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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?

Their safety record was not impressive, mind you they sometimes looked nicer after the crash test

This train crash scene fom the movie Supereight is impressive. It really makes you realise how much momentum a long heavy freight train has.

My favourite explanation of the difference between a sales rep og a marketing rep goes like this: A salesman and a marketing man from a shoe factory were both sent to a newly discovered country. The salesman wrote back in despair “No one uses shoes here“. The marketing man wrote back with great excitement “No one uses shoes here“.

There have been a few comments (and a couple of sentences from his interview that is linked to earlier in the thread), that point towards the timing coming as a bit of a surprise for Simon. In which case, if the 'powers that be' have not thought sucession planing through, then they only have themselves to blame.

You are right... and wrong. The danish word 'dæmning' is used for both dams and embankments, there is also a word 'dige' which google also translates as 'dam', but the correct translation would be dykes as these are man made earthworks arround low lying land to keep the sea out. A third word 'vold' would also be translated as embankment og earthwork is used when the embankment was created for defensive purposes. In this particular case It was an embankment that had a river running through it via a couple of pipes. This river is actually the longest river in Denmark and even at this inland section has ( by Danish standards) a hight flow rate. By going onto google earth and looking back the historical photos it can be seen that there ia a larger area of water on the upstream side of the embankment. So while being en embankment, it did also act as a dam😀. But I admit that is is problably the result of having lived here for 33 years that caused me to use the word 'dam' when 'embankment' would have been (to people thinking in English) a better translation.

Does this count? https://hemmeligesteder.dk/den-genfundne-bro-eng.php This narrow gauge bridge was built in 1899, covered by a dam in 1929. When the whole railwayline was being turned into a walking, riding, cycling route in 2014, they struck metal, and found there was still an intact bridge. The decision was made to uncover it and restore it. It is worth a visit, and just further up the line there is a preserved railway

Thaks to everyone for all your imput. I think I will start by trying a 3D print of the windows and stone surrounds. One of my sons is a professional 3D artist in the game industry, So I can borrow his printer which he uses for print of his designs in the real world.