Mad McCann

One of those jobs where a missing screw f***s the whole job! 

I’m fine.

I realised years ago that in my hands an airbrush is simply an expensive tool used to ruin a good model.  Latest episode was last Wednesday.  Still havent recovered from the trauma.

I was modelling out in the sunshine today and dropped a brass ladder which I was attemptint to glue to a tank wagon.    Hunted for it for a long time and eventually gave up.  Found it much later superglued to the underside of my shoe!

Did you have to fire off two shots, to be sure, to be sure?

So you're the one who head-hunted Bulleid?

@skipepsi They run fine with no motor or worm attached. It’s not the rods, it’s backlash within the gear train when the motor and worm are in position. EFE have changed the motor which may have resolved the issue with the new releases. 

PMP.  I used a Mashima 1628 (discontinued long before Mashima ceased trading) and a gearbox that High Level designed specifically to go with that motor but was very similar in appearance to a Roadrunner+.

So helical gear set maybe the answer?

Cool, man!

Sorry Mad, much prefer a bit of David Gilmour

Both of them would do me.

Waterfordwispers is an Irish satirical website....and very good at it too!

Whats even funnier than WWN is the comments people leave to the articles thinking they are REAL

Aye, the reactions are hugely entertaining in their own right.

:-)

Alternatively -

How can anyone be bored when you have a great hobby like we have...

Sometimes you just can't be bothered...

No need just use a microwave!

What could possibly go wrong..?

Do you really want to know?

Me neither.

Fascinating - but scary - thanks for sharing that one.

Somehow, I can't see many kids being allowed to see it.

This sort of thing happens every year...

many happy returns! My clock ticks on tomorrow

Bizarre.  Am 73 in Nov and had 'invite' to renew licence just before Bank Hols.  Request submitted online Tue 24Aug.  I was worried how long it would take due to publicity about backlogs at DVLA.  Licence arrived Bank Hol Sat 28Aug.  As an aside, they ask you to cut up old licence and send it off.  There's no way they could have received it and cross-checked it against new licence as new one was in my hands before old one got to Swansea.

Anything that requires the DVLA to actually make a decision is a joke. The DVLA is just there to take money off people. Look at photocard driving license. They said it would be free, and it is, but they charge you for the renewals. There are lots of PCV/HGV drivers waiting on them, but the Government has made sure that the DVLA cannot be liable for loss of earnings. No private company would get away with it.

Ironically, the licence arrived the day after I posted this. Now I need to change the address details!

I still appear to have a previous one around. I may send this and hope they don't notice as I'm not going through that faff again. Mainly because I need to regularly present it at work!

And a jolly good day to you too, Sir.

A commendably positive attitude!

Nah G day mate

I think it has been scrapped hasn't it?

Delayed due to, well, whatever is on the line.....

There's no fun in it now the F*ll's being done.

Pride comes before the.....

The MIGHTY Fall!

LOL

Ah Sainsbury's wellies, one of the best smokes around at the moment. Beats Lidel and Aldi quite easily. However, Waitrose usually works best.....man.

I had no idea that Sainsbury's were flogging wellies these days. Can you get Nectar points for those?

:-)

Yes, dear, it's a lovely shade of green, so it is, it's my definite favourite and that's the truth Guv'nor and no mistake.

Yeah but come on he could have give the horse a name its not as if it would have cost him anything.

I know.Tight git!

Och, I took my friends pup for a long walk on Sunday, Kelvinbridge to Dawsholm park, lots of CR and NB history along the Kelvin valley .(really , the NB viaduct arches are scottish bond brickwork ) Heron seen at the botanics stretch. A few trout rising on the Kirklee to Maryhill stretch, maybe I'll renew my ticket and put a dry fly over the water.... A river coming back to life.

Said the joker to the thief....

There's too much confusion..

Shame that Bob Dylan isn't remembered more for writing it, great wordsmith.

The Manics

Yep, according to the good old Wikipedia entry for the song, "The song's theme is taken from the Spanish Civil War, and the idealism of Welsh volunteers who joined the left-wing International Brigades fighting for the Spanish Republic against Francisco Franco's military rebels. The song takes its name from a Republican poster of the time, displaying a photograph of a young child killed by the Nationalists under a sky of bombers with the stark warning "If you tolerate this, you...

I've walked Las Ramblas but not with real intent

;-)

My kids played the Smurfs music. I'll get me coat.

Could always buy "Pet Sounds" by the Beach Boys.....

And when the dust settled he turned to the waiter and said - stop that my man, yes sir which way did it go he replied...

enough.

Bum bum...