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Thanks for this link. I'm not sure these colours match what I'm looking for. Tuscan Red  is that Modelflex Pennsy Maroon?

Any hints on where to buy correct colour paints in UK? I'm looking for PRR Tuscan Red, PRR Olive Green, and PRR boxcar colour (the orangey red) initially. Either specifically formulated paints, or suggestions for equivalents from Vallejo, Tamiya or Humbrol

18 minutes ago, Edwardian said:

 

You've just made my morning with that!  GOL ("guffaw out loud", which, though as a phrase is as redundant as "laugh out loud" (how common is laughing in silence), but at least, I feel, more Pre-Grouping)).

Of course the existentialists have the secret "sourire en l'ame" (translated by my french teacher as a "soul smirk") which is almost certainely a precursor to silent (hollow) laughing

17 minutes ago, Tony Cane said:

Very nice models. I have built this set of vehicles in 4mm scale, but just the much easier option of only the exterior.

I thought about doing that, but since they probably spent more time in action (ie static) not being moved I went for the static option. I actually then realised that the open sides would be by far the most difficult bit as both the inside and outside would be visible. In the end I have settled on a three layer sandwich, with thin skins having the windows, and a thicker transparent side piece sandwiched between them  to give rigidity.  Are yours a display item, or are they running on a layout?

As a side project I'm working on a small 4mm scale layout/diorama depicting the work of the Royal Engineer Railway Units in Western France after Dunkirk. The first pieces to get anywhere near completion are vehicles of the 105 Railway Workshop Co. Two mobile railway workshops were operating in the Normandy and Brittany area and one of them was under the command of 2Lieut William Stanier, son of the LMS CME. The interiors of the workshop and the generator car are finished, next step will be the raised sides of the workshop van.

All this talk of "spem in allium" collided with just having watched the entirety of The Crown, and previous discussion of pronunciation of English, in my addled brain.   I do NOT like the subsequent appearance of the Hormel company's regurgitated meat product in a garlic sauce.

Thanks for this info

1 hour ago, Hroth said:

  9 hours ago, Malcolm 0-6-0 said:

Or Wales where the natives speak a language in which every letter is a vowel to be pronounced as the speaker alone sees fit. 

Its a mutant language - they can't even decide on Cymru vs Gymru....

 

 As it happens Welsh has very clear immutable phonetics, and the way words change is completely logical and bound by rules.

The English, being a mongrel race with a mongrel language however are a different thing altogether as their spelling mutates randomly:

Ghoughpteighbteau, pronounced potato

P as in hiccough, O as in though, T as in ptomaine, A as in neigh, T as in debt, O as in beureau

Ghoti and tchoghs, pronounced fish and chips

F as in cough, I as in women, SH as in nation, CH as in match, I as in women, P as in hiccough

and their rules are rubbish, what for instance is the point of learning "i before e except after c" at school, then writing the following words:

eight, forfeit, height, neighbour, seize, vein, weight, ancient, fancies, science, society deficient, conscience and so on

So best not to get too uppity about your linguistic superiority before checking.

Grumpy? moi? just had some crap news. Now can we get back to railways and the bizarre economics, politics and society of the fold in Norfolk?

Excellent stuff. Any chance you can let us know what kind of card you use, what kind of glue, and any special painting/protecting techniques?

10 minutes ago, Edwardian said:

 

Is that a stick with a horse's head handle he's holding?

 It might be, but if so his grasp of anatomy is severely limited

Just found a topically repurposed selection of railway posters. All post-grouping I'm afraid, but this one exhibited here so that one of the usual Aching denizens can ply their magic on something from the right era

2 hours ago, Edwardian said:

The combination of education, a comfortable living and not unduly onerous clerical duties made the British clergyman the perfect vessel for progress in so many fields; everything from the collection and preservation of folk songs to the invention of the percussion lock.

Or instead ending up as one Norfolk vicar did (born and largely active pre-grouping, and parish in the right place so still on-message here) exhibiting himself in Blackpool in a barrel, and ending up mauled to death by lions.

