MJI

Got to ask this.

Who has been and checked their last paint job to make sure the lining is OK?

8 hours ago, lyneux said:

 

Just checking, but you know the prototype mk2a is 8 inches shorter than the mk2b/2c? This would account for 3mm which is probably ‘within tolerance’ of your measurements.

 

I have a good number of the new Mk2bs. They are very nice and I agree that the Bachmann Mk2a struggles to hold its own next to them. For me, the main issue is the roof differences though (primarily the rain strip height - Bachmann too low) and not the length difference.

 

Guy

Can someone compare a Triang Mark 2 against the Accurascale?

Ignore the incorrect ride height.

I would not be surprised if the Triang is better than the Bachmann in matching dimensions.

57 minutes ago, Rosie Taylor said:

The Airfix Mk2d's are great - as you say they can be picked up cheaply and, with a little detailing, look very presentable.

 

Great work as always!

I have lots, over 20.

Since the disappearance of Araldite slow, 2 ton Devcon.

Older araldite was best epoxy, more recent stuff is poor in comparison.

30 minutes ago, The Black Hat said:

I think you could be right. Accurascale would be a good choice to undercut Bachmann again with the release of something like the Turbostar - which Electrostar option... 

Other DMUs to consider I think would be:
 

Voyager/Meridian 220/221/222
Class 185 - with Desiro options
All singing all dancing IEP - 800/801/802... etc
110
HST... 

119

120

116

123

124

IC

LOADS of DMUs

23 minutes ago, john new said:

Fully concur. Across the board sports commentators on TV are so bad these days I usually watch with the sound off. The other thing for cricket is the stump mikes picking up inane comments, often in the language of players who don’t speak English plus bursts of unwanted (by me) stupid music blaring in the ground. Fortunately radio is generally still listenable to.

I liked Murray Walker

9 minutes ago, The Sled said:

Personally, I have a fondness for hexadecimal numbering, because that makes me just 42 years old! Ah, to be young again!

 

Mind you, if it means waiting until I'm 66 in hexadecimal to qualify for the state pension, then sod it, I'll stick with decimal!

Octal, would be retired all ready.

Hex, not even in 40s yet.

I last saw it on the SVR

7 minutes ago, Tim Dubya said:

 

I think we'd be quite tasty but I'm not too sure as we only tend to eat species that are naturally veggies themselves, the exception being chicken I guess.

 

I've always found it odd, even from an early age*, that humans drink the milk meant for the young another species.  

 

*Thatcher'd nicked mine anyway by that point 🙄🤣

It was disgusting.

We had to convert our software for teh yanks.

Everything stored in mm and converted on entry and display to inches.

15% of work writing screen entry classes.

89% rolling them out

5% the wierd bits.

33 minutes ago, Reorte said:

If you want an abomination of a measurement, the Navy uses kiloyards...

I was on about the money pre decimalisation.

43 minutes ago, Tim Dubya said:

 

I've been a vegan for the last 35 years and a veggie two years prior to that.

 

However, this has not made me loose my sense of humour, just yet 😜

 

Never knew. As it should be. Don't you miss cheese?

The veggie I work with is addicted to cheese.

1 hour ago, Reorte said:

Worked perfectly well for hundreds of years. Changed before I was born but always felt like change for the sake of change to me. Personally I like it when different parts of the world have their own idiosyncrasies, including our own. Only need just enough utilitarianism to make things practical, more than that and it gets lifeless.

 

I need to have that converted to stone to get any feel. I wouldn't buy a set of scales that only had kilograms on them.

Was needed as early computer systems worked in centipounds and converted for printing, I never understood it, and thought it was an adbomination.

41 minutes ago, The Johnster said:

I have been thinking in terms of decimal currency, without having to mentally convert to LSD, since about five years after it’s introduction, but have never progressed as far with any of the other decimal system.  I can just about manage length ( just as well as I model in 4mm/foot scale), but flounder a bit with weight and volume.  I am of the view that decimal systems are easier to deal with mathematically and hence more sensible in principle, but visualising, say, 150 grams or 80 litres is beyond me.  
 

