RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted May 24, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 24, 2021 10 hours ago, ChrisN said: Where is the 'cry' button when you need it. You have only just got it down and along comes the dear Doctor. Do like your rose bay willow herb in the background. I showed the picture of the signal box to my wife and asked her what was on the bank behind, she said, "Flowers." I said, "what type?" "Rose bay willow herbs." Looks like a success to me. Hi Chris. How many brownie points do I get for that I wonder? I'll soon have enough for for a whole chocolate banana brownie... We had problems getting on the interweb first thing. The flip top was very slow probably down to windows7! Mrs. S. and I went to wallyworld and brought a new one. Boy It's so fast I'm going to need a crash helmet. Regards Shaun 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted May 25, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 25, 2021 (edited) This new lap top is a bit of a let down. Doesn't have an SD card port so has rendered my cannon useless and try as I might it wont recognize my phone. How the hell I'm supposed to up load photos and videos to a forum is a total mystery. It doesn't even have win-mine for those totally bored moments when your having a sandwich. Winge over with you'll just have to take my word for it until I get things sorted. All the decking for the wooden platforms has been given a bath of wood stain and should be dry enough to glue down later. I have also made some platform walling from the Wills product by gluing the sections together and overlapping them. I taped these to the back of the curved platforms while wet last night. upon removal of the tape this morning the curvatures match the platforms so I'll be painting those along with some other walling details after this post goes up. No doubt it'll be a productive day after an early start with no pictures to fuss over and the rest of the day free because there's nothing else on the schedule. Squatch Edited May 25, 2021 by Sasquatch 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ChrisN Posted May 25, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 25, 2021 You can buy USB sticks that you can plug camera memory cards in, for not a lot. I have a spare one but that is probably not a lot of help. My phone is only recognised when using one particular cable. I am not sure why the one that works does work, but you have to select, 'Mass Storage' on it or it only gets charged and not seen. Hope you sort it out soon. 2 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted May 25, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 25, 2021 3 minutes ago, ChrisN said: You can buy USB sticks that you can plug camera memory cards in, for not a lot. I have a spare one but that is probably not a lot of help. My phone is only recognised when using one particular cable. I am not sure why the one that works does work, but you have to select, 'Mass Storage' on it or it only gets charged and not seen. Hope you sort it out soon. Hi Chris. I'll try finding the "mass storage" button, very helpful! Thanks. Mrs. S. is the techy wizard in our house and she has already ordered some gadget from a rain forest in Latin America apparently! If all else fails I can email myself pictures with the phone!!! Simple solution but might prove costly. Turns out there is usually a simple solution for most things like yesterdays wireless failure. The answer's right there, just use a bloomin wire!!!... ...about time we brought a new computer anyway. It was just the kick out the door we needed is guess. Regards Shaun 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted May 25, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 25, 2021 Hi Shaun, this might help. https://www.ebay.com/b/Computer-Memory-Card-Reader-USB-Stick/51082/bn_649388 All the best Adrian. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcredfer Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 On 25/05/2021 at 18:35, westerhamstation said: Hi Shaun, this might help. https://www.ebay.com/b/Computer-Memory-Card-Reader-USB-Stick/51082/bn_649388 All the best Adrian. That's a really useful little gadget, which byepasses all sorts of other "On-Board" systems, amazing what clever devices are available these days..... Does anyone know if there's a memory card reader for a 74 year old?? 2 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted May 27, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 27, 2021 6 hours ago, jcredfer said: Does anyone know if there's a memory card reader for a 74 year old?? Yes! I'm afraid they're all rather small though. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Sasquatch Posted May 27, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 27, 2021 Quite a lot has been done over the past couple of days. One thing I learned in Portland is that Plastruct has gone under which means acquiring more O scale rough brick and course stone is almost impossible. So to finish of the random walling I had to scrounge scraps from the bottom of various tubs and tape the bits together. This got finished and painted. While I was weathering that, the platform walls received the same treatment toning down all that bright mortar nicely. Making the rear walls as described a few posts back. The other problem was how to model the paving on the platform tops. Originally I'd planned to use Slaters paving but don't have enough so decided to make it myself. Two advantages are that I can get the paving to flow nicely by scribing on card with a ballpoint and can stick it down easily with white glue. Not to mention the savings and time waiting for the mail. First one is done and has had a base coat of chalky castle coloured acrylic. While taking images of that with the iPhone I took a few of trains etc. Looking down the Halifax-Kieghley line. J50 over the bridal tunnel. N2 with that lovely twin set on the viaduct. And interesting angle of the station masters house and signal box. Squatch. 17 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcredfer Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 16 hours ago, Sasquatch said: Yes! I'm afraid they're all rather small though. Pffuu...eee!!! