rockershovel Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 On 21/06/2020 at 00:11, uax6 said: Back to magazine boots... According to wiki, magazine boots for army use are Boots, General Service but with a rubber heel and rubber crepe sole and no steel reinforcements so sparks cannot be generated.. Andy G I’ve occasionally worked on tunnel or drilling sites where explosives were used, the magazines usually contain a pair of rubber galoshes, like crocs. The essential point is the avoidance of sparks, including static build-up. 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted July 12, 2020 Author Share Posted July 12, 2020 Track-laying on the small rural essay is making slow progress - partly a case of finding time, but partly because I’ve learned to go very carefully about track-laying. Here you can see the new apprentice (as if I don’t have enough already!), who has an innocent look, but is actually a mad tearaway. Youngest, increasingly abetted by my good lady, has been campaigning to get a new dog for about eighteen months ........ this one is a bit different from our previous ones! 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted July 12, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 12, 2020 1 hour ago, Nearholmer said: Track-laying on the small rural essay is making slow progress - partly a case of finding time, but partly because I’ve learned to go very carefully about track-laying. Here you can see the new apprentice (as if I don’t have enough already!), who has an innocent look, but is actually a mad tearaway. Youngest, increasingly abetted by my good lady, has been campaigning to get a new dog for about eighteen months ........ this one is a bit different from our previous ones! Marion would definitely give that one a good home. We are down to one dog at the moment and she would lie another but we think our current dog is quite happy be the only one. Hope you and yours are all well. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simond Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 (edited) On 12/07/2020 at 23:05, Nearholmer said: Track-laying on the small rural essay is making slow progress - partly a case of finding time, but partly because I’ve learned to go very carefully about track-laying. Here you can see the new apprentice (as if I don’t have enough already!), who has an innocent look, but is actually a mad tearaway. Youngest, increasingly abetted by my good lady, has been campaigning to get a new dog for about eighteen months ........ this one is a bit different from our previous ones! I’m impressed that you’ve already taught him to ski... Edited July 13, 2020 by Simond 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRASinBothell Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 Does the new apprentice have a name? You'll have to be careful with the new branch line. Your apprentice may mistake the branch for a stick... Gordon 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted July 13, 2020 Author Share Posted July 13, 2020 Rosey. You'd have to ask my daughter why (why that name; why we need a dog; why such a small one; why I'm the one trying to house train it; dogs cost how much?! Those sorts of questions). 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted July 14, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 14, 2020 2 hours ago, GRASinBothell said: Does the new apprentice have a name? You'll have to be careful with the new branch line. Your apprentice may mistake the branch for a stick... Gordon 4 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRASinBothell Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 It's a nice name - short, easy to say, and, most importantly, not embarrassing when you're calling her to come in from the garden. Dog naming can be a strange process. My daughter christened her first dog Lord Adonis Skywalker the Third. He was always known as Walker, and I took him for many walks in the park, so my Ace station has nameboards for "Walkers Park"! Gordon 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simond Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 I knew a very delightful, prim & proper lady many years back Pillar of the WI, a rude word would never pass her lips, Etc never did find out why she had a dog called “B****r” atb Simon 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted July 14, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 14, 2020 When Mrs Compound was working in Poland, she didn't at first understand why all Polish dogs were called Hodge, which is a cat's name (vide Doctor Johnson). After a while she realised what she was hearing was "Chodź!" - Polish for "Come!". 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 My daughter’s Labrador had some elaborate kennel club name, but was never called anything except Charley Dog. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted July 14, 2020 Author Share Posted July 14, 2020 This thread has nothing to do with dogs; it’s about toy trains. 7 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted July 14, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 14, 2020 “Walkies”! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 1 hour ago, Nearholmer said: This thread has nothing to do with dogs; it’s about toy trains. Yeah, I see what you did there... very droll. As far as I knew, most dogs think their name is "NO, BAD DOG..!!!", don't they? 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ian Posted July 14, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 14, 2020 10 minutes ago, F-UnitMad said: As far as I knew, most dogs think their name is "NO, BAD DOG..!!!", don't they? They all respond to "Oi!". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRASinBothell Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Depends what you mean by "respond"... A quick roll of the eyeballs, and then carrying on doing what they were doing is the most likely. Gordon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted July 15, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 15, 2020 This thread was about toy trains now it has gone to the dogs.... Hat Coat etc. Don 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Carne Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 15 hours ago, Nearholmer said: This thread has nothing to do with dogs; it’s about toy trains. I've never understood why they left the drop links off these, all mine have replacement couplings of the same pattern with drop links.... Mark 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted July 15, 2020 Author Share Posted July 15, 2020 And, this years Best of Breed goes to ....... Back on track, I’ve almost finished laying the track on the little rural thing. The “ballast” I’m really pleased with. It is “Stone” paint from a rattle can and I stole the idea from someone either on RMWeb or Classic 0 forum, but I can’t remember who. Very Hornby Dunlop, isn’t it? 10 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Is that Rustoleum? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldfish Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 9 hours ago, Nearholmer said: The “ballast” I’m really pleased with. It is “Stone” paint from a rattle can and I stole the idea from someone either on RMWeb or Classic 0 forum, but I can’t remember who. Very Hornby Dunlop, isn’t it? The credit should go to PaulRhB on the Billerbahn Oe tinplate thread. It also gives a quick and easy textured finish to stone walls. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted July 16, 2020 Author Share Posted July 16, 2020 Yes, that’s who it was! Thank you PaulRhB. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben B Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Looks great with that ballast, I've just used the same stuff for a platform surface and road on a garden railway project Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRASinBothell Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 Returning to the dog theme (this IS a dog forum, right???), and having mentioned Walker, and the station I've named after him, I thought I'd add a photo of the running-in board, with Mr and Mrs Mountbatten-Windsor waiting for a train (along with a strangely-young Mr Churchill). The 3 dogs are from an Arttista pack (called Junk Yard dogs), containing a German Shepherd (Alsation for those on the other side of the Pond), a Rottweiler, and a Doberman - appropriate since Walker was a Doberman. Of course, the Mountbatten-Windsors should really be surrounded by Corgis, but I haven't been able to find a 1/43 scale one of those! In the background, King Arthur class no 30456 Sir Galahad brings The Cunarder into the station. Gordon 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted July 23, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 23, 2020 1 hour ago, GRASinBothell said: surrounded by Corgis, but I haven't been able to find a 1/43 scale one of those! I thought most Corgi Toys were 7mm scale or thereabouts... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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