PeterStiles

2 hours ago, franciswilliamwebb said:

 I don't know whether to buy them or not! 😇

Buy them, you'll never regret it...

5 minutes ago, DavidB-AU said:

actual Ukrainian would say Chornobyl

Thank you for that, it really improved my experience of The Joke....

12 hours ago, Porfuera said:

12 hours ago, Jeff Smith said:

4mm/ft is quite easy.......

 

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.

20 minutes ago, Dagworth said:

PDC was your friend

 

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.

20 minutes ago, cctransuk said:

why ANYONE thought that a fixed Royal Train headcode could possibly be acceptable

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 ...

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?

2 hours ago, Dunsignalling said:

amazing how consistently the brain auto-corrects

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.

29 minutes ago, E100 said:

do think this opens a pathway for another company to step in

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

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...

1 hour ago, Nearholmer said:

is the one-liner portrayal of him as the bloke who cancelled Christmas, and

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...

6 minutes ago, OnTheBranchline said:

about spots being

Tch tch

"About being spotted"...

2 hours ago, Hal Nail said:

135 at Rails

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...

I think I'll stop now. This thread can only end up too political.

Just now, phil_sutters said:

Crusades

Oh yes... Let's all rush off to Jerusalem to fight a war... How's that going for you?

I'll never forgive Cromwell for abolishing Christmas!

Image me that, no time of the year to buy people Train Sets!

21 hours ago, Porfuera said:

couple of hours ago I received four emails saying that my four BG Mk3 pre-orders have arrived

It may be worth proactively contacting Hornby customer support and asking if you've been charged four sets of P&P :)

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.

11 hours ago, Ravenser said:

I think the 66 will be the first model  released for which Hornby didn't have existing CAD in OO.

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.

2 hours ago, Hroth said:

holes in his hands a repurposed Boer War stretcher bearer?

Careful, Gandhi was one of those stretcher bearers...

31 minutes ago, cctransuk said:

Ducking giraffe wagons, anyone?

Yes please.

37 minutes ago, 30801 said:

A-hole in one!

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!"

29 minutes ago, wombatofludham said:

preview sound samples

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...

Bu66er...

On 13/03/2024 at 12:15, phil-b259 said:

consumers cannot by energy directly from Drax in the first place.

However they do sell direct to SME / I&C customers through what was "Haven" power, but it's s now branded Drax.