Andrew P Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 1966 = I was 16. Need I say more. 10 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo675 Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 3 minutes ago, Andrew P said: 1966 = I was 16. Need I say more. HA ! In 1966 my mum was 18..........I was minus four ! Gibbo. 1 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 Just now, Gibbo675 said: HA ! In 1966 my mum was 18..........I was minus four ! Gibbo. I dated a Girl a couple of years older than me, 2 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo675 Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 1 minute ago, Andrew P said: I dated a Girl a couple of years older than me, Hi Andy, I somehow doubt it, I may well have fallen out of the ugly tree while on fire and upon landing, put out with a shovel however, I'm not that bad ! Gibbo. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 2 minutes ago, Gibbo675 said: Hi Andy, I somehow doubt it, I may well have fallen out of the ugly tree while on fire and upon landing, put out with a shovel however, I'm not that bad ! Gibbo. Thanks Pal, love you too, haha. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 My inner 12 year old had no idea of the girl shaped horrors to come... He was a den building window breaking secret night walking bicycle riding scallywag and I miss him dreadfully. 3 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo675 Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 1 hour ago, Andrew P said: Thanks Pal, love you too, haha. Hi Andy, I've found a bottle of aftershave from back in your day !!! Gibbo. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 8 minutes ago, Gibbo675 said: Hi Andy, I've found a bottle of aftershave from back in your day !!! Gibbo. Yes, Yes Yes, Gibbo, I did enjoy that, both the Music and the pictures, excellent, thanks, but I didn't see the link to aftershave, other than maybe Old Spice. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo675 Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 6 minutes ago, Andrew P said: Yes, Yes Yes, Gibbo, I did enjoy that, both the Music and the pictures, excellent, thanks, but I didn't see the link to aftershave, other than maybe Old Spice. Hi Andy, I must have missed it somehow, ah well: Mecum omnes plangite! Gibbo. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 7 minutes ago, Gibbo675 said: Hi Andy, I must have missed it somehow, ah well: Mecum omnes plangite! Gibbo. Well have none of that sort of talk on here, I'm a delicate soul. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dagworth Posted September 9, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 9, 2020 4 hours ago, Gibbo675 said: HA ! In 1966 my mum was 18..........I was minus four ! Gibbo. My mum was 19, and I was conceived! Andi 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheesysmith Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 1966, I was minus six lol. On a different question. I have gone through my DMU stock and found three 110 centre cars. Does anybody have a good idea what to cut these into? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo675 Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 4 minutes ago, cheesysmith said: 1966, I was minus six lol. On a different question. I have gone through my DMU stock and found three 110 centre cars. Does anybody have a good idea what to cut these into? Hi Dave, If you are feeling particularly lazy how about 104 centre cars !!! The only type that the 110 body side resembles closely are the 103 Park Royal sets although you would have to scratch build the cabs. This should not be too difficult as the removal of the corridor gangway and the cutting in of the cab windows is fairly straight forward. The forming of the cab roof dome would have to be done even if a two car 110 set with cabs was used as the route indicator box would have to be removed in any case. I'm sure a bit of plasticard. micro-strip and some filler is within your grasp. Gibbo. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted September 9, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 9, 2020 (edited) On 07/09/2020 at 10:55, Dr Gerbil-Fritters said: Clive, I've noticed that when you have finished a bash, you have a few bits left over so you buy another coach to use up those bits on another bash, at the end of which you have some bits left over so you buy another coach... I started with a bit of upgrading a Lima 42'BG and Siphon with the correct bogies and a bit of weathering. My follow up idea was to make an LMS Period 2 BT from an Airfix Lav brake. I then bought a Comet Push-pull cab etch but didn't like the way it fitted to the Airfix body shape so I made my own end. Out of all the bits I had I made a non-corridor 3rd. Hornby brought out the Period 3 suburbans so I bought a brake and a compo. After the next run a box shifter was selling a bulk pack so I had a BT and another non-corridor coach left over. I sold the one and used the Comet end on the BT to make a P3 Push-pull. As I went from success to success with these I decided to make a rake of LMS Vestibule stock for an excursion set using Comet sides. Whilst cutting up the donors I realised I could make a Period 1 all-door TK and a BCK which were never done by Mainline, Replica or Bachmann. The bits left over from those will make a 57' Ambulance Coach to BG conversion. Currently just waiting some finishing is a Class 122 DTS to go with my Dapol bubble car. It gets a bit addictive once you start. Edited September 17, 2020 by TheSignalEngineer 4 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted September 10, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 10, 2020 8 hours ago, Andrew P said: 1966 = I was 16. Need I say more. Led Zep, hot pants and a J-reg Mini in 1966? Fake news! 2 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo675 Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 5 hours ago, St Enodoc said: Led Zep, hot pants and a J-reg Mini in 1966? Fake news! Hi Enodoc, If that dress was a slight shorter we would be able to see if she is a fake [aeroplane] blonde ! Gibbo. 