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Do I detect a lack of pure highlands? 'Cannae ye no' surely 'cannae ye nae'?

Anyway the noo, Teignmouth is still here. It is Dawlish that is missing a few metres of rail. Strange that Hadrians Wall has survived millenium but the Dawlish sea wall has failed.

That will give me a figure I can use, The RCD van is fitted with an on board Commadore 16 computer so within the week I can confirm.

The Commodore 16 superceded the ZX Spectrum in these vans. The Spectrums were ok for counting the rivets on tenders but were not up to the job on locos. RCD crews often had to write new programs for the loco counting and even with soundproofing in the RCD vans raised voices could frequently be heard suggesting that after inputting Spectrum coding for several hours and pressing enter it came up with an error message.

Today was a day off thinking about next moves and wrong roofes in particular - it'll also give Peter K time to catch up and Ian C time to surrender!

 

Anyway guys, anyone got any ideas for the next diorama - non railway at the moment, something chocolate boxy, grimy, a church maybe, even a small industrial village scene - blacksmith, brewery, Buckingham palace, the Continental Drift - anything I can get on a 3 footish by 2 footish board ? - even put up some pictures possibly ? 

 

Cheers.

Allan

Lilliput did some British outline HO. Definitely blue/grey.

The back of our house faces roughly south west and the driving rain makes land fall for the first time since Canada apparently. When they built the second extension on our house in in around 2000 (before we moved here) they appear to have clipped each slate at the rear on individually to make sure they don't blow away in a place that is more or less always windy to a greater or lesser extent. I've not seen this in a modern house before or since.There are no trees to lessen the strength either and we are approximately 500ft above sea level in an exposed position.

INFORMATION GIVEN.

Faces roughly south west.

Location (according to RM web). Dorset.

Driving rain makes 1st landfall since Canada.

mmmmmmmmmm

Methinks Dorset suffered badly in the recent weather and has been blown violently westwards and now lies somewhere off of Lands End. Either that or Canada has moved somewhere west of Isle of Wight or has my geography erred?

Sulzer, (nicknamed, Sue), did go to sea with the Merchant Navy but came back married to a Westcountry Ho called Westward!

They are now living on his pension in ex-married quarters maisonettes in Crewkerne.

 

I came across (metaphorically speaking) the Westward Ho today and according to the local news she felt the earth move.

I think you are confusing Chesty Standard with her twin Morthanna who married Ivor, her bridesmaid was Flo Tinnit. Morthanna first met Ivor in a pub when he told her that he worked on warships. Thinking that she had met a naval man and looking forward to seeing his 'golden rivet' she immediately fell in love. It wasnt until he took her on a trip to Plymouth that she discovered the truth. Telling her that she was going to meet his old class of 52 he took her to a bungalow overlooking Laira. He wanted to show her his photos of western sunsets. When she saw his hydraulics she was impressed.

Would it be simpler if I removed the doors from my barn and put in Venetian blinds?

I know how to make a Venetian blind!

ok I'll get my jacket.

I think it was a South Sea Bubble Co Nukiolofa 5610, which was a direct copy of the Nokia 5610 made by the Japanese offshore company based in Tongatapu.

According to the Nuku'alofa News, Sulzer (Sue) Malachites canvas covered sea burial body was washed ashore on a lonely beach on Tongatapu. Local villagers carried the canvas covered body ashore and lay it on the huge stone feasting slab in the village centre. The village elder opened the canvas and took out the skeletal remains still covered in the back half of a horse costume. Also found in the bag was Sue's phone, remarkably still in working condition due ti its placement within an purpose waterproof armoured cover. The elder summoned the chief technician in the village who opened the call log and discovered the last call received. The elder detailed the countries only telephonist to dial the number and was told that he was due a repayment on his PPI.

A space on the slab was cleared alongside Sue's body and a great fish was hoisted onto it in preperation for the feast. In the festive excitement that followed a fish wife clambered over Sue's body and declared that she was the only person in the village that could lay on the slab and fillet!

Also made a start on the n gauge 37, I've given the bogies and tanks a coat of weathered black then brushed black and dark earth powder over the wet paint.

Paul

Can you explain the 'black and earth powder over the wet' method please? How quickly do you have to apply the powder before the paint dries? Or do you adjust the paint so it takes longer to dry?

A couple of things off today's BBC news that made me not so much smile as wryly amused. "Staines-upon-Thames", when did the name change? Not only was the BBC man stumbling over it when he said it, it's ruined a classic old joke*. And the Network Rail man "this is groundwater rising, not flooding". Now in my book, if groundwater is above ground, it's a flood.

 

*"How do you get rid of stains?" "Drop a bomb on it"

 

Pete

It has now been officially changed to Thames in Staines!

Modelling in the 70's everyone carped on about using lichen. It doesnt get mentioned these days!