Just popped out for a walk and missed the whole flat earth debate.   The Bedford Levels experiment is a bizarre event. Any sailor could tell you how tall things disappear over the horizon. Regarding popular knowledge the orb, (globe surmounted by a cross) has been the depiction of Christ's dominion over the world since the Roman Empire. Before that some coins (for example of Hadrian) showed Victory standing on a globe. It is depicted on coins, and held by kings from then on. If it was generally considered that the earth was flat it would be a disk not an orb. So anyone who saw coins, or knew anyone who had, or had been to church would know this. For the 19th Century invention of the myth that people in the middle ages believed the earth to be flat read  Jeffrey Burton Russel's book published in 1991: Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians.

Hi Being dim, can't work out how to add a signature to profile/posts.

Of course if we are talking saddle tanks there is nothing to compare with my favourite, the Coal Saddle Tank.  Maximum access to the undergubbins for the maintenance men with this one.

When I worked for the Master in Lunacy at the Court of Protection in the 70s we could either wear jacket and tie, or if a hot day was announced by the Master we could wear a shirt with rolled sleeves and no tie. A jacket with no tie, or no jacket with sleeves down and a tie, or sleeves rolled and a tie, or sleeves down and no tie, were absolutely forbidden. Don't even think about how the arcane and entirely pointless system for filing evidence was structured, it would drive you mad. I was once reprimanded for referring to the Court as the "Island of Lost Souls" whilst on the phone to the Official Solicitor's Office.

Good to know this about the ballast wagons. I was considering them, but I think it sounds like too much work for P4 so I think I will give them a miss.

19 minutes ago, Nearholmer said:

Not sure how he can get blood on the middle bit of his rapier but not the end though

1 hour ago, Adam88 said:

 Did he really?  Spanish Flu in 1917?

Although it is called the Spanish Flu it originated in the United States and was at first thought to have started in Kansas. "A 2018 study of tissue slides and medical reports led by evolutionary biology professor Michael Worobey found evidence against the disease originating from Kansas as those cases were milder and had fewer deaths compared to the situation in New York City in the same time period. The study did find evidence through phylogenetic analyses that the virus likely had a North American origin, though it was not conclusive. In addition, the haemagglutinin glycoproteins of the virus suggest that it was around far prior to 1918 and other studies suggest that the reassortment of the H1N1 virus likely occurred in or around 1915"

And now complete (apart from gutters and drainpipes which need materials not in stock at home): Dock Road, Connah's Quay. No28 (I have the census details somewhere telling me who lives there),  The Pilots Office, and Coppack Bros.& Co. chandlers warehouse. 

3 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

 

"Live Teddy Bears"?

I don't know whether this would be more or less frightening than "Trapped by Boy Scouts"

Of the three lead writers of ragtime in the US although Joplin died in 1917 (of the Spanish Flu) James Scott continued to publish till 1922 and died in 1938; and Joseph Lamb only stopped publishing in 1920 when his wife died. Lamb died in the 1960s. A recording I once had, and whose details I have unfortunately lost, was made at the end of WW1 by a composer who was an officer in one of the segregated US Army black regiments. It recounts a trench raid, with all the correct orders and actions. The only line I can remember "Gas! Gas! Pull on your mask!" is clearly suited to syncopation. If anyone can point me to a link for this I would be very grateful. 

44 minutes ago, Edwardian said:

Moved to look up the T7, I discover that they, like many a railway modeller, had their fictional history; in their case, founded in 1904.

 

I have a feeling they might yet be booked for CA!

Obviously likely to be booked for the summer season at the coastal resort..

2 hours ago, Nearholmer said:

Wikipedia says:

 

2MT was the first British radio station to make regular entertainment broadcasts,[1] and the world's first regular wireless broadcast for entertainment. Transmissions began on 14 February 1922 from an ex-Army hut next to the Marconi laboratories at Writtle, near Chelmsford in Essex. 

Although Wikipedia also says that Radio Clube de Pernambuco began transmitting "radiophonically" from Recife in Brazil in 1919, and 2MT began transmitting regular news programmes in February 1920. By 1922 there appear to be quite a few stations broadcasting in the USA. What is clear is that there was nothing much going on before the Great War, and mostly nothing entertaining till after the grouping. Shame.

45 minutes ago, Nearholmer said:

Can one still buy proper wooden and valve wirelesses anywhere? No modern thing can replicate the tone, and certainly not the dim, amber glow.

Although for 1907 it would be a crystal set, headphones, and tickling with the cat's whisker. (photo actually post WW1 but the valve radio doesn't appear till 1920 (admittedly just making it pre-grouping).