durham light infantry

1 hour ago, Martino said:

 

I think this must have been the Mosquito in question.  This was at a Booker/Wycombe Air Park air show in, I think, 1968.  I must get around to rescanning this slide and cleaning it up. Hunter F4 in the foreground.  I think (having search the web) it’s static preserved in Jordan.

1 hour ago, rob D2 said:

Is it a problem inherent on the type or that specific airframe ? very bad time to

lose power up there at the apex of the wing over 

No, that's a bomber version. RR299 was a TIII. The loss of power was a temporary fault in the carburettor of the port engine, you can see the puff of black smoke just before the critical moment. The pilot had regained control but unfortunately too low to prevent the crash. Negative g cut outs in Merlin engines were cured by Miss Schillings orifice, a simple washer in the carburettor and standard fitment after it's invention.

RR299 was maintained and looked after very thoroughly by BAe and it's predecessors. The chief engineer unfortunately was in the right hand seat when it crashed. The greatest irony was the RR299 was going to be donated to the BBMF at the end of the 1996 airshow season.

1 hour ago, gwrrob said:

As promised a photo or two of my first and definitely not my last EFE wagon product, in the shape of the SR diagram 1406 10 ton covered van. Some nice weight to it in 40g . Very nice too although you will notice quite a few moulding sink marks on the floor.

 

 

 

Those aren't sink marks. They are ejector pin marks, rather neccessary to eject the part from the mould.

12 hours ago, Cowley 47521 said:

I was trying to think of a funny caption for this but I didn’t want to trot out some tired old pun…

 

Do you stop at the Nags Head?

Syd and Fred waiting for the chauffeur to take them on their next adventure.

1 hour ago, MrWolf said:

Limestone works? An essay in subtle variations of grey and rust!

 

Which leads me into asking my next question:

The layout of Aston on Clun is actually based on Shipston on Stour, somewhere I was interested in modelling until I found that someone else has made a much better job of it than I could and called it Little Muddle or something....

 

But I was always interested in the old passenger brake vans flanking the goods shed. I decided that as I'd scaled back the goods shed in a big way, then only one grounded van would be the way to go.

 

I found a couple of pictures via Gloucester Warwickshire Railways, but obviously they're black and white.

 

 

Obviously once out of revenue earning stock the original livery would have been painted out.

 

Does anyone know what colour it would have been painted? 

Back in the distant past (1980 onwards) I worked for a local builder and then a roofing merchant which had a contract division. All the dregs of paint were kept for rainy day use. Timber for future projects were undercoated in a mix of all this, and it was known locally as mudge. The foremen/supervisors would say "give that bare timber a coat of mudge".

As promised the ground frame hut with fire buckets and stovepipe chimney.

Also for Rob, one of the many things we were discussing was layout heights. Currently Sheep Lane is on top of a layout in gestation, Hornbeam Limestone.  The height to rail is 5'4 3/4", which places loco footplates right in my eyeline.

Some of the weathered ground frame hut too, along with a pristine example for comparison. The weathered one now sports a stovepipe chimney and rack of fire buckets, I will post a photo later when I can get into the workshop of worry.;

Plus some more of The Warren. Which I was taken with too. I could so something NC&DJR with that, on the light railway between Torrington and Halwill Junction.

It's Mike, Rob. But I will let you off if you want to play trains/operate at Pontefract in January.

Some more for your delectation...

8 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

I think we've all been there. I certainly have - the first job after I got home was to make a list...

I have a list. Actually I have 2, 1 for layouts and 1 for demonstrations. I was trying to be clever and pack all the electrics into a new smaller box, instead of the aluminium flight case I normally use. Trying to cut down on the number of items to carry.

Back to the flight case...

It was bloody nice to meet Mr Wolf today. We spent a pleasant 30 or 40 minutes discussing many things. Made my day.

A very definite senior moment today at Harrogate. Layout with all the accessories and stock, loaded in the car last night for an early bed time. 7am departure for a bang on arrival at the hall 8.15, car unloaded and layout set up in 20 minutes. Last thing transformer out of box, no controller ...

A seemingly nonchalant browse of the trade stands followed. Surely someone must have a controller. Finally on the club stand a Triang P5 controller older than me but with a new mains cable £10, no plug...  A further nonchalant stroll back to the layout to scope out the electrical items that I had brought with me. All with moulded plugs, apart from the 4-way. Result, and I did have electrical screwdrivers in the toolbox.

