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I have just worked out why there is no viaduct under the locomotive. AI was 'doing' a 'Flying Scotsman' We are probably quite lucky it at least chose a train, otherwise we might have been able to see whether it is true about what they wear under their kilts.

And also for the EU to avoid the standard £25 + 25% vat charges I get on anything I buy from the UK. Even on goods sent free of charge to replace defective goods!

You could try using A latex Copdex glue. I find that it allows for a bit of movement.

I think that at this junction, it is time to switch the subject before it catches on. we are crossing the line where it become a trap point, and the quality of the puns slips. Wye do we do it?

You might come to regret that idea : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/05/kai-cenat-inciting-riot-charges-giveaway-new-york, The thought of loads of 'mature' men all demanding that they are first on the list frightens me, I have read the threads about behavour at exhibitions.

While the delivery driver then throws it over the fence, because there is no one at home.

They are a pretty standard construction in Denmark for two motorways crossing each other. Once you get used to them , they work fine, especially as all motorway juctions have slip roads with 'merge' rather than 'give-way' for traffic entering the motorway. Mind you we do not have quite the same traffic density as the UK. One other side benefit is that in case of a closure due to a crash on the middle section of the simple left ( UK) hand route, (righthand here i Denmark), it is possible to bypass it by going round all the other three loops to get to the same endpoint. i had never thought of this untill my GPS suggested it in just such a situation !

I think that all traffic wardens should be forced to work from home

One thing that strikes me about the bottom photo is that you can see how uneven the bodywork is by the reflections of the light. Particularly under the grill, there almost seems to be a horizontal crease sloping upwards towards the door. If Hornby reproduced it, would people complain about the model being damaged in transit?

Here are 7815, 7823, 7819 , 7823 and 7820

I was quite aware that I was almost certainly going to get at least one calculation showing how, silly I am. We all have a responsibility to ' do our bit' to prevent global warning, and soon the sand will be too hot for the ostriches to keep their heads buried. We all have priorities, and great care should be taken to promote thought, without imposing one’s own priorities on others. If I did not do that then I apologise. Freighting of goods around the world remains one of the biggest areas for improvement. As this is a railway related forum I would be interested to hear about the carbon footprint for goods transported from China via sea, air and the new(ish) train option; https://www.sino-shipping.com/rail-freight-china/ It must depend on how much of the root is electrified, and how that power is generated.

And in the same week that the world has the hottest weather ever. A bunch of toys for adult men is airlifted around the globe. To save about an extra 10% waiting time, since they were anounced.

'American processed cheese' ... so it is a vegan burger?

I think that it is even more important to teach children (and adults) how to distinguish between facts and opinions, and how to qualify the veracity of facts, and the validity of opinions. I’m pretty sure Einstein said the same thing on the internet. so it must be true.

At least we all know who is the inspiration for the patrician on RMweb...

Are you Corporal Nobbs?

I think the phrase 'limited edition' has lost its meaning now. When manufactures held the moulds in their own factoris and go a run off a few hundred units when the stocks were running low. Then a limited edition meant something. These days every model is produced as a limited that is to say a fixed number run. So the phrase has lost its value

Unless Hornby have promised that they will never make another batch, then nobody has the right to feel that they have been shafted. It seems to me that if Hornby know they can sell more of a sold-out model and do not do so, then they are just asking to go bankrupt. One might even be positive about a Hornby decision for once and say that that are helping those who wanted to buy the first time round but missed out. They probably think that they are making models for enthusiasts, rather than offering investment opportunities.

I seem to remember that one of the criticisms levelled against SK at Hornby was that they only made LNER Pacific’s because he liked them. I would have to say that I hope all manufactures market analysis is a bit more advanced them “Well I like ‘em, so let’s do it”

Apparently a bass player is halfway between a drummer and a musician.

That's a different form of moddeling. They both look a bit narrow gauge to me.

I find that my Mojo for modelling varies immensely. I am lucky to have a (more than) fulltime job that pays well, with great colleges and very good and appreciating leadership. It really is a dream job. But I am the type that takes too much responsibility, and there are periods of time when I get stressed up about problems that are not completely my responsibility. But where the ability to fix the problem is out of my hands, and the people/companies who ought to take responsibility, do not seem to take it as seriously as I do. When this happens, I am allowed to ‘unplug’ myself from work for a few days. And the idea is that modelling should give me a break. But I often find that in this situation, that even small setbacks in projects cause me to lose all sense of proportion. I am a member of the Scalescenes Facebook group and the other members there are lovely people. I recently put up a picture of a very early stage in a project and talked about the difficulty in obtaining more information about the protoype. Within hours, they had found me a Youtube video with drone flights around the building, and a complete set of plans and many very helpful documents from the relevant county council’s website for planning permission for a recent restoration project. Their positive feedback about my bumbling progress on projects is a great help when I’m a bit down. It is important to remember that the positive likes and feedback we give on forums without thinking much about them, can mean a lot to the people receiving them… and of course that the negative comments can have a much bigger effect then we realise.

I assume that that the unions were not pleased: He worked all day and was paid peanuts.

I was schizophrenic, but we are better now.

Was that double arrow done with tipex?