RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted January 11, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 11, 2022 15 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: 666 It ought to have been. Fortunately it is a 4 figure number. Jamie 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted January 11, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 11, 2022 My RAF number ended with 005. I should have been 007 but the two guys in front of me were called out of the line for some reason. Dave 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 11, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 11, 2022 I've been following the Hornby 2022 release threads. Never seen so much froth especially in the 'Trains on film' thread. 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted January 11, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 11, 2022 I don't read the new product release threads, they just seem to be full of people willy-waving over how many errors they can find (most of whom are probably just claiming others' observations as their own). Personally I've just stopped following a couple of threads I've posted in before, including eBay Madness. That seems to be the home for one or two individuals who apparently spend most of their day (every day) trawling eBay, pointing and laughing at overpriced/junk/hopelessly described/badly-repainted items, none of which they have the slightest intention of bidding on, but copying the links to the thread. Wow, life must be dull where they live. On at least one occasion they actually mocked an item made by an RMWebber and described on their own thread elsewhere. There was some serious back-pedalling that day. 8 3 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted January 11, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11, 2022 Titfield. I think that particular thread is a field, and it's full of them! 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florence Locomotive Works Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 6 hours ago, jamie92208 said: There was an Alan Gibson kit gor a 4F in 7mm. The less said about it the better. I've had to buy a tender kit from Ragstone to make it anything like and am attempting to fit working inside valve gear, it has gone back on tbe shelf of shame for the time being. It will carry my old police collar number. Jamie At some point in the next 4 years or before Gibson shuts down I intend to buy a 4mm GWR 1076 Buffalo kit from him to run on my still fantasy Edwardian south wales GWR branch layout to be made after college. Are the 4mm kits somewhat better than the 7mm? 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 3 hours ago, Dave Hunt said: My RAF number ended with 005. I should have been 007 but the two guys in front of me were called out of the line for some reason. Dave Probably got jobs as bar stewards instead. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 1 hour ago, Florence Locomotive Works said: At some point in the next 4 years or before Gibson shuts down I intend to buy a 4mm GWR 1076 Buffalo kit from him to run on my still fantasy Edwardian south wales GWR branch layout to be made after college. Are the 4mm kits somewhat better than the 7mm? For a similar outlay you could invest in a some decent CAD software (IMHO the free stuff is crepe), design your own 3-D model and have it printed or even print it yourself on an inexpensive resin printer. Once you've mastered CAD there is no limit to the stuff you can produce in any medium. (I avoided CAD for years but I was forced to learn it when the US Patent Office rejected my lousy drawings ) 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 It's official. We are now underground! The extremely spendy people who are having a "guest cottage" built just behind us shelled out mucho clams to have the electric utility company bury the overhead power lines that run along our property line. The HT power lines and the phone/cable lines are a real eyesore and they were blocking their view of the lake. The gent very much likes boats. Maybe he's interested in railways too ? 12 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florence Locomotive Works Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 2 hours ago, AndyID said: For a similar outlay you could invest in a some decent CAD software (IMHO the free stuff is crepe), design your own 3-D model and have it printed or even print it yourself on an inexpensive resin printer. Once you've mastered CAD there is no limit to the stuff you can produce in any medium. (I avoided CAD for years but I was forced to learn it when the US Patent Office rejected my lousy drawings ) Indeed thats something I’ve been kicking myself to do for a while now. Would you say TurboCAD would be a good one? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 9 minutes ago, Florence Locomotive Works said: Indeed thats something I’ve been kicking myself to do for a while now. Would you say TurboCAD would be a good one? I've been using TurboCAD for 25+ years and it has always worked for me. The fact that it has been around for a longish time is important. Learning a new paradigm is not easy. Free CAD software always seem to be hook to get you to pay for the unfree version. TurboCAD is by no means perfect and upgrades are not free and they do seem to be getting more expensive. You pays your money...... 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florence Locomotive Works Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 9 minutes ago, AndyID said: I've been using TurboCAD for 25+ years and it has always worked for me. The fact that it has been around for a longish time is important. Learning a new paradigm is not easy. Free CAD software always seem to be hook to get you to pay for the unfree version. TurboCAD is by no means perfect and upgrades are not free and they do seem to be getting more expensive. You pays your money...... I see. I’ve been using TinkerCad since for 8 years now and it certainly has its limits, so I think any upgrade in software would be a good one. People make some amazing things in TinkerCad though. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 2 minutes ago, Florence Locomotive Works said: I see. I’ve been using TinkerCad since for 8 years now and it certainly has its limits, so I think any upgrade in software would be a good one. People make some amazing things in TinkerCad though. If it works for you, go for it. I like TURBOcad because it allows me to convert precise 2D drawings in any plane into 3D objects. 1 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florence Locomotive Works Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 30 minutes ago, AndyID said: If it works for you, go for it. I like TURBOcad because it allows me to convert precise 2D drawings in any plane into 3D objects. Now that would be a very helpful feature. Do you upload a scan of the drawing and then it’s converts it? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 11 minutes ago, Florence Locomotive Works said: Now that would be a very helpful feature. Do you upload a scan of the drawing and then it’s converts it? Alas, no. But what you could do is import the scan and convert various features into polylines that you could extrude into 3D objects. For example you could describe a cab outline as a 2D polyline then make it three dimensional by extruding it. 