Din

Well, decided to give the final Tomb Raider game, Rise of The Tomb Raider a go. Quite enjoying it so far. As it's the actual "finished" game with the "definitive" edition I picked up hilariously cheap on sale. So all the bits they cut out and make you pay for again.

I was up in Derby at the hospital when it started snowing. Quite heavy as I drove home too! Thankfully its eased off and mostly gone by now.

Oh look, the Shogunate Japan game a lot of AC fans were asking for from about AC II.

Might I suggest the fitting of a toy/dummy steering wheel, Maggie Simpson style?

Odd that, I placed an order with him and paid for it and it arrived within the week. I don't expect amazon-style next day delivery from one-man-bands.

Morning, that's a very scary looking map. Glad my dad chose Lincolnshire to retire to instead of Norfolk now! The wind howled so much here yesterday (and seemed to twist from a south-western to western) I couldn't hear the planes, but apparently only 3 flights were cancelled out of East Mids.

Well, the wind and rain was 'orrid here in normally Sunny Swad. So much so, that it ripped most of the plastic covering I had on the fascia along the roofline to stop having to re-mortar it has been blasted off for the most part. Ho Hum.

Hi I'm Din. I like to game too. I have a PC, Switch and PS4 all bought over time. The PS4's been bought most recently to catch up on a number of games of this generation that I missed, or because I want to be more comfortable when enjoying more story-driven games and my chair in the back where my PC is, is nowhere near comfortable enough. (even now, I'm on a cheap netbook to browse the net and forums). Most recently I've been really enjoying playing Horizon: Zero Dawn. I love the world Guerrilla Games has built from it and the fighting style is great fun, requiring different strategies each and every different enemy the game throws at you. I've sank my teeth into every Assassin's Creed Game from the start with the exception of Odyssey and enjoy the lore and idea of every conspiracy theory being the truth.

Closest thing we have to a real life Bond Villain Elon Musk and his Tesla company have been doing just that, with the solarglass product which is available now. He's also investing billions into the Gigafactories of his to ensure the industrial capacity will be there (eventually) to make it more cost effective. It certainly looks far, far nicer than the slabs that are on some of my neighbour's rooves!

I enjoyed AC:Syndicate immensely. Still not as good as Revelations in my opinion but still. Lovely model. So did the NWR have more than the one E2 rattling about? Were they copies made at Crovan's Gate?

C&B was the one I forgot! There was also Trainlines, who were Chester Green when I remember them, then they moved near Friar gate Station. The Eagle Centre was where the Debenhams now is in that monstrosity of a Mall they built and is why my favoruite geek store, Forbidden Planet has abandoned Derby altogether. The Mall also had a Model Works? Chain Store in it for a while which got kiboshed by the Credit Crisis.

The Archimedes screw bit? Not sure what your chassis is, but in previous bodges I did long ago it was usually because the body was rubbing against it.

Is the worm tight against the body?

Oh the model shop, and oh how I am down to two, lonely outposts.... When I were a lad living as I always have here in Swadlincote we boasted two model shops. KMB Models and M&P Models. KMB is when you wanted your new stuff and was run by a very kindly gent. M&P was run by Morris and Paul, father and son who, when the latter semi-retired (and the former retired from near by John Knowles after being security guard there for many years) set up a nice model shop. This place was frequently packed with all the cast offs and second hands. My dad and I would often go there, mostly for "bits and bobs" along with buying little items now and then. He'd go for a long chat with old acquaintances and I'd go to gawp at all the models he had in every nook and cranny. Both are gone now. The old gent passed away, as did Morris. Both sons marching on for a while but I've just learned Paul's Model Shop, as it became known, is now gone too after a friend of his took over. Across in Burton you had Les' models. A good shop, that moved a couple of times, but as online shopping rose, so it fell. Too large a shop, and an owner ready to call it a day for perfectly fine reasons. Out in Tutbury you had the Tutbury Jinny. Expensive back in the day, but would always order what you needed and get it to you within the week. Tutbury Models as it's now known is still there and I frequent it to pick up bits and bobs as I need, and sometimes a bit of rolling stock. Easiest place to get Bass and Worthington's Vans y'see, and I'm an absolute sucker for local wagons. There used to be a couple of shops in Derby. One near the main Mosque who's name now escapes me that abandoned model railways altogether in favour of RC Cars and that side of the hobby. There was even a Model Works for a while. Now instead, the Loughborogh Model Centre decamped itself to a nice premises in Derby and is a place I sorely need to frequent more often!

"You are staying on this chassis whether you like it or not!"

Swain's Park is a reference to a fictional Headquarters for my fictional preserved railway that I hope to talk about at length at a much later date. For now, it's just me tinkering with a little workbench I've got. ----------------------------- So after being inspired heavily by the Pugbash thread, and inspired by a number of folks on that thread (Including Corbs and Edwardian among many, many others) I've started up my own workbench thread. I'm no magician and some of my efforts will be no doubt sloppy, but unlike previous efforts I've made sure to actually invest in the tooling necessary so I know it's all my fault when it goes wrong and not the lack of tools. So, my first subject is a light bash of a pair of Nellie Bodies which will sit on a Bachmann Junior 0-6-0 chassis, which I plan to convert to 2-4-0 long term. The eventual idea is to have 3 such examples of this fictional 2-4-0 "class" at various points of its life. This will mean there will be a third Nellie Body that shall be not so much lightly bashed as utterly massacred for the "final phase" alongside hopefully another chassis. So first up is the "early" version. Still debating a chimney change and perhaps changing a few more bits on here, the buffers are Mr T's manning Wardle ones yet to be fixed, and I am wondering whether to add the Manning Wardle Chimney to the loco, or leave it more "as is". As usually happens with these poor unfortunate souls, there's always always a buffer missing. Just one. So, I set aside the remaining buffers, razor sawed off the plastic (Cor, what a tool) and recovered four from a badly warped Triang Jinty of which I have a small army's worth of supply which came, remarkably, with a complete set of buffers (in fact, the only ones which have them, are the ones which the bodies are hilariously warped) These have now been superglued in place.

Oh god it worked!

Sorry, didn't realise that Google Photos still has the idiotic block on it where you're not allowed to link it elsewhere in a BB Code Post. Should be nice and fixed above, and quite the ScrapHeap Challenge... especially as a second Polly turned up this morning.

*Laughs in scrap merchant.* Yeah, I think I've got some bashing to do...

Where'd you get your wheelset from for the 2-4-0? Or rather, what size are they? Off to Stafford show this weekend hopefully so might try and pick them up if I can...

See, now I have to ask what the WKR is that needs such weird and wonderful engines...

Has anyone ever seen some of the utterly mad bids and thought it smells more like money laundering than idiots with too much money? 'cause some of these items and the end sale prices are just... wot.

I'm clicking random pages every so often and plan my own version of your Nellie 2-4-0, with a scramble around my back room for the parts likely imminent!

Been Spending Most their lives, Living in an Edwardian Paradise.... ======= Excellent modelling and inspirational stuff to read through here.