The Shed Thread

[Rowsley17D]

2 hours ago, davidbr said:

From a Seven Models platelayers' hut kit.  Etched brass.

 

 

Is that Severn Model's 4mm scale kit, David? They do some lovely kits and am tempted to get their Gardener's Tool set just for the tools themselves to scatter around my yard area.

[Mikkel]

50 minutes ago, mullie said:

I know I did it too, a hut is now a shed?. Discuss.

 

A hut is a small shed?

 

Funny word, "shed". These three structures are very different, but I suppose the would all qualify as a "shed" in railway terminology.

 

 

 

The smaller one below was labelled "lock-up". Based on a GWR prototype at Long Marston. There was a very similar one at Lustleigh.

 

 

PS: Apologies to those who like scruffy sheds. So do I, but these particular prototypes were in fact painted in this livery.

 

 

 

Edited July 4, 2021 by Mikkel

[Ian J.]

2 hours ago, davidbr said:

From a Seven Models platelayers' hut kit.  Etched brass.

 

 

I particularly like the hint of 'moss' at the bottom, it gives it that sense of having been in place a while.

[Stubby47]

I thought, at first, that a shed had to be small, possibly wooden in construction and therefore not a permanent building (apologies to all those in the world who live in wood framed/clad accommodation).

 

But, thinking more, we have Cow sheds and Boat sheds, neither being small or temporary. 

 

I am not allowed to have a shed, it would clutter up the garden, apparently. 

 

 

[Alister_G]

Delving further into my murky shed past, I built these for Bakewell, back in the dark ages...

 

 

 

 

 

[MrWolf]

 

 

I've built this one for my current layout.

 

 

Edited July 4, 2021 by MrWolf

[Mick Bonwick]

1 hour ago, Alister_G said:

Delving further into my murky shed past, I built these for Bakewell, back in the dark ages...

 

I love the one with tin worm.

[davidbr]

3 hours ago, Rowsley17D said:

 

Is that Severn Model's 4mm scale kit, David? They do some lovely kits and am tempted to get their Gardener's Tool set just for the tools themselves to scatter around my yard area.

Yes, it is the 4mm version.  All his kits turn out very well.

[davidbr]

hut

1. a small or humble dwelling of simple construction, esp. one made of natural materials, as logs or grass.

2. a simple roofed shelter, often with one or two sides left open.

 

shed 

1. a small structure, either freestanding or attached to a larger structure, serving for storage or shelter.

2. a large low structure often open on all sides.

 

Take your pick!  I think the terms are almost interchangeable in common usage today, though I feel 'hut' has more connection with a dwelling (albeit primitive) and 'shed', storage.  We have become rather lax in recent years over the use of a lot of words which, in the past, would have had a more specific purpose but which are now used in a broader sense.

Edited July 4, 2021 by davidbr

[MrWolf]

A very modified Wills goods lock up, a work in progress.

 

[Steamport Southport]

47 minutes ago, davidbr said:

hut

1. a small or humble dwelling of simple construction, esp. one made of natural materials, as logs or grass.

2. a simple roofed shelter, often with one or two sides left open.

 

shed 

1. a small structure, either freestanding or attached to a larger structure, serving for storage or shelter.

2. a large low structure often open on all sides.

 

Take your pick!  I think the terms are almost interchangeable in common usage today, though I feel 'hut' has more connection with a dwelling (albeit primitive) and 'shed', storage.  We have become rather lax in recent years over the use of a lot of words which, in the past, would have had a more specific purpose but which are now used in a broader sense.

 

In railway terms.

 

I always think of sheds being where you put things like tools or engines.

 

Whilst a hut is more like a bothy. Somewhere where you can sit down for a cuppa and take a break from the rain. Probably has a chimney or rudimental stove.

 

 

Jason

[Mick Bonwick]

A thought for the programmers amongst you:

 

If structure = shed

     then use = storage

 

If structure = hut

     then use = accommodation

 

Insert delimiters according to programming language.

 

 

[mullie]

20 minutes ago, Mick Bonwick said:

A thought for the programmers amongst you:

 

If structure = shed

     then use = storage

 

If structure = hut

     then use = accommodation

 

Insert delimiters according to programming language.

