RMweb Gold Graham T Posted September 28, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 28, 2021 Now I feel the need to scrub my eyeballs... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted September 28, 2021 Author Share Posted September 28, 2021 South of Derby the accent and dialect of the natives changes about every four miles. I was used to: "Gi us the 'ommer mi duck." I had to buy that Thor, which was painful after years of being able to liberate them from work. I must have been to half a dozen places before I got one. Most disturbing was the local car spares / tools / bicycles etc chain stores. They had some strange rubber mallets, no engineer's hammers, no panel beaters hammers no copper or hide mallets, but they did have two sizes of claw hammer. Anybody using a claw hammer on a motor vehicle shouldn't be trusted with crayons even. I remember that as a junior school kid in the late 70s, a claw hammer was referred to as a "Sutcliffe". Children are just nasty! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted September 28, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 28, 2021 I used to have a massive, heavy, scary sledge hammer I called Silvia. ……The fact that my ex-mother in law was also named Silvia was purely coincidental 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted September 28, 2021 Author Share Posted September 28, 2021 More disturbingly perhaps is the knowledge that Miss R has a WWII boot knife that she calls Stabitha because someone mockingly asked if we had names for our vehicles and other junk. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted September 28, 2021 Author Share Posted September 28, 2021 One of my friends described his mother in law as being "Like an axe wearing a wig"... 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted September 28, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 28, 2021 (edited) Apropos of nothing, at work we have a comms room with five racks of computer servers, and across from the front of the racks is a workbench. Some years ago, we had a spate of unexplainable failures of a number of servers, not all the same type, nor in one particular rack, and always silly things like the video feed or a network port suddenly not working. Unlike most desktop computers, these things are all built in to the motherboard,so if it dies, the whole thing is trashed. Anyway, one of my colleagues removed on of these servers from the rack to try and work on it, and after becoming more and more frustrated, he hammered a very large flat-bladed screwdriver straight through the motherboard of the culprit. Since that time, we have had no more unexplained failures in any server in the racks, and the victim has been left in a prominent position on the workbench (with the screwdriver still embedded) as a salutary lesson for any others who might feel the need to stray... I thought I had a photo of it, which I'm sure would qualify as modern art, darling... but I can't find it. Al. Edited September 28, 2021 by Alister_G 1 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted September 28, 2021 Author Share Posted September 28, 2021 That's rather like severed heads on spikes over the castle gates or the body of a highwayman hung from a gibbet at a crossroads as a warning to others. There's often something quite satisfying about smashing the #### out of an annoying piece of tech. I bet if I had a sweep up under the workshop bench I will find bits of mobile phone.,.. 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted September 28, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 28, 2021 20 minutes ago, MrWolf said: There's often something quite satisfying about smashing the #### out of an annoying piece of tech. Amen! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted September 28, 2021 Author Share Posted September 28, 2021 Enough talk of severed heads, mothers in law and non serviceable components rage... Time to try and make my fields look less like a cross between a snooker table and Action Man's head. Or as an excercise in avoidance behaviour, clear the dreck mountain from board one and sort out the hard surfaces. That sounds more appealing. 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted September 28, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 28, 2021 17 minutes ago, MrWolf said: Time to try and make my fields look less like a cross between a snooker table and Action Man's head the first layer always looks like a snooker table, once you’ve added different lengths and colours you’ll be surprised just how good it looks 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted September 28, 2021 Author Share Posted September 28, 2021 (edited) Thanks, that does actually sound encouraging! I've had to go out on a fairly lengthy trip today and whilst at it I have stopped and had a better look at lowland fields that are grazed by sheep. They tend to eat around the coarser grasses and weeds, leaving small random tufts 6"-12" across. I have an idea for recreating these in the next layer of static grass. Meanwhile, I have finalised the position of the goods shed and the cattle dock. You might expect the cattle dock to be as close to the road as possible, but as at Broome, just down the road on the L&NWR, I am making use of the land opposite the station, placing the dock as far back as possible so that temporary pens can be assembled to handle hundreds rather than dozens of sheep. The as yet unfinished cattle dock is a much butchered Ratio item. It has been turned around and the walls entirely remade in brick. Edited August 19, 2022 by MrWolf Replaced picture 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted September 28, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 28, 2021 And I assume that must be the little-known VSTOL variant of the Stuka? 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted September 28, 2021 Author Share Posted September 28, 2021 29 minutes ago, Graham T said: And I assume that must be the little-known VSTOL variant of the Stuka? It's a version only discovered in barns and on the edge of woodlands at the end of hostilities. It's the Unvorsichtig Geparkt, or carelessly parked Stuka. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Gough Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 50 minutes ago, Graham T said: And I assume that must be the little-known VSTOL variant of the Stuka? A Fieseler Storch? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted September 28, 2021 Author Share Posted September 28, 2021 (edited) On 28/09/2021 at 22:20, Nick Gough said: A Fieseler Storch? Careful what you wish for Nick! Edited August 19, 2022 by MrWolf Replaced picture 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted September 28, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 28, 2021 I much preferred the Lysander. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted September 28, 2021 Author Share Posted September 28, 2021 11 minutes ago, Graham T said: I much preferred the Lysander. I did have one of those about a thousand years ago. I've got an Avro Anson in the queue once the railway has got to a basically assembled stage. Which is why the stork doesn't have its camouflage or markings yet! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted September 28, 2021 Author Share Posted September 28, 2021 (edited) A little more progress, I've got a fair bit of trimming to do in order to make these cobbled sheets fit. They will be virtually buried in grot when finished and a substantial fence down each side of prototypical appearance. The grounded van is a hay store and the shed is for disinfectant and the checkers clipboard! Edited August 19, 2022 by MrWolf Replaced picture 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted September 28, 2021 Author Share Posted September 28, 2021 Naturally, I am one sheet of cobblestone short of the road.....  7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted September 29, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 29, 2021 8 hours ago, MrWolf said: Naturally, I am one sheet of cobblestone short of the road.....  I've had the same said about me 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted September 29, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 29, 2021 10 hours ago, MrWolf said: Naturally, I am one sheet of cobblestone short of the road.....  Not at home atm, but have a spare one I can send at the weekend. 4 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted September 29, 2021 Author Share Posted September 29, 2021 11 hours ago, Stubby47 said: Not at home atm, but have a spare one I can send at the weekend. Thank you for your kind offer, that's very generous. Unfortunately I posted that I had run out of cobblestone just after I had clicked 'buy it now' on eBay. So I will have a few spare if anyone needs any. It's been a very tiring day of sorting out a van full of parts. It would appear that I am now the proud owner of one and a half Norton Dominators and a pile of yet to be identified spares. 8 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted October 1, 2021 Author Share Posted October 1, 2021 It's good to be back and thank you to the folks at RMWeb for their efforts rebooting, rebooting again and resisting the temptation to follow my posts and smash the #### out of annoying pieces of tech. Maybe they did an @Alister_Gand thrashed a big screwdriver through one of the mother boards as a warning to others... 2 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted October 1, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 1, 2021 I hope you got plenty of modelling done in the meantime? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted October 1, 2021 Author Share Posted October 1, 2021 Unfortunately we have both been having to do grown up responsible things last night and today... 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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