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  1. Harlequin

    I'm a GWR branch-line kinda guy. Should I own a Flying Scotsman?

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    2. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      I don't really know. I don't know any men down any pubs.

    3. Hroth

      Hroth

      Just get a cheap one from ebay and put it at the back of the shed on blocks minus the drivers...

    4. Lu4472ke

      Lu4472ke

      have what you want its your layout

  2. Harlequin

    I'm going up the garden to my shed to make baseboards. If the snow sets in and I'm not back by lunch time please send a rescue party.

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    2. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      Funnily enough my garage (separate from house) has its own ring main with 60amp power so I could in theory install a cooker

    3. bgman

      bgman

      You'll probably get a clown in a box.....SUPPLIES ! Speccysavers

    4. Harlequin

      Harlequin

      I made it back, had some lunch, going back out there now with a fresh cuppa. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/2216/entry-20643-test-track-lightweight-baseboard-construction/

  3. Harlequin

    If I can find my 25+ yr old MekPak bottle, will it still contain anything?

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    2. Harlequin

      Harlequin

      Found all sorts of other rubbish and a few treasures but no MekPak yet. More boxes to go through.

    3. Harlequin

      Harlequin

      Found it! 3 bottles, one empty two with something in and a bottle of Humbrol "Liquid Poly".

    4. The Stationmaster

      The Stationmaster

      If it has been stored in the right conditions it might contain some - but probably nowhere near all - of the mekpak that used to be in it.

  4. Harlequin

    In place of Rachel elegantly placing numbers on a board we have fat blokes throwing arrows at numbers...

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    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      But at least they're not sinking pints between throws (as it were) as they did in days of yore!

    3. Harlequin

      Harlequin

      I meant to say "at numbers on a board" to nicely round off the comment. Ho hum, brain fade due to lack of afternoon intellectual challenge, perhaps?

    4. BoD

      BoD

      They might do ok in the numbers round.

  5. Harlequin

    In the county of Sissex lies the Hamlet of Brodley-on-Cleat

    1. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Is that near Wissex, or perhaps Issex? ;-)

  6. Harlequin

    is looking forward to getting the log-burner going for the first time this winter. Feeling primal and a bit pagan!

    1. steve22

      steve22

      Yule not regret it, O Druid.

    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      So you'll be dancing around the smouldering logs this evening?

  7. Harlequin

    is making a right Horlicks of laying the last section of track. Only one length of flexitrack left.

  8. Harlequin

    is sorting through a box full of Xmas lights that all nearly work but not quite.

    1. tigerburnie

      tigerburnie

      LED's have certainly made that job easier

  9. Harlequin

    is sorting through a box of Xmas lights, which all work to a degree but there isn't one fully working set in there.

    1. Hroth

      Hroth

      Its traditional!

    2. Mikkel

      Mikkel

      The world in a nutshell

  10. Harlequin

    is trying to solder droppers but massively overscale cat is on the tracks

  11. Harlequin

    It's alive! (Got my railcar working again... Phew!)

  12. Harlequin

    Just found "The Observer's Book of British Steam Locomotives" on a bookshelf. Should be fun to read this potted history.

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    2. tigerburnie

      tigerburnie

      I've still got my 1957 British Railway Loco's one I had when new.

    3. Harlequin

      Harlequin

      1974 edition. Price £1.10.

    4. Hroth

      Hroth

      I've the '57 and '64 editions of BR Locos ed HC Casserly. The depletion of steam locos in the '64 edition is a really sad coda to main line steam.

  13. Harlequin

    Let sleeping threads lie

    1. Hroth

      Hroth

      Zzzzz...

    2. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      That reminds me, why did people stop discussing the Hornby 4VEP?

  14. Harlequin

    loves his cat a little bit less when she uses newly laid track as a scratching post...

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    2. admiles

      admiles

      My ginger and white lump still owes me a Fleischmann N gauge Profi coupling - Daft lump ate it!

    3. steve22

      steve22

      Being the big softy that I am, I was wondering how I would keep our lovely but pesky cat out of my shed when it arrived. Shed now up but we had to 'say goodbye' to our cat when he became seriously ill (yet again, and again). Now I long for him to still be with us so he can sleep on a sunny part of the baseboard once more...

    4. locoholic

      locoholic

      Cats are not pets. They are sent as a punishment.

  15. Harlequin

    Meteorologicos: Scorchio!

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    2. Castle

      Castle

      Boutros Boutros-Ghali!

    3. Sasquatch

      Sasquatch

      You ain't seen me. Right?

    4. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Buono estente!

  16. Harlequin

    Model shop proprietor told me he hates computers and he hates the internet. Oh dear...

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    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      I can understand the attitude, some software is as user-friendly as a cornered rat.

       

    3. dvdlcs

      dvdlcs

      Wasn't near Nottingham by any chance?

  17. Harlequin

    My little test layout is back together and working after two weeks of electrical tweaking.

  18. Harlequin

    Nimrod

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    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      The Assyrian king?

    3. Liam

      Liam

      Hans Zimmer's adaptation of it in Dunkirk is great by the way.

    4. Harlequin

      Harlequin

      Everything Hans Zimmer does seems to be an "adaptation" of someone else's work...

  19. Harlequin

    No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century...

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    2. The Stationmaster

      The Stationmaster

      Can anybody else remember the real Heinz sandwich Cream - luvverly stuff!

    3. Tim V

      Tim V

      That grown men would play with toy trains ...

    4. sharris

      sharris

      What are the chances of that?

  20. Harlequin

    Not arguing with anyone...

    1. Mad McCann

      Mad McCann

      Yes you are!

    2. sigtech

      sigtech

      You must have the patience of a saint!!

    3. Hroth

      Hroth

      Ommmmmmmmm....

  21. Harlequin

    OK, Who's gonna tell him?

  22. Harlequin

    Only Connect! :-)

    1. uax6

      uax6

      At last its back on! A proper quiz show, that 10 type of people understand....

    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      You're just in thrall to Viki....

    3. Harlequin

      Harlequin

      Time, Record, Wicket, Park. Too difficult for them...

  23. Harlequin

    Ooph! Lots of bubble and squeak tomorrow!

    1. bgman

      bgman

      With smoked bacon mmmmm

    2. Danemouth

      Danemouth

      Snap!!!

    3. Hroth

      Hroth

      My tum now....

  24. Harlequin

    Plastic sleepers on the Blaenau Ffestiniog - Life imitating Art?

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    2. sharris

      sharris

      I had to laugh the first time I saw a sign on a main line track saying 'Caution: ballast gluing in progress'.

    3. Huw Griffiths

      Huw Griffiths

      Were they that recycled plastic they sometimes make park benches out of?

    4. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Is C&L supplying them....?

  25. Harlequin

    Poor old Mr Blewitt

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