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Do they run better on 3rd rail?

Photoshop.

I still use a broker (A plan) as some of the company insurance is specialist. They also handle our personal insurance as well (house & car) and every year give several options for renewal as they say that you’ll never get a competitive quote if you stay with the same company. I’ve checked several of the quotes against what I am offered through various companies and comparison sites and they’ve always come out cheaper.

Chas, I've got a lot of 1mm and possibly 1.5mm & 2mm NS & Brass strip from my etches, I can pop some in the post if required. .....I know where you are...😄

A few years ago my neighbour (a landscape gardener) was working at a neighbouring property to the Archers in Grantchester. During some tree works the tree surgeons (TS) lit a bonfire to clear away the debris from the felling and as the bonfire got going Mary Archer appeared at a gate that joined the 2 gardens and called over one of the TS. she objected to the noise and asked for the fire to be extinguished. The TS said he was working on client instructions and that it would burn out within 30 minutes to an hour maximum and that trying to put it out would cause a lot of smoke. At this point my neighbour said Mary Archer got very stroppy and insulting to the TS and made a few threats. The TS calmly looked at her through the barred gate and said "you look as good as your husband behind bars, you should have joined him" at this point she stormed off. That evening the client called the TS and said that it would be better if he didn't speak to Mary Archer again if he saw her, but if he did he was to tell her the client had 'told him off' He then said that it was the funniest thing he'd heard in ages and he wished he'd seen it as the pair of them were awful untrustworthy people.

Anything can pass SW initial checking, I had a few items on there which passed checking but didn't print well. The fact you've stated "Should not be any big problems" means to me that you're not that confident they're bug free. The reality is that you've got lots of STL's on SW, many of which have never been printed, aren't that accurate and are basically just an undetailed shell. You don't give any idea to buyers about how, when you drew them, you intended to complete these models. A couple of years ago you stated that the 'white strong & flexible' that you'd chosen to print your designs on could accept a glue, but when asked failed to actually provide one that would work (there were/are none). You may have 'hundreds of designs' but there's no doubt that a very high proportion have never been test printed/purchased. You've always distanced yourself from the purchaser by using SW and have in the past stated that you didn't want to get caught up with customer refunds or complaints when a print failed. Or the reality is that they're worthless. I'm reminded of the advice on how to become a 'millionaire model maker' start off as a 'multi millionaire model maker'

Model Railway Journal.

Nothing. There’s no guarantee it will print well and you can’t split the component parts, if you could you’d be drawing your own anyway.

Good evening Chas, I'm to 100% sure how you meant this, did you mean 'please carry on' in the style of 'Carry On' ?...Oooohh missus show us your TT's.... Ok, it's been a long day digging footings ..

Thanks Tim, I’ll look at them again. without looking at my notes I suspect fitting a high level gearbox may have had a bearing on the thickness.

It is. There are some differences between the MR & GCR Locomotives but the main dimensions are essentially the same. I had a lot of help with drawings for the MR build from @Dave Hunt which were used as a comparison to the GN version. I did them as a 2 x 0.4mm lamination, I did think about x3 and including the firebox sides as part of the inner. I have some details to change on the etches and might include that.

Sure have....The first cab roof in the shape of a Stetson.

I have been amassing some LNWR kits and bits...but that lining 😲 Although luckily for me, and something you're probably not aware of is the LNWR only ran services in the dark....and fog....on a moonless night....so very little detail can be seen...🙄 In the meantime the test etches for this are on the bench.....yee haaa put the wagons in a circle.

I realised that 100 x 1000 = 100,000 but didn’t think you seriously thought they were worth that, hence my 10,000 figure which I thought might be nearer. the reality is you’re seriously deluded if you think that the CAD’s you have produced are worth 6 figures. They are at best a ‘representation’ Re stocking a model shop. that would also include track, buildings, tools, scenery, glues, plastic/card as well as locomotives, coaches and wagons both rtr and kits across several scales and eras. So not something to base a figure on.

There are some that are daft enough to do it, although my timeframe for Sandy is loosely 1885-1915. (The track plan follows the 1911 GN plan)

Without appearing to be rude, I suspect your maths is not correct. Or do you actually believe the designs you currently have on Shapeways etc are worth £10,000 ? (Half the £200 for a RTR loco=£100 x 1000 modellers)

Pitt the younger has always been a contentious character...

No need, I'll link to a couple as well as put a profile link to your other videos as you've got Old warden, Nene valley railway etc. 👍

Thank you for those. I may link to (some of) them on the website. Thank you.

Irony? You have either forgotten (or wasn't aware at the time) that there was a lot of feeling at the time that the arms race was getting out of hand. I remember several dramas on tv about how a nuclear war could easily start and just what conditions would be like in a nuclear winter. The PR exercise was to ease concerns a lot of people had, that should a flask be involved in an accident, it wouldn't create similar conditions.

Having had my mortgage hit the heights of 15%+ at the time I certainly remember those times. I was just making the point that the quoted post was politically biased without understanding that rates had been just as high in the 70's under a previous administration.

And yet the Bank of England only have a 15% base rate for 3 weeks in October 1981. Of course to even the Politics up it also shows it being 15% for 7 weeks in October & November 1976 when Labour were in office. https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/boeapps/database/Bank-Rate.asp

I've not had any monies withheld, what reason are they giving for doing so. Same goes for scammers, not had any issues there either.

How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat

I realise this is OT, but looking for something else today jogged my memory about the power supply upgrade on the ECML. Some 10+ years after works finished there were still several (4) transformers plus other kit in the former Down yard at Sandy. They were still there when I moved in late 2021 and I understand nothing has changed. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.1238344,-0.2814062,3a,75y,75.18h,79.59t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4vMYwj3XqWdC9cbnW2PaMA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192