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Timing is everything, in this case sunlight on a stormy day in Arizona.  The first 777 in Cathay Pacific colours, B-HNL after 50,000 flight hours.

The optional heater is funny!  I can imagine the complaints from the Mrs when you didn't purchase that option...

No traction tires and RP25 on the "American" version.  

https://www.piko-america.com/products/97447-sp-9002-diesel-loco-ho-scale

This German site has some pics of pre production models. 

https://www.drehscheibe-online.de/foren/read.php?010,10559908

I'm thinking the shot across the top of the Hattons' article showing four 22s are of the new run?  There is some resolution there, if you open the image in a new tab...

HURRAH!  Looks like they are imminent...

https://www.hattons.co.uk/directory/versiondetails/article?id=310

7 hours ago, J. S. Bach said:

What a beautiful cat!!

OT: I would be interested in how those H10-44s perform as I have never owned a Walthers locomotive. I do have a much older O scale FM (might be an H12-44):

 

Thanks!  The newer Walthers locomotives run superbly, helical gear sets and five pole skewed motors.  The H10-44s run as nice as anything I own.

17 minutes ago, jimwal said:

Yes, do it. 

 

You will receive an email with 2 attachments: a warranty authorisation form and a postage label, both to print for the return parcel. 

 

Hopefully you didn't throw the packaging away!

 

My own loco needs to return, it's similar to yours but a friend's is ok.

Thank you, details have been submitted.  I'm in the USA, so it is always a pain to return items to the UK.  To be fair to Rapido, the only other item I have had to return in many years was that Pi Victory in the video.  It came back a very smooth runner...

4 minutes ago, RapidoCorbs said:

 

They are not supposed to dance like that at all - please could you get in touch:

https://rapidotrains.co.uk/warranty-form/

 

 

Thank you, I will that under consideration.

So my Rapido 15xx arrived stateside the other day, cosmetically very nice, a couple of very minor glue marks but I'm otherwise quite pleased.  It is lively on the rolling rolling road, about on par with some of my Bachy Panniers.  The 15xx is geared higher than the Pi Victory, so this isn't a totally fair video, and the 15xx should settle down a bit on track pulling a train.  Smooth as clockwork though, it isn't.

Steam Locs by Pete Piszczek, on Flickr

14 hours ago, phil_sutters said:

Here's a bunch of tools stowed on tank tops or bunker hooks - don't forget the trailing hoses.

 

 

That Pannier on the Channel Islands Boat Express looks like it has a bell.  This is a new one for me.  Was the bell a requirement for street running?

The new Athearn Genesis, Republic Locomotive RX 500 switcher, in HO Scale. DCC Sound equipped, with lights, and stay alive.

230524_53_silverbay - crop by lmyers83, on Flickr

2 hours ago, AY Mod said:

@Rugd1022 - on your travels if you find the snap of the 50 on MGRs at Stafford do let us know. Have tried numerous times to find it again. It was northbound and I think it was Buildwas to Silverdale or Hem Heath empties.

A 50 on an MGR at Stafford...

https://flic.kr/p/2m5nhk4

11 hours ago, zr2498 said:

An update from Hornby on the Turbomotive, but still nothong on how the sound project has been developed, and no chance to hear the project in advance (unless I have missed something).

 

 

 

Interesting pricing, not the usual 100 quid difference between sound and not versions...   

Hattons just added 10800 to my trunk.  Now to see how long I wait before hitting the send button...   😀 

1 hour ago, Coromar said:

Hi Ade,

 

Do they do a 7mm granite set roller? I have looked at the web site and the sets are 4mm size, OK for 4mm I guess.

 

Paul

These rolling pins look great.  I am going to order a smaller, 1-4 mm stone roller.  The roller linked below produces 4mm square stones.  That would be approximately 7 inch square stones in 7mm scale?

https://www.greenstuffworld.com/en/modelling-textured-rolling-pins/867-rolling-pin-sett-pavement.html

If your paint is coming from a jar, it helps to filter the paint as well, when you add it to the airbrush cup.  I use a piece of a metal coffee filter, the kind meant to replace the paper filters.  I'm fairly meticulous about cleaning the cap and rim when a jar is opened, but you would be surprised what ends up in the filter.  Paint first through filter, then thinner or retarder to wash the remaining paint through the filter. 

A local animal shelter is getting a kitten socialized and ready for adoption!  I fell for the litter named after Star Trek characters and came home with Tribbles...

2 minutes ago, Michael Hodgson said:

So what's the grey we can see on that -  primer where the top coat peeled off?

The original weathered wood.  I found another one that is further gone...

4 hours ago, BrushVeteran said:

All of the cats and kittens on view are available for adoption and are rescue/feral which are being domesticated by the interaction with human presence and I think that it is a wonderful concept in gaining the respect and acceptance of a feline. I would thoroughly recommend a visit by anyone who likes cats as it is unique in its approach and basically is a sound step in the introduction to cat adoption. Whist not particularly cheap it is London and the two premises I have been to must be  expensive to rent as they are both main stream areas, but I have never seen this concept before and I think it very clever.

 

 

 

That is a neat concept and I did not believe I have heard of anything similar on this side of the pond.  A quick google turned up the Catnip Cat Cafe, just down the road from me.  Apparently cat cafes started in Taiwan.

Wednesday is back home again, sunning herself without the curious dogs.  Of course, there is that display of teeth again, she isn't just annoyed by German Shepherds.

1 hour ago, J. S. Bach said:

She does not look too happy in that last photo!

Affectionate, but on the shy side.  She arrived with mate, and really no trouble adjusting with the two existing cats and two dogs over the past week.  Wednesday is a bit of a Gremlin though, green eyes staring out at you from the dark.  She was curious but very cautious.  Leather gloves are needed though, when it is time for her to go into the cat carrier...