RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted September 5, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 5, 2020 The sun is out the skies are blue. Do I pick today to replace the roof of the store shed? The only stores I may be short of is bitumastic paint, which I use instead of roofing nails, preferring a no holes approach to applying roofing felt. 4 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewC Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 Howdy all. Just popped in to say hello. So this is where all the cool kids have vanished to. err, hello. 2 1 4 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted September 5, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 5, 2020 7 minutes ago, AndrewC said: Howdy all. Just popped in to say hello. So this is where all the cool kids have vanished to. err, hello. It may be the night Mail. But it's not that dark... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted September 5, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 5, 2020 27 minutes ago, AndrewC said: Howdy all. Just popped in to say hello. So this is where all the cool kids have vanished to. err, hello. Where have you been? We've been waiting for you to climb aboard. If you've not already guessed, model railways are allowed here. 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted September 5, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 5, 2020 On a completely different tack to heralding the latest arrival, here is another on line magazine I've stumbled across. https://oscaleresource.com/WP/ Yes, it's all to do with the western side of the pond, but variety of the spice of life. Of course there is also some excellent modelling articles to read. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted September 5, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 5, 2020 30 minutes ago, TheQ said: It may be the night Mail. But it's not that dark... But occasionally suitably satanic - black humour rules! 3 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted September 5, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 5, 2020 12 minutes ago, Oldddudders said: But occasionally suitably satanic - black humour rules! This is the goods shed at Hell station in Norway. And it does freeze over every winter! 1 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold tomparryharry Posted September 5, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 5, 2020 5 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: This is the goods shed at Hell station in Norway. And it does freeze over every winter! On first seeing the photo, I thought "Bl**dy hell, that's a big hip bath". Is that's Gods waiting room on the right? Finally, does Hell station have a twinned town? Pearly gates, Perchance? Have a great weekend, folks. 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted September 5, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 5, 2020 1 hour ago, tomparryharry said: On first seeing the photo, I thought "Bl**dy hell, that's a big hip bath". Is that's Gods waiting room on the right? Finally, does Hell station have a twinned town? Pearly gates, Perchance? Have a great weekend, folks. There is a hamlet called Le Paradis close to us. It was on the same rural light railway as our village. I belueve that the waiting shelter still stands. I'll try and get a photo. It closed in the early 50's. Jamie 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewC Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 Wow, no insta-ban. I must be slipping in my old age. Looking back at the phobias early in this thread, as a child I was mortally afraid of heights. Even a footbridge was nerve wracking. This was "cured" when I was 18 and a summer job doing an insulating apprenticeship on an oil sands plant in Northern Alberta. Third day in and I was dangling off the side of a 20m high storage tank with a pair of tin snips removing the outer lining of the tank. After that no problems at all. It did lead me to decide that blue collar work wasn't for me. 10 years ago I was consulting for Crossrail in Canary Wharf. They gave me the desk of doom. It was a corner with floor to ceiling windows to my left and behind on the 29th floor of the Citibank building. No problems, loved the view. 2 years ago I went to the top of Atomium in Brussels. It is well enclosed with only tiny windows. No problem looking out but something in me just went click. Knowing that there was nothing below me as I walked to the edge of the "ball" all the old nervousness came back in one wave. I'm also majorly claustrophobic. I call it Winnie the Pooh syndrome. Afraid of getting stuck in a tunnel or cave. If I ever get my mojo back I'll post some modelling, err muddling pics. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted September 5, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 5, 2020 I was once on a detachment to Rygge in Norway in lateish autumn and waiting for a decision concerning our flying programme when someone commented that if we were lucky it would be before hell froze over. One of the Norwegians then said in that case we had about a month to wait as by then Hell would, in fact, be frozen. It was on the same detachment that we discovered that two bottles of whisky, which cost not a lot in the NAAFI in Germany, would get six of us entry to a first class Oslo nightclub. Dave 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold tomparryharry Posted September 5, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 5, 2020 3 hours ago, Happy Hippo said: The sun is out the skies are blue. Do I pick today to replace the roof of the store shed? The only stores I may be short of is bitumastic paint, which I use instead of roofing nails, preferring a no holes approach to applying roofing felt. I have done this in the past, using the bitumastic paint. In this instance, it was a planked roof. I stripped off the old felt, and painted the roof with said bitumastic. Next, I securely tacked a heavy sotton dustsheet over the roof. Following that, I used the paint, let down with thinners by about 25%, enough to allow the paint to be used by a roller. This will soak in to a degree, and it will look patchy, and, it will leak. A second coat of bitumastic, and it starts to look the business. The third coat, and its pretty good, and waterproof. I re-coat my old shed every 2 years, just to retain its weatherproof-ness. Felt is OK, but it lacks a bit in flexibility, which the cotton can out-perform. I only use nails on the outer edges, with battens to secure the edge. That way I can run a fillet of ether the paint, or mastic, to finish up the seal. From my project, I can see the roof of my garage. It's telling me "I'm next", so I have my job for 2021. I haven't finished this one yet..... On a lighter footnote, a neighbour in Carisbrooke scoffed "Oh, that cotton sheet will never work!" 2 years later... What was that paint you used?" 