Hibelroad

Unfortunately I won’t be able to make it now as it’s too far away 😆. Hopefully others will swell the ranks, I was a member in the Drill Hall days and wish I could attend what looks like an excellent show.

I once sold a house due to a skip. It was my late father in laws house and we were clearing it of accumulated junk (took 5 skips in the end !). We had had estate agents round to value it and of course they were keen to get us signed up so they could get a hefty fee. On morning a builder was working across the road replacing a house window. He came across and said look, it's a bit of a cheek but can I put the old frame in your skip. It was only a small window so I said no problem, then he started asking what we were doing with the house. It turns out he was looking for a house for his son and being a builder didn't mind a bit of a project. In the end we sold it directly to him and saved a couple of grand on estate agents fees. So if there is a moral to this story its be generous with your skip.

Single action trigger operated brushes can be found with a simple internet search, they have their place but a dual action brush gives far greater control for model painting

When I were a lad me mam would give me ten bob to go down to the shops, I’d come back with three nice steaks, a big chunk of cheese, tins of salmon, a string of sausages and six tins of long life for dad and I’d still have change out of the ten bob. You couldn’t do that today, too many security cameras.

If that’s a question then my answer would be Iwata since I have never had a problem with this brand, they work well straight out of the box. Having wasted countless hours in the past fiddling about with airbrushes I am not a fan of fettling, in my experience an airbrush either works well or doesn’t work at all. If simple cleaning doesn’t solve any issue then it’s not a usable item. So my advice, for its worth, would be always buy quality and also get a good controllable air supply. Armed with these even the beginner (and we all start as beginners) can easily achieve a good result.

Fox transfers do some, worth a look to see if any are suitable.

On the phone theme, an old classic. Can I use your dictaphone? No, try using a pencil.

An unlikely tale but there were some strange uses of equipment during the Cold War. I worked for a while in an old power station control room during the late 70s. One item we had was a fallout warning box which was basically a loudspeaker connected to the phone system. This was to be used to give warnings about the levels of fallout should nuclear war take place, presumably the control engineer could then go out and tell any remaining population what deadly fallout to expect. My mate at the time was a bit of an early conspiracy theorist and told me the system had been set up to piggy back on the speaking clock system and helped subsidise the speaking clock. Intrigued I switched the box on (it was supposed to be left on all the time but made an annoying bleep noise to indicate that it was working so was generally it was switched off). Sure enough, by turning the volume right up the speaking clock could be heard faintly in the background, so not all these tales are total myths.

I’m not sure what cement we are talking about here, balsa glue, the powder used to make builders mortar or mortar which has actually set. Also what is the purpose of this experiment, other than being amazed. A little more background would be helpful.

PAT testing can be misunderstood. I once worked in an office where a new bossy manager discovered that the equipment hadn’t been tested for some years. Fortunately her boyfriend was an electrician who did testing so it became a nice little earner for them. At Christmas one young girl decided to decorate her computer monitor with a string of usb powered fairy lights. Bossy manager demanded that they were removed as they hadn’t been PAT tested, so she didn’t understand either.

I think that in circumstances like this wallowing is the worst thing to do, it really is best to look upon this as a dropped stitch in the tapestry of life and forge ahead with future plans. However it does focus the mind on making the best use of your time. All the best with the treatment and looking forward to better times ahead.

Time after Time - Cyndi Lauper

Golden brown - Stranglers.

Attack it with a dremel type tool and cutting disc, that will go through anything.

The thing with 0 gauge is that the stock has mass so it looks more realistic than 4 mm stock when it moves. Also you are closer in so feel more involved with the scene. Few people have room for a continuous circuit so layouts tend to be out and back, but as has been shown above there can be a lot of operating potential. There are many ingenious track plans out there, the main problem settling on one. So if you want a change from watching 4mm models making endless loops then 0 gauge is definitely the way to go.

Your song - Elton John

My favourite gripe is the phrase sea salt, where else would salt come from? Ok some of it is dug out of the ground but that’s just bits of dried up ancient sea.

Spectacle lens wipes may work but could attack the paint, no way of knowing without giving it a try. In service locos were rarely pristine and sometimes had patched up paintwork.

Those figures agree with the wheelbase shown in “An illustrated history of LNWR engines” (Edward Talbot).

We seem to be living in an increasingly angry society. Yes I get annoyed at things and may shout and fume when in the privacy of my car but face to face (or on the phone) I find you get a much better response if you are calm and polite, even use a bit of humour if possible.

I’m minded to paraphrase Brenda of Bristol “Wot, another one ?” They are certainly coming out fast at the moment, I’m still perusing 301 and as my nearest Smiffs is in Llandudno I may need to leave it a week, I will also get a bonus stroll on the prom though when I go for it.

In my life - Beatles

Be aware that you have created a reversing loop so that means electrical problems. There are ways to handle this and I think DCC circuitry which will handle this for you but some research will be needed in order to get the electrics right. Other than that, if this is to scale then the radius at the end looks rather tight. I’m not sure why you need to mix the rail sizes, if you buy a box of code 75 why not stick to that throughout, just a few thoughts.

For what it’s worth my experience of radiology departments is that they are rather clumsy with needles. This is in direct contrast to MacMillan nurses who are absolute magicians and have stuck cannulas in me without me even noticing, and I’m rather needle phobic. It’s just goes to show it can be done.

US box cars attract graffiti, add some and use weathering to cover up the rest.