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normally I'm not a fan of added-in steam effects in pictures, but I would love to see those Union of SA pics with some!

I am going to wait and see how many 'funny' smilies the above joke gets before I decide whether to read it or not.

more fantastic pics. always look forward to seeing more from Waverley West! was thinking though, looks extremely realistic, until you realise, Edinburgh not usually very sunny. jk actually, the not-sunny HST pic above looks excellent as well. more cloudy pics?

fantastic!

not necessarily funny, but appropriate to thread. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/article4376496.ece?shareToken=3ff36224769e3ea22386aa7bbcad3250 does contain the "world's shortest joke", courtesy of Jimmy Carr, drum role please............. venison, dear?

strikes me that the gully between the tunnel and the folkstone bridge would make a nice micro layout!

I really like the hanging weeds/trees etc spilling down the left cliff face. what did you use for that?

I thought part of the issue with using lead shot or liquid gravity was that there is actually quite a bit of space between all the little pellets, so when used on under frames it doesn't weigh quite as much as you'd hoped. I had that issue anyway with the basic 16t wagon I tried it on. Been meaning to get some old roofing lead to cut up as I think the density would be much higher. Whoops. Missed that Mick^^^ had already mentioned that.

a frog in a blender in a time machine?

what's green and yellow and red all over? -a frog in a blender

just pay attention to the road and don't spend time adjusting your cycling shoes and you'll be fine.... (amazingly, he carried on, although retired the next day(?) after crashing again)

borrowed from DaveF's excellent photo thread: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/uploads/monthly_01_2015/post-5613-0-94272300-1422467767_thumb.jpg trackwork, in particular, is excellent, but there's some dodgy sleeper spacing going on there. I think the Bachmann 101 would have looked better though...

looking good!

this is looking great! can we see some mockups with stock on the track?

you could always just knock your house down and then live in it.

that Falcon diagram doesn't look anywhere near correct. the Star Wars Vehicles book my son has (wonder how he got that? ) shows the main cargo loading area as being between the gap at the front of the ship, where a freight loading arm is attached. the cargo moves through the front into the cargo holds directly behind and on the starboard side of the ship. it doesn't show any holds at the rear, that I can see, although presumably the Falcon would have lost some hold space as it has been modded to go faster.

absolutely, and also the fact that they are not sleek, streamlined machines. the Millenium Falcon actually looks like a fairly run-of-the-mill boring freighter ("what a piece of junk!"). it's only our affinity with it that makes it so cool (and its speed, obviously). same thing with many of the other ships, the Y-wing, for example, as well as the Star Destroyers, the Jawas' crawler, the landspeeder, Slave 1 etc. they all look like they've had bits added and taken away over their lifetimes. Tie fighters look functional, and even the sleek X-wing looks pretty ungainly when parked in a hangar. I always liked that, and is one of the reasons I never liked Star Trek that much. the main ship in Alien is a great film 'spaceship' in my opinion. it looks really functional and boring, exactly as one might look in the future. contrast those with some of the cartoon machines in the first three Star Wards films: Amadala's silver ship being the best (worst) example.

while on the subject of comedy, surely the Eddie Izzard 'cafeteria' bit should get a mention:

nice rock. very effective.

if you haven't seen this 'review' of The Phantom Menace, you may find it amusing and even interesting, although I must warn you that 1) the humour and language is often in very bad taste, and 2) the review is about as long as the film is....! however, if you find that kind of stuff doesn't usually put you off, here's the link:

I love how the Lego model of an X-Wing is actually a Lego model of a Lego X-Wing, which somehow makes it even more bonkers.

hmmm....not bad, but a bit too much gloss on there. needs to be toned down a bit methinks.

I need to see a doctor.......this thread is increasingly making me question what is reality and what isn't!

v good pics! you should stick these in the 'realistic models' thread.

has no one seen the Woody Allen classic, Crimes and Misdemeanours? In it, Alan Alda's character gives the formula for comedy: joke = tragedy + time