Nick C

Including inflatable tanks - though I think they were mainly to confuse spotter planes rather than bombers

I've bought a couple of their tools recently, and for DIY level usage they seem pretty good - certainly the plunge saw gets good reviews on YouTube.

Some of those conditions might also be imposed by the local authority or the insurance company rather than the venue though? I took Mrs C for her second jab today, only to find the venue closed and locked! The alternative venue elsewhere in town had no record of her appointment either, but fitted her in (and by the sound of it, they'd had a few people with the same).

I think it's quite unusual to install from a DVD these days - certainly the last few I've done have been from USB sticks. Mind you I had a problem with that as my new laptop only has USB-C and the old one doesn't, so I had to buy a USB stick with both connectors...

Fantastic paintings George! I struggle to paint a wall...

Lots of Edinburgh plates (MS) on that sheet though, you might want to mix and match to get something more local for the engineer's van. See the bottom half of this page... https://www.car.co.uk/media/guides/number-plates/uk-number-plate-area-codes

Are we going to have to petition AYMod for a 'too much information' button?

They're like wine snobs though - they want it to be inaccessible and elitist, so they can look down their noses at the rest of us. Me, I like art I can recognise and wine that tastes good, and couldn't give a whatsit about how much (or how little) it cost...

According to Gould, they were all initially allocated to the WoE services, and would have been malachite - he says that "By the mid-1950s, some sets had been repainted in B.R. standard crimson lake and cream"

You can get rid of everything after the ? - so that first link just becomes https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/184862133413

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. Both quotes from Douglas Adams, and probably summed up even better by this one: All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it’s pretty damn complicated in the first place.

All that clay can't be good for the airflow through the radiator...

A pair of GBRF 73s leave Alresford propelling the LT 4TC set during last month's Diesel Gala - 73136 closest to the camera, I didn't note the number of the other. and yes, it is showing double red blinds - they're not clear in the photo!

We switched to getting supermarket deliveries quite early last summer, and certainly won't be going back unless we have to - even without Covid worries, it's so much more pleasant to not have to fight your way through the crowds. Neither of us enjoy shopping, so anything that can reduce it helps!

I can't believe it's 6 months since I last posted on this thread - that's bad even by my slow standards... The shed has been re-roofed, dried out, painted externally, and flooring and insulation laid. It;s much nicer out there now - I've not tried it on a really cold winter's day, but on the few hot days we've had this summer, it has been quite pleasant in there, wheras it was unbearably hot before. I've since built a workbench, which I'm quite proud of - 3x2 framework, with the top recycled from the side of an old built-in fridge cabinet. I then built a framework for the layout to sit on (which I've not taken a photo of) - I took great pains to get all the legs exactly the same length and build it perfectly square, only to have to add shims under most of the legs as the floor isn't level! I'm now onto baseboards - I've cut the tops from 9mm ply, and have attempted to cut the sides and ends 100mm deep from the same - but I've no hit a problem, as my carpentry skills clearly aren't as good as I'd like, and some of the sides aren't perfectly square, I suspect the saw moved slightly. Which makes me wonder - do I make some kind of jig to hold them exactly as I trim off a few mm from each to square them up, just live with a slight difference (mostly about half a mm max, except for two longer ones that vary by about 2mm over their length), or junk the dodgy ones and cut new? Also how much bracing do all-ply baseboards need? The station throat board is 54" by 24", so I'm thinking two crossbraces 18" apart for that one, and one each for the shorter boards (36"). Do people recommend diagonal bracing as well? I don't want to make the same mistake I did on the previous layout and have boards that aren't strong enough and warp...

I think you should leave it as it is now - adding too much more would start to hide the detail you've put in. The bulkhead can be leaning against the wall of the shed...

Not if their job is to be a deterrant, then they want to be seen... I've seen side-by-side comparisons on OS and Soviet maps from the 70's. The OS map of Chatham dockyards just had a big blank area. The Soviet version had every detail right down to the depth of every dock marked...

Where do barns fit into the shed/hut/etc hierarchy? They are frequently used for storage, or for accommodation (of livestock). And engine sheds for that matter...

Something that's not been mentioned so far is the use of perspex shields around layouts, as are commonly found around the tills in most shops at the moment - they'd have the double bonus of not just protecting the exhibitors from the crowd, but also stopping the fingerpoking... Mind you, with the selfish attitude shown by some people in this thread, I think it'll be quite a while before I'm comfortable attending any indoor event, unless it requires proof of full vaccination.

Given that it's owned by the same group who own the 09, I'd assume it'll also be green.

I feel your pain with the transfers - I finished off a handful of wagon a couple of weeks ago, got the transfers how I was happy with, then gave them a coat of matt varnish - which it turned out was knackered, and left white streaks on all of them. Shoved the lot to the back of the workbench in disgust and now hoping I can weather them enough to hide it...

Phoenix do two shades of Malachite - listed as "pre-war" and "post-war" - to my eye the pre-war one looks better, the post-war one looks too bright to me. Admittedly that's based off preservation-era memories of Isle of Wight stock as I wasn't around in the late 40's!

Wouldn't a SII be almost new in Ladmanlow's time period though? Or is this for a separate diorama?

That tank of course shows it to be a SWB civvy version. What era will it be? I have to admit I've never seen a S1 chassis bare to know what's different to the S2/2A/3 version, other than the length.

I believe it used to be the case, but changed to the more sensible option quite a long time ago, except, for some reason, for the arc de triomphe...