Andy C Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 G. J. Churchwood heres a double whammy then, how to get lynched at a show and on this thread, go up to layout owner and say " i do love listening to an expert, x the unknown element and spurt, a drip under pressure" 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CUTLER2579 Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 He wouldn't lynch you.......... It would be much worse! It would probably require surgery to remove ones head from where it really shouldn't be. One bloke came close this afternoon at Nottingham. Something was slightly amiss on LB and the chap kept telling one of my daughters that she needed to pull this that or the other lever. They get this sort of thing all the time, being but "girls in a man's world". They are both very good operators. Of course, she had pulled all the levers quite correctly and it was a faulty switch causing the problem. She was too polite to say anything at the time but if looks could kill.......... They should wear T shirts saying we have often operated Roy Jackson's "Retford",that would make one or two of those Male Chauvanistic Pigs think twice. Regards,Derek. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iL Dottore Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 (edited) Tell the exhibition organisers that your layout has been badly damaged but you have found a suitable replacement: a large layout of Australia's famous train "The Ghan" (Darwin-Alice Springs-Adelaide), built to P4 standards and representing 5 miles of that iconic stretch of railway just outside of Kalgoorlie. Turn up with 344ft of dead straight track with nothing but sand to either side of the track and heat lamps for both lighting and atmosphere.... ...run it to a prototypical timetable*... ... and put up notices asking the kiddies to find Skippy the Kangaroo.... F * Fridays and Mondays Edited March 20, 2012 by iL Dottore 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted March 20, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 20, 2012 Tell the exhibition organisers that your layout has been badly damaged but you have found a suitable replacement: a large layout of Australia's famous train "The Ghan" (Darwin-Alice Springs-Adelaide), built to P4 standards and representing 5 miles of that iconic stretch of railway just outside of Kalgoorlie. Turn up with 344ft of dead straight track with nothing but sand to either side of the track and heat lamps for both lighting and atmosphere.... ...run it to a prototypical timetable*... ... and put up notices asking the kiddies to find Skippy the Kangaroo.... F * Fridays and Mondays Surely you wouldn't build 344ft of P4 track - say its HO (as that's what scale Aussie models are made to) then you only need 301ft - say 100 yards of Peco streamline... Another trick - a model of Chat moss 1820. Before Mr Stevenson build the Liverpool & Manchester - just a seed tray full of moss, I could easily scrape some off my roof! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebottle Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Another trick - a model of Chat moss 1820. Before Mr Stevenson build the Liverpool & Manchester - just a seed tray full of moss, I could easily scrape some off my roof! Which Stevenson was that - the author or one of the lighthouse engineers? I always thought that George Stephenson built the line... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Tell the exhibition organisers that your layout has been badly damaged but you have found a suitable replacement: a large layout of Australia's famous train "The Ghan" (Darwin-Alice Springs-Adelaide), built to P4 standards and representing 5 miles of that iconic stretch of railway just outside of Kalgoorlie. Turn up with 344ft of dead straight track with nothing but sand to either side of the track and heat lamps for both lighting and atmosphere.... ...run it to a prototypical timetable*... ... and put up notices asking the kiddies to find Skippy the Kangaroo.... F * Fridays and Mondays Unfortunately I have seen a layout at an exhibition that was rather like this - running to a prototype timetable in real time Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chubber Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 (edited) ...approach a [say] P4 Edwardian station to fiddleyard layout and ask the operating crew 'Can you buy the extra track for this TRAIN SET , I'm sure my little boy would like one if it went round in a proper oval shape....' Doug Edited March 20, 2012 by Chubber 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicester Thumper Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Actually sneezing whilst looking at a T scale layout.... also while i think of it, what about live steam Brio? self contained firing system! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted March 20, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 20, 2012 Which Stevenson was that - the author or one of the lighthouse engineers? I always thought that George Stephenson built the line... Ooops - should have known better..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted March 20, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 20, 2012 Tell the exhibition organisers that your layout has been badly damaged but you have found a suitable replacement: a large layout of Australia's famous train "The Ghan" (Darwin-Alice Springs-Adelaide), built to P4 standards and representing 5 miles of that iconic stretch of railway just outside of Kalgoorlie. Turn up with 344ft of dead straight track with nothing but sand to either side of the track and heat lamps for both lighting and atmosphere.... ...run it to a prototypical timetable*... ... and put up notices asking the kiddies to find Skippy the Kangaroo.... F * Fridays and Mondays There was an April article in Railway Modeller on such a layout in N many years ago - 1990. The idea was to use 2 Land Rovers or similar full of modules and lay them out. There was a photo of the first module built. Just maybe, it was the only one! Another project for James May - International edition? Kevin Martin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Tell the exhibition organisers that your layout has been badly damaged but you have found a suitable replacement: a large layout of Australia's famous train "The Ghan" (Darwin-Alice Springs-Adelaide), built to P4 standards and representing 5 miles of that iconic stretch of railway just outside of Kalgoorlie. Turn up with 344ft of dead straight track with nothing but sand to either side of the track and heat lamps for both lighting and atmosphere.... ...run it to a prototypical timetable*... ... and put up notices asking the kiddies to find Skippy the Kangaroo.... F * Fridays and Mondays And this where you can get the gear to run on it... http://www.modeltrainsho.com.au/p819-Bachmann-Outback-Hauler-HO-Scale-Train-Set.