raymw

I am not being critical of those who think they have the 'correct colour' for a model, but matching old colours with new is more or less subjective. The first thing to decide is exactly what you are trying to achieve - a match to the original colour, as originally applied to the full size object, or a colour which looks right on a model, even though the effect of size, ambient lighting, surface finish, etc. is entirely different. You can go back to the original paint composition, if you can, and then remix using the same composition. You may or may not get the same result, bearing in mind that the original mixes would have varied between locations/periods, but without a time machine, you can't tell. At the end of the day, the best you can do is make a guess, based on whatever research results you have obtained, see if it looks right, and decide if that has to be near enough. Even if you have an original sample, kept out of daylight for all its life, what other chemical degradation has occurred? Is it linear? Then layer on top of that photography, lighting, vdu/print colour space, many folks' unknown colour blindness, the impossibility of scaling nature, and you can imagine the fun that ensues. It all becomes a bit of a religious argument, completely pointless, a bit like the slightly older one about 'how many angels can sit on a pin head'. I have no specific interest in the LB&SCR, but I am interested in how folk think they can replicate colours from years ago, and be certain they are 'right'. Best wishes, Ray

colour on a model, via camera, uncalibrated monitor/camera, etc, will never be 'right', also lighting where model is displayed/run/distance viewed, same for vdu, mark 1 eyeball, etc. (Never mind weathering/fading/ surface finish/reflections/etc). What looks right for one person, is not necessarily right for another. Anyway, a bit of simple post processing can get a whitish background (at least for me, sat here), if that is a problem, but better to set the camera for that in the first instance. I've no idea on what they based the colour swatches on, will be 'best guess', I expect..

wrt grey roof try reading the blog, referred to before on here https://digest.Dapol.co.uk/forum/o-gauge-models/locomotives/class-08/project-managers-blog-ai/394-o-class-08-opening-statement post #9 if you can't be arsed to look through all of it. This thread here on rmw, displays a fascinating view into the mental state of railway 'modellers', keep it coming. I thought it was meant to be fun.

I'm not sure if this is good advertising for his shop, or not http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2016/09/google-car-captures-guys-awful-day-at-work-for-all-eternity/

Irish Olympic commentaryhttp://www.altdriver.com/lmao/the-best-olympic-commentary-ever/

this is the psu info, http://www.chargingchargers.com/samlex-america/rps-1203-power-supply.html data sheets available elsewhere on-line wrt voltmeter, probably a moving iron version, with magnetic problems - spend a few pennies and get a cheap digital meter or three, from http://www.toolstation.com/shop/p11867?table=no or elsewhere, they'll be accurate enough for mr stuff, but suggest you don't use the leads on mains voltage. Best wishes, Ray

Looking at your video, there is a lot of end-play in the motor armature. If you don't want to change the motor, maybe you can fit a couple of brass strips to press on the shaft ends.

Americans are entitled to use the phrase 'right of way', but we drive on the left... time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana

only eats beef, so far... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36695176

Going back to Warrens, sort of related ... A few years ago now, but Samworth Brothers, they who own so called Ginsters Cornish Pasty factory, wanted to make cream horns. A local Somerset company near here, (who say they make rubbish, i.e. they make the moulds for making the plastic vacuum forming packaging used for sandwiches, etc.) was asked, as a rush job to make the tooling for packaging pairs of cream horns. I was there on Friday afternoon when three guys from almost Cornwall arrived and loaded their cars with thousands of trial vac formed packaging samples. They then scooted back to Callington, and on the Friday night staff loaded said packaging with cream horns, shoved them in an artic, and drove around Britain over the weekend to test out the packaging, to see if the pastries were damaged in transit. I'm sure there are better/cheaper ways of testing, but hey, it's Cornwall, almost.

