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8 minutes ago, Caley Jim said:

Isn't that implied by the size of the hammer?

 

Jim

Not always.  There are places that a toffee hammer will reach that a sledge hammer won't.  A good wallop with a toffee hammer could get the same result as a gentle tap with a sledge hammer.

Adrian

8 hours ago, Captain Kernow said:

Thanks everyone for the suggestions above.

 

Admittedly, I was thinking of scribing the stonework on the dried-out DAS (once sanded to an acceptable finish), but I'm getting the impression that this may not be recommended, as compared to scribing wet DAS.

 

I do know that tile grout is fairly easy to scribe when dry, also Polyfilla type fillers, so presumably either flooding the dried tile grout with MEK or applying it just before the tile grout would still work?

 

The structure this is meant for is a road-over-rail stone bridge.

 

Thanks.

 

Good evening Mon Capitain,

I've done quite a bit of DAS scribing, and it has always been done dry.  As others have said, you can draw on your pattern with a pencil, and you don't get furrows.  My weapon of choice is a .6mm nickel silver lace pin held in a pin vice.

What I can't remember is what I added to the surface of the plasticard before I put the DAS on.  I think it was PVA.

I've also used coving adhesive (which has a technical name which currently escapes me).  Again done dry, but in this case, it is cast (make a mould using some styrene L shaped strip).

Adrian

7 hours ago, Caley Jim said:

Engineering is 90% knowing which hammer to use and 10% knowing where to hit it. Tim will have had plenty practice removing impacted teeth with a bone chisel and mallet! 😃

Jim 

You forgot knowing how hard to hit it.

Adrian

1 hour ago, KeithHC said:

Agree on the blogs for the railway they are great at giving an insight as to what is happening. There is also very much a theme that runs through them and that seams to be about tea and various cakes/doughnuts……….

 

Keith

As any flu kno, everything runs on cake.

Adrian

Am I alone in wondering how what sort of ID is required for elections is of relevance to HS2 ?

Am I alone in wondering how people select which candidate to vote for at local elections is of relevance to HS2 ?

Am I alone in wondering how much longer it will be before this thread also gets locked due to it turning into another politics thread ?

Adrian

On 20/10/2023 at 18:31, Donw said:

Marion enjoyed that having kept parrots in the past we are quite familiar with that behaviour. Here we do get Robins tapping on the window for food if we ignore their calls. 

 

Don

 

Years back at work, we had a duck who used to waddle up to reception at about 10:00 in the morning.  If the door was open, she would stick her head around through and give us a quack, otherwise it was a knock on the door.  Once she'd had half a slice of bread, she's waddle off again.

Adrian

4 hours ago, 2ManySpams said:

 

Just needs a few extras, such as a lamb chop, to make it a great mixed grill.

I have a feeling that Mr @NotenoughPanniers hasn't quite got the hang of this.

Adrian

10 hours ago, Ramblin Rich said:

Does that mean that, somewhere, there's a bigger version? 🤨

If I have nightmares tonight, I'll know who to blame.

Adrian

10 hours ago, 37Oban said:

Once you open the box and start building you'll find yourself committed to a very slippery slope!  I've heard rumours there's a support group, somewhere, a bit like AA and such, but no-one has ever found it!

 

Roja

It's probably hidden in amongst someone's kit stash.

Adrian

4 hours ago, jjb1970 said:

Further to sending Leopard 1 tanks to Ukraine and offloading junk I read something about a bloke in Belgium with a shed load of Kurassier tanks he wants to ship to Ukraine. The Kurassier was pretty much a French AMX13 turret on an Austrian chassis. The armour is paper thin for a tank and the 105mm gun outmatched. The question might be what use he expects them to be put to in a theatre like that which is dangerous for the most modern, well protected and powerful tanks let alone antiquated light tanks which were withdrawn years ago. If I was cynical (which of course I am not) I might think he wants to invoice the Belgian government or EC $$$$$$$$$$$s for his old tat which they'd then donate.

Decoys ?

Park them somewhere near the front, and tempt Vlad and co into blowing them up instead of the better kit.

Adrian

43 minutes ago, fastforwardtt said:

Sorry but can you please show a link to that section?

https://www.rmweb.co.uk/forum/145-uk-standard-gauge-industrial-modelling/

Adrian

45 minutes ago, Bon Accord said:

 

Hi Adrian,

If you still have his discharge book then that'll have all the ships he sailed in and the dates he was onboard.

