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2 hours ago, Mike_Walker said:
This example was at Wallingford a couple of years ago but I think it might have been scrapped since. I was told it was ex-Royal Navy.
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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This has just appeared in my Facebook feed:
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On 04/07/2023 at 13:26, Garethp8873 said:
And nice little card with the Loriot Y too...
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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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.
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On 09/04/2023 at 01:15, The Johnster said:
In that tragic incident, the two expresses were relatively lightly loaded, and the crowded one, the suburban service that had been routed to the up main ahead of the Perth express, was stationary at the moment of the collision. If one were to replicate the circumstances with crowded modern services, say at Didcot with an up South Wales or Bristol 800 rammed with standing passengers at 125mph hitting an up train in the up main platform, to be struck almost immediately by a down 800 at a similar speed, the carnage in the up express doesn't bear thinking about...
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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9 hours ago, 30801 said:
There's a serious issue here that Tesla employees are sharing stuff around their mates for giggles. That's very different to Facebook and Amazon, assuming they're halfway competent companies with procedures in place for handling data.
If this was in Europe the maximum fine under GDPR is 2% of global turnover which would make Elon very unhappy.
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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13 hours ago, Not Jeremy said:
What a wonderful model this is. The attention to detail in both model itself and application of liveries is incredibly well done and based upon solid research, as Paul’s answers here illustrate so well.
Happily, there appear to be quite large numbers of us who are fascinated by the minutiae and detail of this project.
I say happily as Wild Swan are shortly to publish a very detailed book on the subject of GWR Siphons, it is a fully corrected, updated and expanded edition of Jack Slinn’s seminal book, written by John Lewis. It will be a large sized hardback to the usual WS format with dust jacket. Heavily illustrated, including scale drawings and running to over 260 pages, it will cost at least £54.95 to purchase(!)
John is a hugely knowledgeable individual who also had an input into this wonderful suite of models from Accurascale. A real gentleman, it is a privilege and joy to work with him.
Simon Castens
Hi Simon,
Any idea on a publishing date yet, please - and will it be possible to place a preorder?
TIA
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330 miles for £90? My trusty diesel Octavia will do about 720 miles for £90 of diesel at 165.9 per litre…
My opinion is that hydrogen will have its place - probably for trucks and where range is really needed. It’s not ready yet - but it probably will be. Just hop the Octavia lasts long enough…
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13 minutes ago, Andy Hayter said:
The Stop sign is fairly universal in wide areas of Europe. it is certainly used in France and Germany and from failing memory the Netherlands - so that would include Belgium as well.
Was in Belgium this week - I can confirm that “STOP” appears on stop signs there.
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20 hours ago, Compound2632 said:
As to angels on the head of a pin, that's a piece of medieval mathematics on the concept of the infinitely large and infinitely small, not to be used to dismiss a discussion unless you think that such mathematical questions are inherently useless.
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...🙂
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17 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:
Surely if the model itself is generic, with windows, doors, roof details and undergubbins (technical term) not exactly as per any single original, then livery is more important than ever? If the colours look 'right' for the prototype company named on the box, then these models will more readily blend in with the kosher vehicles already on the layout.
Teak, the subject of recent animated discussion, seems to me to be a finish which is extraordinarily difficult to get right, as previous years' discussions about RTR LNER vehicles have identified, even before the choice of shade. Companies that used solid colours make an easier target. Thus, as a modeller of trains South of the River, I am grateful that both Hattons and Hornby have each managed a plausible shade of olive for their generic SR stock, such that a string behind a modest tank loco will look fine on some forgotten branchline in Sussex or Devon, while, as I mentioned earlier, the Hattons 6-wheel full brake fits admirably at the head of my mid-morning Okehampton to Padstow service.
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…
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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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On 21/12/2022 at 20:46, 33C said:
Try "The Waitresses", "Christmas Wrapping". A bit more adult, sing and dance along, tune!
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)
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3 hours ago, PhilH said:
I had the pleasure of seeing him live a long time ago with the genius Norman Watt-Roy on bass….absolutely bedazzled me with his guitar playing, seemingly not to change the motion of his picking hand but getting all sorts of sounds from the Tele. Not so much on the vocal side though…
RIP Wilko, one of a kind.
The same - many happy Saturday nights in London pubs in the mid-eighties. Although I have to admit I spent more time watching Norman and wishing I could play bass like that.
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15 hours ago, didcot said:
The town is a bit like a Scooby Doo back drop, estate agent, takeaway, chippy, Pizza shop, estate agent, takeaway, chippy.... you get the idea. Add in a couple of charity shops. How any of them make a profit is beyond me!
Not quite right - should be pizza shop, estate agent, pizza shop, takeaway, pizza shop, estate agent, pizza shop, pizza shop, takeaway, pizza shop, chippy, pizza shop….
And yes, I do live there 🙂
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On 04/11/2018 at 12:36, pete_mcfarlane said:
That's starting to sound like Feng Shui, and is probably as equally ineffective.
Ah - Feng Shui, the Chinese for “utter b*ll*cks”…
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Just bumping this, as it is absolutely stunning work.
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15 hours ago, Reorte said:
Quite a problem with reviews, where a top mark seems to be the norm these days unless there's something actually wrong.
Indeed. Last time I had my car serviced, I was told that I would receive an invitation to complete a “customer satisfaction survey”, and that if I was planning to score anything less than 9/10 would I please contact them first, as anything less would result in serious grief from head office.
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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).
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2 hours ago, Dunsignalling said:
My two have just arrived. Very nice. As promised a quick measure has been performed.
The Hatton's underframe is a couple of millimetres longer than the Dapol Stove R body, and being based on older vehicles, it's significantly narrower than the latter, even had that been made to scale width.
In short, it wouldn't be an impossible conversion, but rather more difficult than making a better 'Stove' underframe using the Chivers kit parts.
Perhaps Hatton's have a Stove of their own in mind...😇
John
interesting… and I shouldn’t really need to ask this, but I will: does the Hatton’s wheelbase match the Stove R?-
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27 minutes ago, Dunsignalling said:
Correct, but nothing a length of the appropriately sized Evergreen strip can't hide.
The Dapol Stove body is over-width, too. I may narrow it if I'm feeling brave, but otherwise, a simple facing strip should help disguise that. Two wrongs can look like a right, and that should be even easier than filling the channel. There's also the long step to add to help conceal any joins.
My first priority will be a dependable working chassis. The cosmetics, I'll deal with along the way.
John
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.-
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1 hour ago, Compound2632 said:
I'm confused by your remark. The Hattons carriages have underframes that represent either timber underframes or possibly iron or steel solebars with the flat face outwards - just as on the later LMS vehicles you mention.
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.-
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28 minutes ago, Dunsignalling said:
I'll let you know when I've had chance to measure up a Hatton's chassis. My first two should arrive tomorrow. If it looks good, I'll try to pick one that's not in high demand to do the job. The left-over body can be grounded...
The Chivers LMS Fish van underframe that 'I've been adapting to go under my 'Stove R' is on hold just in case. That may get shortened to go under a Hornby Palethorpes van body.
John
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.-
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