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  1. Sprezzatura

    1. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      That's easy for you to say, or at least it looks easy

  2. It's happened Bernard, but only rubbing shoulders on the letters page so far
  3. I suppose it all depends on whether your measures of 'success' are ones set by yourself, your peers or just your contemporaries, whoever they may be. It's good to have targets - winning a competition, getting something published or just completing a simple kit - cos that's how we progress, but the targets must be personal, realistic and achievable (and that sounds suspiciously like something from my work's appraisal guidance) I think this is also rather close to the recent 'what's your favourite feedback' thread, in which I said that the sort I liked best was something that indicated that the onlooker did genuinely 'get' what I was trying to achieve or portray.
  4. This weather's shite

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    2. Worsdell forever

      Worsdell forever

      Hoose? it wer more like a hovel...

    3. Barry O

      Barry O

      sunny in Barrow..... was wet in Leeds

    4. BoD

      BoD

      our shoebox in't middle of road has just bin washed away.

  5. Looks like some sort of deposit from a washing plant, though it's only on those two. The rake of four Staniers just before it is nice also
  6. Interesting. A tad overweathered IMO for typical IS condition, but the finish and application look good in themselves, unlike another of these conversions that I saw go for as little as 31 quid the other week. I believe that one (the 31 quid one) was the work of a self-proclaimed 'award winning modeller', one who's currently selling stuff elsewhere to earn about a quid an hour if my sums are correct.
  7. Hmmm. I appreciate the number may not be properly legible Stewart, but I do wonder if that combination of colour and prefix signifies an early incarnation of olive green...
  8. Had one of these in my paws at lunchtime, it's a sweet wee thing and *very* heavy. It's the only type that didnt run anywhere I want to model, but hopefully the others will be as nice.
  9. Cashpoint just asked me if i was planning on buying Coco Pops today. World's gorn maaaaad...

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    2. Michael Delamar
    3. halfwit

      halfwit

      All my cashpoit ever says is 'you've got enough kits as it is!

    4. iak

      iak

      Your bread-knife is a cash point?

  10. Yeah, it's perhaps not pigeonholing as such that's the issue Mick (dependent on what you understand the word to mean), it's the incorrect placing-together of things within the time slot (or as in Pete's example, the incorrect exclusion of them). I think we can all be guilty of it when we consider an era that might be new to us; I remember myself a good while back realising that I couldnt run a 25/0 with a large logo 37...
  11. Coming back to a couple of posts that hinge around the 'pigeonholing' mentality we have as modellers, that sometimes blurs our ideas of what ran with what, either one way or the other I think I'm right in saying that the North West, Leeds/Bradford and the Bournemouth line are the only significant areas where steam regularly worked blue/grey stock to any extent (please note that I'm specifically excluding things like the Waverley specials). The North East also had steam into '67, but very much on freight workings. Go back to 1966, and you have many more pockets of steam working (I have an article from either Steam World or Steam Days that reviews that year, and it's fascinating) - but you lose on the incidence of blue/grey stock because it was only in that year that it started to become generally applied This one works the other way; introduced in 1964 and taking hold in '65, and with many wagons having the lettering on fresh patches as well as full repaints, there are lots of incidences of it in steam hauled freights.
  12. I can think of some that are grim, though their owners think them pretty
  13. I have a mid-70s slide of that as 47052, it didnt get any better
  14. Bit of blurring in the chronology here Ed. Painting out/omitting 'D' prefixes and abandonment of brake vans are both measures which only came in after the end of steam.
  15. Howling gales, torrential rain, and the weatherfolk say it's 'mild'...'

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    2. BoD

      BoD

      Last night's curry was supposed to be 'mild'. Same results too.

    3. Jamie

      Jamie

      We in the rain soaked North / NW have been saying that for years Horsetan.

    4. coachmann

      coachmann

      Luverly sunny day and blue skies. Welcome to sunny Wales....

  16. IIRC there is one featured in a recent Modeller article on Dewsbury Midland. Whether it's a splitbox with doors added or a 44 with boxes added, I wouldnt like to say, but it looked neat. A PM to Andy C, 62659 or Allegheny1600 might elicit some info?
  17. Existing thread : http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/47526-br-first-generation-diesel-railbuses/
  18. Again a rebody, but starting to go a bit naughty - look at the top capping, the side door strapping and the big streak down the LH panel. I dont think those locos are a random combo either, I think the 20 could be coming south after overhaul at Glasgow. You can see the reflection of the double arrow in the cab end panel
  19. Specials are not my strong point, but I'd assume the basis was an LMS or LNER wagon (the two companies had quite a bit of commonality and shared design effort in some areas). I'd always thought it inferior to the big Trestrol tbh, but that coat of red primer shows how essentially 'right' it looks even if it's not strictly authentic; shame that cant always be said for later Margate wagons.
  20. Re- the posts above, particularly the last three. Think about Heljan's 47, batches of which have continued to be released despite a) its well known inaccuracies and b ) that there have been two subsequent models that are more accurate. Heljan have long recouped their investment on the Western, they can turn out further batches as long as the moulds will stand it and at whatever price they think marketable. Whichever way it goes, I dont foresee too many furrowed brows in Denmark.
  21. Start of the thread would be as good a place as any to look
  22. a jigsaw

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    2. muddys-blues

      muddys-blues

      Either way start with the corners.... cutting up or piecing together ??

    3. Pennine MC

      Pennine MC

      Piecing together. Don't know how many pieces as yet, but I have some that fit well.

    4. muddys-blues

      muddys-blues

      There not cornflakes are they ?.... Cue the David Bekham joke.

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