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  1. Do any experts know and if so can you help Scottiedog please.. I've only printed tickets once and had no problem. They should be scannable by our door stewards from a mobile phone when you arrive.
  2. Finally got around to doing a bit on this project, why the delay, just lots of other things getting in the way. In the end for the missing windscreen glazing I have used a strip cut from Co-op Turkey slices packaging. Several unsuccessful goes at doing two half sections using the curves moulded into various types of clear packaging so in the end I found it just bends and stays bent. Central chrome strip, a bit of cooking foil. It can go to one side now to let the glue thoroughly dry. Hopefully, what was the last of my Bostik white glue will dry clear as I remember it doing. The screen is wrap around, as per the prototype, but is flat not the slightly bulbous shape of the original. I am guessing (a) most viewers won't know so won't notice and (b) if they do it is local accident damage repair. [Looks better out of the photo] Not in these photos, also some work done on painting the interior sub assemblies. Logic says The front windscreen needed to be in before doing much more on the inside and putting it back together as if the glazing doesn't stick etc., it will be harder to redo with the bus reassembled. One strategic decison to make - will it have a crew and passengers to be on the open road or left as an empty one for a depot parked up spot?
  3. One at Ventnor's Underciffe in the news today. Too expensive to repair, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-68597533 The gist seems to be there were funds available from the national highways pot but not enough to actually fix it. One sniffs an air of political jiggery pokery, namely announce a substantial (but not big enough) wodge of cash just before an election. The hope being it won't be taken up but might sway the electorate your way. Just suspicious, it might not have happened that way obviously but how many times have the same projects been announced but no bulldozers ever hit the ground. Cynic, me!!
  4. Minor update, change of demonstrator on Stand 98 – Richard Dalimore replaces Martin Pennington. N finescale.
  5. Fully concur. Across the board sports commentators on TV are so bad these days I usually watch with the sound off. The other thing for cricket is the stump mikes picking up inane comments, often in the language of players who don’t speak English plus bursts of unwanted (by me) stupid music blaring in the ground. Fortunately radio is generally still listenable to.
  6. Back in the 60s the first power drill we had (from Wolf) came with various bolt on attachments, including a hedge trimmer and significantly a casting that fitted onto a bench. The drill sat in that so you could add a grinding wheel into the chuck.
  7. Not sure exactly what flavour of Mk1 coaches they have previously used but for Harry Potter fans it ideally needs to be Mk1 side corridor compartment stock to be authentic to the books. Not fitting CDL on their Mk1s is rather like Mother Goose shooting her golden goose.
  8. Unexpected reactions can be weird. I have used 50:50 mix PVA for several years as a base coat/primer with no reactions. On a recent open wagon no problem with the outside surfaces but after drying the inside layer peeled off as a thin sheet. Weird as inside and outside must be the same plastic - it is one moulding. It will be a scrub off and restart at some point and see what happens second time around.
  9. These pictures are also included on our show travel page for arrivals by car plus one showing the Sunday & Monday site. As per the travel page suggestion anyone mobility impaired, but not with a blue badge, will have a shorter walk on either Sunday or Monday. Navigation glitch affecting i-pad and i-phone users also discovered and fixed. The Arriving by car page link from the main menu was not opening the current Arriving by car page. It worked on desktop and laptop PCs and Macs but for some reason not with Apple's mobile software.
  10. Two more late changes as we count down to the Show. One amendment on the Traders page (Powerbond Adhesives replacing Booklaw/Santona on stand 120) and The Scalefour Society added to the Societies listing. Pre-paid tickets available until Good Friday. Book ahead, spread the cost, grab the discount. Hoping to see you all over Easter. #YMRS2024
  11. Might copy your insulation foam layer but overtopped with cork to avoid any glues or paints dissolving the foam. My own inglenook started without any sound absorbent layer and it is noisy.
  12. I will be interested in how well this lasts without showing signs of mould growth etc. I have always been wary of using organic matter after past problems.
