Zero Gravitas
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Zero Gravitas started following LNER Dynamometer car - run 2! , MRJ 302 , MRJ 301 and 7 others
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Never mind the van - just look at the backs of those wheelsets. I've never seen anything quite like that before (or have I just not been paying attention?)
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I use standard loose tea leaves, applied in the time-honoured fashion with cheap hair spray (cheaper the better - it's stickier). The trick is then a waft of satin purple over the foliage with the airbrush. Not very much though! When you look at the leaves of the copper beech they have a distinct purple tinge - to the extant that it's sometimes referred to as the purple beech.
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Just received mine - and it's lovely. And thank you for including the card above. However, I'm going to put the time and effort to use by asking if there are any plans to sell to tie-down points as separate items, please? They are beautifully done, and I can see lots of other places where they would be really useful...
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Brilliant. As I wait on platform 2 for the 09:27 Didcot - Paddington on Wednesday morning, this will be all I will be able to think about….
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Actually up to 4% of global annual turnover: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/guide-to-le-processing/penalties/ Although talking about a “standard maximum” and then a “higher maximum” has never made a lot of sense to me…. I have always thought there should be a “maximum” and that’s it…
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Was in Belgium this week - I can confirm that “STOP” appears on stop signs there.
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'Genesis' 4 & 6 wheel coaches in OO Gauge - New Announcement
Zero Gravitas replied to Hattons Dave's topic in Hattons
Firstly, and most importantly, I apologise for giving the impression I was dismissing the discussion. I'm not - I was just trying to give a bit of context to where we have got to. However, whilst Thomas Aquinas asked the question "can several angels be in the same place?" around 1270; the first reference to "whether a million angels may not fit upon a needle's point" was apparently 1637 - some time after the end of the medieval period (which some claim the be at the fall of Constantinople in 1453, whilst others claim it ended in 1517 when Martin Luther set about a church door with a hammer). In any case, I was using the phrase in its generally-accepted modern context of arcane intellectual speculation, and making the point that the variations that the shade will inevitably have had in real life will be much greater than the variations that the discussion is getting getting down to... Good thing I wasn't talking about the colour of the angels - or indeed whether they were prototypical angels or generic angels designed to give a good impression of angelness...🙂 -
'Genesis' 4 & 6 wheel coaches in OO Gauge - New Announcement
Zero Gravitas replied to Hattons Dave's topic in Hattons
IIRC, didn’t the Southern used to turn sets of coaches periodically, because the side facing south would fade from exposure to sunlight more than the north-facing side. Just another reason why discussion of the minutiae of colour differences is really deep into angels on the head of a pin territory… -
May be old news now, but just seen this: https://www.world-of-railways.co.uk/news/cooper-craft-products-to-return
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I’m not normally a fan of cover versions, but try the Saturdays’ version of Christmas Wrapping - I think it’s significantly better than the original (and I say that as a Talking Heads fan)