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Hay, I accidentally ordered a big bag of seated figures from China, it turned out I ordered what looks like 1/24 instead of OO scale, are they of any use to you ?, they are no use to me.

I had a few similar problems, locos with traction tyres get bad wheel slip, I replaced the tyres with a paint on stuff from the US called bullfrog snot, don't know where they came up with the name, but it works, my radius is 2 and 3, i replaced all of my couplers with knuckle couplings, coaches with sprung buffers had the buffers retracted and held back with a spot of super glue, had issues with the park royals, had to make a minor mod to the bogies, they work fine now, bubbles etc, no problem, anything longer than that without bogies is a issue, six wheel coaches, forget about it. I did have issues with Murphy's 071 but it seems to have bedded itself in now and is running fine, 121s 141's 181's run great, 601 runs alright with five wagons so long as the track is good and clean. Speaking of cleaning, that's a problem, solved by buying two lilliput track cleaning tankers on fleabay, I panted them up yellow and disguise them as part of a weed train.

Are you going to have lighting on the layout, street lights, yard lights building interior lights etc, if you are, you don't want the room lighting too bright, something warm white, maybe with a dimmer

Oh, now that's an interesting project, must give it a shot.

Right, I have got to the washing stage, will post on how I get on with the rest of the process when I get back from the emergency room.

Fleeced ? Ah, I must have skipped an important part of the process, right, does anybody know how to unglue a cat from a baseboard ?

This idea doesn't work at all,

Oh, I know that crossing well, I'm really looking forward to seeing this one.

What you really need there is a couple of brake vans

139 euros plus insane postage, that's more than a quick buck.

Lads, is everybody planning on displaying in communication with them now ?

Go on, splash out Mine originally ran on a lima 55 bogies on the supplied brass chassis, but not very well, replaced it with the cut down hornby 55 chassis runs fine now.

Resin body, photo etched brass parts, mine runs on a cut down hornby class 55, not a bad little kit.

Underground yard wil station on top, exactly what I did, tricky, but pays off when it runs right.

There is always one

Finally got em running right. VID20260630204138.mp4

All three of mine were derailing r2 and 3 on an incline ( I have two helix on my layout ) the bogie has a u shaped bracket which makes contact with the NEM socket, I cut the bracket off, this allowed more throw on the bogie, however the sprung buffers were also fowling, I retracted them and put a spot of super glue on the back of them to keep them retracted, this seems to have fixed the issue, I didn't like making these modifications to these works of art, but they run on my layout now, which is better than them not running. In defense of the manufacturer, my layout does present challenges for rolling stock.

Great, looking forward to seeing it again.

That is really taking shape, lovely

Wow, good to know

I better get the finger out and finish the bloody thing now

I'm booked in

I was having derailment issues with a hornby class 73, was using it as a donor chassis for a C Class, anyhoo, after a lot of frustration I discovered the motor bogie didn't have enough clearance from the chassis frame, a couple of minutes with a file and it was sorted, I was very surprised as it was a brand new loco, if I wasn't going to chop it up anyway I would have been very annoyed, not saying you are having the same issue, but might be worth a look.

Yup, me and my Kilshaughlin layout would love to attend, if I can figure out how to get it 200 yrds up the road.

Laundry day at Knocks Cottage