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PeterStiles

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  1. Quite easy when you're dealing with whole numbers of feet I guess but I imagine it gets tedious if you're having to include odd inches and fractions of inches Ah, but the pint is, when it's smaller than 1mm it's too small to worrit about, or model. Except the rivets.
  2. PDC didn't exist... And it could easily be more than "a couple of minutes" - anything from an Important Football Match Going To Overtime to a late scheduled PPB would kick things out of kilter... Luckily TV wasn't broadcast 24x7 (hey, the phrase 24x7 didn't even exist) so you could bribe another member of the family to record for you... Nah, that never worked either.
  3. C'mon, there is no proof that they were going to release it like that, they just loaded the test sample up, and to test all the light points would have made sense ...
  4. I waited for someone to leave, I pressed them, and they called for the police! What's a man to do to get a drink of water around here?
  5. Always. On any medium your brain can automatically reorganise words and letters to make what should be gibberish into something your brain thinks it should be - a bit like how your brain deals with your Blind-spot. Although I do have a fondness for Old English where word order was relatively unimportant thanks to the way word-endings differentiate between Object and Subject, so that no matter how you organised the three words "king, kill & queen" you'd know whodunnit.
  6. Or, and this may be a radical suggestion, maybe Hornby will improve it for the next batch, as they did for the 97 and the APT. I'd suggest you were a very brave (*) manufacturer to aim to get one out before Hornby's second batch... (*) Minister
  7. I'm quite pleased I turned the TV on for BBC news to immediately tell me the result. Saved me watching . Maybe the same will happen tomorrow. I think I'll be ok with that...
  8. You're making me cry now. I apologise I thought it was funny. I feel I'm fairly well read on the ECW and I feel the funny bits are the bits best brought up in company, otherwise we're back to being bitter about stuff we can't control...
  9. I think this was my fault. I ordered a o-gauge rolling road yesterday... I can't bend down to the floor at the moment and it seemed a good idea to buy one to actually run the o gauge shunters this website keeps making me buy...
  10. Oh yes... Let's all rush off to Jerusalem to fight a war... How's that going for you?
  11. I'll never forgive Cromwell for abolishing Christmas! Image me that, no time of the year to buy people Train Sets!
  12. It may be worth proactively contacting Hornby customer support and asking if you've been charged four sets of P&P :)
  13. I might have misheard, I was only half listening, but I'm sure that the article on the BBC this morning suggested that we could DCC control our cats? I may have misheard.
  14. You've got to imagine that, as you say, having OO CADs helps as a decent starting point for the TT CADs, the corollary is that having TT CADs would mean that they have a decent starting point for the O CADs and so a step up on creating a new/better OO model. Admittedly were it me I'd not bother with the Class 66 as there are one or two other reasonably-nice OO models already in existence with other suppliers... But you'd think they'd contemplate saving development time by ensuring that any effort spent on One Scale could be passed over to the Other Scale as a "here's one we prepared earlier". You then think how important Hornby think the Class 66 is - they are willing to create a TT-only-use CAD for it.
  15. Careful, Gandhi was one of those stretcher bearers...
  16. I rather like the 2969s narrow gauge modeller who said "and the Double Fairly is scratch built, no one's ever going to make an R-T-R one!"
  17. Well, if you have Any hm7000 decoder you could load the profile up to test it, but I don't think there's another way . It's not necessarily the way you'd think of doing it because most other sound decoders need done more Infrastructure to do that...
  18. However they do sell direct to SME / I&C customers through what was "Haven" power, but it's s now branded Drax.
  19. "One two three four!" "Change hands," "Five six seven eight!" "Change hands," "All you need's the rhythm and the wrist control," "And you can do the......" Some things just stick in your mind.
  20. Just when we'd all got round to deleting the bookmark...
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