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  1. S.A.C Martin

    Feeling a bit under the weather, but finding a bit of modelling does wonders for forgetting about the stuffed up nose and chesty cough!

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    2. RedgateModels

      RedgateModels

      snap! - been off work today, but managed to get the fiddle yard wired up this afternoon :)

    3. RedgateModels

      RedgateModels

      So hopw much modelling have you done Adge?

    4. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      decongestant properties of model making? That'll be the flux talking again.

  2. S.A.C Martin

    Wondering if the job market could get a grip and stop moving the goalposts constantly? Thought not. Ah well, Apprentice Thursday will soothe my woes, in which twentyish people fail miserably at business...

    1. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      Goalposts? Luxury! In my day, etc. etc. etc.

    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Moving goalposts is something a goalkeeper named Hart could have done with yesterday...

  3. S.A.C Martin

    I think that is one "Thompson debate" I am staying firmly out of...

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    2. S.A.C Martin

      S.A.C Martin

      Touche!

    3. 45568

      45568

      Which section is it in blokes, that useless go--le seach has no idea! TIA PC

    4. S.A.C Martin

      S.A.C Martin

      See PMs chap.

  4. S.A.C Martin

    Hankering after a Morgan 3 Wheeler after seeing one belt down Sidcup High Street. Tally ho, what what!

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    2. Trains&armour

      Trains&armour

      Ah, thinking about investing in exclusive cars. Book sales must be going pretty well....

    3. wootang

      wootang

      just smile and wave boys

      smile and wave

    4. 69843

      69843

      Saw an original at Goodwood FOS 2009. What a noise it made!

  5. S.A.C Martin

    Has just murdered a Bachmann Green Arrow in the name of Thompson...I am clearly not going for popularity this month...

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    2. Bluebell Model Railway

      Bluebell Model Railway

      you mean ive got to murder more to become a mass loco killer?

       

    3. Mike G

      Mike G

      Ahh but is it murder or just maiming prior to rebirth? Which sounds equally as bad!

    4. Castle

      Castle

      I wouldn't like to comment further really... Especially as a little industrial that thought it was coming to a nice new home with Castle has just been severely westernised on Little Didcot!

  6. S.A.C Martin

    Simon is mad: Part 508...!

    1. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      'Madness is as Madness does', dear boy!

    2. S.A.C Martin

      S.A.C Martin

      Ain't it the truth Cap'n! :)

    3. halfwit

      halfwit

      Actually, Simon gets a great deal of respect in this corner.

  7. S.A.C Martin

    Does one's use of the like system have to be so painfully obvious?

    1. devondynosoar118

      devondynosoar118

      Like....

  8. S.A.C Martin

    It is always the academics or enthusiastic who suffer.

    1. Bob Reid

      Bob Reid

      From what Simon?

    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Other academics or enthusiasts, Bob.

       

      Proverb: Knowledge is better than riches.

       

      Translation: We should all be as knowledgeable as Goldman Sachs.

  9. S.A.C Martin

    Bumper blog post if all goes to plan later today. Been a long time coming!

  10. S.A.C Martin

    Genuinely puzzled by washout plugs on 60506...

    1. 69843

      69843

      How so?

  11. S.A.C Martin

    The discovery of standardization of parts in new releases is a boon for the kit bashing wannabe modeller...

  12. S.A.C Martin

    I don't want to turn into the new Electricnose... :(

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    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      I always knew there had to be bogies involved.

    3. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Electric bogies, please!....

    4. beast66606

      beast66606

      @dvdlcs

       

      He probably fell out of his armchair (modelling)

       

      Luckily there are some who have adopted the double standards approach that he was so fond of. Do as I say (when I have a go at you) and not as I do

  13. S.A.C Martin

    It's a moose! #RedDwarfX

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    2. Ramblin Rich

      Ramblin Rich

      yep, nice to see the same sort of dynamics between the characters! :-)

    3. ian

      ian

      They shouldn't let them drive, they've got legs - make 'em walk!

    4. Jon020

      Jon020

      "Smoke" me a Kipper..!

  14. S.A.C Martin

    Steve Davies has left as the head of the NRM. Would just like to say thanks Steve for your clear passion and drive for the museum and its collection. Good luck in your new role.

    1. Hippo

      Hippo

      Thats sad news.

       

    2. MarkC

      MarkC

      That's not good - but good luck to him in whatever he does from now on

  15. S.A.C Martin

    Finally got around to numbering 62822. One less project outstanding!

  16. S.A.C Martin

    Bachmann V2s could have been so much better. Missed opportunity but extremely satisfying modification project.

  17. S.A.C Martin

    Thoroughly enjoyed the Olympic Mens Foil finals today. Well done to the Egyptian who knocked out the world champion!

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Fought like an Egyptian.

  18. S.A.C Martin

    Spent months building it, ruined with the application of transfers. Strip and start again....grrrr....

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    2. wootang

      wootang

      what you building

    3. S.A.C Martin

      S.A.C Martin

      Yep, shredding sounds. Finishing off my Thompson D Class. It's going a bit better now though...!

    4. wootang

      wootang

      ooof is it going on copley hill

  19. S.A.C Martin

    Condolences and thoughts go out to the family and friends of the young lad taken from us today at Beamish.

    1. Danemouth

      Danemouth

      Very sad indeed.

  20. S.A.C Martin

    Johnson's Klear, where have you been all my life?!!! Just picked up a crate and have used a little on an A1. Fabulous stuff!

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    2. S.A.C Martin

      S.A.C Martin

      Mine came in a bottle marked "pledge" - it's the American stuff. Same as the original I am told

    3. S.A.C Martin

      S.A.C Martin

      Martin, I think yours is meant for the comment above mine! :)

    4. devondynosoar118

      devondynosoar118

      Where is it sold?

  21. S.A.C Martin

    Life's too short for all this. Cannot understand it at all.

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Lord Flasheart: "....Next time you get bored with your lives just give me a call.... and I'll come round and kill you!"

    2. S.A.C Martin

      S.A.C Martin

      xD Yes, that would work!
  22. S.A.C Martin

    Number 2 on the Amazon Store for Children's Short Stories behind Jacquline Wilson!!!

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    2. Pugsley

      Pugsley

      Congratulations!

    3. 69843

      69843

      ^can't really add anything to the above.

      Congratulations yet again.

    4. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      I'd imagine there'd be quite a few possibilities involving tunnels.... ;-)

  23. S.A.C Martin

    The book is finally out, and now...I can start work on the next one! :D

    1. 69843

      69843

      Congratulations Simon. Now just to find and buy a Kindle...

    2. Andy Y

      Andy Y

      Well done Simon; I hope you get respectable sales.

    3. S.A.C Martin

      S.A.C Martin

      Thank you chaps :) I hope so too. I'd love this to be a much bigger part of my life, and hopefully we can go forward and improve, book on book, with the intention to educate and entertain on railways in equal measure.

  24. S.A.C Martin

    We shall see what we shall see.

  25. S.A.C Martin

    Five days to go...am I nervous? You bet!

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Funny, my colleague's saying something similar about giving birth. Baby's due this week :-O

    2. RedgateModels

      RedgateModels

      They don't need to be nervous, just afraid, very afraid ......

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