Very difficult to find examples of the 2025 container wagon anywhere for sale ... there was one on eBay that sold on 8th December but have seen no others offered anywhere. Are they so prized by collectors club members that they are holding on to them? Most years there are several of them around and ones from previous years even turn up in online model shops' listings ... even in multiples. Where are they all?

Quote from: Browning 9mm on January 04, 2026, 12:40:16 PMso if I use the enamel satin to provide a base for the transfers, then use enamel matt to seal them. many thanks.
I to have found acrylic varnish to be very susepable to cold / damp.

For years now to provide a base for transfers I have used Johnsons Klear. It's an old bottle before the formula was changed but seem to recall the new stuff also works. I've just passed below half way in the bottle but it should still outlast me 

That sounds good, but oh dear - turns out I have a lot of those parts in stock...... No, I really DON'T need one even though I grew up on the LTSR!

Dave

Quote from: thebrighton on January 04, 2026, 11:48:15 AMI have never had an issue with enamel over acrylic but have had numerous catastrophes with acrylic over enamel and now never combine that way round.
Also being slightly colder/damper than I thought has resulted in clouding of acrylic spray varnish but has never happened with enamel despite how cold it may be in the garage.

so if I use the enamel satin to provide a base for the transfers, then use enamel matt to seal them. many thanks.
I to have found acrylic varnish to be very susepable to cold / damp.

Quote from: EtchedPixels on January 04, 2026, 11:37:07 AMAlthough we are now at the point where any hardened criminal cites PACE, asks for the chain of evidence and then claims the submitter or police doctored it with AI 

So far they have refused to show me any of the evidence they have.

To keep warm in winter, I once sprayed enamel varnish onto a model in our downstairs cloakroom. It also coated the plastic toilet seat, leaving a crinkle pattern. I have never told my wife how that happened, but she knows about the incident with the malachite green aerosol on the patio...

Will have to go back to the garage scenario, I think.

Bob G

I have never had an issue with enamel over acrylic but have had numerous catastrophes with acrylic over enamel and now never combine that way round.
Also being slightly colder/damper than I thought has resulted in clouding of acrylic spray varnish but has never happened with enamel despite how cold it may be in the garage.

Quote from: Bob G on January 04, 2026, 11:10:34 AMRules are rules. I'm waiting to hear if I'm going to be prosecuted for spending more than 30 seconds in the middle lane of the M69 before pulling in. This is the price you pay for allowing third party dashcam evidence to be used to catch hardened criminals.

Although we are now at the point where any hardened criminal cites PACE, asks for the chain of evidence and then claims the submitter or police doctored it with AI 

Quote from: Bealman on January 03, 2026, 10:56:47 PM Speeding fine.

49km/hr in a 40 zone, 11 minutes before the zone went back to 60km/hr.

Rules are rules. I'm waiting to hear if I'm going to be prosecuted for spending more than 30 seconds in the middle lane of the M69 before pulling in. This is the price you pay for allowing third party dashcam evidence to be used to catch hardened criminals.

Quote from: Southerngooner on January 04, 2026, 09:07:42 AMThat's the way I'd go to get one of these, but not sure what you'd use to motorise it.

A cut down (*) BachFar 4F chassis/motor/gears fitted with Coronation driving wheels might do the job.
(*) with the section for the leading axle cut off (but leaving adequate support for the motor) such that the front bogie would fit under it.

Assuming that the LMS-built versions had the same basic dimensions, the rear pair axle spacing on the 4F chassis is very close, 8'6" for the 4F vs 8'9" for the LTSR 79.
The Coronation wheels are slightly large, 6'9" vs 6'6" for the LSTR 79, but probably not excessively so.

As to the carrying wheels, a Jubilee/Royal Scot bogie might work and possibly a set of 4F tender wheels for the trailing truck, or possibly an N or Fairburn front pony truck for the latter - the N one would be my preference as that has several holes in the frame so one can choose which one to use for the mount/pivot.

That's the way I'd be looking - until or unless detailed checking of dimensions ruled it out.

And, for once, I wouldn't be butchering a Terrier