  13. I know very little about the detail of Chinese railways therefore to me if the outline of what I see matches my limited knowledge the variety option is best. As @CameronL says above most people won’t know. Perhaps add into the show guide blurb, .. and features rolling stock you might have seen if you had visited China in 2001. You can get away with things an equivalent modeller of a UK layout attempting accuracy can’t because of the comparatively limited audience knowledge. There are two approaches by modellers within the hobby towards divergence from modelling place X exactly at period dd/mm/yyyy - (1) those who know what it should be and, for whatever reason, relax things (your might be seen approach) and (2) those who either haven’t yet learnt enough to avoid howlers and mismatches or don’t care because they just like running trains of any make/format. The small local show scene across the country has a lot of type (2)s, which is still a good thing because they are doing some modelling.
  14. A bit more testing led to the decision to add two check rails with timber infill for a foot crossing. Method, bend rail to fit and file a notch for the pins, shorten two brass panel pins by snipping the head end off - solder to new check rail - position and hammer down into place. A minor adjustment also made to the point motor's base position. The limited testing before adding the timbering suggested the issue is now resolved. Planning to leave the Araldite to dry for a decent period as have no wish to get on onto wheel treads. In place but not yet given any wood staining. The timber is just plain coffee stirrers trimmed to fit..
  15. Since the post above I have not had much time for test running or work on this layout; however, have done some general modelling work on other projects (for example see on Wright Writes). Test running on this has identified the oldest point on the layout (an old PECO Y) has become problematic. Diesels seem to go through it OK but the longer wheelbase steam locos shift the point when set to the right hand divergence to slightly open. The outcome the front flange pushes it across enough for it go through swinging left or it just derails! The problem I am pretty sure is the point motor and associated surface mount motor rodding being a smidgeon out. A bit of ballasting has also been done. A trial of chinchilla dust plus a bit of budgie grit and chinchilla dust alone. Prefer the latter. Lots still to do but scenery on hold until the track is sorted. Final updates - the Hornby Rowntrees livery Ruston loco has finally arrived - three years since I pre-ordered it! The truck and bucket excavator were picked up at a garden centre and don't seem that far off 4mm.
  16. It is also a major name in a long-running radio serial (The Archers).
  17. Thank you. Excellent search work, much appreciated. Sadly the missing parts include the glazing mentioned and those protective side bars. Now to track down more images of the prototype and then fabricate some of those extras..
  18. The Whitby service can be almost regarded as the town’s second Park & Ride service. From the south it is far easier to park in Pickering and take the train over the moors and back. Given how busy Whitby’s car parking gets that is one reason why people go through on it for their day at the seaside.
  19. This image found via a Goole search is what made me think it is a model of the Foden R type. Managed to find it again. This one also seems similar.https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1265287
  20. In the past we have often parked at Goathland station to get the first train. It is a worthwhile option but only ever has, presumably now it is had, limited spacing so you needed to be on the first train.
  21. Thanks @Flanged Wheel. Most of the kit images I have found are for lorries that are 8-wheelers or have twin rear axles. This one has single axles but twin rear wheels/tyres. I am hoping when I get to York over the show weekend I find someone will have one. My suspicion is that there should be a horizontal bar across the front windows as many in that era had a top bit that opened outwards for ventilation but I don't want to fit that and find that type didn't.
  22. A question about a white metal kit. At last week's Missenden weekend I picked up a couple of boxes of assorted white-metal parts to practice soldering on - the bonus finding in amongst them a mostly complete part finished truck kit (2/3rds roughly). I have progressed it, including fabricating a few bits to replace the missing front axle and adding a radiator protection bar. My white-metal soldering fear now overcome, with a truck model in due course as the bonus. Plenty of extras still to make and fit. My query though - what is it? At first I simply assumed (always a mistake!) it was the common model of the AEC Monarch (Springside?) but the current version of that is IIRC plastic as is the ex-Airfix AEC Matador. I found a (the) radiator loose in the box and from the location pimples I think it is the right one: that isn't an AEC rad' though and it is just readable on the casting as Foden. I don't recall a Foden kit, nor does Google find one. From looking at photos the prototype might be a Foden R. Has anyone any ideas as to what it is (prototype) and for my curiosity what kit it began as?
  23. After a full day's editing the site's maintenance and updates review for 2024 has been completed all bar one still outstanding public transport matter (noted on the relevant page). The most recent blog post made today also looks at the current situation surrounding the question of - is the hobby too expensive? Feel free to comment on that in the comments option on the website's blog section but please keep this thread here on RMWeb just for YMRS issues.
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