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[Tallpaul69]

6 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

I'm a secondhand vegan, I eat beef and wear leather, cows eat grass, ergo,,

Mike.

 

15 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

I have also read Paul's post, Hollie is right Turkeys must be vegetables because that is all they eat. They are just a reformed vegetable. 

 

 

6 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

  14 hours ago, jimwal said:

 

Can we use this reasoning when the 'greens' tell us we must stop eating meat to save the planet?

Apologies for the wrong order above of the Quotes!!

Thanks guys!

I will pass this on to Hollie!

However have just received a video clip from Her Dad. They must be at Woburn Safari Park(which apparently is open as they can socially distance the cars!)

How do I know they are there? There is a monkey climbing on the car!

 

I will see if I can get the video off of my phone and post it here?

 

Otherwise , tomorrow must get back to some modelling!

 

Cheers

Paul

[jazzer]

18 hours ago, Gibbo675 said:

Hi Clive,

 

Strangely some people think I'm quite bonkers.

 

Gibbo.

“ If a man does not keep pace with his companions , perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears.”

                           - Henry David Thoreau .

So fear not ,  Sir Gibbo ,’tis they that are a few bogies short of a Quint-Art , not thyself .

 

[Gibbo675]

3 minutes ago, jazzer said:

“ If a man does not keep pace with his companions , perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears.”

                           - Henry David Thoreau .

So fear not ,  Sir Gibbo ,’tis they that are a few bogies short of a Quint-Art , not thyself .

 

"The recognition of madness, even in oneself is the true path to sanity."

-Arthur Schopenhauer.

 

Gibbo.

[St Enodoc]

11 hours ago, Northmoor said:

The model railway is a little world where we are in control of everything

Yeah, right

[Gibbo675]

1 minute ago, St Enodoc said:

Yeah, right

Don't mention DCC !!!

[Clive Mortimore]

1 hour ago, Gibbo675 said:

Don't mention DCC !!!

Over on Doc's Eagle has Crashed thread I have Yellowman Mick saying my  "to finish of later" shelf is layout shaped. Now you are upsetting me with the extra C.

 

What else could go wrong before Thursday and we see the back of D8020?

 

My first attempt at doing a Gresley paneled coach side. It isn't 100% but I have learnt a lot getting this far. Now to do the other side and make the rest of the coach. It is going to be a non-gangway full brake.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 27, 2020 by Clive Mortimore

[TheSignalEngineer]

1 hour ago, Gibbo675 said:

Don't mention DCC !!!

It slipped out once but I think I got away with it.

[Gibbo675]

10 hours ago, TheSignalEngineer said:

It slipped out once but I think I got away with it.

Hi There,

 

That reminds of the phrase, " I have never lost it, although on occasion it has been misplaced."

 

Gibbo.

[cheesysmith]

A question to all the fellow EMU nutters, the parcels 308, some were converted to passenger use, but some were used on continued parcels use until the modified 302 were introduced. These that were used on further parcels use, were they modified further in any way.?

 

I have this image stuck in my head of a diagram of a M1 driving car EMU with extra double doors added. Did this actually happen or am I thinking of the DMUs, where this did happen a lot earlier (for example the bubble cars used in Scotland so modified).

[Clive Mortimore]

1 hour ago, cheesysmith said:

A question to all the fellow EMU nutters, the parcels 308, some were converted to passenger use, but some were used on continued parcels use until the modified 302 were introduced. These that were used on further parcels use, were they modified further in any way.?

 

I have this image stuck in my head of a diagram of a M1 driving car EMU with extra double doors added. Did this actually happen or am I thinking of the DMUs, where this did happen a lot earlier (for example the bubble cars used in Scotland so modified).

Hi Cheesy

 

On the South Tyneside system there was a Mk1 Motor Parcels car, E68000. It looked very similar to a SR single car Motor Luggage Van. It differed in having no power batteries to use off the 3 rd rail and had 2 power bogies. It later went to the North Mersey system were in replaced two converted LMS Motor Parcels vans.

 

As for the 308s with the luggage van still in use, I think the two driving cars were not altered, I could be wrong.

[TheSignalEngineer]

7 hours ago, Gibbo675 said:

Hi There,

 

That reminds of the phrase, " I have never lost it, although on occasion it has been misplaced."

 

Gibbo.

Or a conversation with my grandson when aged about two and couldn't find one of his Chuggington trains. 

Q "Where did you last have it"

A "Here in my hand"

[cheesysmith]

I always love the phrase it is in the last place you look.

 

Of course it is because you don't keep looking for it when you have found it.

[Enterprisingwestern]

 

When looking for something and I get asked the question "where did you see it last?, I usually reply with "when I gave it to you to look after".

 

Mike.

