Andy Cundick

Bit more than should,Valencia has been exhibited for the last 5 or so years and featured in Model Rail August 2014.Courtmacsherry is due at the Warley show next year.I had Valencia at Warminster the other week and gave both Argadeen and St Mologa a bit of a running session on it.800 you won't be seeing as i've done 802(everyone seems to do 800)trouble is that her and 7 Bredins do tend to clog up the station.Andy.

AS Valencia is 1935 and Courtmacsherry is 1930ish CIE is modern image ,quite agree about cattle trucks having just built GSW one.Chatting with Simon de Souza(Foxrock Models) he seems interested in doing a MGW one from a drawing i let him have from the Railway Engineer so fingers crossed.Andy.

Certainly up for some MGW coaches.Alans coming to my show in August so i'll wave some coach drawings at him,not sure about the cattle truck bit too modern image Andy

J5 is 27'7" and J18/19 is 26'7".|Hope that answers your question Andy.

Mashima motors still seem readily avaliable Branchlines had them at the Chatham show,Comet/Wizard and Scalelink are all still stocking them good time to stock up Andy.

Personally i'd go with a High Level gearbox and Mashima motor,better in as much with the High Level boxes the motor can be removed with the worm.Andy.

Tony,Another thing you can do is to track down a large scale OS map which features the station.i did this with Castlederg as Alan Godfrey maps does one which includes the station.I had the dimensions for the main building as that survives.The map and my measurements agreed(amazingly)and so i scaled the rest of the buildings from the map.Andy

I think the clue is in the title "Scratch aids",and very us-full they are too Andy.

Depends what you are soldering i use Carrs Green Label for soldering the steel droppers on my DG couplers,other than that i don't bother i just use 188 flux cored solder and make sure the brass or nickel is clean,this where the fibreglass brushes come into there own.Does it work well 50 odd locos built that way the oldest of which is over 30 years old and still running,i guess so Andy.

Check their website the chassis is a universal one with a choice of 2 types of w irons throughly recommended,Andy.

Brassmasters do a couple of very good 6 wheel coach chassis.I've got one sat under a Great Western family saloon.Andy

Point of order Mr Chairman 00n3 is exactly right for 3foot gauge.Andy.

Its called suffering for your art.I find part of the fun and challenge is modelling something different from what i remember, otherwise it would be the Berks and Hants,Swindon Works and lots of Westerns.The nearest to that is a Broad Gauge project of Marlborough c1860.Andy.

NCC Jinty No18 has been spotted a Valencia Harbour,usually in the last hour of a show,Andy.

Not used Alan Gibsons strapping,however Evergreen strip of the right width/thickness can be used and rivet transfers of the correct spacing can be applied afterwards.I usually get the wagons to primered state then apply them.Both Archers and Microscale do the transfers,try DCC supplies.Andy.

Ambis or Wizard should have something suitable,Andy

Not sure i can justify a modern image one,so early GS one to start with,Andy.

The simple answer is no the 6t snail is as stated chalked on,Andy

Not convinced about the proposal .as my layouts are between 30 and 40 years before i was born. all set in a country i've no connection with.The only one at least in the right area ,my broad gauge Marlborough one is 100 years before iwas born so bang goes someones theory for me at least Andy.

Steel wheels every time though with all wheels it pays to check the back to back,Andy.

Tony.Best places for wagon underpinnings is MJT and or Wizard Models.Andy.

Tony Demonstration piece posted this morning Andy.

Tony Let me have your address and i'll send you a demonstration piece Andy.

Tony,As requested the point control i use as standard is pretty simple and fairly foolproof (with me it has to be.Basically underneath the point i have a slot under the tiebar with a bit of timber 1"x 1/2" approx mounted on the side of this is a bit of Copperclad sleeper strip about 1 1/4" long this is secured by 4 Peco track spikes so it can slide side to side in line with the tie bar.A bit of 1mm N/S rod is fed down through the hole in the tie bar and soldered to the copperclad.The control end is just a 30p slide switch with a hole drilled through the Nylon slider this needs to be rattling good fit for an 8BA bolt,the idea being that the bolt is nutted both sides of the switch to allow for adjustment.To connect the point to the switch i use Silicon/Nickel silver wire in tube from Wizard/MSE Models.This soldered to the bolt (the slot in the head helps here)and the copperclad strip.The silicon tube is then secured with hot glue.Any adjusting can then be done using the bolt on the switch.All you then need is to wire up the point ,the middletag on the switch goes to the frog and the other two are for feed from the toe of the point.Hope this makes sense,Andy

Simple answer is no,i've got two and both run nicely.Andy.