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  1. Mad McCann
    Mate of mine has come down with a nasty lurgy. He’s got this beak like growth and he’s sprouting black feathers. Doc reckons it’s CORVID...
  2. Mad McCann
    It may be a photographic effect but comparing this model with a photo of a real 25 in a magazine here, there seems insufficient rake on the windscreen and the relationship between the cab front and headcode box just seems uncomfortable. Davy.
  3. Mad McCann
    The name, of course, suggest clearing up of a different nature! Davy
  4. Mad McCann
    Scubaidh Dubh wasn’t impressed with the weather at all. Didn’t stop him getting me up at 4.15 yesterday morning for the walk he missed on Saturday night when the weather was again lousy!
  5. Mad McCann

    Just ruminating, but would knocking out the gears to the 1st and second axles on a DJM Austerity remove the cogging issue by letting one axle and the rods do all the work?

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    2. PMP

      PMP

      @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. 

    3. mike morley

      mike morley

      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+.

    4. skipepsi

      skipepsi

      So helical gear set maybe the answer?

  6. Mad McCann
    That was at the back of my mind tbh.
  7. Mad McCann
    I’m pondering whether when Hornby’s A2/2 is released whether much effort will be required to convert it into one of the quartet of A2/1s that Thompson converted from V2s whilst already under construction. Superficially they seem very similar with the wedge front cab though obviously later A2/3 style smoke deflectors were added. I’m unaware of significant differences although there were certainly a few different boiler diagrams knocking about at the time. Davy.
  8. Mad McCann
    The simple answer to this is no. D6123 obviously was the first in TTG in July ‘63. Twelve went into two tone green in 1965-6 and the last seven rebuilds, straight into blue between June and December 1967. Davy.
  9. Mad McCann

    Dapol Class 21/29

    Mad McCann replied to spackz's topic in Dapol

    They certainly scrub up well. My favourite diesel models to date. Lovely and well worth the ten year wait. Pretty much leaving the best till last in ScR modelling terms. Davy.
  10. Mad McCann
    https://images.app.goo.gl/YQAzRaKKUsSrG8xU9
  11. Mad McCann
    Trust me. The producer of an excellent series of archive videos is a serial offender...
  12. Mad McCann
    It’s Fechan painful to listen to at times...
  13. Mad McCann
    And while we’re on such matters, peeps; ‘Caley’ is pronounced ‘Kah-ly’. Not, under any circumstances is it pronounced like a bad Marillion song! Davy
  14. Mad McCann
    “The trouble with that place; is that lot!”
  15. Mad McCann
    I’m sure I saw that one on Xhamster...
  16. Mad McCann
    I still badly need a Barassie works Timber-P. well actually , aboit four triple packs... Davy.
  17. Mad McCann
    Man goes to Newcastle to sort out some family business but upsets some folk.
  18. Mad McCann
    Most of is are in the same boat mate. Prices have gone up, earnings have reduced significantly for most of us. Guess it just means we can’t have everything that we want. Not a good situation at all but it is what it is for now. Model looks promising though. Davy.
  19. Mad McCann
    There’s a parallel with how we work when building a model, a layout or any DIY; rush into the job too quickly and you usually have to go back and do it again. Much as we’re all desperate to do all those things we enjoy, gradual is sensible in these circunstances. As a naturally cautious man I’m fine with that. Davy.
  20. Mad McCann

    Hey, Bachmann, if the Grainflows are too expensive to assemble and be viable for you; how about doing them CKD-style for those of us happy to assemble them ourselves?

  21. Mad McCann
    Probably wise to use gloves when handling cash, particularly if you have small cuts or cracks on your skin aa you may well do ifvyoy’re washing your hands frequently. When I have to spend five hours in a bus cab again, I’ll use every protection I can get my hands on, given a second wave is now inevitable.
  22. Mad McCann
    Well, if you need any assistance with ‘enforcement’ I’m not back at work until a week on Friday... ;-)
  23. Mad McCann
    You vandal!
  24. Mad McCann
    That was the size of them...
  25. Mad McCann

    Ah, there’s nothing like a bit of modelling to spoil yer mood... <_<

    Stuff it I’m away for some beer.

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    2. Mad McCann

      Mad McCann

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

       

      I’m fine.

    3. mike morley

      mike morley

      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.

    4. cessna152towser

      cessna152towser

      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!

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