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  1. Mad McCann

    "Concealed his doubt by skilful evasion..."

  2. Mad McCann
    1. pH

      pH

      Alternatively -

    2. 3 link

      3 link

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

    3. Mad McCann

      Mad McCann

      Sometimes you just can't be bothered...

       

  3. Mad McCann

    That moment when you realise all the 1/8 Markits axles you thought you had are actually 3mm and you need to swap all your kit jackshafts for the correct gauge...

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    2. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Is that when the word 'jackshaft' becomes a rude one?

    3. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      As in 'Oh jackshaft, I'm sitting in my local curry house and I didn't realise my flies were open!'

    4. Mad McCann

      Mad McCann

      O gauge; the long-sighted git's friend... ;-)

       

  4. Mad McCann

    Anybody got a spare set of 6 Markits 4'3" 14 spoke drivers? I really can't be bothered faffing about with these Gibsons.

    1. davefrk

      davefrk

      If you haven't destroyed them too much how about a master class on fitting them.

    2. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Something like that would always be of great use to a lot of people, Dave.

  5. Mad McCann

    What if every day, we treated everybody we met like it was Christmas Day? It would certainly make the place nicer. Gotta be worth a punt, eh? :-)

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    2. 60159

      60159

      Dave, I'm with you with one exception - I could not afford to provide food and particularly drink to my lot at the rate it is scoffed over Christmas. Bottle bank huge beneficiary of their efforts today.

    3. Mad McCann

      Mad McCann

      Get the miserable So and so's to bring a bottle! :-)))

    4. vitalspark

      vitalspark

      Notice we weren't invited Dave.

  6. Mad McCann

    FLYING MONKEYS!

    1. Londontram

      Londontram

      Dave you really need to change your medication in the new year

    2. dana

      dana

      http://www.bitsandpieces.com/product/amazing_flying_monkey/unique-gifts?p=0959289&utm_medium=shopping_engine&utm_source=googleshopping&utm_medium=google&CAWELAID=120020260000002445&CAGPSPN=pla&CAAGID=13373720672&CATCI=pla-267202961491&gclid=Cj0KEQiA-f3CBRCbluKf4vu008kBEiQAl-iGq5ctpjR2hMSCNzmg_4HJNjKmCMXrvsUqZRsqKu-vYsAaAsot8P8HAQ . this what you're commenting about correct ! your nerves shattered yet !
  7. Mad McCann

    FLYING MONKEYS!

  8. Mad McCann

    Your majestic mountains I wish to see closer. May I land my kinky machine...

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    2. davefrk

      davefrk

      Come on in Doctor.

    3. Chris Chewter

      Chris Chewter

      Permission denied.

    4. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Is this a direct translation from Japanese?

  9. Mad McCann

    A National Film Board of Canada Production...

    1. pH

      pH

      "The Railrodder"?

       

       

    2. Porcy Mane

      Porcy Mane

      Crawley Films

  10. Mad McCann

    A National Film Board of Canada Production...

  11. Mad McCann

    Nazi flying saucer attack!

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    2. Mad McCann

      Mad McCann

      Great response chaps! :-)))

    3. Huw Griffiths

      Huw Griffiths

      The truth is out there somewhere.

    4. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Horrocksford.

  12. Mad McCann

    Stüzpunkt 211...

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    2. Mad McCann

      Mad McCann

      Does sound a bit 'industrial techno'... :-)

    3. Mad McCann

      Mad McCann

      'Walking the Atlantic Wall' wasn't that the lost Level 42 album..?

    4. Mad McCann

      Mad McCann

      'Walking the Atlantic Wall' wasn't that the lost Level 42 album..?

  13. Mad McCann

    "DJH Starter kit". Surely a contender for Oxymoron of the Century! ;-)

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    2. 60159

      60159

      I have enjoyed good beer in an oxymoron - The Honest Lawyer in Scunthorpe

    3. Phil Parker

      Phil Parker

      I've built both OO models (one WAS my first 4mm loco kit, so it worked for me) and the 7mm 02. All seemed pretty good to me. Is it the very concept of a kit you have a problem with?

