wagonman Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 On 22/11/2019 at 02:25, Annie said: When I was much younger I thought about emigrating to Australia, but then I realised I didn't speak the Australian language so I didn't go. In the early '70s I lived within chundering distance of Earl's Court (aka Kangaroo Valley) and remember when some bright spark published a Strine-English dictionary for the benefit of bewildered natives. Someone else sold a popular line of T shirts proclaiming "Keep Australia Beautiful. Don't Go Home". Not long after that the arabs seemed to take over and the Oz diaspora was even more dispersed. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caley Jim Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 I have a friend who was the Medical Director of two of the big hospitals in Melbourne. Several of the consultants were also Glasgow graduates and of they were all having a coffee together in the morning none of the Aussies could understand a word they were saying! Jim 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted December 1, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 1, 2019 16 hours ago, Martin S-C said: At the risk of beginning to sound like a real old moaner the one other issue I had with Norwich Central was an over abundance of specialist freight stock. I do dislike it when so many weird and wonderful wheeled "things" get used instead of a much more reasonable sea of sheeted opens and a few vans. There's just so many wonderful shapes, sizes and liveries of open merchandise wagon, using a lot of them does not have to mean a goods yard looks boring. I agree with the sentiment but that wasn't quite my impression of Norwich City. Apart from the LNWR glass wagons and the guano tanker, I thought the goods stock was well-balanced. The (non-fictional) PO wagons were nearly all appropriate to the area and period*, much better than very many cases. The specials are permissable if one has a back-story - some Norwich department store is being fitted out with new plate-glass windows. If one thing stuck out like a sore thumb for the 1910-14 period, it was the ex-Cornwall Minerals 2-4-0 - both condition and livery were well out. My understanding of this layout is that it was built primarily to showcase the builders' stock. Such a cart-before-the-horse approach will always result in some anomalies. But it takes a great deal of self-discipline (more than I have) to model a location and a date and stick rigorously to building stock to suit and no other. *Excepting P. Softley No. 23, with oil axleboxes. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 19 hours ago, Martin S-C said: In truth I agree with you. It does jar badly on my eye and sensibilities too. I was trying to be polite about it though! I have had a few recent problems with calling a spade a spade (not here but elsewhere on t'internet so I nowadays steer a more moderate course if I can). There is a very well known and much adored interwar layout in this community that is rightly held up as a superb example of modelling but the shop fronts shout out to me "1960s" instead of "1930s" due to the colours and fonts used which is such a great shame since the overall modelling is something I aspire to in every way. At the risk of beginning to sound like a real old moaner the one other issue I had with Norwich Central was an over abundance of specialist freight stock. I do dislike it when so many weird and wonderful wheeled "things" get used instead of a much more reasonable sea of sheeted opens and a few vans. There's just so many wonderful shapes, sizes and liveries of open merchandise wagon, using a lot of them does not have to mean a goods yard looks boring. I tend to agree regarding modern typefaces and, yes, we have to be careful because some people can be very sensitive to the slightest criticism over it. There was an incident on an industrial railway modelling group, on Facebook recently, where someone posted a photo of a 1930s industrial tank engine with what were obviously modern British Rail diesel nameplates. It looked so wrong to me but I refrained from mentioning it and when someone did point it out, and criticise the poster's choice of typeface, all hell broke loose. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin S-C Posted December 2, 2019 Author Share Posted December 2, 2019 Yes, the most incredible flare-ups can result from the most well-meaning of (what you think are) helpful comments. People are oddly sensitive about things, or completely miss what is meant to be supportive advice. One modeller on Facebook I know (knew, he's since blocked me) just could not take criticism of any kind, even directed at the biggest howlers he made of his weathering projects. After a keyboard bashing too many I sometimes wonder if its worth even trying to guide anyone with their modelling. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted December 2, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 2, 2019 (edited) 9 minutes ago, Martin S-C said: Yes, the most incredible flare-ups can result from the most well-meaning of (what you think are) helpful comments. People are oddly sensitive about things, or completely miss what is meant to be supportive advice. One modeller on Facebook I know (knew, he's since blocked me) just could not take criticism of any kind, even directed at the biggest howlers he made of his weathering projects. After a keyboard bashing too many I sometimes wonder if its worth even trying to guide anyone with their modelling. I'm frightened of posting anything now Edited December 2, 2019 by chuffinghell 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin S-C Posted December 2, 2019 Author Share Posted December 2, 2019 RMWeb's pre-grouping section is pretty safe There are some extremely odd people on Facebook though! 