Thanks njee20

I did get your email and replied thanks

I will try and see if I can find some people to help

But if I get no luck - I can still switch to OO gauge and just sell of the n gauge at least that way people could use and enjoy them as they just sat in a cupboard at the moment and have been for a long time

Quote from: Bealman on Yesterday at 11:09:20 AMWhy move OO/HO? Those models look like plastic toys

As he says in the OP, because he can't get RTR models of most of the things he wants, and they are available in OO? 

I've just replied to your PM. A lot of the problem is potentially how you ask the question if you're looking for someone to undertake a conversion. "Can you build me a 442?" is probably going to be a no. But if you procure a kit for one then you may find it easier to get someone to put it together and finish it for you. CMAC does (or at least did) a 444, but seems to have markedly scaled back his N gauge offerings; frankly the kit market is so tiny it likely isn't worth it.

Gosport Railworks do most of the mk1 EMUs; a BEP, CEP, VEP and CIG certainly. I'm sure you could find someone to finish those for you to get what you'd like.

I may still have a set of Electra NMT vinyls if that's specifically what you're after. I'll check my stock.

Quote from: Steven B on August 18, 2026, 10:39:43 PMI've not used them, but thus ebay seller might do what you want.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/chriscodethrees

You're not getting the answer you want (vinyls for Dapol coach) as they won't work as well as on a smooth sided Poole/early Chinese Farish model. The seperate windows and raised detail doesn't sit well with a vinyl overlay.

Try a repaint and Railtec transfers - if you don't like the result switch to vinyl.

His vinyls aren't particularly good and are undersize for Dapol and even some Farish items.

Experience of other modellers.

GE

I've been slowly building more of the fiddle yard. Today, between showers I put the full length of the fiddle yard up. Whilst it is certainly missing a few tracks at the moment and not a single bit of wiring has been done, there is certainly a lot of potential there. The yard totally swallowed a 5 coach class 800. I also got a moment to place a couple of the scenic modules next to the yard, using the same trestles.

Yes, indeed, it was a sad, ignominious end for a type of motive power that had served this country well for 150 years. But, at the same time, what else could you do with them? Better that the steel should be re-used than that they sat rusting in a siding somewhere. Arguably, it was the unseemly rush to get rid of steam that spurred the heritage railway industry into being that at least preserved enough to give a taste of what the railways used to be like.

Cheers,

Chris

Quote from: Papyrus on Yesterday at 03:13:02 PMI've just come back from a short trip to our local Sainsbury's, where they are now stocking chocolate advent calendars...   

Understanding that the UK is rather warm these days, I guess they may want to be getting the stock shifted before it all melts.... 

Thats a very good shot of how a superheater header and tubes fits into the smokebox on the N7....I wonder if the numberplate still exists.

As a youngster, I wasn't that interested in real railways, just models, but I do remember on our roughly monthly trip to see family in Kent whole rows of locos being broken up at Stewarts Lane (?) just outside Victoria station.

Martyn

I've just come back from a short trip to our local Sainsbury's, where they are now stocking chocolate advent calendars...    

May I be the first to wish you all a very merry Christmas. 

Cheers,

Chris

Quote from: GWR_XC on August 18, 2026, 04:24:58 PMEddie -

I am looking for this

Bachmann Network South East EMUs & class 159 DMU

Hornby South West trains class 423

 class 33 br blue

Dapol class 73 South West trains

Also South West trains - anything considered here really

Sadly I don't have any of those in my collection, hopefully someone out there does though