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Zero Gravitas

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  1. 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?)
  2. 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.
  3. This has just appeared in my Facebook feed: (1) Facebook
  4. 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...
  5. At Pendon there are Modelu 3-D printed figures, from scans of some of the volunteers in appropriate costume. They are good enough to tell who the person is from the 4mm model. That’s pretty good in my opinion.
  6. Hi Simon, Any idea on a publishing date yet, please - and will it be possible to place a preorder? TIA
  7. Was in Belgium this week - I can confirm that “STOP” appears on stop signs there.
  8. 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...🙂
  9. 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…
  10. May be old news now, but just seen this: https://www.world-of-railways.co.uk/news/cooper-craft-products-to-return
  11. Just bumping this, as it is absolutely stunning work.
  12. I’ve seen enough - please just take my money! Seriously - is the order book open for this yet? I’ve got a Five79 fish van chassis I’ve been working up to putting on my Stove R, but this will be a better solution (with all due respect to Roger Chivers, whose 4mm kits I like very much indeed).
  13. interesting… and I shouldn’t really need to ask this, but I will: does the Hatton’s wheelbase match the Stove R?
  14. I’ve also got a fish van chassis to go under the stove R when I’m feeling brave, but I’ve already decided that I’m not going to try and narrow the body. I intend to use in on a milk train, and so it won’t need to be next to any other coaching stock, which may minimise the visual effect.
  15. And rightly so - I’m currently on holiday in Lanzarote, but I know that my genesis coach is at home waiting for me. And in which case, it’s going to be much easier. Apologies for any confusion.
  16. IIRC, one of the characteristic features of the LMS fish van and the Stove R was the the solebars were the “wrong” way round - i.e. with the webs of the channel section facing inwards. That makes using the Hattons under frame a bit more complicated.
  17. And if you were thinking of doing that, would you get Mike and the Mechanics to do it for you?
  18. if it’s any consolation, mine arrived today - so they are gradually getting through…
  19. I know it’s bad form to talk about the arrival of subscription copies, but nothing here in OX11, more than a week after it appeared in WHS in Didcot. Should I be worried yet?
  20. FWIW, I was resigned to missing out on the W1 when Hattons cancelled my pre-order, and I couldn't get one anywhere else. Imagine my surprise therefore when a Hornby ad for the W1 appeared on my Facebook feed - I've ordered and received an R3979 double-chimney version. It appears to be fully intact, so it's now being put away as Mrs. ZG's Christmas present to me. She's delighted, normally she has no idea what to get me :-).
  21. A random musing, but I've always thought that if a 57xx Pannier and a USA Dock Tank decided that they loved each other very much, the 15xx is what their offspring would look like.
  22. Postie delivered mine in Didcot this morning, so they are being released into the wild.
  23. This is still bad form, but have you read Hornby’s description on their web site: “Supplying vital loads of cargo for many hundreds of steam locomotives, the Ferry Van Wagon is a practically universal feature of the railway, part of the scenery as surely as the sight of a station or a locomotive” which is interesting, to say the least...
  24. To misquote Bananarama - it’s not what you say, it’s the way that you say it... There’s a big difference between “considering how they might have done things differently” and your original “are the RMWeb team taking any responsibility for the failure”. Language and how it is used really matters - particularly in difficult situations. In PRINCE2 project management, at the end of a project there’s an activity called “lessons learned”, where one reviews the things that went well, and should be done again; and the things that went less well, to think about what changes should be made for future projects. If it was called “the hunt for who got it wrong” it would be a considerably less useful experience for all concerned. And so it is here. Sometimes, sh*t happens - people react and a lot of hard work and late nights later things are getting back to normal. And you can be absolutely certain that there will be thinking about how to stop this from ever happening again.
  25. That’s as maybe, but nobody should be promoting the use of illegal drugs on a railway modelling forum.
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