andytrains Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Squid. Vicious bug--rs. (From my Sea Fishing days). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
5050 Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 My lunch today cost me sick squid. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andytrains Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 (edited) My lunch today cost me sick squid. Your a Dab hand at those jokes. I used to be in Dace gone by. We definitely need a groan button Edited January 27, 2015 by andytrains Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railsquid Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Your a Dab hand at those jokes. I used to be in Dace gone by. We definitely need a groan button Maybe something could be arranged on a squid-pro-quo basis. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rue_d_etropal Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 (edited) I came across this thread recently, have read a few pages so hope no-one has suggested these ideas. Set up a table at the height many seem to like these days so visitors don't have to bend down too far. The table will have the usual curtains as you would expect but nothing at all on top of it!!! Wait for the first parent/child to come along with one of obligatory plastic steps. Child puts steps on floor and insists on standing on it to look at layout. No layout!!!! Next door is a nice low table with a small layout, with working train. Happy child!!!! Second idea is one based on a sign I saw at entrance to Berlin zoo many years ago. I was visiting Berlin with a tour, and some decided to visit the zoo. On entrance was a sign listing various entrance prices including charges for taking a camera in and then to take photos. I found something else to visit. I don't mind people taking photos of my layout. most ask before, but I don't grumble if they just take photos. Most cameras these days don't seem to need a flash light. Anyway I was thinking I could put up a sign with prices for having camera out, and also for taking photos, then duck... There is a serious side to this , that being that it is my creation they are taking photos of, yet they have more legal protection for their photos than my models. As I say I don't mind people taking photos or using some of my ideas. I probably was inspired by someone else anyway. Edited January 28, 2015 by rue_d_etropal 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Maybe something could be arranged on a squid-pro-quo basis. *double groan* Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
olivegreen Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 *double groan* You just don't have the right sense of humour - no sole (sic) if you ask me. OK, I'll get my skates on... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
5050 Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 (edited) This thread is all starting to sound a bit fishy to my way of thinking. Edited January 28, 2015 by 5050 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted January 28, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 28, 2015 It's floundering. Someone get the sausages. P Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyC Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Second idea is one based on a sign I saw at entrance to Berlin zoo many years ago. I was visiting Berlin with a tour, and some decided to visit the zoo. On entrance was a sign listing various entrance prices including charges for taking a camera in and then to take photos. I found something else to visit....... I came across that once in Germany at, IIRC, the now closed model railway centre at Lauenthal in the Harz. On enquiry it turned out that it only applied to professional photographers who intended to sell the pictures. Jeremy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
5050 Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 It's floundering. Someone get the sausages. P The ones in the Banger Blue packaging? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railsquid Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Second idea is one based on a sign I saw at entrance to Berlin zoo many years ago. I was visiting Berlin with a tour, and some decided to visit the zoo. On entrance was a sign listing various entrance prices including charges for taking a camera in and then to take photos. I found something else to visit. I came across that once in Germany at, IIRC, the now closed model railway centre at Lauenthal in the Harz. On enquiry it turned out that it only applied to professional photographers who intended to sell the pictures. Jeremy Must admit from all my years living in Berlin, I don't recall seeing such a sign at either of the city's zoos. However their terms and conditions ("13. Fotografieren und Filmen") state that permission is required for professional photography, and interestingly that publication of photos or video from the zoo requires their permission. To which I blow a raspberry in their general direction. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 How to get lynched by one individual... Drop a "Dapol O wagons For Sale" sign on Mr Swain's Trade Stand..... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Reichert Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Must admit from all my years living in Berlin, I don't recall seeing such a sign at either of the city's zoos. However their terms and conditions ("13. Fotografieren und Filmen") state that permission is required for professional photography, and interestingly that publication of photos or video from the zoo requires their permission. To which I blow a raspberry in their general direction. The Sounthend Pier Museum (mostly stuff of the railway) used to be very hot on not taking your own photos. Selling their own postcards was apparently their main means of providing sufficient income for them to stay open. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Colin Posted January 31, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 31, 2015 Can't be easy enforcing that sort of policy these days - a traditional camera is a bit of a giveaway but I reckon a modern smartphone can probably be used very quickly and unobtrusively (don't have one myself so no experience). 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 I think legally you may struggle as well given that you are actually exhibiting the layouts. Do we have many people going to model railway shows taking photos to sell? Seems a bit of a niche market to me. Unless they are taking glamour shots of a Fell, I'd pay money for that Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sheep Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Have a very precise and well modeled EM gauge modern image layout and then... Run a model of the Ninky-Nonk round! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted January 31, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 31, 2015 Have a very precise and well modeled EM gauge modern image layout and then... Run a model of the Ninky-Nonk round! Oh P4 surely Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinWalsh Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Unless they are taking glamour shots of a Fell, I'd pay money for that I don't think even the Danish Scud-mag purveyours would stoop that low, the Fell is an obscenity deserving of a special place in hell Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted January 31, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 31, 2015 'scud mag' Jeez-o, haven't heard that in years! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sheep Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Oh P4 surely I rest my point, the mere suggestion has started the battle of words... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railsquid Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 'scud mag' Jeez-o, haven't heard that in years! Apparently they found a whole pile of them in one of Saddam Hussein's palaces. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornish Triang Paul Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 Been asking for an r-t-r Ninky Nonk for a while now...... ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Walters Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 Conversation overheard at the Southampton show between a rather attractive woman and her husband while looking at one of the 'N' Gauge layouts, Wife : What about some thing like this, I'm sure we could do it, if we worked together ? Husband : Bit small though, we'd soon lose interest, and it looks really difficult to do Wife: it would good fun trying, and it's something we could do together Husband wanders off Wife looks at me, and says, sometimes I think I married the wrong man.... you like model railways... are you married ? I've had a girl/woman want me for money before, but never my trains ! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satan's Goldfish Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 Conversation overheard at the Southampton show between a rather attractive woman and her husband while looking at one of the 'N' Gauge layouts, Wife : What about some thing like this, I'm sure we could do it, if we worked together ? Husband : Bit small though, we'd soon lose interest, and it looks really difficult to do Wife: it would good fun trying, and it's something we could do together Husband wanders off Wife looks at me, and says, sometimes I think I married the wrong man.... you like model railways... are you married ? I've had a girl/woman want me for money before, but never my trains ! She sounds like a keeper! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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