allan downes Posted October 17, 2014 Author Share Posted October 17, 2014 New US build underway. (Don't like the double doors.Will be ripped out in due course ) Cheers. Allan 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted October 19, 2014 Author Share Posted October 19, 2014 A little bit of trim here and there then it's that roof and geometry on steroids ! Think I'll watch Family Bathrooms instead..... or X Factor God forbid. Cheers. Allan 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium rab Posted October 19, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 19, 2014 I've heard the pencil version of the joke before, but if you did get the point of the dividers one, the punch line would be a visit to A&E.The version I remember was the constipated mathematician who worked it out with a slide rule. But then I don't suppose many people would know what a slide rule is/was! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 The version I remember was the constipated mathematician who worked it out with a slide rule. But then I don't suppose many people would know what a slide rule is/was! My older brother used a slide rule when he first trained as a surveyor many years ago. He worked out loads of things with it! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alant Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 The version I remember was the constipated mathematician who worked it out with a slide rule. But then I don't suppose many people would know what a slide rule is/was! I remember using a circular slide rule which belonged to my Father. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted October 19, 2014 Author Share Posted October 19, 2014 Slide rules, all high tech stuff to me, never used one in my life, but I bet it can't tile a roof ! Cheers. allan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted October 21, 2014 Author Share Posted October 21, 2014 American clapboard number 4 finished though it needs tidying up here and there and door knobs when I can find them ! When compared to the average British style house - no more than a square box punctuated with a few windows, and maybe a porch if it's on a posh private estate where the show house is about the only one where everything fits and is not going to disappear down an old disused mine shaft when it's finished ! - American homes, and clapboard built in particular, are truly massive by comparison but here I have build to the exact scale and they look more like Gauge One Buildings than they do O Gauge but they could be scaled down I suppose without loosing too much of the impact. Cheers. Allan. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebottle Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Slide rules, all high tech stuff to me, never used one in my life, but I bet it can't tile a roof ! Cheers. allan. Slide rules? AKA "guessing sticks". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
silversurfer1947 Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 I had a slide rule at University. It was very good for drawing straight lines, except that the cursor got in the way! Never did work out what all the numbers on it were for. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonB Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Still got my slide-rule (and my F-I-Law's) in the drawer of this desk, but haven't used either in 50 years. Simple tutorial.... The "numbers" are on a logarithmic scale, so multiplication became the addition of lengths "input" onto the fixed scale and the sliding scale. Similar calculations used for problems involving angles. Indispensable pieces of kit in their day despite their limitations, especially for getting a "ball-park" figure and as a cross-check on a long-hand calculation. Can't remember when I got my first "Calculator" , but I remember being fascinated by a friend's works-issue Texas Scientific calculator in about 1959/60 which did sine, cosine, tan etc. and Square-roots calculations to 8 places of decimals! I believe that It cost £400 ! . (average wage was about £10/week then). I remember it was about 2 years later before I could afford one, when the prices had dropped. Sorry, very off-topic.. Going back to admire Allan's modelling prowess... much more interesting than maths problems! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted October 22, 2014 Author Share Posted October 22, 2014 Spot the difference. Cheers. Allan 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Truly impressive, Allan! On the slide rule front my Father still has his from his A levels and then as a Civil Engineer on BR Western Region. I swear he was almost as quick working out my prep with me at School as I was with the calculator! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebottle Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 My only mathematical aid is a Boots own brand shirt-pocket calculator over thirty years old, which only recently needed replacement batteries for the first time. Its main use involves the only demand on my intra-cranial memory cells: 1" = 25.4 mm. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlandman Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 (edited) For buildings on a large scale, albeit in 4mm, check out this topic about the modelling of Carlisle Citadel and its surrounds.http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/68919-carlisle-buildings-central-hotel-new-photos/?p=1635660 The pictures of the hotel builds are trully remarkable. This is one project to keep an eye on. Edited October 24, 2014 by Highlandman 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted October 24, 2014 Author Share Posted October 24, 2014 It's a real honour to have Peter Leyland's magnificent buildings displayed on this thread and a real refreshing change from me and my fire cement, Colron and clapboard ! Magnificent doesn't even start to describe it. Crafsmanship right up there at the very top where it belongs. Cheers . Allan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted October 26, 2014 Author Share Posted October 26, 2014 Tower Hotel, Oxton in 4mm and minus chimney pots. Better pics tomorrow outside. Cheers. Allan. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 There is a well known demand for out of focus buildings!!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted October 27, 2014 Author Share Posted October 27, 2014 There is a well known demand for out of focus buildings!!!! And there's even greater demand for buildings in focus ! Here's a few taken outside this morning. Cheers. Allan 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweven Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 And there's even greater demand for buildings in focus ! Here's a few taken outside this morning. Superb work as usual Allan - those double doors are exquisite, I expect the hinges even squeak. Love the round window/grill too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gravy Train Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 Hi Allan, always like the black & white touch, it works really well, is it a recent build or one you did earlier in the day :-) Love the roof detail and colouring, lovely model. cheers Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted October 27, 2014 Author Share Posted October 27, 2014 Hi Allan, always like the black & white touch, it works really well, is it a recent build or one you did earlier in the day :-) Love the roof detail and colouring, lovely model. cheers Peter Thanks Peter. Black and white. Two extremes. Ultimate impact yet so easy to model. It's the latest build for a customer which means we'll be able to eat again soon ! Cheers. Allan BTW Peter, how long did it take you to build the hotel and Carlisle buildings in general ? wanna see if you're as fast as you are good ! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted October 28, 2014 Author Share Posted October 28, 2014 (edited) On Family Bathrooms today, a couple were revisited in Cornwall to see how they had settled into their 50 million one up, one down ex fishermans hovel. "Hello !!" gushed Mrs Twee-Naff-Patch in false suprise as she answered the door to the Presenter "Come on in, please do !" then " What a suprise !" she lied. "So" double gushed the Presenter " How do you like Cornwall and all its homeless locals who can't even afford to rent a winkle stall ?" " Oh, absolutely wonderful " enthused Mrs Twee-Naff-Patch "We love it so much that we're going to buy the rest of it " "Wowee!" exclaimed the Presenter in false well rehearsed and well paid excitement "What about the locals, where are they going to live - if they can afford to live at all ha,ha,ha ?" "Sod 'em " snarled Mrs T-N-P in true naffism " What's wrong with an upturned rowing boat on the beach, I mean, there's enough bloody upturned wrecks on our 50 mile stretch of private beach to house half of Cornwall - at a price of course " Then shut the door in the camera crew's face to go and give her WI rasbury jam an urgent stir on the aga as Mr T-N-P dragged 50 tons of freshly picked veg into the kitchen. Edited October 28, 2014 by allan downes Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted October 29, 2014 Author Share Posted October 29, 2014 Tower Hotel finished complete with chimney pots, builders plate AND door knobs ! Next up - huge MPD, engine sheds, coaler etc. See you sometime next year... Cheers. Allan 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted October 30, 2014 Author Share Posted October 30, 2014 Engine shed based on the old shed that stood at Perth. This was one huge shed where the the loco's entered through the massive doors beneath the glazed arches and because of this arrangement, the frontage stands at almost one foot high in 7mm ! This is gonna be one long haul.... Cheers. Allan 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweven Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Impressive (not sure what you use the sliced beetroot for though?). I googled the shed but didn't find many good images, although it looks like similar design were used at Keith, Kyle, etc? Some great photographs of Perth at http://locodriver.co.uk/Vol09/Part08/04/index.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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