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'Like' seems an inadequate response to Phil's excellent postings..... l feel we should have a 'superb!' button instead!

You're correct in that Murray or Sanguine, as it is also known, is indeed a reddish-purple. They are generally known as 'stains' owing to their use in abatements of honour, that is marks of disgrace. Perhaps more of use when applied to the 'ordure' rather than the turbot.................... The correct heraldic term to be applied to the Turbot should be 'proper', used when any living thing or inanimate is depicted in its natural colours.

Re post #3531. Which is excellent in many ways! The 'turf' should be rendered in green, not brown, to be heraldically correct. The misappropriation of 'garters' by railway companies was a strange omission for the College of Heralds, being usually so 'hot' on such things, and prosecutions always followed up. I remember a firm of solicitors in Leominster being prosecuted for displaying a faux heraldic shield on their signs. The resultant bad publicity lost them a lot of business. It has long been the practice of the Kings of Arms to grant crests in the form of roundels, which can be painted with the device. The Mercury rising through steam of the London and North Eastern Railway for instance. However the 'arms' are depicted it is apparent that they are more like seals, which were commonly depicted with a surrounding belt, often bearing a motto or inscription. Boutell's and Woodward's treatises on arms show nothing for railway companies however. Arms of corporate bodies, like railway companies, though, are often regarded as 'bogus', or official arms which have been adopted without authority, and which strictly speaking they are not entitled to. Scotland, due to the powers invested in the Lord Lyon, is much more pro-active in bringing prosecutions against offenders. In the 'Pageant of Heraldry' by Colonel H.C.B. Rogers it does show, "The Armorial Achievement of the Great Northern Railway (Ireland)" and he says only, "There are certain heraldic objections to the arms used by this railway, but they are of interest as being typical of the designs adopted by the old private companies, and they make a very handsome addition to the attractive livery of the Great Northern's locomotives and carriages." So it would seem that there is little to prevent the adoption of a crest by The West Norfolk Railway Company, though l would suggest that the pile of ordure might be best avoided...... It is said, by Rogers, that the London and North Western had such a mass of ornamental scroll work that the whole design looked like a green vegetable. Perhaps that's why the engines bearing this device were nick-named 'Cauliflowers'.....................................

Sorry, it was in pdf form which couldn't be opened! Trying again! Nothing too complex then..................

Do you mean this?

Whatever you do don't use shellac varnish over cellulose, otherwise you'll be watching it run down and puddle on the deck! How do l know? Well, I'll give you three guesses.............but l suspect you'll only need one...................

May the Fourth Be With You......................especially when you pee...............

Yes, wildo! One of my all-time favourite locos, and l think Jim Connor deserves to be congratulated on what is a really well thought out kit. Of course l now find myself having to justify further purchases, but at least they're for a good cause................. Me!!

My narrow cab NLR 4-4-0 T has just arrived! Excellent service from Shapeways. The only thing l can see that's omitted is the valve plate, but that's easily corrected with some thin brass, and that may well serve to stiffen the structure somewhat. The brass rods and fittings look good too, an all-round excellent kit, which as we have seen 'captures' the 1-10 series perfectly. Now to source the plates for No. 28, or 47, 48, or 56............ Oh, bu&&rit! I'm going to have to buy more aren't l? Perhaps the wide cab next time.........

Point and shoot........

I'm a bit confused meself.....................

'Signed for' is always better, though he seems to be in denial that anything is wrong, you really need to back up your evidence every step of the way.

Ordered the Narrow Cab version, plus con rods. One of my favourite locos ever! Now to source some number plates!

Apparently being issued at the new Passport Controls set up in Cornwall. Why didn't Captain Kernow let us know this was happening?

Spring must be near....look at all the buds on that tree....................

Wow! The words 'squeaky clean' come to mind! Beautifully done loco though!

Usually with a dozen 'shells' in a brown paper envelope. I recall that they were made of lead, even after Britains stopped hollowcasting in 1966, and later they went into plastic abominations that bounced off rather than beheaded infantry.

I have a Britains '8 inch Howitzer'. Not the post-war version, but a 1916 issue, which fires - on spring loaded 'shells' - lead projectiles of about 1/2 oz in weight. Last time l test fired, it cracked a window which SWMBO still hasn't forgiven me for................

You could of course use your figures as 26th Middlesex (Cyclist) Rifle Volunteers, in the same uniform apart from the glengarry caps, as they didn't get incorporated into the 25th London until 1908. A fine display of cycles and Volunteers would really enhance your scenes. Of course you would have to put the Officers on tricycles. This came about after the Royal Marine Artillery (Cyclists) found that a good wheeze was to keep cycling past Officers, who of course had to return the OR salutes, and the person who succeeded in 'unseating' the Officer would then receive drinks all round in the pub! (so the legend goes.........) By 1903 they were equipped with the 'modern' safety bicycle, which had a rifle bucket on the offside of the (level) crossbar in brown leather, and they were no longer using the Martini-Henry rifle, but the Lee-Metford

My Mazda 2 Venture regularly does 47.5/48 mpg. I preferred my 2 litre MX5 Coupe, though l was lucky to top 35 mpg in it, but it was beautiful......................

At first l thought, "Oh, good, a Thomas the Tank video, then........." https://www.facebook.com/capitalxtra/videos/10155042735766585/ I do like the way they've synchronized the con rod movement though................................

Who expects a Unicorn to be crossing the road at that time of day? Or ever......

My Mito had a problem with the 'engine switch off', which is only supposed to operate when the gearbox is put into neutral at traffic lights. It happened 4 times, one a really hairy near miss, when turning right and passing through neutral to engage the correct gear to pull away (having stopped at the turn, of course) Alfa Romeo completely denied that they had heard of any such fault, ever. We then went on holiday to Italy and hired an Alfa Guilietta, an excellent handling and beautiful car, except that it did exactly the same thing on several occasions! As soon as we returned from Italy we traded it in for a Mazda MX5!

Well, even though I'm personally into organics in a big way, this is just too 'precious' for words........................

Probably the Gibson range is your best bet for odds and ends of fittings.