       

    4. Mad McCann

      Mad McCann

      Yeah. Dyed in the wool RTR, me...

  14. Mad McCann

    It's easy to face the music if you like the style...

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    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      It's time to play the music,

      It's time to light the lights....

    3. 60159

      60159

      .... as long as it's not C&W .... an' I don' mean Carriage and Wagon!

    4. vitalspark

      vitalspark

      Sharon Tandy

  15. Mad McCann

    Can't get my head around how you attach operating hornblocks squarely to a chassis with only two hands.

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    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      ^^

      What he said. But if you have no jigs, some springs and a few hairgrips will work.

    3. vitalspark

      vitalspark

      Or a secomd pair..if you ask him nicely Mr Franks will lend you his.

    4. Mad McCann

      Mad McCann

      Got a hobby holidays jig but I think I need a couple of extra hands too. Clearly missed something blatantly obvious. That said, I rattled a set of frames up for my Comrie pug in 2 hours last night. Short enough wheelbase that rigid will make next to no difference in performance. Decent can and 108:1 box too!

  16. Mad McCann

    The prospect of sticking with rigid unless suspension is designed into a kit is tempting...

    1. Mad McCann

      Mad McCann

      And in fact is what I'll be reverting to with all future loco kits unless the kit is self-jigging.

  17. Mad McCann

    Godspeed, John Glenn...

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    2. Re6/6

      Re6/6

      A Great man.

    3. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      May he rest in peace.

    4. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      It's worse than that he's dead Jim

  18. Mad McCann

    D1733

    1. newbryford

      newbryford

      Too much blue.

    2. Mad McCann

      Mad McCann

      I think the red cab panels were both a lovely touch and a missed opportunity, given they weren't adopted. Taken me a number of years but I finally 'get' blue now.

       

    3. vitalspark

      vitalspark

      Saw it on the WR with the XP64 set back in the day when we were searching out the last GW steam at Old Oak Southhall and many more plus of course the obligatory pilgrimage to Barry docks.

      I was a schoolboy then but Jeez..am I really that old?

  19. Mad McCann

    FFS! I've just wrecked my Derby Lightweight Society mug. Again. That's the third one; I think I'll take the hint this time!

    1. BoD

      BoD

      Find something else to mix your paints in.

  20. Mad McCann

    Everybody move to prove the groove...

    1. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Raspberry jelly.

  21. Mad McCann

    WARNING! Do not google 'Operation High Jump' if you do not want to lose a day burin was a kid! :-)ed in outlandish and fantastically insane speculation. Most fun I've had of that ilk since reading about 'Atlantis' and the 'Philadelphia Experiment' when

    1. Mad McCann

      Mad McCann

      I think strange magnetic disturbances may have affected the previous post.

      Must be The Men in Black... ;-)

  22. Mad McCann

    WARNING! Do not google 'Operation High Jump' if you do not want to lose a day buried in outlandish and fantastically insane speculation. Most fun I've had of that ilk since readin

  23. Mad McCann

    Well, hopefully I'll get that humongous G scale 66 off the workbench tomorrow night, which might well let me get some more finishing touches done on the long running saga of 54477... :-)

    1. vitalspark

      vitalspark

      At least you wouldn't need yer specs to work on it Dave.

  24. Mad McCann

    Monkey, with a chance of isolated, heavy chimp later...

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    2. skipepsi

      skipepsi

      Chimp Paradox recommended

       

    3. Kylestrome

      Kylestrome

      And a force eight orangutang warning for shipping tonight.

    4. Ian J.

      Ian J.

      Pigsy, Sandy, Tripitaka...

  25. Mad McCann

    Suddenly, scratch building rolling stock with plasticard looks somewhat less daunting than it once did.

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    2. Welly

      Welly

      In the past, certain kits had the quality of making scratch-building the easier method!

    3. vitalspark

      vitalspark

      You need to speak with Geoff Kent

    4. sharris

      sharris

      Grrr... just glued all the bolt heads on a corner place on back-to-front. Sometimes you can go off scratch building wagons!

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