@@bugler75 the ingredients for the lamp are: 1 acrylic diamond, 1 short second of heat shrink insulation, some bits of styrene...I still have to work out how to fit the lot together. I'll make a wee drawing.

@@patricksmodels I have all those😊 Looking forward to it. Only when you have time though. 👍🏼

@@Cristake1974 I'll have to dedicate a running session only to these little tank engines. Yesterday I finally saw the real life inspiration for the third line of the Brunel layout, in the vicinity of a certain international airport named after Henri Coandă 😊

@@patrickquinn5962 the layout is standing behind the studio door. I have to fit the wires for the street lights next.

@@patricksmodels great looking forward to seeing it

@@CZ350tuner that's right the Comet!

One of my hobbies is 20mm. (1:72 / 1:76) WW2 wargaming, which I've been involved with since 1974. I have a lot of T-26 models (or "Easy Kill Lemming Tanks", as one of my friends calls them). I have: T-26 model 1931 (twin machine gun turrets). T-26 model 1932 (platoon commander tank with twin turrets, one with 37mm. L.30 PS-1 cannon). T-26 model 1933 (single turret with 45mm. L.46 20K cannon). T-26 model 1934 (platoon commander version of 1933 model with radio and "shoot me first" turret hand rail antenna). T-26 model 1938 (armour increased to 22mm. and angled). T-26 model 1939 (as with model 1938 but with rear turret machine gun and, occasionally, a radio receiver). T-26 model 1940 (platoon commander tank with radio and whip antenna). T-26A (T-26 model 1933 armed with 76mm. L.16.5 infantry cannon in a modified T-28 turret) OT-26 (right hand turret only version of model 1931 armed with flame projector. Very easy to recognise, unfortunately). OT-130 (model 1933 armed with flame projector. Looks like a normal T-26 model 1933, unless examined closely). AT-1 (assault gun version armed with 76.2mm. L.26 cannon).

@@CZ350tuner Great list and I love your sense of humour too😊👍🏼 I gamed Micro Armour (1/200 scale) back in the mid to late 1980’s and early 1990’s. Very good memories 😊 Ian

@@bugler75 it's made by Zvezda, the same as the Ural truck and the Polikarpov.

@@patricksmodels Thats interesting and great news as MK Bedfords are extremely rare now (Airfix and JB models). I must have a look as I want a couple for an old diorama. That’s if I can still get them in Western Europe ! Thanks for explaining that.

@@bugler75 I can't remember whether I bought that JB kit in Glasgow or in Italy, but I know it was around 2002. I think it might have been in Glasgow. It's a very nice kit, I really enjoyed building and painting it.

@@cruiservin0212 thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

@@bugler75 The army spec AR76 could climb anywhere, but boy did they guzzle petrol!

@@Cristake1974 Thanks, the railcar will definitely be given an award by the new local government of Brunel after the upcoming elections. The ballot boxes are already full and in storage...oops maybe they have a strange way of interpreting the democratic principle in Brunel. 😲

@@stevenpeaketrainsandstuff3682 thanks Steven, I'll have to make a post with that photo.

@@CZ350tuner thanks, I hadn't thought of that. I've even got the magnet.

@@CZ350tuner I've got a black one, I can't remember when or why I bought it though.

@@patricksmodels I have a few white ones. Aircrews used to use them for course plotting on maps, back in the old days.

@@CZ350tuner now I remember, I brought mine home from the army, we used black ones to fill in the company duty board. In Italy we call them "matita vetrografica" or just "vetrografica". I came across it the other day while rummaging through my stationery box.

@@CZ350tuner Brunel has a container handling crane, but it wasn't installed this time because it would have been in the way when doing doing track work at the station end. I'm thinking of making another smaller layout, with a country station and a goods shed. I'm glad the foundry has got its steam locomotive back, I'm sure the management was fed up with having to pay for diesel for that BR shunter.

@@WWIIREBEL I read somewhere that Lima actually copied the Mantua moulding. It's powered by the usual very reliable Lima G type pancake motor. What type of motor does the Mantua have?

