RMweb Premium Annie Posted October 24, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 24, 2020 44 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: Who, exactly, does @Annie think she's winding up? Most probably me Stephen. 44 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: Point of information: they were named for the aery spirit in The Tempest. Ah yes I forgot that one, - thank you for reminding me. BUT Ariel is also the name of an archangel, the ancient city of Jerusalem, various songs, poems, ships and goodness knows what else. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeOxon Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 2 hours ago, Annie said: .. BUT Ariel is also the name of an archangel, the ancient city of Jerusalem, various songs, poems, ships and goodness knows what else. I thought the Archangel was called 'Uriel' but perhaps that another one. Do Archangels also dance on pins, like ordinary angels? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted October 24, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 24, 2020 The whole angels-on-a-pinhead thing was a medieval way of concretising an abstract mathematical problem: how many entities of infinitesimal dimensions can be fitted into an infinitesimally small space? In other words, what to you get when you divide zero by zero? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Annie Posted October 24, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 24, 2020 18 minutes ago, MikeOxon said: I thought the Archangel was called 'Uriel' but perhaps that another one. Do Archangels also dance on pins, like ordinary angels? I suppose being archangels they'd be better at it than ordinary angels. 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Annie Posted October 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 25, 2020 My apologies for slicing you through the footbridge with this video. I'm still working on getting the low speed end of the sound file sorted out, but at least now I have the sound matched (more or less) with the engine's speed. Major triumph and cleverness certificate award to me though for figuring out how to wind up the mainspring at station stops aided by nothing more than the magical incantations in a configuration file. 2 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 Hurrah! A clockwork Precursor tanks (with DCC sound!). To celebrate ... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Annie Posted October 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 25, 2020 10 minutes ago, Edwardian said: Hurrah! A clockwork Precursor tanks (with DCC sound!). To celebrate ... A classic, an absolute classic! Thanks very much for giving me a good laugh this morning James. I did some other small adjustments to the sound file for the Precursor tank and after reaching a point where I was starting to make things worse I went back to an earlier copy of the file and decided to leave things there for now. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Annie Posted October 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 25, 2020 Book Corner: Seeing as that I'm messing around with Precursors at the moment I've ordered a second hand copy from Abebooks. It's always interesting buying second hand books from the Uk as some vendors often seem to think they have a rare gold leaf edition and charge accordingly while others are much more sensible about it. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold simonmcp Posted October 25, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 25, 2020 1 hour ago, Edwardian said: Hurrah! A clockwork Precursor tanks (with DCC sound!). To celebrate ... Doesn't matter how many times I see that I still laugh so much I cry . 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedGemAlchemist Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 21 hours ago, Annie said: Ariel is also the name of an archangel, the ancient city of Jerusalem, various songs, poems, ships and goodness knows what else The title character from Disney's The Little Mermaid. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted October 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 25, 2020 Our cars got one on the roof. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted October 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 25, 2020 Reminds me of an old joke against the terminological exactitude of radio enthusiasts: "Why don't radio hams have aerials?" "Because they have antennae! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam88 Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 6 hours ago, Annie said: Book Corner: Seeing as that I'm messing around with Precursors at the moment I've ordered a second hand copy from Abebooks. It's always interesting buying second hand books from the Uk as some vendors often seem to think they have a rare gold leaf edition and charge accordingly while others are much more sensible about it. I bought a new copy many years ago when they were being remaindered and it was only when I got it home that I realised that a batch of pages were completely blank. I hope yours is complete. There are conflicting forces at work here, D&C of this era were pretty good but OS Nock needed a good editor but didn't always get one. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Annie Posted October 26, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 26, 2020 26 minutes ago, Adam88 said: I bought a new copy many years ago when they were being remaindered and it was only when I got it home that I realised that a batch of pages were completely blank. I hope yours is complete. There are conflicting forces at work here, D&C of this era were pretty good but OS Nock needed a good editor but didn't always get one. I purchased a second hand copy Adam and the vendor says the book is in good condition so it should have all its pages. I have heard it said that this particular book isn't as good as it could have been, but compared with having no book on the Precursors at all it has to be a better situation than that. