simonmcp

Glad to hear that all your Loco problems have been sorted. I see some Point Carrying Wagons amongst the last pictures, I am sorry if I missed any mention of them upthread, but can I ask where you got them please? 

My Great Uncle still used a bucket, or what looked like a bucket to me, with Isinglass in to keep his milk in up to 1980 at least.

Hi Schooner, I would offer to do the CAD for you  this week but I am still completely wiped out by Long Covid combined with 2 Herniated (slipped) discs and 1 where it is pressing on my Spinal cord. I am doing a very convincing impression of Quasimodo at the moment.🙄

The shape is quite boxy so is feasible in TinkerCad which is an online 3d work space (used by school children so I can just about manage it, I'm 59🙄) I did a church bell tower which incorporated the same style of Louvres , but that was octagonal.

If I can I will try and see if I can adapt it, but I don't know when I will be able to do it. Even sitting at a computer tires me out at the moment.

Simon 

Can you get this in Norway?

https://peco-uk.com/products/stone-walling-sheets-grey

For the walls and this

https://peco-uk.com/products/slate-roofing

for the roofing 

Wills kit SS66 of a Public Toilet has a similar top to it but it is also more oblong. I don't know if Peco would supply just that sprue?

https://peco-uk.com/products/public-toilets

If not, it is something you could commission from one of the 3d suppliers, some of them will give you one item free in return for supplying them with a full set of drawings that allows them to produce the item.

I was nearby and it certainly felt very cold, couldn't even get warm with the central heating on😯

Absolutely superb weathering, on the 08 especially. Can't tell it's not real no matter what I look at.

Hi Graham, sorry for the late reply. It's probably been covered by comments above but if not - the one I saw consisted of what amounted to check rails or more accurately Bridge rails. Bridge rails are usually on both sides of the track sometimes both inside and outside of the "4 foot" illustration (quickly hand drawn) below:-

Hopefully my drawing is clearer than my explanation.

I saw a video of a layout fiddle yard that had re-railers either side of the join with the main layout which seems a good idea.

Simon 

I get much better detail if I slow down the print speed. I can print 4mm scale Hupac light clusters which are perfectly formed. I slowed down to 10mm sec for that. I only have a cheap Aldi printer so it's not the quality of the printer.

I thought the original only had a one motor, it could be that someone has either combined two motor ends or has done a home made conversion. 

What date is the photograph please? I ask because of the seemingly old style of Tank wagon on the left contrasting with the (what I would have previously thought modern) electricity pylon showing above the X4 Meat Wagon.

Once tried out quite how sturdy those scaffolding towers were. My father and I were installing a new main cross beam into a flat roof double garage. We had got it nearly up to the right height when it decided to snap. The only thing that stopped the beam smashing into the Mk1 Range Rover below was said scaffolding tower. It took a lot of hammering to get the tower apart afterwards though!

One way of making it more permanent would be to spray varnish over the finished laminated items to hold them together. Only problem is I imagine it would have to be gloss for the glazing part but that may make the frame too glossy.

If the person I know who went to Eton was telling the truth - everyone who goes there is taught that they are superior to the rest of humanity and that, as an Etonian, they can exploit the rest of humanity for their own gain. Of course the man I met could have been lying.

Apparently the Sutton’s Locomotive Workshop are releasing a BR 25 in a choice of OO EM or P4 ready to run. I’ve no experience of them though.

If you need a very clean line, Scotch Magic Tape is good one to usehttps://www.3m.co.uk/3M/en_GB/scotch-eu/products/catalog/~/All-3M-Products/Consumer/Scotch/Tape/Magic-Tape/?N=5002385+8709316+8711729+8724334+8736247+8737867&rt=r3 

Not sure about how tacky it is though.

Hi Bob, I hope you recover soon. I was laid low with it for a while. I am getting better each day now, although I did 'lose' an hour and a half yesterday when I shut my eyes . Plenty of rest and relaxation helps. My doctor told me to pace myself so I am doing just a little more each day and I hope you can back to enjoying what you like to do soon.

On 12/10/2022 at 21:56, bécasse said:

 I had a particularly soft spot for his Dutch layout which has received little or no mention so far. 

Would you happen to have a link to any pictures of it please?

I would think white would be a better undercoat for the yellow.

I think it is the reflection off the 'water' that is making it look lighter. Some people use a gloss varnish to make the 'water' clear enough to show through to the colour beneath.

Once helped on an exhibition layout that had a short Y in the fiddle yard and almost everything derailed on it. They took it out shortly after.

Once helped do up an old barn.  We didn't actually trowel the plaster on but made up a thin mix and painted it on. We dragged the brush vertically which gave quite  a pleasing ripple finish and much quicker than a full plaster.

As @Phil Parker said, robots can only do so much. I remember a program about a pottery manufacturer, they were trying to get a robot to decorate the plates. A seemingly simple task. The number of rejects, and smashed plates, was much higher than the skilled lady workers.

IT is also true that some manufacturing has been brought back to the UK, but that was in textiles.

In a very limited way 3d printing is being used to manufacture very simple (in terms of number of components) items which are being made in the UK. Yes I do know that a university managed to 3d print a games controller so advances are being made, but the machines to make them are costed in the millions. Given time it may happen, there are Full colour 3d printers around now, but again they are very expensive.

On 08/10/2022 at 22:18, Hroth said:

Its being reported that people are "panic buying" candles in advance of possible power cuts this winter.  Don't worry!  I've bought a bag of tealights this afternoon so its highly unlikely that I'll need them. 

 

I hope the "general public" don't get to use those candles. I fear there would be an increase of house fires, apparently they are a major cause even now.