@@patricksmodels The mantua uses an open frame "Pittmann" motor. They are very strong running and super reliable. I've been able to pull up to 45 metal-cast freight cars with mine. The Mantua version has a very nice and heavy metal body/shell and it gets great traction because of this.

@@WWIIREBEL sounds like a great little engine. The lack of weight of the Lima is it's major drawback. I made a comparative shunting video yesterday, I'll publish it in the next days.

@@attuslebeard5133 it runs well in that direction, in the other the rear pony truck derails merrily on the signal box points, the same points that the front pony truck also dislikes. The point rivets are too prominent, I'll have to do something about them.

@@Cristake1974 so the helicopter was the answer to the shortcomings of the planned economy! I wonder what the price of oil lamp wicks is in present day Chișinău, I could take the Trenul Prieteniei and stock up on them! Mentioning name places, I studied European geography at school before 1989, when the Soviet Union was firmly in place. I studied all the republics and their respective capitals. Years later a thought stuck me one day: "What about Kishinev?! What happened to Kishinev? Nobody ever mentions it!" Then I realised that it had reverted to its original name of Chișinău. It was just a language matter (well language and politics go hand in hand, but let's not complicate things now 😓) it hadn't followed the footsteps of Titograd, Karl Marx Stradt, Leningrad, Gorki, Sverdlovsk...etc. Anyhow Chișinău is on my list of places to visit, I could overlook the oil lamp wicks, my one and only lamp is still in working order... because obviously I have such an item in the living room!

@@patricksmodels If you will visit Chișinău, prepare to have a sweets feast, they have some excellent confections (that is for the kids in us) and very good wines (for the man in us). Otherwise, Khisinev/Chișinău it's not the only example of "naming mystery", there is for example the old "Alma Ata", as I used to know it, now being called "Almaty", which sounds very... twisted. Times changes, not very pleasant in some aspects, but this is it.

@@Cristake1974 I've heard about the Moldavian sweets and I've tasted some, they're excellent.Their wine is also very good.

@@Cristake1974 the Universe is the real locomotive of all our activities, so it's our job to find the right coupling to hitch up to it. Thanks for sharing your thoughts Cris and have a nice weekend too!

@@patrickquinn5962 Thanks Patrick, I've been recording the last footage before putting the layout away.

Maybe the State of Brunel has been formed by a multinational population who are trying to create the ideal society, the implementation of utopia... who knows, we might all be inhabitants of Brunel in a corner of our minds. I really enjoyed impersonating all the characters, I'll make more such videos on special occasions 😂

@@Cristake1974Thank you! I really enjoyed making this one. Hiding money in the toilet is a classic, just like block administrator Bosoy in Bulgakov's masterpiece "Master and Margareta": he accepted a bribe in roubles, hid it in the toilet ventilation...but when the NKVD showed up the roubles had turned into dollars...a toilet with a money changing service included... I made the helicopter effect by playing a 5 minute helicopter sound video on my computer and wobbling my phone. The helicopter is a Mil Mi8 of course. I guess you recognise Major General Militaru's helmet.

I have a few Playcraft North British 0-4-0 diesel shunters, an early one with both axles driven, one converted to Hornby Zero One 1st generation DCC & Jouef Triang coupling conversion kit and one that has a replacement Keyser motor, Romford wheels & worm gears plus an inside frame chassis. They do require constant wheel cleaning. Adding a lot of weight improves track power pick up, as they are too light.

@@CZ350tuner Yes I need to add more weight to mine as it has very limited pulling power.

@@patrickquinn5962 Thanks Patrick!

@@railway187 Belgium received a batch of these Prussian G 8.1 locomotives as war reparations at the end of the Great War. Italy also received 45 forming the FS Gr.460. class, employed mainly in northern Italy for heavy goods trains. The Italian batch was built new in 1921 and delivered directly to the Italian State Railways.