3 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted September 10, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 10, 2020 1 minute ago, Gibbo675 said: Hi Enodoc, If that dress was a slight shorter we would be able to see if she is a fake [aeroplane] blonde ! Gibbo. She has, as the saying used to go, legs all the way up to her armpits. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 9 hours ago, TheSignalEngineer said: I started with a bit of up a Lima 42'BG and Siphon with the correct bogies and a bit of weathering. My follow up idea was to make an LMS Period 2 BT from an Airfix Lav brake. I then bought a Comet Push-pull cab etch but didn't like the way it fitted to the Airfix body shape so I made my own end. Out of all the bits I had I made a non-corridor 3rd. Hornby brought out the Period 3 suburbans so I bought a brake and a compo. After the next run a box shifter was selling a bulk pack so I had a BT and another non-corridor coach left over. I sold the one and used the Comet end on the BT to make a P3 Push-pull. As I went from success to success with these I decided to make a rake of LMS Vestibule stock for an excursion set using Comet sides. Whilst cutting up the donors I realised I could make a Period 1 all-door TK and a BCK which were never done by Mainline, Replica or Bachmann. The bits left over from those will make a 57' Ambulance Coach to BG conversion. Currently just waiting some finishing is a Class 122 DTS to go with my Dapol bubble car. It gets a bit addictive once you start. At some point all of you coach bashers will end up making a model of the coach you intended to make in the first place! At that point the Universe will collapse into a black hole, so keep going lads! 7 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 There hasn't been enough XTC on this thread, so here's some. I was lucky enough to see them live at the Oasis Leisure Centre in Swindon on December 13th1980 and they were damn good live.... Everybody knows Partridge, Moulding and Gregory as fine musicians but check out the magnificent skin battering from Terry Chambers on these two stompers.... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted September 10, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 10, 2020 39 minutes ago, Dr Gerbil-Fritters said: At some point all of you coach bashers will end up making a model of the coach you intended to make in the first place! Or the coach you cut up in the first place... 1 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted September 10, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 10, 2020 1 hour ago, Dr Gerbil-Fritters said: There hasn't been enough XTC on this thread, so here's some. I was lucky enough to see them live at the Oasis Leisure Centre in Swindon on December 13th1980 and they were damn good live.... Everybody knows Partridge, Moulding and Gregory as fine musicians but check out the magnificent skin battering from Terry Chambers on these two stompers.... I stumbled across a very poor cover version "Senses working over time" and comments that it should be sung in a Moonraker accent, so far no replies. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheesysmith Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 (edited) Clive, me has some trix Mk1 underframes going spare if they are of any use, with commonwealth bogies. They have just been obtained for the sides. Actually, don`t know what me is going to use the roofs for, but they will be kept in case they are useful in the future. Got some triang underframes as well if you are needing some. PM me if they can be of help. Edited September 10, 2020 by cheesysmith 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzer Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 17 hours ago, St Enodoc said: Led Zep, hot pants and a J-reg Mini in 1966? Fake news! Of course it was. If you remember the ‘60s you weren’t really there 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted September 10, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 10, 2020 27 minutes ago, jazzer said: Of course it was. If you remember the ‘60s you weren’t really there I remember some of the sixties, steam engines, dirty carriages, even the electric trains on the line with green signs were filthy. Nice clean diesel trains and very clean electric trains on the Euston line. Started trainspotting in the 60s. Mum trying to look fashionable and dad still looking like her granddad as she told him many a time. Only a few people down our road had a car. Playing football on the piece of grass opposite our house. Going down the spinney and climbing trees. Coming home covered in mud after falling in the pond. PC Promotion coming to see mum to have a chat with her after a group of us were caught stealing milk off door steps. Cut knees from falling off me bike. Fat lip from fighting with the kids in Roundmead. Crashing the go cart we made. Building camps (my kids when we lived in Essex called them dens?). The best gang camp we had was an Anderson shelter on the allotments, until the bigger kids kicked us out. Tummy ache from too many unripe apples. Snow so deep it came over the top of my wellies on the way to school, you were not allowed to wear long trousers until you were in the fourth year of junior school. 1966, having measles just before Christmas and Santa came early to help me get better with a nice train set with D5572. 9 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted September 10, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 10, 2020 3 hours ago, jazzer said: Of course it was. If you remember the ‘60s you weren’t really there Weren't really where? 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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