Nick C

Could be an early Kirk kit maybe? This site lists a few Minks in that range - http://www.gwr.org.uk/kits4wagons.html

I think this is the best so far, makes good use of the space at the end of the yard that would otherwise be empty.

That's interesting, shows that the office doesn't actually need to be anywhere near the coal storage area - which makes sense, the office is the merchant's shop and advertising, so he wants it to be as visible as possible to anyone visiting the yard (especially where there are multiple merchants, so he wants to be more visible than his competitors!)

option 1, it's your railway after all! I've been having a look at some old maps online to see what the GWR did (I'm not all that familiar with Swindon matters), and can't see any coal bins at any of the stations I've looked at - so either the GW didn't provide them, or the OS didn't bother to map them.

They've done W13 in Malachite - and the forthcoming 32646 would be pretty easy to backdate to W8 to match (I'm wondering if I'll be brave enough to attempt post-dating it to the later Hayling Island condition, lined out, with the low coal rails that were unique to '46, toolboxes and spark arrestor) I may have just aquired a W10 in olive...

Here's a couple of ideas, not sure if they would work with the geometry available though...

The problem with touchsceen based instrument panels is that you need to look at them to do anything - say the windscreen starts misting up on a cold morning and you need to quickly stick the demister on, you have to take your eyes off the road to find the right place to press. Wheras with a physical control you can do it without looking - e.g. turn all the dials to the right (demist, hot, max speed). It's something I dislike about my current car as the heater controls, while still physical, are flush buttons, making it harder to control it by feel.

The smaller 90's Peugeots (205, 106) were like that too - with a very light rear end on torsion beam suspension, they were very susceptible to 'lift-off oversteer' - though some of the more skilled rally drivers I knew were able to make full use of that, gettting them to oversteer into a corner and powering out of it.

Agreed - you didn't buy it, you made it, from raw materials - that's scratchbuilding. The 3D printer is just a tool you used to help you, just the same as a craft knife or steel rule...

We're on our 5th year with the allotment, no prior experience before that. Last year we weighed some of our crops, and worked out that we got over £100 worth of raspberries alone, enough spuds to last us nearly 9 months, and we're still eating the garlic - in fact every year since we started we've had enough garlic to last until the next crop. You've obviously never tried home grown tomatoes or cucumber either, the difference in taste from the watery supermarket stuff is immense.

The latest South Western Circular has an article on the differences between the different batches of G6. It seems they really are a minefield, as the later Drummond locos had second-hand boilers from new, and so had various differences to cope with these - including a different wheelbase on one batch...

Nor did I until one of our allotment neighbours pointed it out to us...

After your previous post without a photo, I was fully expecting the photo to be of a real, 12"/ft scale shed, with recycled door and window...

It's soon going to be a legal requirement - as it already is for dogs. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57068182

The one in the middle of that photos looks like it's bolted (started to flower) - unless you want to save the seeds, you're better off nipping off the bud so that it puts it's energy into growing the bulb rather than the seeds. more important with onions than with garlic I believe.

I'd not thought of that combination - I guess that's what some of the museums do when you see those kinds of credits in their images.

Indeed - I've noticed a few photographs floating around with "Copyright <name> <date>, original photographer unknown" - which of course is impossible, as without knowing who the original photographer is, they can't possibly have acquired the copyright...

The real problem is that the rules aren't enforced - so while the law says that opting out must be just as easy as opting in, 90% of sites out there make it a real pain to opt out, but nothing is done about it. This is certainly one of the better ones - at least it was only two clicks here (I've just tried it in a new broswer just to see what came up, and there was a nice reject all button on the second page, so kudos to Warner Media there)

I was going to cite the following webcomic: https://xkcd.com/891/ But then I realised that too is a decade old!

I'm a bit concerned that this breakfast hasn't appeared on this page yet...

That's true - however the IoW stock was certainly painted in fully lined livery - there's plenty of photos. Other stock that was expected to last past around 1926 or so would have been repainted after the grouping as well, and may well have been lined - even if it was later relegated to hop-picking duties etc.

I believe there were a few rakes of 4/6 wheelers on the SR (mainland) that just scraped into the thirties on hop-pickers duties, excursions etc. The Bluebell have a couple of 6 wheelers with 1935 withdrawal dates. The LCDR 4-wheelers sent over to the IOW mostly lasted until 36/37, with a couple of exceptions that lasted through the war in parcels use.

Neutral colours would have been fine - it's the gloss black kitchen units they fitted that look really bad...

The previous owners of our house decorated the whole thing in black and white, with grey carpets. It looked awful! We're slowly working our way through making it actually homely again...

At least you know all the bits are somewhere in that box. Mine seem to have become spread over several boxes, and I have no idea what's where...