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted December 2, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 2, 2019 3 hours ago, Martin S-C said: One modeller on Facebook I know. 2 hours ago, Martin S-C said: There are some extremely odd people on Facebook though! Did you mean to make both of those comments, he said, cheekily... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted December 2, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 2, 2019 On 01/12/2019 at 13:05, Caley Jim said: I have a friend who was the Medical Director of two of the big hospitals in Melbourne. Several of the consultants were also Glasgow graduates and of they were all having a coffee together in the morning none of the Aussies could understand a word they were saying! I have heard other Scots say that about Glaswegians, though! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted December 2, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 2, 2019 I don’t use Facebook or any of the other social media platforms......I’m too antisocial for any of that nonsense 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin S-C Posted December 3, 2019 Author Share Posted December 3, 2019 I only use FB and then only about 10 or so groups. A couple of them like the 19th century railways group, and the UK wagons group are both extremely useful and packed full of both inspiring images and very helpful discussion. There are some extremely knowledgable people in both groups, including some authors. Most of the others I frequent I use only for grabbing inspirational models images and to be honest I don't participate at all in some. The two groups I named above make it worth having an FB account for though. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted December 3, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 3, 2019 22 minutes ago, Martin S-C said: I only use FB and then only about 10 or so groups. A couple of them like the 19th century railways group, and the UK wagons group are both extremely useful and packed full of both inspiring images and very helpful discussion. There are some extremely knowledgable people in both groups, including some authors. Most of the others I frequent I use only for grabbing inspirational models images and to be honest I don't participate at all in some. The two groups I named above make it worth having an FB account for though. I deleted my faceache account four years ago. I was fed up of ‘friends’ posting pictures of what they were having for dinner 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagonman Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 On 02/12/2019 at 18:12, Regularity said: I have heard other Scots say that about Glaswegians, though! When I was at college (in London) there was one of our cohort who was from Glasgow. For the first year or so we could hardly understand a word he said – but it was worth persevering as he turned out to be a really nice bloke! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin S-C Posted December 6, 2019 Author Share Posted December 6, 2019 On 03/12/2019 at 19:14, chuffinghell said: I deleted my faceache account four years ago. I was fed up of ‘friends’ posting pictures of what they were having for dinner I am fed up with people posting Brexit related political stuff. Just unfollow them. I mostly read discussion groups anyway. Bottom line - there is a good deal of useful railway-related information on FB. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 On 22/11/2019 at 10:46, Martin S-C said: This might appeal to a few here. Mersey Railway 2-6-2 condensing tank No.13 “Brunlees”. On 22/11/2019 at 15:23, James Harrison said: Did somebody take a Met tank and plonk it on a new chassis? Its a Beyer Peacock design, so similarities are unavoidable! A much prettier engine than the thug-like 0-6-4 Cecil Raikes, also a BP production... (Source https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/mol/collections/transport/item-269092.aspx ) 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Martin S-C Posted December 14, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 14, 2019 An update is long overdue. One very kind member here who's been in touch knows more detail of my low moods right now which I just can't shake off. That person has been a huge help - just talking about it makes a difference. I am just not sure what's causing my moods to roller coaster like this though there is an external pressure that's a bit of a bother right now. One item of good news is that I bought a box of silica gel crystal containers and have placed several of these around the railway room and I've got the heater running on a 24/7 trickle heat of 16 degrees C and that combination has stopped all the annoying baseboard shape changes. Its a very comfortable temperature in there now, pleasant to work in and one of the critical areas was the alignment of tracks on the access flap which have been all over the place during this cold wet weather but since the moisture fix