Model Forum / General / Railroads / April 2006

I'm making a Polar Express themed N scale layout.
This is being done a bit here and there kind of fashion with the intent of
having it finished up in time for Christmas.
The loco and tender has already been purchased. It's a unmarked Life Like

I have in my possession a pair of model B set coaches in BR maroon livery
professionally renumbered as m6894m and m6890m.
Were any B sets reallocated to the Midland Region and if so wouldn't the
final 'm' have stayed as a 'w' to signify the coach's pre-nationalisation

Anyone done the hornby class 50 taillight DCC modification so you can
operate the taillights independently?
If so, How do you do it?
Thanks

I've just built a couple of Parkside Dundas SR utlity van
kits. The  instructions suggest using Precision Paints but
provide reference numbers prefixed with the letter 'B'.
However, this numbering system doesn't appear to be used

Does anyone out there have plans or instructions for building a simple
spray cabinet for airbrushing? Nothing fancy nor expensive, just
utilitarian and something that I can build myself. Thank you in advance
for any assistance that anyone could offer.

http://www.railpage.com.au/f-p506566.htm#506566
If you want to be a prat get used to the complaints old chum.  Instead
of acusing others of going on like they are in a primary school you are
perfoming the same the same act yourself.  Why dont you follow your own

Since moving to Australia I have used up the last of the UK car spray paints
I brought with me for painting my railway models.
Does anyone here use Australian car spray paints for this purpose, and if so
what paints do you use for the following:

Just wondering if this series ever came out in Australia...... it is one of
those available-through-newsagents type of affairs with a book and a DVD or
Video
thanks

The website says TBA or POA or TLA or something... Anyone know when they are
expected?
Adrian

Does anyone know whether Heljan are going to correct the deficiency in
the roof profile of the Crompton ? Or do we just have to put up with
it.
Should we expect the BRCW type 2 (class 26 / 27) to have the correct

In N-Scale locomotives, non-DCC, which do you believe has the best
quality and features?
OS

 We're filming a spot in the Washington DC area on 4/21/06 and are
hoping to find an existing model train layout that may work. The
earlier posting was rather incomplete. I have now been given more info.
 We fade up on a tight shot of a train running down the track. The

We're looking for a model train layout about 4'x8' with a town setting
including a school and bus of reasonably good detail for a TV spot to
be filmed on friday the 21st of April 2006. It may need to be
transportable to a location and we could help with that and provide a

I’ve got a good selection of 15 new towns this time.  Plus, I’ve added
7 photos to existing depots.
Things are continuing to get better.  I’ll have more new towns in my
next updates.

I was just travelling up the M1, coming up to Trowell, and saw a Class 56
on the line.  I was surprised doubly firstly because I never thought I'd
see one of these loco's under its own power again and secondly because it
was in a really odd colour.  It was green with standard ...