sharris

Some fine modelling on show, and as a bonus I must have lost about 1kg on the walk there and back from the station.

They should do a Scaleforum every weekend - it would beat going to the gym.

15 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

 

Both have the defect, for LMS wagons, of having a representation of a private owner wagon registration plate molded on.

Actually that could be my mistake rather than Cambrian’s - they were the spare parts that came with the aforementioned D1666 (and for the Parkside, spare parts that came with an LMS cattle wagon). I’d forgotten that Cambrian did RCH PO wagons too, and assumed they must be for a shorter LMS wagon from their range.

22 hours ago, Adam said:

…chassis is frankly poor - and it’s nearly 40 years old…

 

Two solebars that are nominally the same (LMS wooden, 9’ wheelbase) - one is from a Cambrian kit, the other from a Parkside kit. Guess which is which.

On 08/09/2023 at 09:17, Worsdell forever said:

 

Also rabbits…

Wouldn’t they have gone by hopper?

sorry! I’ll get my coat.

12 hours ago, Adam said:

 

 

Found on Facebook, Sutton Bridge c.1886 some 299s…

the change in brickwork is quite interesting - someone must have had a ‘gonna need a bigger shed’ moment.

Grrr, not only did I come home with some bags full of goodies, but I seem to have acquired a case full of covid too
 🤢

All vaxxed up though and it’s just a bit of an annoyance (just a scratchy throat) rather than making me particularly ill.

On 14/05/2023 at 09:19, Compound2632 said:

there was a Triang Battle Space Turbo Propeller Car on the test track...

I can see I really missed out by only going on Sunday! Seriously though, thoroughly excellent modelling on all the exhibits. 

FWIW, I thought the show guide was fine at doing its intended job.

The last Ally Pally show I went to was pre-pandemic so my memory might be a bit hazy, but did it used to be on glossy paper? I can quite understand the economics of it being on cheaper paper now though, and actually more convenient as it rolled up more easily to stick in my pocket than a glossy one would!

9 hours ago, woodenhead said:

Pokemon go style augmentation on a phone app - point the camera in any direction and little icons show what is in that direction and where.

with everyone staring at their phones to navigate around the show you might also need a motion detector in the style of the one in the movie Alien to prevent collisions with other visitors.

Pulse rifles and flamethrowers an optional extra.

21 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

 just so, when the Midland was ordering wagons from the trade (up to c. 1875), what was quoted for was the price of wagons without wheels, axles, and bearing and buffing springs…

But I bet when the Midland received their wagon ‘kits’, they didn’t come with rudimentary tension lock couplings that were instantly thrown away.

And loading bricks the Bedford way - Stewartby circa 1936.

taken from:

http://www.ampthill.tv/archive/ZZ/Brickmaking 1938/Bricks Cine 1938.mp4

22 hours ago, Flymo749 said:

Hopefully you found the plentiful seating when you arrived, and the bottomless cups of tea available from our excellent caterers...

Thanks! Having been away from the modelling bench for a few months (had to put things aside for a while in the run-up to getting married!) it was great to get back into the swing of things by seeing some excellent modelling.

However, not sure what the sign on the right was trying to say about the girth of modellers! 🤣

On 24/09/2022 at 09:53, David Bigcheeseplant said:

 

After setting up last night I got home and felt unwell, so did a covid test only to find out I have a positive result so I won’t be doing a demo this weekend. 

Hope you only got it lightly and are better soon.

Expecting a nice pleasant walk from the station.

Didn’t expect to need my crampons! That’s quite a climb coming out of town! Might need a bit of a sit-down when I get there! 😁

29 minutes ago, boxbrownie said:

So does the free trial last forever?

Yes - unless they ever change their philosophy.

4 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

Maybe not if you took out a subscription, but any "free trial" always opens the flood gates until you either subscribe or block. Clicking unsubscribe from mailing list is often only a temporary fix, because you end up still being mailed by partner companies.

The Guardian don’t ever make you pay for a subscription, so your ‘free trial’ just is your subscription there - you can get the content for free, or pay in which case the inline suggestions that you might want to pay are supposed to disappear.

53 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

The Telegraph and The Guardian are two that spring to mind.

Thirty days free trial, then we're never going to stop bombarding you with emails and targeted pop ups.

 

No thanks.

I can’t say what The Telegraph does, but I’ve had a subscription to The Guardian for years and don’t think I’ve had a single email from them.

23 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

Scraping off the moulded axlebox leaves just the hole in the axleguard for the bearing; I put that in from behind and glue the axlebox onto it, sandwiching the plastic axleguard.

 

I wonder if you’ve gone to the trouble of scraping  the axlebox off the W irons and springs whether an easier and more robust solution might just be to chop the axlebox off completely, pare back the W behind the springs and use a pair of MJT’s etched W units in their place, sticking the replacement boxes onto the W irons.

On 28/03/2016 at 02:10, sharris said:

This fascinating film from 1938...

...a bygone era;  as of this week the last of the chimneys were demolished.

2 hours ago, Penlan said:

I thought 'C. Eng.,' was supposed to cut out all that proliferation of titles 

I used to be MIEEE and MIEE, but gave up on those when I realised I was just paying for their magazines which I rarely got around to reading. These days I just use Dr when I feel like it - I like to confuse people by being a doctor of a medical based subject, but not a doctor of medicine.

I can’t find a Coronation Scot in my copy with an LNWR livery brake, but there is a Black 5 and a Jubilee with BR experimental plum and spilt milk carriages in shot.

In terms of (pre-BR) precursors to BR blood and custard, LMS 80000-80002 is similar although the upper panels appear lighter, and I think the UK built Type 22 Micheline appeared in red and cream although haven’t seen a colour photo of that one to check.

4 hours ago, Nick Holliday said:

When I left school in 1969, there was a prize giving, 

I won two school prizes - one for maths where I received the standard prize of a pen that didn’t work, and one for the school’s hobbies exhibition (I exhibited a scratch built model street, based on the streets in York’s Castle Museum) - being into Airfix kits at the time I requested (and got) a book on Second World War fighter planes.

There are quite a few photos around of pre-grouping wagons keeping their livery into the grouping era, some exceptional examples even keeping a pre-grouping livery into the late 1930s.

But how rapidly did coaching stock get a make-over after grouping? Were the big four keen to impress their new corporate identities on passengers so that coaches got a much prompter trip to the paint shop than goods vehicles?

Stevenage, January 2020 was my last.

That’s the front half slated! Now for the back half! A few need a drop more glue to stick them down (incidentally my glue choice for these is balsa cement).

Quite possibly taking top spot in mind numbingly tedious modelling tasks!