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted September 5, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 5, 2020 3 hours ago, jamie92208 said: There is a hamlet called Le Paradis close to us. It was on the same rural light railway as our village. I belueve that the waiting shelter still stands. I'll try and get a photo. It closed in the early 50's. Jamie If they don't want it, offer to remove it for them. It would make a nice garden shelter and confuse the archaeologists in the future who will wonder which part of the railway ran through your grounds! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted September 5, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 5, 2020 (edited) Just out of interest here's a map showing the route of the line from St Jean d'Angeley aka The Danglies, to St Saviol which is on the Paris Bordeaux main line. The line was slated for closure in 1940 but other events prolonged it's life and it finally closed about 1952. They ran the line with some pannier tanks built by the Cail company. One of these days I might have a go at modelling one. It will not have a copper capped chimney. We live at Saleignes. The station is 1 km from the village and Romaziers is another 2kms. Several bits of the trackbed are walk/cyclable. Limalonges is the site of the battle of Potiers in 1356. Yet another place where English Archers gave the French a drubbing. Jamie Edited September 5, 2020 by jamie92208 3 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted September 5, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 5, 2020 This. Le Paradis? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Paradis_massacre Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted September 5, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 5, 2020 No, that's up in the NW corner of France, near the Belgian border. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 (edited) Quote St Jean d'Angeley aka The Danglies I read that as Anglesey Edited September 5, 2020 by Steamport Southport Spellchuck changing Angle to Angel... 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted September 5, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 5, 2020 The demolition team arrive at South Greenfield and recover the first of the turnouts. Two usable ones so far which is a good start. 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted September 5, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 5, 2020 Now you can do something with them. The boards??? Urrhhh... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philou Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 Hello fellow Night Mailers, Another hot day today. All this talk of rail modelling is giving me urges to get on with it - so this afternoon after doing my morning stint on the scaffold was sorting out a flooring plan for my timber in the barn (that's what I'm re-pointing at the mo') - there is a lot! What has made my day was that I sent a cheque to Scottyland on Thursday midday from here in the middle of nowhere, for a bit of unwanted stock and I've just had a message to say that the cheque arrived about 4 hours ago, north of Aberdeen! Whatever people say regarding Royal Mail/La Poste, I've never had any issues - so hats off all round. How much dark humour is allowed - I do have two that are religious, but they were told to me in a church. I thought they were quite funny, but I shouldn't want to offend anyone - well not accidentally anyway . Have a good evening everyone, Philip 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted September 5, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 5, 2020 35 minutes ago, Northroader said: Now you can do something with them. The boards??? Urrhhh... I have cleared eight of the boards back to bare wood. I have to make a decision on how they are disposed of. I can try and reuse then for 7 mm. I can reuse them as boards for the new waist height 7/8ths line behind the garage, and use the residual for a shunting plank I have planned, or I could offer them to other members of our little modelling group. Combinations of the above are also possible. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold tomparryharry Posted September 5, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 5, 2020 What sort of dimensions are these boards, please? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted September 5, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 5, 2020 (edited) 26 minutes ago, tomparryharry said: What sort of dimensions are these boards, please? 5' x 2.5'. (each) I have 2 with 4 legs and 8 with two legs on the piggyback system. There are also 2 frames for the fiddle yard, but without tops as they housed the traverser. Edited September 5, 2020 by Happy Hippo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted September 5, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 5, 2020 On 04/09/2020 at 10:45, Dave Hunt said: The use of the handwritten letter can have its drawbacks. Many years ago - in pre-computer days - there were some extracts from RAF officers' confidential reports published (without naming the recipients, of course), one of which read, "This officer has a pronounced Tyneside accent and his handwriting is illegible; we have no effective means of communication." Dave That can't be right, I was in the Merch not the RAF.....howay man, gerrit reet. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted September 5, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 5, 2020 For those that might think I work at superhuman speeds, (only when on the hunt for, or the eating of, cake), I did not carry out any store shed re roofing today. Having got everything laid out on the drive, the weather looked a bit unfriendly, although only promised a 5% chance of precipitation, you could feel the moisture in the air, so my talents were diverted elsewhere. It happened three times today, so my work elsewhere felt justified. I can guarantee that had I taken the roof off the shed, the skies would have found the perfect excuse to open up and deliver silver stair rods. Tomorrow I've decided to continue the wanton destruction. 3 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said: That can't be right, I was in the Merch not the RAF.....howay man, gerrit reet. I say Dave, a posh stoker. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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