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On 14/02/2024 at 19:54, ian said:

DAF Variomatic transmission

*Shudders* They used to sound as though they were going to blow up as they pulled away from a standing start. Not seen one in years until a few years ago when someone locally restored the Volvo version for reasons that even the owner could not explain!

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13 hours ago, Woody C said:

Has Blitz the less than successful police dog from earlier episodes now got a new home????

Watch it. Any more of that sort of talk and you may be hearing from his solicitor.

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Anyway I think your eye test is overdue:

 

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Fleck, the scrap yard dog on the left with Blitz on the right.

 

 

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6 hours ago, ian said:

Anyway I think your eye test is overdue:

As you can imagine, someone like myself is well used to the threat of solicitors and my own solicitors, Judicious Jesters, will be ready and waiting to be un-collared and to get their teeth into the bone of any canine litigation matters that may arise although I do admit that perhaps I should have gone to a quality opticians rather than my usual branch of Blink Blasters!

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Yet more bits added to the scrapyard. The walls have started to go up and there are gates at the entrance. The staff now have the benefit of a toilet and Fleck has gained a water bowl. Two lighting masts have also been added.

 


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Along the viaduct a market is starting to spring up.

 


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And a great find on eBay. I wanted this model for the post office in Maifeld but have only seen poorly built examples with missing parts until now. The existing part-built Pola example will be displaced and I suspect some revisions to the town centre will be needed to properly accomodate it.

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9 hours ago, ian said:

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Yet more bits added to the scrapyard. The walls have started to go up and there are gates at the entrance. The staff now have the benefit of a toilet and Fleck has gained a water bowl. Two lighting masts have also been added.

 


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Along the viaduct a market is starting to spring up.

 


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And a great find on eBay. I wanted this model for the post office in Maifeld but have only seen poorly built examples with missing parts until now. The existing part-built Pola example will be displaced and I suspect some revisions to the town centre will be needed to properly accomodate it.

Is the Postbus included?

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11 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

Is the Postbus included?

No. The box-top/catalogue illustrations were rather like the 'serving suggestion's that you see on packets of food - lots of extras to make it look appealing. Fortunately I do have two post buses to hand, albeit different to the one illustrated.

 

Mind you, the bus stop and van loading bay are major points in the kit's favour...

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22 hours ago, ian said:

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And a great find on eBay. I wanted this model for the post office in Maifeld but have only seen poorly built examples with missing parts until now. The existing part-built Pola example will be displaced and I suspect some revisions to the town centre will be needed to properly accomodate it.

Many of your posts bring back happy memories of the model railway my brother and I had made in the sixties/seventies. I remember having made up this post office from the Faller kit and it can be seen (if you know where to look)  at the right of this picture with a tree at the side wall:

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Here is another picture of the city on our railway: 

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Regards

Fred

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20 minutes ago, sncf231e said:

Many of your posts bring back happy memories of the model railway my brother and I had made in the sixties/seventies. I remember having made up this post office from the Faller kit and it can be seen (if you know where to look)  at the right of this picture with a tree at the side wall:

That looks like lots of fun.  Hmm, I wonder if I could get a tram in at Maifeld.

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2 hours ago, ian said:

That looks like lots of fun.  Hmm, I wonder if I could get a tram in at Maifeld.

 

Yes, I'm sure you can. 

 

Whether any of the rest of us could might be a different question.  Here's one way it's been done - the "aisle filler" technique:

 

 

The commentary is in German, but English subtitles are available on most of the videos (sorry - not this one apparently).

 

Keith.

 

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1 hour ago, Keith Addenbrooke said:

Yes, I'm sure you can. 

You're a very naughty boy.

 

Fortunately suitable models at acceptable prices are thin on the ground today.

 

Mind you, I like the extended Vollmer car park.

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The tide is in! The water level has risen by 87cm.

The previous lower water level meant that the link span was at a crazy angle (even for the Ercallbahn) and the severe change of gradient at either end led to a number of unplanned uncouplings.

 


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Whilst the link span is now more or less level the track still drops to accomodate the change from the metal M track on the quay to thr plastic K track on the link span and ferry.

 


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A gratuitous shot from the seaward end with all the bits in place. I need to find the rest of the ferry's fittings that have come off over the harbour's gestation period.

 


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The scrapyard is now fully fenced, although it still needs a gate for the siding.

 


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And there has been a test fit to establish the pattern for the retaining wall behind the container crane.

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On 23/02/2024 at 14:09, Keith Addenbrooke said:
On 23/02/2024 at 11:52, ian said:

That looks like lots of fun.  Hmm, I wonder if I could get a tram in at Maifeld.

 

Yes, I'm sure you can. 

 

I think I have found a suitable prototype....

 

https://www.scherpinbeeld.nl/foto/267/groenlose-tram/4193/groenlosetram9

 

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