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Great stuff indeed!

It seems like a not hard to solve issue, and we have an open fire, but getting proper coal appears harder than expected these days!

You're very kind, but I have a long way to go to meet some of the brilliant work online. All a learning experience!

A bit of an update on slow progress with 16 tonners and other bits. The 1/102 and the LNER d188 are both pretty much done, bar a coal load. (Related, if anyone has a large lump of coal, I could do with one!) Couple together: The next mins (Parkside 1/108 and 1/109) are masked ready for...

Do the tractors outnumber the rest of the rolling stock...? :lol:

Hopefully have a proper look later this weekend - it's currently "hidden" in amongst some other kits...

Yep - very confusing having merged pre-grouping companies using similar class naming! This is the Billinton designed one, not the Maunsell ones ;) (Though, I do have the Rapido U (which came out of the Rivers' instability issues) on pre-order too....)

Multipliers these days are generally 4-4.5x, but sometimes as high as 6x for higher earners/specific jobs. I'm not old enough to remember mortgage rates of 16% (though I recall the rates in the late 80s/early 90s from what was on the TV) - but the multipliers in 1980 or so were often about...

Arrival today of a long term pre-order in the shape of Sonic Models ex-LBSCR K Class 2-6-0, 32342. Only had a brief look at it, but it looks to be very nice. And a photo of the real thing ((c) Robert Pitts collection) on shunting duties outside the brickworks at Crowborough and Jarvis Brook...

Yes - sadly she had dementia towards the end as well (though the leg of lamb incident was a good 25 years prior - maybe a sign!)

I recall the story of my late aunt who put an uncooked leg of lamb in the dishwasher...

If you've got straight stanchions already, I'd probably just try to heat them gently (maybe over a candle) and bend them gently yourself?

My grandmother would have normally been on the Hayes service that was hit by 34066 (she would have changed at Elmer's End for Woodside) but that evening with some fortune had missed the train...

Placing hand up that I didn't hear about that either until it was on the local radio this evening!

Sometimes, things don't work out. I have a few 16 Tonners on the go, and this (diag 1/108) is the second one I've started over with - and it's already been re primed to start again: I just wasn't happy with the colour of both the paint and rust. Paint (Railmatch) just looked too blue, the rust...