MrWolf
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1 hour ago, John Besley said:
Ohh did her hat have a posh ribbon and pinstripe uniform
I've an idea where you're going with this line of questioning.... 😉
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5 hours ago, chuffinghell said:
It's got a C N T & S in it but it ain't Cormorants
It's one of Miss Riding Hood's profanity avoidance phrases. One of the benefits of a private education, though she had to wear one of those straw hats like it was still 1955.....
5 hours ago, chuffinghell said:I just don't want to use eBay at all anymore, too many idiots which is why I'm cancelling my account and if I find out the guy is on here I'll be livid!
I take it that you're somewhat disenchanted with the eBay "community"?
You'll be lured back, just like I was. An absolute bargain on a rainy night and I couldn't be arfed to get on the bike, draw the cash, go over to my mate's house and get him to buy it!*
*Said bargain is still happily whirling round inside the engine of my BSA B33, having saved me nearly £100.
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5 hours ago, chuffinghell said:
They don't half make you jump through hoops to cancel your account 🙄
What a complete bunch of 🤬
Cormorants?
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18 hours ago, NHY 581 said:
Righteous and hopeful Sheep here, sending some positive waves. It's a mother beautiful house.
OddSheep.
Well said, let's hope Graham is soon drinking wine, eating cheese and building some baseboards...
As for the solicitors, you'll make a deal with them, they're probably republicans...
Woof Woof.
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I don't think that we have gone backwards since about 1977 with couplings, I don't think that we have moved forward. Every manufacturer has their own version which aren't always compatible with other makes.
The alternatives are too fiddly for some people, such as my preferred 3 links and the automatic couplings are generally complicated, temperamental and expensive.
Like a lot of things with working models, there has to be some compromises.
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2 hours ago, chuffinghell said:
If I’m totally honest replace the word ‘week’ with ‘month’ 😳
Likewise. Although I have been busy with some of my other interests, I've stalled somewhat with the railway.
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1 hour ago, Hroth said:
Certainly RARE given the date and the alleged company, as for vintage...
Which is why I often refer to "the vendor", neatly sidestepping all this pronouns malarky!
How much is a couple of pounds weight of brass worth as scrap?
It must be worth that at least...
Definitely less than £45.
There's a lot of this sort of junk about being touted as railwayana.
Another one is the wall mounted oil lamps stamped GWR, LBSCR etc. They were made (Completely legitimately I might add) in the 1990s by a company named Northern Lights in Chesterfield, for use in pub and hotel decor. There's also some very nice copper gas lamp tops available too.
The only railway connection being that their factory was on former GCR land.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204685103864?
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2 hours ago, Winslow Boy said:
Just like to get these things straight otherwise I tend to get over excited due to the frenzied
activityinactivity that occurs at LM.There, fixed it for you.
You're welcome.
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28 minutes ago, Phil Bullock said:
Nice job. I remember when those came in a plastic bag from Woolworths…. 😀
Fifty pence for the bagged series one kits from our village newsagents as I recall. I think that they were old stock even then!
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15 hours ago, steve1 said:
Tea breaks in the backstreets of Hull…
steve
Some impressive details here, I particularly like the red oxide patch repair on the lorry's mudguard, I've seen that plenty in real life but never on a model railway.
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The pannier looks much improved by the addition of brake rodding, if you do have any details I'd be very interested in seeing them as I've got a couple of similar locos that need an upgrade.
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52 minutes ago, squeaky said:
I was looking for an OO Hornby Class 08 and came across this
They have used AI to describe it which states "Although it has been previously owned, it has been well looked after and is in great working condition"
But looking at the 3rd picture, I'm not sure it is great working condition!
Looking at the wheel treads as well as the dodgy coupling rods I'd say that it's done a lot of miles before an axle packed up.
Possibly worth the risk of whether or not you can repair it if it was £22 rather than £122. 😆
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It's for the task of Amazing Idiots isn't it?
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I think that a lot of us are affected by what inspires us at the time. I certainly am, which is why my thread tends to jump about a bit.