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Annie Posted October 26, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 26, 2020 More mucking about with the 'clockwork' Precursor tank. I think I'm going to call the sound file done since not knowing what I'm doing can only be stretched so far. A bit like some politicians I suppose except they don't know when to stop. Possibly having too much fun 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium nick_bastable Posted October 26, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 26, 2020 swear that wallpaper still tastes of arsenic Nick N 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake The Rat Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 On 24/10/2020 at 06:34, Annie said: For the name to be used for a species of laundry detergent only goes to prove how low modern civilisation has fallen. I'll show you the dreadful memories from my childhood that come back every time someone mentions the name 'Ariel'. Before you have seen this, you cannot fully understand how right Annie is with her statement. This creature of hell ('Klementine') wasn't a one-off joke, she kept on haunting German television for 2 decades. Watch with caution, this is not for the faint of heart. & if you don't understand a single word (because it's in German language), don't worry, you are missing nothing. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Annie Posted October 26, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 26, 2020 46 minutes ago, Jake The Rat said: I'll show you the dreadful memories from my childhood that come back every time someone mentions the name 'Ariel'. Before you have seen this, you cannot fully understand how right Annie is with her statement. This creature of hell ('Klementine') wasn't a one-off joke, she kept on haunting German television for 2 decades. Watch with caution, this is not for the faint of heart. & if you don't understand a single word (because it's in German language), don't worry, you are missing nothing. You would think that not being able to understand a word of that would be a blessing, - only it wasn't. 1 hour ago, nick_bastable said: swear that wallpaper still tastes of arsenic Nick N No it's this one that has the arsenic flavour. 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schooner Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 23 hours ago, Annie said: Possibly having too much fun Quite right too - keep it up 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Annie Posted October 27, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 27, 2020 (edited) This is my latest rebuild/update effort with an older locomotive for Trainz. I'd done some work on it a month or two ago and then after finding something shiny for some reason or another I put it to one side and forgot about it. The final work needing to be done was mostly finishing off the loco body textures and after frowning at it a lot I've managed to do that. I'm running out of siding space in my virtual railway room so I'm going to have to put some more in. Is this the beginning of 'The Chronicles of Annie's Sidings'? Edited October 27, 2020 by Annie more to say 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Annie Posted October 27, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 27, 2020 Additional sidings now installed at Carpeton. The 'ladder' format means it will be reasonably easy to add further sidings should I need to. Once I started looking at the engines and rolling stock I had in my virtual railway room I found a few with 'Test' in their file names that had served their purpose so they could be removed and that made for a bit more space. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeOxon Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 Watch out - you'll be in trouble with the domestic authorities if you start covering too much carpet 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Annie Posted October 27, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 27, 2020 7 hours ago, MikeOxon said: Watch out - you'll be in trouble with the domestic authorities if you start covering too much carpet The nice thing is Mike I am the domestic authority. So........ if I want to run trains all over the house I can and no-one can stop me...... Mwah ha ha hah....! 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Annie Posted October 27, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 27, 2020 Book Corner. I used to own a copy of this book, but it got lost when too much life happened all at once. However after much searching I found a copy (Oh joy unbounded!). It's a decidedly rare book these days and it's hard to find a copy in any sort of condition. I suppose as a title it wasn't exactly a best seller either since extreme electrical tinkering with clockwork 'O' gauge railways would have been somewhat of a specialist interest back in 1951. It's a fascinating little book with all manner of clever ideas for making electrical and semi-electrical accessories for clockwork railways and it's plain the author was very keen on devising gadgets of one sort or another. The other nice thing about this little book is that it was written in a time when enthusiasts actually made things from raw materials with no nipping down to shops to buy something all packaged up and ready to go. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamsRadial Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 4 hours ago, Annie said: The other nice thing about this little book is that it was written in a time when enthusiasts actually made things from raw materials with no nipping down to shops to buy something all packaged up and ready to go An era that is to railway modelling what pre-grouping was to railways. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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