Tim Dubya

Cows milk is for calves and nobody else.

Miss him badly, still.

Richard Harris and Peter O’Toole share a joke at the Dorchester 1995 👍

1 hour ago, Not Jeremy said:

Harry Wainwright

He's guilt of selling me GWR literature, but I didn't know no better in them days...

30 minutes ago, Gilbert said:

I once mentioned cellulose thinners to the late-lamented Mick Bonwick in the context of airbrush cleaning......I only did it once....just saying..

Chris H

There's no quick way to properly (correctly) clean an air brush.  You have to take it apart lovingly and gently rub it's bits with a suitable solvent (read yer manual for which one, it depends on what the rubbery bits are made from).  Then give it all a nice polish and put it back together with some lube (of your choice, because by now you know what's safe👍), my personal preference is for a bit of needle juice... yum

3 hours ago, DaveF said:

C13934

I'm amazed it made it to 1990.

2 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said:

Cellulose thinners.

 

Takes no prisoners. Dirt flees screaming from it.

 

Definitely.  If you wish to preserve any particular brain cells, I suggest you put them in a vapour proof bag for the duration of useage... and then some.

8 minutes ago, russ p said:

I won't comment again as it will become political 

All I will say is, they're all responsible for selling the family silver.  Every single administration.

7 minutes ago, JZ said:

Link not working. Try this.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68021178

Even our own Mr Rees-Mogg is in favour, well that's what he said when he wrote back to me about this 👍

On 13/01/2024 at 03:02, Gloucester Road said:

sorry for the interloper; three cats and a dog who wants to be a cat

"Everybody wants to be a cat,

Because a cat's the only cat who knows where it's at.

Everybody's pickin' up on that feline beat,

'Cause everything else is obsolete..."

Personally I'm only after two car DMU's but I would happily pay £300 for a DCC ready (I don't do DCC atm) set.  I was happy enough with the EFE LSWR Cross-country 3 coach sets to pay £195 for them, so by my logic £300 would be the sweet spot for a two car.  For a five car, I'd go to £450 for DCC ready.

You gets what you pays for at the end of the day.  Even if here were kits for what I want, I wouldn't be happy with my 'build quality', such are my skills atm. 

That looks like a painting or even a model. 

You can't get anything else that says GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY quite like that image.

Superb, thank you for sharing it!

1 minute ago, 1andrew1 said:

I'm no fan of them for myself but I can see that Hornby might view them as a tool to get new modellers into the hobby. 

...or just cash in, people who collect not only trains but Beatles guff will love them.

A good year for collectors at least.  I can't see many 'Locomotions' lasting long in the wrong hands, although at £170 a pop (which considering the complexity of it seems a fair price), one would hope they'd be well cared for.  If I had the spare wedge I'd be up for one, just for the novelty value 👍

Where's my G6 and Ironclads Mr Hornby? 😜

5 minutes ago, Not Jeremy said:

That was Dave the ace figure painter

That's my memory of the place. It was tiny but stuffed to the gunwales.

Re: Moles, I think that's called Karma... man