Some folk do things, because they don't know you can't. http://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_thwaites_how_i_built_a_toaster_from_scratch#t-636481

some nice examples of companies you love to hate - interesting talk - http://darkpatterns.org/

some free ebooks about windows, office and stuff, may be of use, https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mssmallbiz/2016/07/10/free-thats-right-im-giving-away-millions-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-again-including-windows-10-office-365-office-2016-power-bi-azure-windows-8-1-office-2013-sharepoint-2016-sha/

Disorder is the fate of everything...

Unfortunately http://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-investigation-idUSKCN0ZG2ZC Seems to be a fair bit of speculation at the moment wrt what the driver was doing.

Norton Utilities was good, back in the day, but then Peter Norton's stuff got taken over by the outfit I mentioned back in post 901. 'Nuff said. This is the same that happens with many things. Bought out by a larger company, who don't care, or do not understand the way it worked,

Hi, My intention was not to cause any offense, and if so, then the 'joke' should have been deleted either by me, or by a moderator. fwiw, my social studies paper, written many years ago, was about 'the psychology of humour', and many jokes pick on those who are a bit outside the perceived norm e.g. earlier someone mentioned about an 'overweight Barnsley lass' and others wrt 'bass players', even folk embedded in their mobile phones, etc. However, there is no anti prejudice legislation in place protecting such folk so I should have realised, that in a public forum, the 'dog joke' could be seen as something that it was not intended to be. Anyway, something to reflect on http://www.ted.com/talks/kathryn_schulz_on_being_wrong Best wishes, Ray

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BziLfaQntzItdjgycndZUnE2aTA/view?pref=2&pli=1

After a seven-month deployment to the Western Pacific the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln was finally inching up to the pier at San Diego’s North Island Navy base. Looking down from the bridge the ship’s Captain noticed a sailor on the flight deck waving intently with semaphore flags. He also spotted an attractive young woman standing on top of a mini-van in the parking lot who was waving semaphore flags. Always concerned about security and never having seen something like this before, the Captain barked at his duty signalman, "What message are those two people sending?" The signalman concentrated intently and quickly reported, "Sir, he is sending FOXTROT-FOXTROT (FF) and she is sending ECHO-FOXTROT (EF)." Not having any clue as to what these messages could mean, the Captain dispatched an armed Marine to escort the flag waving sailor up to the bridge. The young sailor arrived, out of breath from climbing up the many ladders leading to the bridge, saluted smartly, and said, "Seaman Endicott reporting as ordered, sir!" "Seaman", the said Captain gruffly, "who is that woman on the pier and why are you exchanging signals FF and EF with her?" "Sir, that's my wife, sir, and she wants to eat first!"

Many years back, there was some antivirus software, (Dr Solomon). I met the guy at a Bristol BCS meeting, where he gave a talk. He employed 'hackers' al over the world (Russia in particular) to write virii, and send them to him to write the anti-virus software. The philosophy was to tap in to the current virus 'technology', and get a solution, before similar ones were released into the wild. If iirc, he sold out a few years later to Symantec? and they of course wrecked it, the same as most stuff they buy.

fwiw, for a number of years I've used an add-on 'winpatrol' which does a number of things and can give information about odd files that time to time appears on your system. A few months back I had a pseudo ransom-ware attack on an android tablet which got me a bit worried about the rest of my pc's and I found the winpatrol guys had some anti ransom-ware software. At the moment, all their software is a one off payment, but soon, like many, they will be going to a subscription service for the anti ransom0ware stuff, but they will honour existing one offs updates. I've no connection with the company, other than being happy with their software, but I'm mentioning it because at the moment you can still get the anti ransom-ware software for a one off, payment. their home page is here https://www.winpatrol.com/ - you'll have to poke around to find the bits you want, if you want.

Gordon, that led me to this ... https://notalwaysright.com/20-worst-tech-support-calls-ever/54865 and there'll be others to waste my/your/our time...

and your insurer won't know!

Happiest day of his life, http://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/groom-crashes-£240000-ferrari-rented-for-the-big-day/ar-BBrX9Fd downhill from there on in...