The old Jouef tank loco with brass wheels sound better fun than the track rubber! Wait a minute! My scratch-built railcar has a Jouef chassis with brass wheels! I'll put it to work. I usually clean my track with cotton buds and lighter fluid. Besides traction tyres I've noticed that rolling stock with plastic wheels also contributes to leaving muck on the track. Thanks for the tip!

Thanks Ian, it was an unplanned video, just me gabbing away 😂

@@patricksmodels And those ones are often the best ones! Like the unexpected bottle of wine(s) with friends 😁👍🏼

These old East German Pikos are great engines. You should manage to source one of these loco drive BR55 quite easily, they were mass produced.

@@patricksmodels I've added a couple to my ebay watch list. I see there is also a brand new version but it doesn't have full valve gear.

@@attuslebeard5133 I'm planning to venture into 00 scale, but not full blast, I don't have enough space for the slightly larger scale. I've spotted a Tri-ang Jinty and two coaches. The rural branch line layout could be operated both in HO and 00, and I could put my collection of British 1/76 buses to a good use.

@@patricksmodels Sounds good Patrick. I must admit the difference in scale doesn't bother me though I am looking out for a few continental buildings to change the scene when I operate my HO stock

@@attuslebeard5133 that's what I'm planning to do with the country layout, something that can change identity very swiftly.

I've been raking through my brain on how to fit those lamps and keep them out of harm's way when the layout is standing behind the door. Connecting them every time might become slightly annoying, with consequent bad language in Italian, English and even Romanian. The magnets might be a good solution, I had also thought of velcro. But I think magnets are a better idea. Mulțumesc! 👍😊

Grazie Alberto! L'aggancio è andato liscio perché entrambi i ganci sono Piko, stesso profilo ed altezza.

@@Imieitrenimodello le ho appena messo il lucido vero, appena si asciuga le tiro a lucido.

@@Cristake1974 the shoemaking sector is a fascinating one, from opinci to hobnailed boots all the way to stiletto heels. My Scottish grandfather's older sister married a Pole, an opera singer, their common language was Italian. It's an interesting story, I'll have make a dedicated video. I've heard of the Polish minority in Romania, the two countries used to share a border before WW2 messed everything up. Polish army and air force units sought refuge in Romania in 1939 and were allowed to move to France to continue the fight. The Romanian air force kept their Pzl fighter planes.

@@patricksmodels Your knowledge is impressing and very diverse, I think you will make an excellent touristic guide or, I don't know, a guide in some technical museum or such. The sense of humour would make also a difference from a "good guide" to an "excellent guide".

@@Cristake1974 Thanks, my job brings me in contact with many different subjects, this afternoon I had three different students online, a nautical designer from Turin, a primary school teacher from Vicenza and a furniture designer from Padova...no risk of getting bored, even if my brain is like scrambled eggs at the moment 😂

@@Imieitrenimodello Grazie Alberto, ci sono ancora vari lavoretti da fare, ma prima devo fare il cablaggio per i lampioni Lima. Ho fatto scorta di video che vedremo un po' per volta.

Thanks Steven. The old East German Piko locomotives are really good. I'm also pleased by the line painting, I had some doubts initially due to characteristics of the painted wooden surface. I'll be using your stamp technique to make the broken white lines.

Your analysis of the social turmoil that affects Brunel is spot on: they are a bunch of sugar junkies and the recent drop in production at the dessert factory is making matters worse. 😅 The police forces are investigating...

@@raymondleggs5508 yes, that's right!

@@derekhyland7556 I'm sure you can. Even I could have made it in a couple of days giving time for paint and glue to dry, but, besides having to work for my living, doing a rushed job wouldn't have been any use as a tutorial.

@@Cristake1974 I'm having a horrifying image of the stroller rolling out of control either in front of a bus or, even worse, in front of a train....a bit like the one bouncing down the steps in La Corazzata Kotiomkin in the very first Fantozzi.

@@patricksmodels Seeing that scene in the first Fantozzi - and today, as well, I wonder if that was a kind of tribute to the original stroller scene in Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin". I guess it was, and it perhaps was even mr. Villaggio's idea, as he was the main author of the Fantozzi series.

Grazie Alberto!