Hi Barnaby, they are the Bachrus rollers, and I've used these for N/OO/EM/p4. Quality is good and for the 4mm scales if you have chaired track and aren't careful they can sit so they aren't square, which can give poor running with the appearance of quartering being incorrect. On the likes of Peco they work without any issues as the roller mounts sit square on the rail surface. There is an Allen key/grub screw to hold the gauge, again if this is too tight it can pinch wheelsets giving poor results. I'm very happy with mine, they've given a good few years reliable test and running in useage.
An escapee from the shelf of doom! Parkside's 20T LMS brake van has been replicated in the Bachmann range, prior to it's announcement I'd started one but not finished it, stalling on doing the handrails it went into the CBA stock, and the Bachmann release overtook it. After finishing the color light signals I cast my across the shelf of doom and picked the parkside kit up and thought, that's actually an evenings work of drilling and wire bending to finish it. So I did, completing it as a through Vac piped version, and up against the Bachmann model, it still holds it's own. Sorted!
jjnewitt
Active Member
It looks very nice! It also does more than holds it's own against the Bachmann version, it look a good deal better. The plastic mouldings are finer all around and planks don't have trenches between them. Bachmann do a good job catering to the RTR wagon market but their stuff always looks a little lumpy, and in places it needn't. If there's a choice and you want the better looking model, I'd take a Parkside kit (almost) everyday.
Justin
Lyndhurstman
Western Thunderer
This one's just arrived into the fleet. Bachmann with Brassmasters rods and Shawplan glazing. I'll have it with me at the Warminster show this weekend running on my cameo layout 'Shelfie'
Mendip Model Railway Group on the UK Model Shop Directory
Jim smith-wright
Western Thunderer
Tim horn springs too I see 
A bit of a change from the GC above. This is the same board, the concept for the GC thing wasn't quite working, so a few days away from it determined that it'd become a chore. So with quite a few track revisions this is where we are today. A small yard with a coal bank for filling wagons from tipper trucks Parkend style. So, back to off the beaten track, and really happy with it. It's now a project moving forward rather than stagnating and faltering!
I've fitted a 'flying' fiddle yard to the layout for a bit of play value, and to finalise the track testing, and the new inertia Gaugemaster Combi controller.
Not over keen on it, it does have a use in testing, but doubt I'd use it in anger. Sentence works in both senses for controller and fiddleyard.
Yorkshire Dave
Western Thunderer
If the layout is to be exhibited I would have the left side (the top of the cutting) as the viewing side.
Since most layouts are lower than the viewer in most cases and by having the top of the cutting as the viewing side it would give the impression you are looking down through the trees from the top of the cutting.
On the subject of trees for a backscene this is what Patrick Welch, a US P48 modeller, has done using photographs.
