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  1. FWIW the same scan has been hitting the DPreview (photography) forums over the last few days. Someone commented there that the supposed McAfee pop-up actually directed to an operation called securitypatch.life.
  2. There was a very good article on Tom Puddings in The Industrial Railway Record issue 90 back in 1981.
  3. Do they still have lots of photos of young women who can't afford a full complement of clothes clutching ginormous guns?
  4. Once upon a time, when I was young and (more) foolish, I looked out the British Standard for red oxide paint – not 381C colour 446, but yer actual red oxide spec (272 or 305: 1952?). It was notable for saying absolutely nothing about the colour – it was primarily a performance and manufacturing spec. AFAIK it was withdrawn several decades ago.
  5. I've got a plain G5X (presumably Mk1), which is nice when I can't be bothered carting a DSLR around, but want more flexibility than the phone. Problem is, I find it rather prone to flare. Don't know if thats a general problem or I just got a poor sample.
  6. Much of her attitude probably came from being a woman. An interest in railways and suchlike tends to be primarily a male thing that is looked down on by many/most women. At one railway company where a younger version of me once worked, the nice young women in the marketing department delighted in referring to enthusiasts as "trainsexuals".
  7. The GWR's attempt to make the LNER's 12-wheel dildoes look good by comparison......
  8. ISTR that John Hodgson was at one time the chairman of the L&YR Society.
  9. Nice models in the 1938 version. Were they by Beeson?
  10. It's listed in the Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Ethel_Smyth, so presumably not completely undiscovered previously.
  11. The term "code" was originally used in the sense of an engineering code. It goes back to the early days of the NMRA when it defined, IIRC, four standard profiles, which their great and good decreed would provide all the options any N, HO or O modeller's heart could desire while minimising tooling costs for manufacturers. Each code was referenced by the rail height in thousandths of an inch of that particular specification. But it turned out that most modellers didn't have the attention span to cope with anything beyond the height, one or two radicals wanted to actually model accurate track or model rail sizes other than those decreed from on high and most manufacturers just carried on doing whatever suited them. So, in common usage "code" came to just mean rail height. Even the NMRA eventually gave in, went with the flow, and dropped the detailed rail codes from their published standards. Nowadays code just means height in thou and doesn't have all that much to do with arcane concepts like accuracy – given the helicopter views from which most layouts are viewed at exhibitions and the practicalities of turnout construction, things like head and base width are more important, but "code" tells you nothing about them.
  12. Well, the modern sky-replacement apps market themselves as being AI-powered....
  13. Wonder what the original sky looked like? Even the light direction is mis-matched in this patch job.
  14. Quite gentle compared to operation on yer average exhibition layout....
  15. SVG stands for Scalable Vector Graphics and is a web standard. To open it you would need an illustration app such as Illustrator, Affinity Designer, Inkscape, etc.
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