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  1. Trying to find something in the limited resources available around here to make a decent looking ground cover...

  2. Is it too early to go for a pint?

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    2. Sailor Charon

      Sailor Charon

      Beer can be for breakfast.

    3. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Is this related to Andy C's post about the end of the world being scheduled for tomorrow?

    4. Baggie

      Baggie

      Its bound to be late ;)

       

  3. Hopefully, I can get some modelling work done this week...

    1. scots region

      scots region

      hopefully 'I' can get some modelling done

    2. SeanNeedham

      SeanNeedham

      Hehehe, having one of them times as well, scots region?

  4. Thankfully weekends like that don't happen too often...

  5. Wanted to get in the kitchen and build a wiring loom, but... The house has been invaded :(

  6. Off for a pint, and then to bore people with a blog post...

    1. halfwit

      halfwit

      Oi! Boring people with blog posts is my job!

  7. Just spent the last few hours unintentionally making the base structure of the local railway station, instead of a UK signal box...

  8. Messing around with some balsa and some LED's that I found in a box...

  9. Just got back in from taking a few snaps...

  10. Off to spend the evening crawling round the old railway station with a tape measure...

  11. Doesn't look though anything model wise is going to get done today...

  12. Just come in to find the board I'm working on has some impact damage and fingerprints in the flanks of a half dried repaint job... Guess the family have been to visit.

  13. Nothing as dull as being a press photographer in a county of less than 30,000 people... Time to see if I don't break a lens of another mayoral candidate.

  14. Some priming done, some wiring done, now I reckon it's time for a pint before I have to think about doing some proper work...

  15. Overall black with a red band along the edge of the running board line, or unlined with green tanks, cab and coal skip sides?

  16. Junk shop special... An Arnold 0-6-0 of the family what ran out of Barcelona, 20€... Paint already in stock... If I keep this up, I'll soon have one of everything local :S

  17. Should I take this pick up job in Sabadell this lunch? Could be dangerous as it's five minutes from the Code 55 stockist :S

    1. Tom Bayford

      Tom Bayford

      could be worse we had to get someone to take 5 litres of oil from Ringwood to Kilmarnock!

       

    2. SeanNeedham

      SeanNeedham

      I did Southampton to Edinburgh and back in a day in my previous existence (though the go faster button on the 'bus' helped), Tom, I feel for you! Good luck!

  18. Just had a bogie mount sheer on my only 'large' loco, a Farish 47 that is at least 16 years old as I know to...

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    2. Etched Pixels

      Etched Pixels

      If its one of the two plastic bits that hold the bogie on its a trivial fix, undo screw, remove old, fit new, check pickups ok done

       

    3. SeanNeedham

      SeanNeedham

      No need, Pete, the other half's boss owes me a few favours, and he owns a precision metal fabrication company. I'll have a complete set on the desk waiting for me when I get home tomorrow, and I might see if they'll rattle up some brass bearings for the drive shafts at the same time.

    4. SeanNeedham

      SeanNeedham

      Etched Pixels, easy to fix, done it before many times in England... Getting parts over here in Spain is not as easy, been going through the local dealer lists seeing if they've got any parts, but as the loco has been written off twice already, I'm seeing about getting some custom bits done (as my other half's boss is wanting to expand the product lines he does...).

  19. Catalan model project is on hold for the time being until I can acquire enough insulation board to carve in to a mountain... Problem is now, I've a pair of 2x1' boards tempting me off the workbench.

    1. bcnPete

      bcnPete

      Resist Resist!...

    2. SeanNeedham

      SeanNeedham

      I don't know if I can resist... I've been shanghaied in to doing a layout for November, and found a place down in Sabadell that sells Code 55...

  20. No foam board for me :'( But on a happier note, I've found the phone number of the person I need to talk to, so I can play with some 1:1 scale toys... :)

  21. "We can't sell you any of that, without a builders permit..." Looks like I'm breaking and entering a building site tonight then...

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    2. Coombe Barton

      Coombe Barton

      Ah! Thanks WF.

    3. SeanNeedham

      SeanNeedham

      It turns out that the need for permits was brought in by the new mayor, and to get the permit you need to present architectural plans to the municipal adjuntement before they'd sign off on it (it took my father in law two months to get permission to fix a leaky poo pipe in the bathroom wall)... And it turns out, that the only architect operating in the region is... The mayor of the village.

    4. ozzyo

      ozzyo

      That sounds about right!!!

  22. Nearly getting to the point where I'd be happy to post photos, instead of just having bits of wood and track to show for my efforts...

  23. If anyone else around here asks my opinion of the incident happening in the UK this morning...

    1. Pennine MC

      Pennine MC

      Well nobody here has ;-)

    2. SeanNeedham

      SeanNeedham

      Yeah, just a bit frustrated on that... Everyone and their dog in the office this AM were thinking I should have some form of opinion on the 'incident', in the UK, seeing as I'm the token ex-pat... I was more interested in an accident report of a train crash in Barcelona yesterday to be honest.

  24. How can a village on top of a mountain flood?

    1. BoD

      BoD

      Just think how those down in the valley are feeling.

    2. SeanNeedham

      SeanNeedham

      I am, as compared to the village I hinted on, I am downslope!

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