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Thanks @Graham T for your kind and supportive words. Thanks also to those that stopped to leave a "like", and to those that passed by this way. It all means quite a lot to me. RMWeb says I've had 523 replies and 53.5k views. I find that boggling, although I'm well aware that many many other threads have much better statistics.

I think you're fortunate to have photos of all your signals, graininess not withstanding.

I'll add my congratulations to those of others. For me, I retired 8 years ago at the ripe old age of 56, but rebounded 6 months later into casual employment after spending 24/7 with this stranger that I've been married to for 35 years.

I caught a break from Things That Must Be Done and managed to stick a sky/rooflight to it's glazing. I figured that spray adhesive would be the go, and fashioned a jig to help align the long edges of the frame and glazing. The idea was to paint the front of the frame, adhesive-spray the back, put it upside-down in the jig, then place the glazing on top. Unfortunately, I used too much adhesive, which made the frame go as floppy as wet noodles. Moreover, glue got on the front of the frame, which stuck the frame to the jig better than to the glazing. Attempting to separate the frame from the jig only served to get glue on my fingers, and on various places on the glazing where it shouldn't have been. The second short section of the frame got less spray, and was positioned with little fanfare and much less cussing. The 2nd photo shows a close-up of the join between the two frame sections, as well as a degree of glue in the wrong places and general wonkiness. At Normal Viewing Distances, it's probably adequate, so this attempt may yet find a home on the back roof section where it will be harder to see. I would give myself 6/10. I'll have another go with a repeat of the reduced glueage and shorter frame sections. The short 12-pane 72mm section shown to the right of the 2nd photo was much easier to work with than the long 45-pane 270mm section.

I'm so excited about the amateur autopsy club I've joined. Tuesday is open Mike night!

People who don't eat cheese?

People who use selfie sticks should take a good long look at themselves.

No one's commented about this being page 666. Perhaps if we ignore it l, it will just go away.

No one knows the prices in Victoria's Secret - it's a secret!

My therapist says I have schizophrenia, but I’m in two minds.

I have encouraged my Silhouette cutter to produce one sky/rooflight frame in two parts from 10-thou plasticard. The long piece is approx. 270mm long. The glazing bars are 0.75mm wide. The curl apparent in the picture largely goes away as the waste is removed from the openings. For those unfamiliar with the device, it cuts through the plasticard, but since it has a triangular blade, much like a scalpel, doesn't cut all the way into the corners on the back. There is a setting to allow it to overcut, meaning that it would cut all the way into the corners on the back, but this would mean that it would overcut on the front. I prefer to release the corners manually with a scalpel. This is not that difficult, but can be tedious, if you're careful, and disheartening if you're not.

More than enough to be getting on with, I should imagine 😵‍💫

Special thanks to @St Enodoc for leading me to use Word (other word-processing apps are available) for the station sign on the western wall. Mandatory font isn't available on my aging machine (I guess Mandatory is optional 😁), and I wound up with good ol' Arial. It took a while to make that choice, during which I discovered that half-point fonts were supported (e.g. 4.5pt), and that the Font dialog has a Character Spacing tab which provides even more flexibility to help make the graphics look more like the prototype station sign. I no longer have a colour printer, choosing to get my printing done at a printing business which gives excellent service at a price of A$1/page. Multiple copies of the BANFF sign were printed on a single sheet of ordinary 80gsm paper, but I might also consider print-it-yourself decals in the future. I was delighted to find that the background colour used in the graphics was a very good likeness to the paint I've used to model faded LNER green.

The internal platform is in place, the western wall completed (including signwriting) and attached, and the roof/ves have been fitted to the Banff station building, just in time to catch a rare dusting of snow 😁 I use 2 layers of 1mm card for roof/ves: the under layer is hidden within the walls, providing stiffening for the upper layer, which will shortly start receiving strips of slate tile paper. The astute reader will note that I'm still procrastinating over the sky/rooflights. These will have to be the next task, so that they can be fitted to the roof/ves before slating can commence.

I used to be young and poor, but after years of hard work, I’m no longer young.

Many thanks to all. I'm was neither suggesting that the error was catastrophic, or that I was the only one ever to make a mistake. It is, after all, part of the human condition. Anyway, here's the papered chevron (apologies for the poor photo). ... and installed. From Normal Viewing Distance there's nothing to see, which, of course, I'm quite happy with. Onwards and upwards, or somesuch.

No problem. Red arrow identifies the added card.

Progress continues to progress, but ... Oh, Calamity! 🫣 I've just found that I cut one of the external walls 7mm to short. I see 3 options: Do nothing. Ignore the error, and proceed with the roof as per the walls as cut, which would mean that the ridgelines would not meet as in the prototype. Would anyone else realise? Probably not. Would anyone else care? Definitely not. Replace the incorrect wall with a new correct one. I do not find the prospective of removing the existing wall attractive. Repair the mistake. Fortunately, the 7mm is missing from the top of the wall. Here's the errant wall with a chevron of freshly cut card balancing on top to take it to it's intended height. I'll cover the chevron with matching stone paper, trimming around the edges of individual stones in an attempt to merge the repair with the existing stonework. If I succeed, I'm set, and if not, option 1 is looking very attractive.

A defibrillator doesn't stop children from telling fibs. I know that now.

"become" ?

I'm turning blue from holding my brea ...

Did you hear about the watchmaker who is half Spanish and half Irish? His name is Juan O'Clock.

Yummy.

Somebody nicked 'em.

Truly wonderful.