That said, I find similar difficulty with the American refusal to use stones when describing peoples’ weight and using lbs; I have to divide by 14 to make sense of it.  A measuring system should be intuitive in use, and many of them are not or at least have features that are not intuitive to The Johnster…

LSD, my centre is locking not limited slip.

My main use of imperial is of full sized railways.

Weights, I find kg easy, volumes, I know the size of 90l, 80l would fit in a tank internal dimensions of 400mm x 200mm x 100mm.

33 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

I don't have many problems with imperial or metric if they are not mixed. The problem arises when calculating MPG where you have fuel measured in litres but distance in miles.

Width inside imperial, width outside metric, profile a ratio, sidewall a code. Tyres.

20 minutes ago, Captain Cuttle said:

I prefer feet and inches as when its mm and cm folk tend to get the noughts in the wrong places and that includes my better half, bless her!

cm are evil, use mm

13 hours ago, Tim Dubya said:

See they are so pushy, and worst of all, they ruin meals for veggies by getting cheese based food replaced with theirs.

Yes i know some veggies.

On 17/03/2024 at 09:55, John Besley said:

 

I regularly convert Decimal currency to Stirling much to the amusement of my apprentice who has no idea what I am talking about - 'you are Soooo old'

Do you mean that weird stuff they abandoned when i was at primary school?

On 17/03/2024 at 10:09, Hroth said:

 

Its like being weighed at the doctors and asking for your weight in kg to be translated into "old money"...

 

I use kg now as it is easier to read on my scales.

22 hours ago, melmerby said:

I'm vegetarian and have no problem with people cooking meat, I do find some BBQs rather unpleasant but that is usually the smell of the fuel being used.

I hate the smell of fish and always have done, even when I ate meat.

I have no issues at all with veggies, as they get on with life and usually like cheese.

Vegans however, they are too pushy and make sure everyone knows. And do not like cheese.

Fish, i dislike lots but cod is fine. Most smell horrible, as to sea bugs, they stink.

I have turned down lima wheels using its own motor. 08

I do need a few br 5 planks of i think 1/034.

No one does them.

May have to convert something pre nationalisation.

34 minutes ago, 46444 said:

 

Mr Frank's at Lanarkshire Model Supplies is your friend...

 

http://www.lanarkshiremodels.com/

 

Well recommended and first class service.

 

 

Older ones were easier, no carving off just drill bigger.

I prefer the older pc02 to pc02a.

3 to carve off  1 running LMS clasp underframe, 2 running roller bearings,  all new buffers.

Peco versions are more brittle.

Agjh Parkside wagon kits now have moulded on buffer bases, which are too short, and more work than older to correct.

I have been doing a rather boring job today.

Soldering on door hinges on comet sides

I have been stripping and recycling all my old railway magazines, going through early 2000s.

I can spot a TW loco build at first glance now.

Keeping between 0 and 10 pages per magazine.

Oh and I can get in my garage.

24 minutes ago, durham light infantry said:

 

Definitely, just googled it. An American International day about as inclusive as the World series of Baseball.

 

As a sufferer we could do with more awareness and help. Nearly 4 years on and still trying to cope.

I consider myself lucky, mainly digestive issues, and fatigue.

Netherlands with shunters, and EM2.

Portugal with EE stuff.

Bulgaria 87.

Mexico HST.

Australia various

NZ the Bo Bo Bo ftom brush.

Only found out this afternoon.

Very little about it.

2 hours ago, Flanged Wheel said:

Congratulations to @Tony Wright for receiving the accolade of RMWeb modeller of the year (and by a considerable margin)! 

I know he will be far too modest to raise it himself but I thought it was worth a mention on this thread.

He churns them out, very high profile, helpful.

So very expected.

Who do you think I voted for?

6 hours ago, BVMR21 said:

A new tooled MK1 range of the gangway type providing some form of accessible variants would be interesting (if feasible), and given the longevity of the MK1s, you have to tool up a wide range anyway, personally I would be happy to see Accurascale produce MK1s as it's rather difficult to acquire SKs, SOs, etc as mentioned previously, not to mention would go well with practically the entire Accurascale range.

I am goig to Comet for future ones looking at teh poor RTR availablitly