10 minutes later and I had power to the tracks. Downside my Kernow and EFE Beattie Well tanks were uncontrollable, and the Bachmann USA and Heljan 07 like jack rabbits. The Dapol B4 was the best of the bunch but still needed taming. 

I had an idea! Use the USA and 07 like a load bank, so they were chocked against the end of the fiddle yard with blutac.

I will definitely remember the transformer and controller in future, and probably aquire a spare to be packed seperately in with the layout bolts and curtain.

1 hour ago, NHY 581 said:

 

Trust me Wooders, I have spent many hours in A&E on a Sat or Sun when working for a living.......

Speaking of which Rob. Do you have a room or rooms with blackout blinds, like the Memsahib here uses when sleeping during the day between night shifts? While you are waiting for whatever treatment you need, a darkened room will reduce your eyestrain.

Sorry if I am preaching to the converted

11 hours ago, PaulRhB said:

Nice to see Ewe 👍 

To see Ewe, nice.

54 minutes ago, 2ManySpams said:

SheepBloke looking a bit dodgy...

 

 

 

 

And then he was told to look sad....

 

Top photo 1000 yard stare

Bottom photo like 1 of my pups, just before I discover his latest misdemeanor.

16 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

Probably not an acceptable appearance for his last employer! 

Oh I don't know. Back out of retirement, undercover on the mean streets of Cardiff. Operating out of the former Torchwood hub in Roald Dahl Plass. Like a 21st century version of Shoestring.

1 hour ago, 2ManySpams said:

Sorry Rob, just had to do it...

3 hours ago, NHY 581 said:

 

I can see what you're doing............

 

Don't forget, we're going to Railwells. All very serious. 

 

Says the sheep. 

 

 

1 hour ago, NHY 581 said:

 

Hi Nick.

 

Absolutely. No doubt the odd pipe stem being bitten through in the process........

 

Rob

 

 

2 hours ago, Oldddudders said:

No, Arte Johnson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arte_Johnson

 

I fear many on this thread are just too young!

Anybody else have a puppy cycle as a young child?

8 minutes ago, 5944 said:

Talking of which...

 

 

 

I think he got the hang of it after the seventh or eighth bounce!

What my late Father called "A transport command landing". He being subjected to the vagaries of superannuated ex-bomber command pilots, seeing out their service flying transports.

I would be more worried about the nose wheel shimmy.

1 hour ago, NHY 581 said:

Excellent news, Mike. 

 

At this rate, we're in danger of taking respective layouts to the same show !!

 

Rob

Now there is a challenge for an enterprising exhibition manager in the North Midlands. Sheep Lane, Mutton, Bleat Wharf, Sheep Dip and Ewe all together. I would be up for it.

Good news for the Ovine collective, the Sheep layouts are appearing at exhibitions further south. Sheep Lane is a late addition to a 1 day show at Harrogate on August Bank Holiday Monday. Even better Sheep Lane will be at the always excellent Normanton & Pontefract show on 27th/28th January 2024, followed by Mutton in 2026 at the same show.

Good news for the Ovine collective, the Sheep layouts are appearing at exhibitions further south. Sheep Lane is a late addition to a 1 day show at Harrogate on August Bank Holiday Monday. Even better Sheep Lane will be at the always excellent Normanton & Pontefract show on 27th/28th January 2024, followed by Mutton in 2026 at the same show.

40 minutes ago, kevinlms said:

Many people can't work from home, some think that everyone can.

Those same people also think you can do physically demanding jobs, including anti-social hours.

Until the day before your 67th birthday.

11 hours ago, didcot said:

Love the Vulcan. I remember it from the old Abingdon Air Show. It would take off and literally go vertical. The noise was deafening, but incredible. 

If you want a good read I recommend Vulcan 607 which covers the the Falklands mission. 

10 hours ago, Jeff Smith said:

It would not have stayed vertical for long, actually probably not at all - just perception from the side of the runway.  There was just not enough thrust for that!

9 hours ago, Jeff Smith said:

There's lies, damn lies and statistics!  In theory you are twice as likely to have an engine failure with four engines than with two......

8 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

Yes - but, provided that the failure isn't caused by an external factor affecting more than one engine (volcanic ash, for example), if you do you've got three left rather than just one.

The opening of Vulcan 607 starts with the crash of a Vulcan not far from here. The catastrophic failure of one of the inboard engines also destroyed the outboard one next to it. A Vulcan on 2 engines giving asymetric thrust is only going in one direction.

A good friend of mine leases the field it crashed in, he is still picking up bits of Vulcan over 50 years later.