 

 

Sorry structure to me is binary, ternary, rondo, sonata and verse chorus!

 

A delimiter, is that something for getting rid of steam in a bathroom?!!!!

 

Martyn

Edited July 4, 2021 by mullie

[MrWolf]

4 minutes ago, mullie said:

Sorry structure to me is binary, ternary, rondo, sonata and verse chorus!

 

A delimiter, is that something for getting rid of steam in a bathroom?!!!!

 

Martyn

 

 

I thought that a delimiter was knocking the exhaust baffles out of a moped?

Edited July 4, 2021 by MrWolf

[Ian J.]

59 minutes ago, Mick Bonwick said:

A thought for the programmers amongst you:

 

If structure = shed

     then use = storage

 

If structure = hut

     then use = accommodation

 

Insert delimiters according to programming language.

 

 

 

 

Are we in VB land with those = signs? If not, then it 'should' be something more like:

 

If structure == shed Then

   use = storage

ElseIf structure == hut Then

   use = accommodation

End If

 

presuming a 'Basic' structure as against a {} structure.

 

I've always hated VB (and VBA) for not differentiating the symbol for equivalence from the symbol for assignment.

 

Nowt to do with sheds of course.

[Stubby47]

13 minutes ago, Ian J. said:

 

 

Are we in VB land with those = signs? If not, then it 'should' be something more like:

 

If structure == shed Then

   use = storage

ElseIf structure == hut Then

   use = accommodation

End If

 

presuming a 'Basic' structure as against a {} structure.

 

I've always hated VB (and VBA) for not differentiating the symbol for equivalence from the symbol for assignment.

 

Nowt to do with sheds of course.

Of course,  as a Tester,  I'd set 'structure' to 'boat', then fail the code and send it back to the developer.

[Ian J.]

17 minutes ago, Stubby47 said:

Of course,  as a Tester,  I'd set 'structure' to 'boat', then fail the code and send it back to the developer.

 

If structure == boat Then

    If boat.type == canal Then

        use = accommodation

    Else

        use = transport

    End If

ElseIf structure == Class 66 Then

    use = shed

End If

 

[Alister_G]

My personal choice would be:

 

function IdentifyStructure(structure: string): string;

begin

         result := '';

         if not (structure = 'shed') or (structure = 'hut') then end;

         if structure = 'shed' then result := 'storage';

         if structure = 'hut' then result := 'accomodation';

end;

 

with a bit of error checking to shut Stubby up...

 

 

Al.

[Stubby47]

1 minute ago, Alister_G said:

My personal choice would be:

 

function IdentifyStructure(structure: string): string;

begin

         result := '';

         if not (structure = 'shed') or (structure = 'hut') then end;

         if structure = 'shed' then result := 'storage';

         if structure = 'hut' then result := 'accomodation';

end;

 

with a bit of error checking to shut Stubby up...

 

 

Al.

 

If only developers did their own error checking.....

 

However, the function above would not return anything:

 

'Return result' is missing

[Alister_G]

5 minutes ago, Stubby47 said:

'Return result' is missing

 

Not required in Turbo Pascal, you define the return value in the declaration, so

 

function IdentifyStructure(structure: string): string;

 

tells the compiler you are returning a string value, and because you've called a function, "return result" is implicit. "result" is a protected keyword, you don't need to define it seperately.

 

Al.

Edited July 4, 2021 by Alister_G

[Stubby47]

Ah, I did wonder.

 

Not 100% up on Turbo Pascal, which became Delphi.

Did Pascal in college, then mainly COBOL in work, until the introduction of Mantis.

 

( Sorry if this means zip to all the non-coders out there.)

[MrWolf]

No, it crosses over into logic circuits, engineering, avionics...

 

But if you lot start talking about Star Trek, random atrocities will be committed....

[Fishplate]

Presumably "In a shed far, far, away" would be acceptable though . . . . 

[Mick Bonwick]

Interpreter needed.

 

I assumed everybody would be familiar with PL1 as developed from Assembler. I guess my language is outdated.

 

[mullie]

Oh Assembler!

 

I built an Airfix kit once.