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PhilJ W

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  1. I think the E-bay description was quite clear, that's the reason I didn't bid for it.
  2. I had an accident a month ago and my car which I had had from new for fifteen years was written off. I purchased its replacement a couple of weeks ago (6 months older than the car written off) and it is absolutely loaded with every conceivable extra. On checking the paperwork it appears to have spent the first year of its life with the dealer who registered it. Fortunately it has a conventional handbrake but some features are getting to be annoying such as the reversing sensor that bleeps away when I am at least a metre away from any obstruction. Some such as Bluetooth I will never use as when I'm driving my mobile is always switched off. Things I do like are the radio controls on the steering wheel although I have accidently changed channels a couple of times while manoeuvring the car and the cavernous glove box that also doubles as a cool box.
  3. It appeared on the Underground modelling group on Farcebook so I had a look, not tempted afterwards.
  4. I (briefly) studied violin during the first two years of secondary school. Complaints were made to the RSPCA about cats being strangled.
  5. Industrial locomotives seem to be big sellers whether steam or diesel. An ideal fireless prototype would be the one built by Andrew Barclay, production of which exceeded all other builders put together.
  6. A RTR fireless loco would be nice.
  7. This a photograph of me, my sister and brother. I've no idea when it was taken but at a guess about ten years ago. I'm on the right.
  8. They should be kept, and where and who should be noted I have several old family photos but no idea of when and where.
  9. This should make some lawyers very rich. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68220627
  10. This was in the jokes thread but it's worth placing here.
  11. The water quality makes a considerable difference to the flavour of the beer. Using exactly the same ingredients and processing in one town will produce a different flavoured beer if used in another.
  12. Interesting collection of rolling stock behind the locomotive in picture # 1.
  13. The CAD drawings are misleading, when the skirting was removed as a wartime measure a curved section remained behind the cylinders. This corresponds to the section in grey on the cad drawing. Also the (usual) front three quarter view does not emphasise the set back third driver. The LNER streamliners always looked better with the side skirts.
  14. I do hope so, and an F7 to complete the set.
  15. Pub chucking out time?
  16. It might be on this thread there was an imaginary Bullied rebuild of a Schools 4-4-0 complete with 'spam can' streamlining and box pox wheels. It was some years ago now.
  17. There was a pair of streamlined B17's, much better proportioned.
  18. Anything is preferable to a Diet Coke.
  19. The shed is a Wills kit of a ground frame/small signal box and is 00 scale.
  20. There's also the Sunbeam Rapier (Oxford) that can be made into a convertible.
  21. I'm not sure how Adam, @quicksilvercoaches does it but Milliput is most likely. Just coming onto the market are 3D pens*, perhaps these could be used for creating the folded roofs. I will be looking at them this weekend and probably buying one to experiment with. *Same principle as a 3D printer but used like a pen or pencil.
  22. The interior (and wheels) could come from the Oxford Cortina. The original door shut lines could be filled with Milliput and new ones scored.
  23. Crayford also made a convertible of the Ford Corsair, the Minix model would be a good start.
  24. It almost certainly cured his haemorrhoids.
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