DJM Dave

It's been most enjoyable, especially the field trips AND the meetings over very liquid lunches lasting on average 5 hours!

Hi guys, Just in case you spotted them, the 'witness' marks ( the round indents) on the inside of the hopper will be removed at 2nd ep stage. Cheers Dave

You know camels can't buy you the kind of love a set of cement bubbles can!

To be fair to them, I think your correct. It's affected me even though I tried to mitigate for it, so Lord knows what it's done to their cash flow projections.

I must admit, Designing and helping the guys bring these 2 delightful wagons to market has brought me a great deal of personal pleasure. However, I only saw the bubbles once in traffic and cannot wait to see a rake of them on someone's layout. Did these run as fixed rakes or where they marshalled into how ever many were needed for a job? Cheers Dave

I love the look of this loco, it reminds me of the 'sad eyes' the UK's class 21,22,29 and D600 classes had. Almost a downtrodden look. Loved the lone up of them, where was that taken? Cheers Dave

Hello everyone, Just to tease you some more and perhaps make you push the boys for a second run take a look at these i took on my photo survey of the wagon when i was over the other month. http://davejonesphotography.zenfolio.com/p344817123 What's worthy of note is the different positions of lettering and numbering, plus one with the 'rolling wheel' emblem on it too. These guys can and probably will, if your nice to them, produce you an unheard of amount of differences of an almost standard wagon livery at launch. Oh, and i'll be pleased to make them for the guys too :-) Cheers Dave

Well done everybody. Never did 'build them and they shall come' have more meaning. Cheers Dave

Hi,this newbie will answer this for you. The bottom of the hopper is indeed asymmetrical, and this fact surprised me when I did the measurements and photo survey. It took a little time to get my head round it to be honest. There is only 1 door per half of the hopper, opened very cleverly by the hand wheel adjacent. Turning this operated a screw link that operates a pivot that operates another pivot that 'cracks open' the hopper door. It is hinged from the outer edge of the door, opening close to the offset centre line. I've had fun doing this wagon and apart from 1 or 2 un mouldable features it's pretty close to the real thing. It's very enigmatic, that's for sure. Cheers Dave