robert17649

need talcum powder

pint of lager

dreams away somewhere

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good point they were shorter, quite a bit shorter

An interesting point picked up from a colleague in forensics. In 1914 -16 when the army was recruiting the average height of recruits was around 5,6 . this compares with 5.8 in 1960. a significant proportion of recruits were under weight. A conclusion is that in edwardian times people were smaller generally than now, in my view the Preiser figures may not be too small, more that modern figures are too big.

good prospect currently the preiser Edwardian fgures are about it if you can get hold of them,frankly the other offerings are not up to that sort of standard.

Trying to build a WW1 based London terminus layout in EM gauge. GER Met and NLR mainly, but constantly in conflict with lack of space and my interest in Colonel Stephens and oddities. love blue and teak, growing fonder of grey and crimson lake.

a bit more honest than somec maybe

just a quick note re autumnal colours.On 3rd November this year the wood at the end of my garden was green oak and ash.a week later the oak was a sort of pale greenish brown and the ash brown, two days after that, ie November 12th there were no leaves on the oak or the ash and the holly was green . Thus in this part of Cornwall modelling this autumn would mean brown leaves for two days! i have tried to model the season of mists and autumn fruitfulness but it has never looked real maybe the brown leaves don't really last long enough. just a thought.

If certificate is not in box I would question the provenance

W T Barnum said there was one born every minute .guess that applies to sellers and buyers.

progress is slow but I will post some pics soon if I can make my camera work

I just bought a new one for ten quid less

Preversed, says the great man mc m, I am reminded of telly Savalas as a drunken crop sprayer in a film about a failed Mars mission,as the bad guys shoot at him he shouts "goddam preverts" i wonder what preversed means?

so is being hit with a brick (georgian at least)

I have used some of the DPM kits and the modular ones as well. bristol models sell them but they are expensive I fear,However the bank hotel and store make good victorian bhjldings and can be anglicised by adding pitched roof etc.

what about a citroen nemo peugot bipper,they are dirt cheap to run loads of space and should about now be 3-4 years on, being french they depreciate very fast so on the second hand market they will be dropping towards the 3-4k mark.OR bangernomics as above 6-700 on a ford or any old estate spending the extra 3k on keeping it going.my brother has been running heaps for years ,chucking them when repair becomes too much.Middle range cars lose value very fast.

When I can work out simple stuff like picture posting I will real life a bit in the way at the moment

oto continue.The sentinel ran slowly but was nowhere near as quiet as a well run in and fully weighted PUG chassis,but it was brand new and was not well run in at all so not a really fair comparison.i havent got a Sentinel so cannot fill one with lead and soa it in oil to get a fair comparison. the pug chassis s in its fifth rein carnation and is what you could call a bit run in. I like the Pugs and have two more ,one will be an Avonside and the other just a Pug

I have two both second hand and regauged to EM using ultrascale wheels sets ,one is bashed to a Peckett. both have much added weight from all sorts of lead bits stuffed into any space and although the motor is easily visible run very slow and smooth.they benefit from lubrication and running in but hate dodgy track and uneven pointwork( my tracklaying is rubbish),however I have one more chassis under a GER tram loco running sskirtless which is quiet smooth and slow by virtue of several tyre balance weights which make up the whole interior of the scratch built loco. the loco is heavy the chassis is stiffened by superglued stringers from brass. At the Plymouth exhibition I saw aSentinel,one of the

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try williammaloney.com. theres a bit of info about trench weapons. Actually I suppose that it is possible that a 'native american' soldier may have taken his traditional weapon with him. Its known that Ghurkas used their own Khukri's and the Indian regiments their traditional knives,not necessarily part of the uniform. Highland soldiers are said to have taken their Skien dhu(B) with them although a knife tucked down a sock was again not a formal part of the uniform. I think that it may be now. So I suppose that the answer is logically possibly yes but maybe concrete evidence is a bit lacking.

But you would not want to eat the mustard!

Did anyone notice that the news item about W------ R----- swearing at the camera occupied about 40 seconds more than the death of about a thousand people in Cote d'ivoire,? but then only one of them is paid what w----r----- is paid and he doesn't live there and cote d'ivoire has no oil.