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No prob, resized ok this end. Thanks AySea, that is what I needed :)

Hi, just over a few hours to go now ! Do you have venue plan ? Some years ago I visited a superb Nailsea show in a light, well spaced, airy, non shoulder_to_shoulder (sans anorack !) large room (main hall / assembly ?) display area, well accessed from excellent car parking & mobility. Sadly a few years later, the venue was the same school but the exhibits (and vendors) were crammed into corridors and side-rooms (classrooms?) A shambles ! Should I visit again ?

Yep microscopes, cotton buds, feromagnetic, an'all ! beggers belief in this day and age ! Underneath the fountain in TC ( I woz there, as the saying goes, when it was being built and now I am as redundant as it is and I just need to be sold off for re-developement as well )

That is what they did, they checked, found it inadequate, went to take2 , take3 ,,, sorted, but decided to run with take1 (the discovery phase ) as better candy. The prob is that TV "as presented" appears to be linear, whereas in real (TV cutting room floor*) life it is a re-entrant loop *in the days of yore, when we ended up in heaps of cut 2" tape on the floor, - - I believe it is a lot less wasteful in these days of electronics !

Was that the objectionable 'stealer of the turntables' guy ? He was the only two low points in this program. :( Shame that it was not he that ended up in the canal ! I thought that DS was in better humour/spirits than in the first episode. Would have liked them to have tried a banker before going the funicular? option. It would have given Roundhouse a chance to parade more of their wares Though if one alone without a train couldnt make it then two the same would not either !! Is that their most powerfull best traction loco ?

Thanks no worries, casting caution to the wind I have stuffed a packet card, trimmed to approx A5, into my long suffering Epson and have printed (after a little protest & stuttering!) the end walls of my embryo engine shed, Yea! Now for the sides and roof ,. , , ,Nice one Chubber, thanks lots.

Aah! Clearly I have much to learn ! Thanks for that, a survey of local SM is indicated [and I have just looked up " 'flake cupcakes" and am reliably informed by the Beeb that " Children: Weigh out the ingredients. Older children can do this by themselves with supervision and little ones can help to pour or spoon ingredients " , , , I am sure I fit into at least one of those classifications and 1kg sounds good ] Didnt occure to me that I might be able to print direct ! Nice one !! The chief Secretary to the Procurement Excutive has recently mentioned the possibility of a new printer, so I dont risk too much if I were to stuff some oats packaging into the current one, which can also do A5 it leads me to believe. Do you perchance have a thickness in thou' ? my oats seem to be approx 20thou', not sure what that will be in g per thingy and at what thickness my printer will balk. Ah, ex-pating, not cornflakes in my case but much was the carrying about of bottles of HP Sauce in hand luggage, once upon a time, probably cause Ryan(disp)air a nervous moment if not an internationla incident these days ?

Thanks for all the helpful hints everyone. I should be able to get back to it later today or tomorrow. Proper art/craft card will come later when I have the prototypes and methods sorted, with recycled card I can make plenty of mistakes and only waste a bit of printing ink ! So far I've been using Oats packets and Cupasoups. The inside of the soup packets has been ok. But varyiung degrees of failure with the rest. No trouble so far that I've noticed with warping, but if the glue that I was using hasnt the wherewithall to properly hold the paper it probably doesnt have the 'pull' to to do a respectable warp !! Having been forewarned, thanks, I'll watch out. I'm not sure about this "Packet0-Cornoflako" business, is that a generic description of 'flake packets, are they all created equal ? Accademic as the Station Manager doesnt eat them, and she might take exception to having her morning fare changed ! ( I'm strictly bacon&eggs ) Edit later : I've just remembered that a long time ago she used to make chocolate coated 'flake cupcake things, , , hmmm, I think a hint in that direction might pay double dividends lol!

Good idea ! Thanks, I have fine w&d. Meanwhile, between me posting and your reply I had found on another forum a post which said to use a Jumbo Pritt on a Cornflakes packet. So I had decided that I needed to either change my breakfast cereal or my glue stick ! lol! So,, I have just returned from a trip into town bearing a genuine Jumbo Pritt. Keep your fingers crossed I will use both methods to make sure

Hi all, beginner at printing a diy engine shed on paper and gluing it to cereal packet card. Failure ! ! ! I used a glue stick (similar to Pritt stick ) and, perhaps not surprisingly, it does not stick well to the glossy surface, though a re-application on a previously glued surface seems slightly better. Even on the less glossy but still shiny rear surface it is not good. So, what should I try next ? PVA perhaps? But with my poor dexterity that could become messy ! ( that is why the glue stick looked attractive). Or perhaps go to an arts/crafts shop and get some proper card that will take a stick I have not found the relevent gluing bit in the pinned topic yet. Thanks.