MrWolf

That looks really good and I particularly like the subtle weathering of the bauxite paintwork. I think that it was @KNPwho I saw had modified an old Mainline Toad with panelled in verandah. It certainly solved the issue of the verandah sides being a bit too thick. I remember taking a file to one years ago after reading a comment in the MRC.

You probably have access to hundreds of pictures, but this one shows the non towpath side rather well. Inland waterways Peter Jones Someone in the squadron needs to work on his bus recognition charts, although the purple and white paint job wouldn't have helped. Blog Preston / Hans-Ulrich Rudel. What is interesting here is the amount of growth between the towpath and canal edge. Fine for modern image, but I expect that it would have been kept scythed down and trampled by horses back in the thirties

That is the same bus kit that I have lurking in the box of doom. I am pretty certain that you can still buy them new.

Looking good! I don't think that whistles were painted. Anyone know better?

Dive bombers are notoriously difficult to hit with AA fire, presenting a very narrow target head on, you just have to get as much lead in the air as you can. They're slow though, much better to get behind them with fighter cover.

Indeed, but it's very distracting, you find yourself looking at the rocket powered Opel bike and bicycles powered by a home made pulse jet.....

It certainly is, I'll be having a look back through the pages of Little Muddle to remind myself of how Kevin loaded his. I also have an eclectic collection of ballast wagons and I'm thinking of converting an old Mainline Toad into a PWay brake van. Then there's the crane.... I really must get around to finishing that! Now what to haul the train with?

Further level crossing avoidance behaviour has resulted in this: Cambrian kit of the GWR 18 Ton sleeper wagon. Slater's sprung 3 link couplings, Bachmann wheels in brass bearings. It's been a nice easy build. The buffer heads are left a bit rough until the glue has hardened. I don't have any way to hold them securely and carefully file then to shape. There's not a lot of room for weight, so I sawed a 5g motorcycle wheel weight in half and stuck the two halves with their adhesive pads up behind the bulkheads. I've sloshed a little freight grey around under the upper decks and frames because the instructions advise fitting the wheels early as once they're in....

It will of course be: A. A period correct bus. B. Not parked in the middle of a bridge. Therefore exempt from spontaneous blitzkrieg. I don't have a problem with buses or other road transport as such. But unlike the trains, those models are static. Buses are fine parked up at a bus stop, or stuck at a level crossing or junction, same thing with cars, and thoughtfully placed they add atmosphere and set the era as much as anything else. For them to be in a position where they ought to be moving, it's a giveaway that they cannot.

That's good news, two buses is risky, three and we start to hear the sound of approaching aircraft...

I was trying to sound positive. Perhaps I should have said Don't feed it and it will just be irritating background noise, like a builder's radio. I have had a similar experience and the really annoying thing is that these bullies operate within the "safe space" of the working environment, so as long as they don't do anything physical, they can carry on unchecked. They're sad losers who still act like they're at school. Speaking of which, I remember about two years of torment at school because I don't like football and all that the teachers could say was to "keep away from them" (Do your job!!!) . Not sure how that works when you're stuck in the same classroom five days a week. It came to a head down the fields on the edge of our village one Sunday afternoon when three of them thought that they had me cornered. I picked up a big stick and beat the absolute **** out of the main aggressor, number two got one round the ear and ran off with number three. Monday morning it was all round school - leave him alone, he's a psycho, can't take a joke. Joke my a55. But of course when you grow up, you get in trouble for such things and the bullies know it.

Don't feed it and it will die before long.

