Horsetan

You'll find the Swiss are just as punctual.

Skanger sports?

One thing I should point out is that I'm building from an existing kit, on which a great deal of research and design was done over two decades ago. The game has moved on even from that: hence, upgraded suspension and a few other tweaks. The LHB Dart stock, despite its apparently simple shape, presents a fair degree of challenge. Will you try to produce a ready-to-go model, or break it down into kit form for us to assemble? How will the moulding be done, e.g. 3D printing or traditional expensive injection moulding? Will you cater only for 00/16.5 gauge, or will there be allowance for 21mm people like me? There are costs incurred at every stage. And people do expect to see inside the models, so windows must be transparent, which means getting your frames right, plus a representation of the seats and sliding doors. As you're discovering, the whole thing's not as easy as it looks!

Managed to break 0.35 and 0.4mm drill bits AARRGGHH

Most would expect either a good basic resin shell, to which detail (turned/cast/etched) can be added, or a fully-etched kit that you can solder together. And there are still the gauge options to cater for as well.

If that's for 4mm scale, then hopefully they can be re-wheeled for 21mm gauge.....

Why do I detect an element of wishful thinking in respect of what they think IR should do? Why do people assume the Chinese will be the universal panacea to all (self-inflicted) economic ills? What makes others think that IR would simply turn over an entire route for 10 Euro?

In that case, you might want to be sending Allen an e-mail to ask if he'll be there.

"Look at them there. The Chinese. A great bunch o' lads....."

It will be if they put in a full-size NEM coupler.

Slightly unfortunate if pronounced the European way

Brian Solomon has this photo of a bracket signal Note the difference in the size of the red spectacle - the subsidiary arm has a much smaller "red", and a correspondingly longer "green" segment; there used to be examples of this all over the system, including one on the Quay end of the Westport "up" platform. My question is when was that variation was first introduced? Was it a GSR pattern, or a CIE design? Also, are there any photos of the current IR LED colour light signal heads?

I had a pint yesterday

His Shows page doesn't have anything listed after 27th October 2012 - I wonder if that means a "no"?

The thickness of each mainframe is 0.5mm, so the homemade spacers will need to be at least 16mm wide. Further time has been spent using CLAG principles for setting up the continuous spring-beam suspension: For an in-depth guide to how the principles work, click here. This being a four-coupled chassis, I'm using the symmetrical 2-axle setup.

There, that's better, so!

Ultrascale and AGW both make the correct 6ft driving wheels (LMS Black 5-type), and pony / bogie wheels are freely available from both. Note that the driving wheel rims are bevelled, whereas the bogie and pony wheels are not.

It will be worth more than the stuff NAMA took on