[MJI]

DMUs - Windows - Sizes - Swindon

 

OK as far as I can work out Mark 1 windows are normally 16mm by 14mm or 9mm by 14mm.

 

Would I be correct in Swindon DMUs being 16mm by 12mm for the normal sizes?

 

I have just bought a cutter!

 

Test 1 will be glazing for Mark 2 stock, Test 2 will be a class 120 cross country set.

[Gibbo675]

On 27/12/2020 at 22:43, Clive Mortimore said:

Over on Doc's Eagle has Crashed thread I have Yellowman Mick saying my  "to finish of later" shelf is layout shaped. Now you are upsetting me with the extra C.

 

What else could go wrong before Thursday and we see the back of D8020?

 

My first attempt at doing a Gresley paneled coach side. It isn't 100% but I have learnt a lot getting this far. Now to do the other side and make the rest of the coach. It is going to be a non-gangway full brake.

 

 

 

 

 

Hi Clive,

 

I could turn up some cards for D8021 should you wish, do keep in mind though, the last reading was fairly accurate. I might wait until Thursday for that though.

 

My doodle below from a few pages back was rather prescient also.

 

Gibbo.

On 21/12/2020 at 13:38, Gibbo675 said:

Hi Folks,

 

As it is the Winter Solstice and the day of the Jupiter-Saturn Grand Conjunction I had this thought, LOVE cut in half :

 

 

 

It is there if you look.

Gibbo.

 

[Clive Mortimore]

9 minutes ago, Gibbo675 said:

Hi Clive,

 

I could turn up some cards for D8021 should you wish, do keep in mind though, the last reading was fairly accurate. I might wait until Thursday for that though.

 

My doodle below from a few pages back was rather prescient also.

 

Gibbo.

 

No, it might show I start to model GWR using DCC in cake decoration gauge

[Flying Fox 34F]

8 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

No, it might show I start to model GWR using DCC in cake decoration gauge

Clive,

 

Now you’ve gone and done it. Gibbo will be chasing you for the 20p for the swear box!!!!!!  

 

Paul

Edited December 30, 2020 by Flying Fox 34F
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[Gibbo675]

1 hour ago, Flying Fox 34F said:

Clive,

 

Now you’ve gone and done it. Gibbo will be chasing you for the 20p for the swear box!!!!!!  

 

Paul

Hi Paul,

 

I'm currently looking for a particular photograph, it will be much finnier than getting Clive to contribute his own swear box.

 

Gibbo.

[MJI]

I have started my second Hawksworth Third.

 

They can run behind my 45xx with a BT or my NBL 22 with a Sunshine BTK

 

Also trying to work out how to do a window frame with bars. I think I can just get away with it.

[MJI]

 

This is my first draft

[Gibbo675]

13 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

No, it might show I start to model GWR using DCC in cake decoration gauge

Hi Clive,

 

Here is the photograph shewing "Cake Decorating Gauge":

 

It was supposed to be D6830 but mother didn't fit the correct number of wheels and there were only two windows instead of three in the cab front. To be fair mother isn't a train ned and making a cake that looked a bit like a Warship class rather than D6830 was good enough for me in 1977 !

 

Gibbo.

Edited December 30, 2020 by Gibbo675
Improper grammar.

[Clive Mortimore]

42 minutes ago, Gibbo675 said:

Hi Clive,

 

Here is the photograph shewing "Cake Decorating Gauge":

 

It was supposed to be D6830 but mother didn't fit the correct number of wheels and there were only two windows instead of three in the cab front. To be fair mother isn't a train ned and making a cake that looked a bit like a Warship class rather than D6830 was good enough for me in 1977 !

 

Gibbo.

Wow that is wonderful.

[MJI]

 

How about this for a Swindon DMU window?

 

Got 5 pairs of sides to design, first two pairs will be 120 DMSL & TSBL then DMBC

 

Afterwards will start on WR 79xxx stuff

[Signaller69]

On 29/12/2020 at 15:49, MJI said:

DMUs - Windows - Sizes - Swindon

 

OK as far as I can work out Mark 1 windows are normally 16mm by 14mm or 9mm by 14mm.

 

Would I be correct in Swindon DMUs being 16mm by 12mm for the normal sizes?

 

I have just bought a cutter!

Martin,

Not sure if this is any help but the (Trix Mk.1) windows on my class 126 are 15mm x 12.5mm, which visually gives a good relationship of window size to pillars compared to photos of the real things. Triang Mk.1 windows at 16mm x 14mm give pillars between them that are too narrow. I'm sure Swindon windows aren't as deep as a Mk.1 either but I could be wrong.

 

Martyn.

[Dr Gerbil-Fritters]

Happy New Tiers Eve, everybody.