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Hi Allan, I am new to this group so I'm not sure about 'settings' yet for contacting members with PM's but I am on the NGRM forum and have several recent posts on the Baldwin thread if you are a

Hi Allan, I would be most interested in having a go with them. I know of the half-etch lines you mean as I went through my kit last night piece by piece. The chassis was partially assembled by a

Hi Craig When I built my loco I had a problem with some cylinder parts, and Alan Gibson very kindly sent me a replacement etch including a full set of side frames and stretchers. Whilst these are for

Craig, Sprung hornblocks all sound good, but unless you are able to get springs that are perfect for the job then more often then not you end up with a loco that wobbles along the track because the

This is a very interesting topic for me as I have one of these kits. ?It was a fairly recent purchase (at huge expense!) and was described to me as being one of the original 100 (?) kits that Roy

The conical spring design I first saw on the old Tyco 10 wheeler that was being sold back in the 1970’s it had a conical spring for the 4 pilot wheels and worked very well. The link I gave you for

Hi Brian Thanks - the conical spring idea is intriguing. Am I right to assume that the narrow end of the spring is centred on and attached to the loco frames, with the truck bolster moving laterally

Allan, I have done this on a number of different loco's over the years, there are several ways of doing this, the simplest way is to do it is to use a conical shaped spring, that way it not only

No longer bereft in Northamptonshire. Now deeply conflicted as postie brought both Review 115 *and* Narrow Lines 232. I'm reading one article in each magazine, in turn!! Happy

Hi John Thanks - a good idea, I'll get in touch with Paul. If I do come across any ideas I'll let you know. As for the cupboard where kits go to die, I guess we've all got one of those! All the

Hello Allan, You are nowhere near the "procrastination" record, as my decades old kit is still languishing in the "cupboard where kits go to die"! Needless to say, I am unable to offer any "first

I'm just finishing off an Alan Gibson kit for an L&B 2-6-2t. (I purchased it from Alan's stand at NEC Warley in 2001, which may be some kind of record for slow work!). Anyway, given the short coupled

#115 arrived Toronto, Ontario today! Happily being read now, ‘ David Woodhead

Still bereft in Northamptonshire. ??

Mine arrived (in the UK) on Wednesday. -- Brian Rumary England brian(at)rumary.co.uk

Marion and I are attending the Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway Model Railway Exhibition on Sunday 5th August with the full range of RCL Publications and a selection of REVIEW current and back

Arrived in Yorkshire today. We beat Lancashire yesterday, Root took 4 for 5, God is in his heaven tossing down lightning bolts, for the next few hours even Brexit doesn't matter. Frank

I agree that as a complete item, the paper copy is always going to win for me, and I'd never want to replace mine with an ephemeral digital copy. Having said that, I do wonder if making it easy to

I certainly would retain the physical magazine, that goes without saying, but I would certainly pay to have back issues in digital format on a year by year basis, perhaps something to consider similar

Arrived in Belgium Wednesday 25 July.