Dapol have just announced decorated samples of their forthcoming BGs and Refurbished Buffets . . . .

Hello Jim,

I'm afraid I don't have a direct answer for you but I just found a webpage with all British railway colours in hex and rgb numbers.
Maybe you can match the Vallejo range to these colours?

https://www.railwayscenics.com/liveries.php

Jan

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I'm planning t purchase several 3d printed locos from Gosport Rail Works. As it is either impossible or very difficult/expensive to get paints from the UK, anyone know of close matches to Wainwright Green, or Stroudley's Improved Engine Green in any of the generally available paint lines, such as Vallejo, Gamer's Workshop, etc..

Thanks

Jim

@grumbeast
https://www.petersspares.com/c/peco/peco-spares/peco-jubilee-spares?pg=3

Quote from: scottmitchell74 on May 30, 2026, 06:20:53 PM

Quote from: Bazza on May 30, 2026, 04:50:46 PMHas anyone provided feedback to Rails about the huge amount of emails that include very little N gauge news and information about the primary interest of the potential customer? Perhaps they could structure the marketing output to include only specific news about particular scales/gauges chosen to prevent people being overwhelmed with information about scales and gauges that are of no interest.

Just did! It's a good idea.

Hello Sott,


At the moment there isn't a way to do this (N Gauge Only Emails) but I have passed your comment on to our team for them to take a look into for you.


Kind regards

Georgia

So you've now been modelling the southern railway for twice as long as it existed

 

Quote from: Newportnobby on May 29, 2026, 12:56:38 PMThree great tracks with Rod Stewart on vocal (before he discovered crooning to grannies was more lucrative). The first was later covered by Nazareth

I do hope young Rod was happy with the set of car seat covers he was paid for the session!

No need to remove the bodyshell, just the rapdio coupling. The class 31 instruction sheet is on the Bachmann Spares' website:
https://bachmann-spares.co.uk/file/F7111-3-Class-31-2020.pdf

If you download it you'll be able to zoom in to figure 2 to see that the snowploughs fit into two holes on the buffer beam, one either side of where the coupling hook would be.

@Dorsetmike

...and let's not forget the "ON_NACC". (Oh No, Not Another Controller Circuit!). 

I recently built another ON_NACC and filled the pulse with 25kHz from a PWM controller and ran the pulse through an op amp so I could control the amplitude, before mixing with the DC.
The lttle PWM board is also very nice on its own and I run it from a variable supply to set the PWM amplitude to suit the loco type.

Mark

Quote from: grumbeast on Yesterday at 07:32:17 PMAlso the drawbar contact spring is broken.

Tender frames and conductors can be rebuilt - new unused spares are still out there.

Cheers,
Alan