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  1. can't get a layout on a scooter...that sounds like a challenge.

    I do have an N gauge layout that fitted into my old locker at Worle, AND was transported home on a push bike :D

  2. “Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets.” Nye Bevan 1952.

  3. 43179 is spare at spm this weekend - I have been working on her all day - you may not be lucky this weekend...

  4. A day spent repairing SPM's wheel lathe...the only FGW one working atm...

  5. B set 1 destroyed. Time to make out a shopping list...

  6. B****R - ultrascale crankpin spinning on my 08 :(

    1. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      My commiserations, Matthew, most inconsiderate of the critter!...

  7. can't belive he walked out of modelzone empty handed...

    1. Leicester Thumper

      Leicester Thumper

      I can at the rates they charge!

  8. Can't wait for the 21st birthday spending spree at scaleforum...

  9. Celebrating my 21st with a couple fo highlevel kits and a week off work :)

  10. Didcot naming a powercar in a professional capacity.

    1. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      How about 'Ebeneezer?'...

    2. beast66606

      beast66606

      "In a professional capacity" is a funny name for a powercar ...

  11. enjoyed an fternoon watching roller derby practice... modelling came second or third in another to do list...

  12. glc accompanying west fleet 143 modelling...

  13. has got some bad scooter withdrawal symptoms after borrowing a crazy lambretta for the w/e

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Quadrophenia?

    2. modfather

      modfather

      no, too cheesy, I've sold mine to do a car test and miss the freedom and fun with friends

  14. has just purchased a mark one vw golf cabby...bye bye modelling time and money!

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    2. Pugsley

      Pugsley

      Good luck, don't forget your breakdown cover.. :)

    3. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Nothing wrong with a Mk.1 Golf Cabrio. Apart from the roof. And the handling.

    4. modfather

      modfather

      Umm it's got no roof, the engine's in the garage, project is the term of choice... Layout space? how high are the bridges? :P

  15. Hey, this is not a test! This is rock and roll! Time to rock it from the Delta to the D.M.Z.!

  16. Is out of drill bits, thank god for scalefour soc deal with shesto!

  17. is sat wtching the forest of deans 108 being unloaded for tyre turning :)

  18. it's days like these I miss the vespa...

  19. Just back from the pub...driving theory tomoro...

    1. ullypug

      ullypug

      Go on then, how'd you do?

  20. missed a metro kit but aquired two b-sets to p4...to do list has doubled!

    1. Kempenfelt

      Kempenfelt

      Not liking the look of my to do list either. Just realised that Wigan 2012 is 2 years away (when Barrow Road is making it's first apperance) and i've just spent this weekend going through the working timetables for Robin to create a required stock list and operating sequence! It may have to be a big fiddle yard and I may have to finish something! :-)

  21. oooor skatalites live!

  22. pug cab built, awaiting tools for the chassis and the guts to attack the stupid hornblocks...

  23. Too sunny for modelling...Cheddar on the scoot :)

  24. trying to thin down before moving...blue diesels anyone?

    1. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      Maybe if they are DCC ready. Please P.M> mallard60022

    2. scots region

      scots region

      Scottish Region?

  25. urgh, 5 hours and a set of 150 engine heads later...

    1. modfather

      modfather

      Nope, one set of knackered cams + rockers on a low miles engine... the vespa's gone in favour of a mk1 golf in bits and a cinquecento :(

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