the lifting hatch has been behaving itself faultlessly which is very encouraging. There has been progress with the ply fascia around the larger of the two operating wells which is now all in place and just needing a paint job. In the images below you can see its quite tall in one area as that will protect the higher ground level of the quarry scene. The Green Soudley control panel has been installed and all points wired up and working and the final - biggest - panel at Nether Madder is the last of these to be tackled. A photo below shows the guts of it with three DCC Concepts switch control panels before the mimic diagram plate goes on. The access cut-outs on the left will have their rounded edges smoothed off. This looks like it could also be a handy storage area for miniatures of spirits. After the NM panel is finished there is just the fascia around that smaller operating well to do and then its time for some serious track testing before we ballast and tackle the scenery. There's lots of Celotex to saw and sand down and since that's really an out of doors job that will probably have to be put on hold until the spring. In the meantime I can continue work on the other engineering features such as bridges, tunnel mouths and such. 14 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted December 14, 2019 Share Posted December 14, 2019 Good to see you resurface Martin, K 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedGemAlchemist Posted December 14, 2019 Share Posted December 14, 2019 Looking good Martin. Sorry to hear you've been feeling down, man. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Annie Posted December 14, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 14, 2019 No fun getting visits from the black dog. You certainly have my sympathy Martin. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin S-C Posted December 14, 2019 Author Share Posted December 14, 2019 I just wish I knew what the blasted problem was. Some days I go into the railway room, switch on the lights and power, stare at it all, switch it all off and come out again. I Just have no motivation at the moment. Frustrating as much as anything as I want the project to progress... I just can't make that progress happen. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schooner Posted December 14, 2019 Share Posted December 14, 2019 Lovely update, thank you. The railway, and your approach to making it a reality, remain inspirational All the best, Schooner 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted December 14, 2019 Share Posted December 14, 2019 1 minute ago, Martin S-C said: I just wish I knew what the blasted problem was. Some days I go into the railway room, switch on the lights and power, stare at it all, switch it all off and come out again. I Just have no motivation at the moment. Frustrating as much as anything as I want the project to progress... I just can't make that progress happen. You just have to accept it is what it is sometimes, you can make yourself worse over analysing the why because there generally isn't a why just a feeling of emptiness. It happens to me with work sometimes and I see all the words in the emails, I look the databases and the procedures and it's just words and I cannot make out a meaning from it all. Then when the black dog isn't about I can literally see code in my head in 3D and how it interacts with other elements of the databases. The motivation will return, I was looking last week at my N gauge stuff thinking it was time to sell it or at the very least reduce the volume. I certainly wasn't expecting to get a warm feeling from it all and decide that I need an N gauge railway again. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Annie Posted December 15, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 15, 2019 Sometimes if you can make a start on just one small thing and only focus on that it can help with getting back to feeling motivated again Martin. That's what I do when I'm stuck with feeling that everything is a waste of time and I've done everything wrong and that I should delete everything and give up. 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin S-C Posted December 15, 2019 Author Share Posted December 15, 2019 I agree Annie. Its the making a start bit that's the hurdle. When Neil is here beavering away on electrics or whatever I am absolutely fine tinkering away elsewhere on some scenic project or some "decorative" finish to a control panel or things like that. Or testing track and locos. Perhaps its because I am working alone most of the time. With someone else present, even if they are not working but are just there to natter to and bounce ideas off, I am much more positive and can get quite a lot done. Anyone know any psychoanalysts who are also into model railways in the Peterborough area? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted December 15, 2019 Share Posted December 15, 2019 It’s not partly the simple fact that you are a natural team-worker, is it? What was/is your natural style/place in paying work - team, or lone-wolf? I ask because I can get next to nothing done if in a group, to contribute to a team effort, I have to take a piece of work, seclude myself, do it, and then bring it back. So, I’m wondering if you might be the opposite, as many people are. 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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