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Buy two tubes of Cotman (student quality ) watercolour. One of Naples Yellow, one of Payne's grey. Mix them 50/50 straight from the tube or to your liking and stipple on with a small stiff brush. (I refer to 1/76th moss.) Cost? About £4-5 for an acre of moss. The same mix in varying proportions makes a very acceptable lichen on roof tiles and slates. HTH Doug

John Edited Found it.....looks a fascinating read....I will return ...Bring cake...!

John, you know me, a fund of useless [usually ] knowledge. This link to a pdf [paste the whole line into your browser] pages 4-5 give an overview of the brewing process, and a picture of Hutchinsons Brewery building a taller more compact building of an era to fit in with the Granby theme to give a flavour of the style etc. Shouldn't take you more than a couple of evenings to scratch one like that? [Click on the blue letters beside the PDF sign after it's downloaded] strategy for the historic industrial environment the brewing industry Coal would have formed a huge traffic 'in', these breweries were all steam heated, and no self respecting brewer would have used someone else's barrels, so stave wood from a conditioning site would have arrived by the wagon load for his coopers...[takes a LOT of space, no room in Granby for 2 years of stacked staves to be conditioned..] It goes on and on, doesn't it? Bon courage, mon ami, Doug

http://www.archive-images.co.uk/image/detail/2412/162a_barrel_makers.jpg Here's another of railway barrel handling, Technically the loading method is called 'parbuckling' but as an old sea-dog you knew that... Doug

Hullo, John, Not currently modelling pending a house move next week, but your thread[and mentions of moving beer] brought this picture of Burton Breweries to mind, I've not seen its like, interesting? One 'prop' you'll have to have is the long psir of beams to roll barrels into wagons and lorries etc... "...more than 25 miles of private railway lines link...to the mainline railway.." Best wishes as ever, Doug

Hi, Auto, I came very late to Little Muddle, and reading through from the beginning I immediately thought of the row of cottages [ http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/75260-cottages-after-john-ahern/ ] to go into the opened up space behind the station, would have fitted nicely! Why is it one sometimes completely misses out on a thread that you really like and appreciate, like L.M.??? Doug

I was the first Engine Controls Artificer on Amazon after commissioning. After our engine room fire on the way to the F.East very basic errors were exposed, e.g. lining engine exhaust passages with absorbent materials [leading to the disastrous uptake fires after several purge cycles after aborted stars saturated them with unburned fuel], burning lagging falling from funnel uptake spaces into for'd Auxillary space bilges and melting aluminium superstructure, cyclic hogging and sagging resulting in structure cracking, and a constant shortage of fresh water when evaporators in extreme temperatures proved inadequate. Despite these little distractions [fire at sea can ruin your whole day...] they were extremely sea-worthy, very speedy [water ski-ing speeds, evidence exists of Jimmy the One doing so] and under the command of Cdr Bob Woodard a true greyhound. His preferred method of avoiding collisions in Channel Shipping lanes was to move at 30+ knots and overtake everything... ".. you then have no fear of being rammed up the ar$e..". It was privilege to give him [via the M.E.O.] a ticket to say 'It's all working..." We never missed a sailing date or failed to make a rendezvous, in our words 'Amazon [was] is magic'. Doug.

Are you using 'corrugated cardboard' per se, or corrugated paper such as the coloured sheets used in scrap-booking , card making etc? My only experience is with 4mm modelling, but on the one occasion I used the coloured sheets used in scrap-booking [essentially wriggly paper] to cover a model for a chum [a 1930's Loan Act shed] I got nowhere until I stuck two layers of 'wriggly paper' together with Copydex. Once dry, the Copydex is impervious to water.Then I could cut them to shape and stick the sides together using PVA. Uuntil then they were unmanageable. The Copydex made them a lot more rigid. At each corner I used 6mm square softwood, drawing a black 4mm line down each face of each side to imitate rolled steel. If you are simply gluing the flat side of 'corrugated cardboard' to the shell, then perhaps a non-water based glue such as UhU [so as not to dissolve the interstitial adhesive would be a better bet to avoid wetting and thus weakening the glue layers? Doug

Lucky to find a copy at the WSR last month for £2.00p! Doug

Just in case they are of interest to someone, taken today at Burseldon Brickworks Museum Doug

This was the issue had had with the two [and only] models I have built using plastic card over cardboard. It started at the corner joins and just refused any attempts at an unsightly repair. Doug