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 11 hours ago, jamie92208 said: It ought to have been. Fortunately it is a 4 figure number. Jamie It's not clear George Dixon had any number 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 1 hour ago, AndyID said: It's not clear George Dixon had any number Hard to make out, but stills seem to show him wearing the fictional Division reference O followed by an ID number of 706 or 709 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted January 12, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 12, 2022 7 hours ago, Florence Locomotive Works said: At some point in the next 4 years or before Gibson shuts down I intend to buy a 4mm GWR 1076 Buffalo kit from him to run on my still fantasy Edwardian south wales GWR branch layout to be made after college. Are the 4mm kits somewhat better than the 7mm? Alan himself sold the business some years ago and the current owner has never marketed the 7mm kits. I have no experiencevof the 4mm ones. Thev7mm ones looked good but had problems. However there were kits for rototypes that I needed and the bodies looked fine. I suspect they used the 4mm artwork blown up to 7mm which is a process that doesn't always go well. I've still got a 2P to build. 5 hours ago, AndyID said: It's official. We are now underground! The extremely spendy people who are having a "guest cottage" built just behind us shelled out mucho clams to have the electric utility company bury the overhead power lines that run along our property line. The HT power lines and the phone/cable lines are a real eyesore and they were blocking their view of the lake. The gent very much likes boats. Maybe he's interested in railways too ? I've heard of underground trains but not many underground boats though there have been a few. Is he going to tunnel to the lake 1 hour ago, AndyID said: It's not clear George Dixon had any number The Met always had a strange waybof numbering, probably to confuse the public. They had their warrant number 6 figures, not displayed but used for official documents, but they also seem to have shorter divisional numbers displayed on their tunics, a letter then a number.we just had a 4 figure number that would be reissued when we retired. There is somevpoor s0d walking round with mine. Jamie Jamie 3 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbishop Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 3 hours ago, jamie92208 said: Alan himself sold the business some years ago and the current owner has never marketed the 7mm kits. I have no experiencevof the 4mm ones. Thev7mm ones looked good but had problems. However there were kits for rototypes that I needed and the bodies looked fine. I suspect they used the 4mm artwork blown up to 7mm which is a process that doesn't always go well. I've still got a 2P to build. I've heard of underground trains but not many underground boats though there have been a few. Is he going to tunnel to the lake The Met always had a strange waybof numbering, probably to confuse the public. They had their warrant number 6 figures, not displayed but used for official documents, but they also seem to have shorter divisional numbers displayed on their tunics, a letter then a number.we just had a 4 figure number that would be reissued when we retired. There is somevpoor s0d walking round with mine. Jamie Jamie 1. The Gibson 7mm O2 makes a decent little kit. 2. Might be a sodette? Bill 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted January 12, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 12, 2022 (edited) 10 minutes ago, bbishop said: 1. The Gibson 7mm O2 makes a decent little kit. 2. Might be a sodette? Bill 1. The main problem was his method of fixing the front bogies on the 4-4-0's. A 3mm hole with no sideplay just doesn't work. Other dimensions were out, usually by 5mm. Tender too low, boiler not of the right diameter and the fixing plate for the front bogie. That last one made 996 sit up at 10 degrees. All correctable but not good design. However the basic body is good. 2. No It was definitely male and worked at Killingbeck. He may have retired by now and the station has been demolished. I suppose it could have been reissued again. Beth's collar number was reissued and I got the doubtful pleasure of being tutor constable to the new wearer. She didn't like walking. I didn't care about that and she had to keep up. Funnily enough Beth and I were once driving down the A1 and passed a low loader carrying a Great Western Tank engine, not a pannier thank goodness, heading towards the NYMR and it had her old number on it. i did once suggest, from a distance, that she should have a framed photo of the loco on the wall. There was probably a Black 5 with the same number in LMS days but I would need to do some research. Jamie Edited January 12, 2022 by jamie92208 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted January 12, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 12, 2022 10 hours ago, Florence Locomotive Works said: At some point in the next 4 years or before Gibson shuts down I intend to buy a 4mm GWR 1076 Buffalo kit You cannot underestimate the probability of that kit being produced. The current proprietor has his work cut out keeping up with demand for wheels and other components that he is currently manufacturing or does have in stock, I gather that the locomotive kits are not high in his priorities as the amount of time it would divert from the bread and butter would not yield any jam. It seems to me that he's in the cleft stick of the successful cottage industrialist: he struggles to keep up with demand but can't afford to expand, to take on and train employees. 2 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 12, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 12, 2022 I found this on the internet. 1 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simontaylor484 Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 I have tried to use Autocad in the past at Uni. Could i get it to do anything could I heckers like. I resorted to pen and A0 tracing paper on a drawing board. I would love to do a little course on Autocad or something similar at some point. Also I would love to be able to 3D print things now the printers have become more affordable but i struggle to get a normal printer to do what I want. 1 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted January 12, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 12, 2022 1 hour ago, PhilJ W said: I found this on the internet. He looks like my late father.. In a good mood! 9 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted January 12, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 12, 2022 (edited) I am another TurboCad user. It is brilliant for doing 3 layer drawings for etched sheets. I am currently trying to get to grips with Fusion 360... Without much success. I never could get on with Autocad in 2D, so Fusion is not likely to improve my like of the marque. Solidworks is excellent, but I won't be taking out the mortgage required to perchase a copy. Edited January 12, 2022 by Happy Hippo 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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