Although it sometimes slows the job down a bit, I have to remind myself that it's a hobby, not work!
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1 hour ago, Northmoor said:
Sounds like one of the usual crowd; a table-full of old tat at inflated prices and probably complaining about how no-one's buying anything, internet's ruined the business etc.. Either that or a wet-behind-the-ears trader who thinks anything old is valuable.
Both types likely to spend their weekends exuding an air of disappointment.
Ditto for: *
Autojumbles
Toy fairs
Antique fairs
Car boots
Record fairs
Military events
Vintage clothing fairs
And of course eBay, although they usually just grumble in the description or terms of sale section.
The trouble is, thanks to the media, everybody thinks they're an expert and everybody thinks that you can make a killing.
If you could, we'd be currently touring Italy on matching his and hers Brough Superior SS100 motorcycles or in a 1957 Maserati 3500GT...
*The Memsahib and I get about a bit.
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23 minutes ago, Tortuga said:
That’s what my VWs do as well.
My '66 Beetle did that as someone had omitted all of the sealing washers from the sump filter screws.
Pure genius.
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4 hours ago, 88C said:
I’m afraid we had a complaint, there was no bus on the bridge!.....
You meet some very peculiar people at model railway exhibitions...
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1 hour ago, figworthy said:
Land Rovers do not leak oil. They mark their territories.
Adrian (ex IIA owner)
Mine had the obligatory transfer box, which transferred its oil into the overdrive, then onto the driveway, which necessitated a regular drain and refill until I found the patience to change the oil seals.
The brakes either work, or they don't. There is no middle ground.
Has anyone ever managed to keep the steering swivels oil tight?
Rob. (Also an ex IIA owner)
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Only been in a Sea King once and that was just for a look around. The Westland Lynx being the deafener of choice.
As for Trigger's broom, pretty much anything that's been through the shops won't have its original components, which I find pretty amusing when people are selling vintage military stuff as "all original". It should be "all the right bits". The only thing I ever saw that was "all original" was a 1942 Bedford MW with just twenty miles on the clock that had been sitting in a shed since being sold as surplus in the early fifties.
It was totally untouched, but anything made of canvas or rubber had rotted, so if it was to run again, it would need an awful lot replaced, although I wouldn't have touched the paint if I could have got hold of it.
Unfortunately, as in a lot of such cases, the owner maintained he had turned down £20,000 for it. About ten times what it was worth at the time.
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I'm half expecting a broad gauge convertible and a rake of six wheel clerestories to roll up at some point.
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That's a great mix of vehicles, goes well with the mixed buildings of the farm. A lot of interesting things to see in this picture.
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Great job on the villa, it looks very precise and accurate.
As others have said, woodwork is more likely to be green, brown or blue.
I remember years back some random discussion with my father about his parent's house which was built 1896. Back in the forties it had mid green doors, window frames and barge boards, with cream door panels and window sashes.
Next door where my grandfather's brother lived was brown with gold/tan trim. Neither had been painted since before the war and remained in sombre colours until the early sixties when they were modernised with indoor bathrooms.
White paint began replacing dark wood in the interior of upper middle class houses around 1900, but it was pretty uncommon as the main exterior colour on ordinary houses until the sixties.
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Been there. Do you know it's leaking oil?
Yes, if it stops leaking, tell me straight away, or it's going to seize up!
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When I upgraded some Airfix B sets half a lifetime ago I scribed the bars onto the back of the glazing and gave them a wipe over with black paint.
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Driving standards
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Like all UK media, they aren't putting in the km/h figure to be helpful to those in wholly metric countries, they're doing it because 33 is a bigger number than 20, so it sounds a little more sensational.
As the UK town speed limit has been 30mph for years, it almost sounds like he's speeding.
It's the closest they can get to "Look at the narcissist capitalist pig hooning in his Ferrari with no thought other than out of my way peasants!"
Someone might have been killed, or worse still, offended!
Cars like that weigh about as much as a packet of cigarettes and can be very skittish on a wet road. All it takes is a little diesel spill and someone who doesn't drive it every day.