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted May 29, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 29, 2021 Now the SD card reader has arrived we can see a couple of images of that WD 2-8-0 on engineer's duty. I also managed to download Picasa3, the program I use to edit the colours in the images. Squatch 15 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 G'Day Folks Serious looking demo train, I'm getting worried................. manna 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted May 29, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 29, 2021 26 minutes ago, manna said: G'Day Folks Serious looking demo train, I'm getting worried................. manna All that'll be left soon is a couple of bridges and the station masters house!!! Squatch 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted May 29, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 29, 2021 Due to escalating losses to road transport we regret to announce as of Monday May 23rd 1955 passenger services are being withdrawn. 13 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcredfer Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 12 hours ago, Sasquatch said: All that'll be left soon is a couple of bridges and the station masters house!!! Squatch It does seem to be a bit of a shame, building all that model scenery, knowing it will soon have get removed again..... Alright, just joking - I hope... Those latest pictures give a really good idea of how it is going to turn out, fantastic work. Lovely to look at, thank you Shaun. 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 G'Day Folks AAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH Noooooooooo!!!! manna Seriously good work though, it's at the point where it can go either way. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted May 31, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 31, 2021 19 hours ago, jcredfer said: It does seem to be a bit of a shame, building all that model scenery, knowing it will soon have get removed again..... Alright, just joking - I hope... Those latest pictures give a really good idea of how it is going to turn out, fantastic work. Lovely to look at, thank you Shaun. Hi J. What's interesting is that the back scene is actually part of the layout in some of those images. It's all due to the fact that it's a triangular layout and the stuff in the background is anything up to 12 feet away! Thanks for the kind feed back Regards Shaun 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted May 31, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 31, 2021 7 hours ago, manna said: G'Day Folks AAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH Noooooooooo!!!! manna Seriously good work though, it's at the point where it can go either way. Hi Manna. Not a bad idea going in for the demolition aspect. Hardly ever modeled one would imagine. There's a few monotonous jobs which I'm dragging my heals with and I need to get an order in for some stuff like fences but I'll get there pretty soon. Also when my new pin arrives for my visa card (it's been months) the airco system will take priority. It was bloomin hot in there this afternoon. Again thanks for the feedback Regards Shaun 2 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Bogie Posted May 31, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 31, 2021 If a new Visa card pin has not arrived after several months I suspect it ain't ever going to arrive! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted May 31, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 31, 2021 (edited) 14 hours ago, Bogie said: If a new Visa card pin has not arrived after several months I suspect it ain't ever going to arrive! It has cost 7 international phone calls. Last time I ended getting someone in India who wanted all my details and who's first question was "What bank are you with". Yeah right lady... No doubt it's all down to how digital everything is these days. You can't get to talk to anyone at the bank (unless you want to buy insurance or some other way they have of bleeding you dry with no return) Their app wont work on my phone of which I am skeptical of. And when the one person I did get to talk to in Brusselles said he generated a new pin for me there's probably some glitch with the machine that prints out the envelope that fails to add the extra postage cost! I'll stop ranting right there Bogie! Regards Shaun Edited May 31, 2021 by Sasquatch None (clicked on wrong post!) 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted May 31, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 31, 2021 (edited) Ay-up lads! Look what we found int' supermarket... Get kettle on dingy we'll have t' nice hot cuppa! Thars even a picture of Ribblehead viaduct on t' back o box!!! Anyway we had to go to Medford to get the second covid shot and I also went to get some more paints. I do wish the producers would stop changing the colour ranges. Sandstone hasn't been available for some years now but today I took my time to look through all the weird names and found one called jute which looks pretty close. I also grabbed cobblestone, barnwood, leaf green and grass green amongst others. After two cups of that tea I feel like getting a bit of work done! Squatch Edited May 31, 2021 by Sasquatch "I" before "E" except after "C". That's weird! 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted May 31, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 31, 2021 Eeh lad! A proper brew! Tha just needs a yorkshire rascal to go with it from Bettys!! Baz 3 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simontaylor484 Posted May 31, 2021 Share Posted May 31, 2021 Freshly picked tea from the plantations on the hills above Huddersfield cant beat it. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted May 31, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 31, 2021 17 minutes ago, Barry O said: Eeh lad! A proper brew! Tha just needs a yorkshire rascal to go with it from Bettys!! Baz Don't know bout rascals but we got two ponds of rhubarb. One pound of which I'm gonna make a crumble... "Toasted Walnut oat crumble" to be precise. Perfect cold with vanilla ice cream and just the ticket cos they're forecasting 104F tomorrow. Regards Shuan 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted May 31, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 31, 2021 19 minutes ago, simontaylor484 said: Freshly picked tea from the plantations on the hills above Huddersfield cant beat it. Aha! That's why it takes longer to brew than other brands, it's the altitude!!! Regards Shaun 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcredfer Posted May 31, 2021 Share Posted May 31, 2021 58 minutes ago, Sasquatch said: Aha! That's why it takes longer to brew than other brands, it's the altitude!!! Regards Shaun Spelling 0 /10 altitude - attitude!! 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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