Nick C

Agreed - you want to seal the surfaces as much as possible to prevent the wood from gaining and losing moisture (which is what causes it to shrink and expand). Pay particular attention to the end-grain of the cut softwood.

You're still missing the point of the 'vaccine passport'. it's got nothing to do with saving lives (that's what the vaccine is for), it is about enabling certain social facilities to open sooner than they would otherwise be able to. Purely a short-term measure to get parts of the economy moving and to ease the social pressure that many are feeling - especially those who are particularly vulnerable and may have not left their homes for over a year. It won't help in any way with the selfish people who ignore the rules and don't care about anyone else.

The University of London Motor Club used to run (and maybe will again post-covid) a couple of treasure hunts around London, in which the targets were the many and various inscriptions, castings and other such delights spread around the square mile - forcing you to pay close attention to your surroundings - for each clue you were given a fragment of text and a 10m square in which to look, and with the clues divided into easy (for example a date above a door on an entrance portico), medium (such as the castings in @MrWolf's post above), and hard (one particularly memorable one being the maker's stamp engraved on the inside of a sheet of safety glass in a window...)

That's not a cat licence - it's a dog licence with the word 'dog' crossed out and 'cat' written in in crayon.

Even worse!

I misread that the first time, and it still made perfect sense: Well, it clearly isn't their Landy, is it, or they'd have moved the tree if it was bothering them.

But you seem to be suggesting that it's a choice of vaccine passport vs freedom - it's not, it's a choice of passport vs lockdown. Without the passport, the first 31 people will still be sitting at home because they're not allowed to go out, so there will be no difference to the spread - the other 10 will still be socialising in someone's home, because they're too selfish to care about anyone else, so again there ill be no difference to the spread.

Just spotted this thread. Fantastic!

Or some fresh glass being delivered in a crate on the back of a lorry, whihc just needs to be unloaded... I'm sure @KNP can advise...

I too have tried a number of filter removal tools, for the simple reason that every car seems to be designed so that you can't use whichever design of removal tool you've already got.

What about a kickback siding from the coal siding, and the camping coach roughly where the box is in that last photo, just behind the big hole (control panel? )

I wonder if there are any statistics as to how many people have had the vaccine, and subsequently been hit by a bus? Probably just as many as have had blood clots, but of course it doesn't suggest a causal link...

Probably shouldn't really be that surprising, the early 50s was still a time of rationing and shortages, and cars built in the mid to late 30s would only be 15 to 20 years old, and built to last longer than they are these days...

Interesting. According to Wikipedia (yes, I know...) GA requires a common danger and a jettison of cargo to avert that danger - neither of which happened here. I suspect the legal arguments will go on for years...

It's always a problem when trying to work out when to announce a model- if you announce it early on, as Bachmann often do, then people wail about how long it takes. On the other hand if you tend to wait until it's nearly ready, you run the risk that someone else will also announce the same thing, and you then get accused of copying. We will never know how much work Hornby did on this before finding out that another party were interested, but as others have said, they have shareholders to please and can't just drop things unless there's a good commercial reason to do so, and they can't make deals with other manufacturers, as that'd be illegal.

I suspect it'll be at the back of the queue!

According to my wife, a common side effect of hormonal contraception is an increased risk of blood clots - apparently this isn't well advertised.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxSmJcnKn44iW_P2t55utUw/videos All in Polish unfortunately, but you can see what's going on without having to understand what they're saying!

It may well be possible to run it in an emulator even after it's no longer supported by Windows - I shall be trying that myself as I've just bought a copy and only currently have a Linux laptop available. Having tried to update old software to build on Windows 10 I can confirm that it's not easy, especially if older commercial tools are no longer available, and is often simpler to start again from scratch...

There's a lot of those in Poland too - it seems that when railways were closed there, they weren't lifted, but just abandoned or mothballed - which of course makes it much easier to reopen them later if traffic returns as all the land needed is still in railway ownership. There's a whole load of videos on youtube of a guy who built his own rail car and goes off exploring many of them...

Not far from my office is a thatched pub, with lots of nice oak beams and all the trimmings - this really impresses the visitors from our Japanese HQ who love the "traditional old English pub". We haven't the heart to tell them it's less than 25 years old...

hmm, outside looks quite good, except for the awful rear visibility that seems to be standard for most cars these days. The standard interior looks awful though, especially what looks like a shiny dashboard, the last thing you want in any car!

The hoses she's got onthe bufferbeams look like air to me, so you'll need to add Vacuum. Will you also be replacing the coal rails with ones correctly aligned with the edges of the bunker?

That's definitely an air pipe above the buffer beam, you can just about see the tap. This clearly shows the routing of the vac ejector pipe along the boiler that I was questioning in the other thread - some had it router differently, with a kink near the smokebox. I wonder why Hornby didn't include it on 2662, when they did on others?

It's worth trying to find a photo of 2662 in sunshine livery (I can't find any pre-BR shots of her either on the net or in any of the books I've got, except one showing the other side in SR green), as the pipes did vary in their routing, like almost everything on the terriers!