He had a big clear out a few years back, and I suspect that such things would have been amongst that which got binned.

Adrian

Heading into London on the Chiltern service yesterday, as we crossed the Colne valley, the viaduct building gantry was clearly visible.  The piers at the London end of the viaduct were rather more of a "work in progress" than those closer to the gantry.

Adrian

On 11/10/2023 at 11:14, jamie92208 said:

A new video of the Kenilworth are.things are really coming on and the final trace of the route is easily visible for much of the way. I presume that the duacarriageway is the A46, obviously the next big bridge work. 

 

Jamir

The dual carriage way is the A46.  It looks as though they've started to build the base for the bridge one the far side of it.  I'm guessing that they'll do what seems to be the usual trick of building the bridge, then having a weekend closure as they slide it into place.

Interesting to note that the bridge for the Coventry - Leamington Spa line appears to have enough width for two tracks.

Adrian

On 10/10/2023 at 23:03, Bon Accord said:

 

For a wee while I was really struggling to place the ship.

There weren't many British ships with that distinctive goalpost at the break of the fo'c'sle; I know she's British going by the Mate up for'd in his whites.

Now that the surviving brain cells have had time to confer, was she one of Furness Withy's "Pacific" ships, used on their UK-Pacific Northwest trade?

 

Furness Withy is a distinct possibility as that was one of the lines dad sailed with.  What I can't remember is which lines he sailed with and when.  The caption written on the slide was of little help, just where and when.

Adrian

22 hours ago, jessy1692 said:

There was a 47 at Sinderby too I'm sure, also I thought/ got told/ misremembered it was a doctor or some such that had them? Of course it could be the Clergyman also had a doctorate! 

I thought they'd all be gone by now, must have been out in the open for the vest part of 20 years.

 

A 47 rings a bell.

Adrian

Some more nostalgia.

Panama Canal May 1960.

Adrian

10 hours ago, Barry O said:

Leeds Exhibition in the Corn exchange.. 

 

Thursday 10 till 9pm

Friday 10am till 9pm

Saturday 10am till 9pm 

 

In those days Sunday opening was verboten!

 

Baz

I remember evening visits to the Corn Exchange exhibitions when I were a lad.

Adrian

20 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said:

Have we had this one before? Not sure why they were abandoned on an old RAF base, or how they got there.

 

 

 

If I recall correctly (by no means a forgone conclusion), there was a story behind them.

Regular users of the A1 through the North Riding may remember seeing a collection of carriages and (I think) a loco on the east side of the A1 at the old Sinderby station (Melmerby - Northallerton route).  Rumour had it that they had been collected by a clergyman, although the reason was unclear.  When the A1 was upgraded to A1M, the site was cleared, and the stock had to be relocated to the nearby Dalton Airfield.  With Google Earth, if you "scroll back" to March 2012, they can be seen on the north side of the airfield.

Adrian

1 hour ago, Siberian Snooper said:

Thirty, twenty by the GW and a further 10 by BR.

 

I think  Rob, will have a job to get all those locos on ANTB.

 

 

And if you are keen, there are the ones (officially ten) that BR planned (names and numbers allocated), but not built.

Adrian

4 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:

I now need a holiday. Anywhere but Spain will do.

 

Dave

I've heard that Bognor is popular.

Adrian

2 hours ago, Edwardian said:

The nights start to draw in and I find that, after a difficult summer healthwise, I am starting to feel a bit like my old self. Hope I find the rest of the parish in rude health.

 

Via a fantasy terrain project, I am easing myself gradually back into modelling and will let you know when my attention turns to Castle Aching.

 

In the meantime, when bin raiding goes horribly wrong ...

 

 

"It wasn't me, honest, a big dog did and ran away."

Adrian

2 hours ago, Wickham Green too said:

Dare I ask what happened to the third Earl ............................... or is he not to be spoken about ? 🤐

According to wonkypedia, the third Earl only had a short innings, 1809 - 1811.

Adrian

10 hours ago, Captain_Mumbles said:

How do you find the paint interaction with these materials?

 

I can't speak for resin printing as I don't currently do that.  So far as PLA and PETG are concerned, I give them a coat of spray primer (Halfords), and then paint them.  I've got one item outdoors which has been in situ for 4.5 years and seems to be OK.

Adrian