Not if he's got any sense! The Canadians would like to ask him about an incident in Toronto.

By the way, has anyone EVER seen Miley Cirus and Justin Bieber in the same room, at the same time, stood next to each other?

I once saw a bearded tit.

Allan

 

Great modelling on the mill (as usual) and far be it for me to find fault with the master's work but I can't help noticing there appears to be a gap between the bottom of the walls and the water on both sides. Are you planning to put some weeds along there to help hide the gaps?

 

Richard

Allan, as anyone knows you obviously left the gap on purpose. This is the expansion gap needed when building in Cornwall to either let the radon gas seep out of the granite or to help the building adjust to its footings in times of drought/flood. Allans eye for detail has captured this well. As can be seen in photo 5 in 2852 he even has a plant growing from the roof, a detail we often miss.

I am looking forward to seeing the completed building.

You're building out of focus again, surely an article on that technique is worth more than £8 a page!

I wondered if it was out of focus or whether years of drinking colron was giving him the trembles. Mind you, having used that spray stone effect paint myself, I know exactly how far that can travel, mask, goggles, extraction fan ..................nose, mouth, ear, eyes

I once had to sit through the 32 dvd collection of the 20th century drama The Malachite Saga, my ex wanted to find the scene where Bullhead first appeared. Eventually we found him peering from the loco cab. Interestingly this loco was one of the 1st to be fitted with the B******t Deflectors on the sides of the smoke box. These were at first thought to be smoke deflectors.

As an aside to this Bullhead Malachite (senior) worked during the '52 drivers strike and spent the remainder of his life at a small depot near Coventry. He eventually reached the top link but by then none of the old drivers were talking to him. He could often be seen swinging his tea can around in a windmill like action to agitate the tea leaves. An action which I find hard to believe because I have never known a driver to make tea!

After many years on the dole was it Bullhead (jnr) who rose through the ranks of platform boy to become British Rail chairman and lead them into Obscurity?

Was it anything like this carpet?

 

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Thats a bit harsh Allan, even the Arabs cant weave like that.

Bin there, done it, got the T shirt.

 

My attempts with old Robinson credit cards.

 

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Allan,

I presume that you meant that you used old Robinsons credit cards to stay at St Pancras.

Cheers

Good old Devon name,he was my uncle twice removed born 1-5-1940

Born 1940 and driving by 1948 I presume Bullhead Malachite served only 6.5 years as a a secondman rather than the more usual 35 years often spent away at another region. It brings a whole new meaning to the saying man and boy, where in Bullheads case it was boy and man.

Incidentally, as your twice rmoved uncle was Devonian how far could he roll his ar*e?

Oh well!

I am unsure about Featured Content Sliders. Should they be chained with a bight (correct technical spelling) or have packing?

Would bifurcated rivets have been transported using the same methods? In childhood I remember my father always saying to use the bifurcated rivet. Whether this was a personal preference or not I am unsure, but he also mentioned split pins a lot.

I remember as a young lad in the merchant navy , one of the old sea dogs offered to show us the 'golden rivet'. Unfortunately I never got to see this wonder as the kindly fellow suddenly left the ship in Vancouver after a slight altercation with the quartermaster.

With reference to the Cullumpton treacle mines, I belive the majority of treacle went to Six Mile Bottom in Cambridgeshire.

As well as seeing the rivet counter vans passing my late grandmothers house I also remember the open topped 'wrong shade' wagons.. These usually contained 2 pipe smoking binocular wearing men checking sidings for any coaching stock accidentally clad in the incorrect shade of paint. I heard once that a blood and mustard coach had been found and the poor fellows were overjoyed. Incidentally I refer to my grandmother as late. This is only because the rolling stock used on the branch line passing her house was often delayed because the couplings were of varying types, it remained like this until Isambard Slarty Nem introduced a new coupling

system.

Much better than a salmon steamer.

I cant get get my plates in the salmon steamer, socks are ok tho.

You shouldn't put socks in a dishwasher.

I quite agree. Everyone knows that dishwashers are for cooking fish in foil.

Yeh, but can it eat socks ?

Allan a few years ago our machine failed irrepairably. Seizing the chance to find remnants of my lost socks and the kids socks I took it apart.

Not one single thread of evidence. I was quite disappointed.

Notwithstanding submarines, crossing gates and so on it takes a real specialist to build an infinity river.  (Swimming) hats off to you

Its obvious that with a crossing gate on a river you would need a submarine to pass it unnoticed. Whether it is an infinity river, a watery ha-ha or whether the river turns sharply to the left or right is a point to be decided. But with all that ivy growth and other greenery it wont be long before the waterway is overrun.

Great modelling Allan, long may it last. But you need to build an Environmental Agency glass tower ( or ivory tower).