My Workbench - Potters Bar and South Mimms

[Horsetan]

.... with cast footplates, shouldn't be to much of a problem.

Risks being thick and heavy, especially on the ornate section obscuring the driving wheels. Also, if the reliance is on mazak, I'd say a model might be living on borrowed time.

[Atlantic 3279]

Quite possibly so.

[mick b]

£300 or thereabouts Locos going west . The current fad for rtr diecast metal as said maybe very shortsighted in due course.

Re the D16 Hornby could have simply used a Etched Valance.

[Horsetan]

..... Re the D16 Hornby could have simply used a Etched Valance.

It wouldn't be available from Hornby as a spare when it gets damaged....

[Atlantic 3279]

Some enterprising individual could have replacements etched, and sell them, but they'd probably be for the "modeller" to paint and line, thus ruling out over 90% of buyers of the loco - but then again, many of the buyers would only have bought it simply in order to know that they'd got one, and maybe to very occasionally look at it in the unopened box, or on a display shelf in a cabinet, where breakage of the pierced valance would be highly unlikely.

[Phil Brighton]

Pleased to have made it into Railway Modeller this month.

[Woodcock29]

Excellent - well done
Andrew

[Hatfield Shed]

That might be the best cover ever on RM. Good job; there's a possibility of me buying a copy, which would make it five mags purchased this millenium...

[Atlantic 3279]

Well done indeed.

Interesting also to know that others share my now minimal magazine buying habit. I'm not impressed by the usual contents of most. My visits to preserved railways that I once rated very highly have greatly diminished too, now that there seem to be hardly any of the disappointingly few preserved LNER locos in steam and in LNER livery.

[mick b]

They have followed BRM and put the issue in a sealed bag.

[Phil Brighton]

That might be the best cover ever on RM. Good job; there's a possibility of me buying a copy, which would make it five mags purchased this millenium...

I think there may be some company bias on show there!

[Atlantic 3279]

I'll gladly increase your suspicions of bias, at the cost of a small further digression, by mentioning that save for a couple of small local shows that I'll support unconditionally by means of a visit very briefly at minimal cost, and one surviving excellent Northern finescale show which always serves up the right sort of layout, I increasingly ignore exhibitions that were once "essential" either because they don't feature any LNER layouts set in the LNER period, or don't feature ANY 1923-47 period layout, or are run by organisers who fail to list the period/area details of unfamiliar layouts, or because the shows no longer have decent comprehensive model-builders trade support.

[nzpaul]

November RM will arrive in NZ closer to December, I'll have to remember to keep an eye out for a copy. First time I've looked forward to buying a mag in years, well done Phil.

[manna]

G'Day Gents

A copy which I will happily buy, when it gets to Oz.

manna

[Jim de Griz]

Pleased to have made it into Railway Modeller this month.

Congratulations, I picked up a copy and greatly enjoyed the article.

I was particularly interested to see your Cambridge Set in print as I’ve been working on similar conversions. I was wondering if you had replaced the ventilators on the roofs as they seem more prominent that the Hornby ones?

Jim de Griz