There's a whole industry built around all that BS. The utter hypocrisy of such ideologies is borne out for example in that I know first hand that a homeless person is not eligible for assistance to get into accommodation unless they have dependant children, are dependent on drugs or alcohol, or are "newly arrived" Once you do get somewhere to live there is some help to get the necessary items for living, from the state, charities and community enterprises. IF you meet their criteria, which isn't the same between providers. One in particular, states that a single person is not eligible for assistance to buy a cooker. Presumably because all single people eat nothing but takeaway pizza sat in front of the TV. Yet we are told that the way to eat cheap and healthy is to cook fresh food and batch freeze it for later. It's good for physical and mental health as well as your self esteem. I know that it's a little off topic, but this kind of thing destroys the mojo and state of mind in the vulnerable who are genuinely trying to rebuild their lives.

Very good boxed condition! (Box is actually a replacement) Very good condition, apart from the smashed front bogie, driveshafts and missing wheels, or the scratched off decals, I've probably missed other bits. An absolute bargain at a gnats under £100. Are spares available? If so it's probably not an economic repair. I'd like to know what if anything they paid for it! PS, although a modeller of things Great Western, I'd quite like a Shay locomotive. Just not that one.

I've just picked up a copy of BRM, in the article about RMWeb members day there's a photo and a little write up on Ewe and very complimentary they are about it too! Rightly so, well done Rob!

Must...... get....... layout...... finished...... first......🤪 Although I have scribbled ideas for a steam powered motorcycle 1910 style with a flash steam boiler mounted over the rear wheel.

Don't even go there, I got chucked out of a charity I had been working with for three years because I disagreed (politely and rationally) with a chap who asserted that "People who join the military only do so to go on a killing spree". I also told him that he might want to reconsider the little red star pinned on his coat if he had a problem with the murder of millions. I got a blah blah letter about safe places, duty of care and inclusivity etc. I decided that I have better things to do and at least if bits of rusty iron annoy you, you can bash them with a hammer.

Impressive, I've never seen the MLD type in the metal, or the Robey Tri-tandem, there were quite a few different ideas before the IC engine swept everything away, particularly in the US, which is why I thought it could have been a Buffalo. It would have been nice to have seen a standard gauge British Shay locomotive, those on logging railroads are fascinating to watch.

You have my sympathies there, it's a typical example of the passive aggressive workplace politics that are responsible for a good deal of regressive issues in British industry. I have had personal experience of that kind of manipulative and malicious activity, where someone doesn't like the fact that you are perceived as a capable and trustworthy employee and as such a threat to those around you and those just above. Most of these people aren't very good at their jobs or very often coasting and the only way they can make themselves look good and put you back in your box as it were, is to make you look bad. They also know that they can play the "safe place" rules and come out looking like the victim with more weight to their spurious case if you respond to their actions in any way. As you say, you're back to work in a passive role and they're happy with it. All it does is tell the complainant that they can get away with it and get their own way, it doesn't do you or the company any good, but they're so fearful of legal proceedings nowadays they don't even want to hear the evidence, they just take the complainants word. There's more than one way to skin a cat though.

Or more often, fast food....

I read somewhere that there was a hot air engine driving the pump in the building to the side of the tower, probably long gone, but have always wanted to know what is or was hidden inside the brickwork. Something like this Rider type engine and pump would only need a narrow stovepipe to operate. The Flywheel coolspringspowermuseum.org

I had a similar experience towing a car trailer that had been built from an old twin axle caravan chassis. I had an Austin Somerset on the back and was pulling it with a Vauxhall Viscount, itself about 35 years old, same thing happened when straightening up from a bend, same cure. I was glad Luton fitted a rear anti tramp bar as standard and glad of rear wheel drive.

They're the sort of bits left over if you are making buildings for a period layout, all that lower case signage is more typical of the 1970s and later. £14 seems a lot when you might only want one or two and I'm pretty sure that such things are available new for a lot less.

It could well be the paint used to weather the loco had softened the original finish and broken it down so that everything came away when you applied the IPA. Looking on the bright side, if you've now got to repaint her, you can file away the mould parting line along the top of the boiler amongst other things.

That sounds like it could well have been a Buffalo Springfield Roller, there are a few in the UK. Image: the best music you never heard of