Take a look here...At Burseldon Brickworks Museum today I met this chap... To say I was deeply impressed would be a gross understatement. Sadly, I must have disturbed my camera settings and all but his picture have come out blurred, but his site below will give some idea of his mastery of the subject. http://timsmodelbuildings.com/ Doug

To glue the plasticard detailing to the paper cladding I would recommend an adhesive with a little flexibility for reasons given above by M. P. Perhaps Deluxe products 'glue and glaze' or similar would be preferable to a rigid setting glue. I have found it 100% reliable in securing window acetates behind window reveals. It has the advantage of drying perfectly clear, which Copydex, another adhesive with flexibility doesn't have. I would also recommend giving the rear face of the mount card a layer of plain card* stuck with the same adhesive to balance any tendency to warp as the glue under the embossed card dries. Doug * For this purpose, Packeto Cornoflako is ideal, with the smooth printed layer outwards.

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OOOOOOOOOOOOH! Pink custard, on chocolate cornflake concrete!! Now you've done it, eleven-fifteen and I've a severe attack of the munchies. Wot about the ambrosia that is cold set custard and 'narners? (Wiv chocolate sprinkles, of course. Doug

AFAIK reputable mount card is acid-free. Given the cocktail of chemicals in the adhesives we use, I'm not sure it makes much difference for card armatures but to a limited extent should prevent the texture paper material from yellowing. Doug

W.S.R 18/7/2017 finally....enjoying a ride on the railway.... Doug apologies for the sideways photos, can't seem to get them the right way up! D

I thought an Arduino was a type of penguin or sumfin'! Another contender for the 'now you see me, now you don't ' stuff could be the ticket collector in the little cabin at the gate.... Doug

'Passengers' seated for all eternity on a platform bench, never changing the human mosaic that populates our stations. Perhaps a boffin could rig up a servo to rotate two identical benches through the platform surface, one well occupied and one with a sad old git like me who is happy to sit all day on a platform, and when the passenger train stops at the platform hiding the bench it's flipped over accordingly, to leave just Billy-No-Mates there...so maybe it could be done after all? Doug

By Reginald Mafekin Goatley-Prodding I.A.M. [instructor, Rtd] M.F.H. Just been readin' this load of twaddle, don't know how I missed it before now? Anyhow, somewhat concerned by the content. Y'see, following weeks of touring about in the flivver searching, S.W.M.B.O. and I are moving to a place called Ivybridge in September. * Is it the radon gas that's made you all slightly cuckoo? Or the 'Hogs Pudding'? Had some served up at the 'otel last week, frightful stuff. Waiter didn't understand 'kedgeree', sounded foreign, Cornwall or the like. Would a stout tweed muffler keep out radon gas? G.P. * Didn't like the A38 trunk road, tootling along in the Triumph Sodomite at about 55mph in the right-hand car lane, had loads of horrid oiks sounding their horns, flashing their lights, and even undertaking me on the left-hand lorry lane, frightful manners, what!

Agree re Epson Dura-brite inks.Non run, permenant. When they stock it, Lidl waterproofer for shoes and anoraks is perfect for keeping out the damp, etc, but I imagine any 'shoe and clothing protector would do the same. Do not expose any printed medium to direct sunlight..... Doug

I meant, the Stylenrise [sp.?] Ultimate primer goes on neat, the Vallejo sprayed on top goes on at milky consistency. Doug

Concur heartily. Wonderful stuff, and covers perfectly with Vallejo paints diluted to full milk consistency. You can sand confidently within 30 minutes of undercoating without any peeling etc. Doug

This morning in Hobbycraft [i know, but free parking instead of Multi-storey nightmare...]buying Humbrol Acrylic I struggled to choose a colour with the pots all mixed up. As it was, I've come home with gloss instead of satin... At the checkout I asked why they no longer had free Humbrol colour charts to take away... " 'Cos they are on-line now...." " But that means I've got to use expensive printer ink to have one as a reference..." "Oh yeah..." "and beside, each printer prints a slightly different colour..." "yeah, I suppose, yeah, no, but, but you could save ink by printing it out in black and white...." I still don't know if she was extracting the bladder-water! Doug

So did I [drawing pin] until I thought of the rubber and pin, that way I don't lose the pin [or more importantly have it loose on the bench where I inadvertently rest my elbow!] ....if you want to revert to using the pin-vice with a long bit or piece of wire right through the handle, the little stub of rubber can be pushed back out from the chuck end. Doug