, but only had some OO to hand. He was surprised to find his rough method worked. Obviously you'd still need a track gauge or two to ensure the rails were correctly spaced, but this sounds a relatively cheap way of trying things out.

Worsley specialise in "scratch aid" etches, especially in 4mm scale. They are meant to make your life easier, as David says, so that you are assured of being able to build the basic body. Detail castings, however, are left to you. For example, I've had a Worsley GWR 42xx/5205 2-8-0T on the go for a while. The basic body structure is mostly done, with just the riveted overlays left to form. Worsley also include the chassis (a fold-up, even in P4), cylinders, motion and pony truck. In the intervening years, Brassmasters have produced a fully-sprung P4 chassis kit - actually intended for the Hornby model - and this has some potential to be adapted to the Worsley body. Worsley very rarely provide any castings unless it's a model for which there aren't any bits from other sources - the NCC "W" 2-6-0 etch set, for example