Tim Dubya

Pah!

My little Peggy wasn't interested in those common flavours,oh no!  She much preferred an at risk species, and to be more precise the offspring of one, in this case a juvenile Bullfinch.  I miss that little cat but her passing has certainly helped with  keeping the endangered list a little lower.

41 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

I'm sure St E's engineering background helps in designing such neat things, compared to some of us at the bodgery end of the modelling spectrum....

Hi, I'm Mr Interference Fit.

Digital caliper for me from now on! 

7 minutes ago, steve1 said:

something palatable to the animal.

Arse flavour should be the winner there for both species 🤔

5 hours ago, jamest said:

What tool do you use to scribe your lines

I use one of these myself.

https://www.scalemodelshop.co.uk/plastic-scriber-ii-tamiya-74091-p12642

@MrWolf also used to score thicker sheet plastics before snapping to get a nice clean line on the material 👍

2 hours ago, Darius43 said:

Do you normally use butanone to glue unpainted C&L chairs to plywood sleepers?

I understood that butanone was the recommended solvent for ply sleepers and plastic chairs?  

Is the butanone old, as it may expire and loose it's potency?  You can buy it quite cheaply in eBay, or at least you could a year or so ago 👍

On 04/02/2024 at 10:54, Mallard60022 said:

(just in case anyone's forgotten from many many pages ago).

G6 🤔😜

2 hours ago, JZ said:

But now taken refuge under the futon. 

TBF I did that for the first couple of weeks after I moved back to Radvegas 🤷

18 minutes ago, 30801 said:

 

But Uber Eats are on strike today 🤔

Are they? Good for them!

On 12/02/2024 at 12:40, 2ManySpams said:

4666

I have the devil's pannier, where do you guys get your loco plates?

2 hours ago, AlfaZagato said:

In re the 3D printed vans, I personally think a lot of makes are misusing 3D printings benefits.   I'd wager there'd be at least some reduction of cost if some of these cottage builders or shops produced with resin, and only printed prototypes.

Don't forget you're paying for design and intellectual property.  The materials, I guess to a degree, are negligible.

8 minutes ago, 2ManySpams said:

 

4666 and 4694 (iirc) were shredded at Wadebridge and used on the Wadebridge to Bodmin services.

I was thinking of placing me Charlie's in D&C, but I thank you for the info on the Paneers 👍

I must admit to not knowing much about them, although I have both a 57XX & 8750 from Bachmann.

I think I might just squeeze a Charlie in on an engineers train (and pretend very, very hard).

😬

You can't have enough Charlies (although I think my great uncle Fred, fitter at Eastleigh, called them Coffeepots).

Same as Panniers, you should always have one more than you've got... although I'm struggling to place one on a ex LSWR branch in Devon/Cornwall but that's my problem 😬

Website has been updated since my last visit 👍

Talking of motorcycles (and I hope this link works)...

https://www.facebook.com/share/gYoMn1ZNHcwFo9aC/

37 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said:

I wish you hadn't posted those photos....!

 

I'm now wondering if I ought to 'show further support' for my local model shop at Buchfastleigh....

Do you currently have both your kidneys?

I have to agree with the Captain, a very brave move, but a welcome one.  Not for me personally but I am sure your order books will be filled 👍

2 minutes ago, rob D2 said:

Im sure they’ll get to them, preferably before I become old and forgetful 

by which time you won't remember that you've forgotten whether you've got one or not, or not ?

5 minutes ago, Ian Hargrave said:

Now Dapol are revisiting it. 

Revising more like 😜

I can't find the article now, but I think it was by Aiden Campbell, when he described colour scaling for model makers. 

Ah, here it be...

guide to scale colour.pdf

1 minute ago, Miss Prism said:

 

Could this be down to "scale colour" or just poor colour matching?  Me thinks the latter.