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted March 24, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 24, 2012 And this where you can get the gear to run on it... http://www.modeltrai...-Train-Set.html It comes with an oval of track, of which 45cm are of straight track. Doesn't really capture the spirit! Kevin Martin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold queensquare Posted March 24, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 24, 2012 He wouldn't lynch you.......... It would be much worse! It would probably require surgery to remove ones head from where it really shouldn't be. One bloke came close this afternoon at Nottingham. Something was slightly amiss on LB and the chap kept telling one of my daughters that she needed to pull this that or the other lever. They get this sort of thing all the time, being but "girls in a man's world". They are both very good operators. Of course, she had pulled all the levers quite correctly and it was a faulty switch causing the problem. She was too polite to say anything at the time but if looks could kill.......... Kim gets this all the time when operating Highbury - she's usually too polite...... LB was the main reason we did a seven hour round trip to Nottingham and we spent a long timewatching Nick Frezzer, then your daughters operate - magical! Jerry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sheep Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 I couldn't have operated Highbury if Kim hadn't shown me which of the multiple identical levers did what! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
meld Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Slowly walking down the Que at Ally Pally/ NEC and say that the Bachmann stand has Sold out before the show opens ??? ................ ................... Hiding in Bunker now ................. Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davknigh Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Slowly walking down the Que at Ally Pally/ NEC and say that the Bachmann stand has Sold out before the show opens ??? ................ ................... Hiding in Bunker now ................. Mike Not sure about lynched, maybe start a riot? Cheers, David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scots region Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Thats 365 comments, one lynching for every day of the year 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest notascoobie Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 heres a double whammy then, how to get lynched at a show and on this thread, go up to layout owner and say " i do love listening to an expert, x the unknown element and spurt, a drip under pressure" I'd heard it was "ex as in has-been" and spurt "drip under pressure." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 (edited) If it's a P4 layout, ask the operators why their idealism doesnt extend to the sharp curves at each end of the roundy.... Edited March 24, 2012 by coachmann 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catkins Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Tell the exhibition organisers that your layout has been badly damaged but you have found a suitable replacement: a large layout of Australia's famous train "The Ghan" (Darwin-Alice Springs-Adelaide), built to P4 standards and representing 5 miles of that iconic stretch of railway just outside of Kalgoorlie. Turn up with 344ft of dead straight track with nothing but sand to either side of the track and heat lamps for both lighting and atmosphere.... ...run it to a prototypical timetable*... ... and put up notices asking the kiddies to find Skippy the Kangaroo.... F * Fridays and Mondays There was an April article in Railway Modeller on such a layout in N many years ago - 1990. The idea was to use 2 Land Rovers or similar full of modules and lay them out. There was a photo of the first module built. Just maybe, it was the only one! Another project for James May - International edition? Kevin Martin I remember reading something like this as a "plan of the month" in a railway modeller, but back in the early 1980's and involving HO/OO scale stock, the track and baseboards would be loaded in to a transit van on a friday afternoon and driven to the seaside, set up and them the operators would retire to a hostelry for the night. The following morning, they would set up the stock (which had blower equiped "A unit loco's" propelled by motorised B units, and trailed by a full length train ) That tested my belief of the plan. The A unit would blow the sand off the tracks as it went - there was a drawing of the A + B unit, but photo's were sadly lacking. The plan was fronted by some-one in the music industry, at the time I was even more incredulous of the plan!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jongudmund Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Just saying I thoroughly enjoyed readng this thread. Makes me glad I don't exhibit though - sounds like you have to deal with a lot of idiots. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted March 26, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 26, 2012 Just saying I thoroughly enjoyed readng this thread. Makes me glad I don't exhibit though - sounds like you have to deal with a lot of idiots. Which brings me nicely round to my how-to-get-lynched as an exhibitor comment to an over-critical observer that I know has never exhibited a layout "Either put up or shut up" Cheers, Mick 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Here's a new one.... In front of the "Just Like the Real Thing" Stand, ask loudly if they know that Dapol are bringing out an R-T-R Class 08 in O Scale for less than £200..?? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jol Wilkinson Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 The "anti P4" posters on this thread need just turn up at a Scalefour Society show, holding a placard with their comment on it. Culprits will then be put in the stocks and asked challenging questions such as "why are your eyes so close together?", "name a railway company other than Bachmann or Hornby", "on a round roundy layout, which line is up and which down ? etc. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 In order to combat the perennial problem of B.O., spray your layout with the smell of advanced decomposition. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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