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  1. Etched Pixels

    either someone is throwing rocks at my roof or the stormy weather is back

    1. 69843

      69843

      Sorry, wrong house!

    2. yorkie_pudd

      yorkie_pudd

      over fed pigeons on bombing practise

  2. Etched Pixels

    finally gets back to Swansea after a failled weekend attempt to get to a gig in Banbury

  3. Etched Pixels

    finishes assembling a bit of history - one Skytrex N gauge Beyer Garratt ready for the paintshop

  4. Etched Pixels

    GNR day in the 'build all the old kits in the acquisitions box', today an N2 and a J52 mostly assembled, not that I actually have a chassis for either currently!

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Are these the old 4mm scale whitemetal jobs?

    2. Etched Pixels

      Etched Pixels

      2mm (Highfield, ABS/Beaver DGM and Langley) - with a Skytrex Beyer Garratt to investigate

  5. Etched Pixels

    Guess who just glued the roof on a coach before remembering he'd only glazed one side ...

    1. Kev_Lewis

      Kev_Lewis

      D'oh!

    2. Nelson Jackson

      Nelson Jackson

      Oh, I wouldn't like to be in your shoes right now, hope you get it sorted without much bother.

  6. Etched Pixels

    had an entertaining weekend, including being on a 150 that overshot Garth station and had to reverse a bit, passing a 97/3, a pair of DRS 37s on the network rail train, and a bizarre FGW 2 car unit half 150 and half 153. Even saw a movement on the GCG line ! and all by accident

    1. 3chordboy

      3chordboy

      don't supposed there are photos of some of these intriguing little oddities? :)

  7. Etched Pixels

    has a big pile of ex crownline white metal moulds in his cellar and an identification headache

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      That will be fun....not. Crownline moulds were many and varied, and some of the parts that came out of them weren't worth writing home about, being just lumps. I did wonder whose hands they had passed through after Crownline went down. The cast brass and nickel-silver parts were a bit better.

    2. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      Could you pump jelly in to them and see what emerges?

    3. Barry Ten

      Barry Ten

      I couldn't afford Crownline parts when I was an impoverished lad reading Model Trains - once I *could* afford them they vanished.

  8. Etched Pixels

    has been reading about the history of S&D (The Stockton one) locomotives and found it very funny that they first painted numbers on the locos so the public could identify trains and drivers when reporting bad behaviour. Also that the main problems were drink, speeding and unauthorised passengers on locos - particularly girls!

    1. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      Sounds like Poland to me.

  9. Etched Pixels

    has been watching Π, awesome film

    1. Pennine MC

      Pennine MC

      How do you expect me to Google that ;-)

    2. Etched Pixels

      Etched Pixels

      Cut and past the PI symbol into Google and its about 3 hits down on imdb 8)

       

       

    3. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      It's all Greek to me.

  10. Etched Pixels

    has discovered a new way to make it rain - reach for the can of primer

    1. multiprinter

      multiprinter

      Tell the water companies - they'll be claiming a water shortage soon.

    2. Sailor Charon

      Sailor Charon

      That's ok. It means I don't have to mow the lawn :)

  11. Etched Pixels

    has just put his foot through the floor and discovered we have at least one dodgy board

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    2. Etched Pixels

      Etched Pixels

      Thankfully not - the crappy chipboard flooring gave but didn't disintegrate entirely

       

    3. ozzyo

      ozzyo

      If your going to replace the whole of the floor get the waterproof chipboard from one of your local building suppliers. It has a sort of green colour to it and has tongue and grooved edges to it all round.

    4. Etched Pixels

      Etched Pixels

      I hope we can patch it as it goes under at least one internal wall

       

      I shall talk to the chippy and see what says, good chance to see if while he's doing one job he'll do another 'small one' and do my baseboard bracing 8)

       

  12. Etched Pixels

    has the body of the GWR C.80 cut out and assembled.

  13. Etched Pixels

    has the main parts of the second attempt at a C.80 coach assembled, all plasticard so far - now can I make the battery boxes that way

  14. Etched Pixels

    head hurts. Writing software to produce 3D meshes for 3D printing systems is worse than school geometry lessons

  15. Etched Pixels

    here comes the rain...

    1. Wizard of the Moor

      Wizard of the Moor

      Here she comes again

    2. Russ (mines a pint)

      Russ (mines a pint)

      wondering whether the weather 'doom & gloom' is for real or just the usual hype?

    3. NGT6 1315

      NGT6 1315

      Red Rain?

  16. Etched Pixels

    Hooray its raining (not often I say that in Wales!)

    1. RandyWales

      RandyWales

      First time I've heard that from a resident of Swansea - the UK rainfall capital...Anyway....it's now stopped.

  17. Etched Pixels

    house now physically shaking in the wind - gusting over 70mph.

    1. Steve Purves

      Steve Purves

      Fine and sunny here in melton!

    2. SHMD

      SHMD

      My house sometimes does that. Not nice. All the best.

    3. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Best wishes and hold on to your hats!

  18. Etched Pixels

    house now physically shaking in the window - gusting over 70mph.

  19. Etched Pixels

    I have seen somethng I've not seen for almost a year - the surface of my desk

    1. nick_bastable

      nick_bastable

      be afraid very afraid

       

    2. Jawfin

      Jawfin

      Something is horribly wrong!

  20. Etched Pixels

    I wanted to 3D print a saint but his halo kept snapping...

  21. Etched Pixels

    I wanted to 3D print a saint but his halo kept snapping...

  22. Etched Pixels

    I wanted to 3D print a saint but his halo kept snapping

    1. RJS1977

      RJS1977

      Try 3D printing his Volvo instead...

  23. Etched Pixels

    is at work today. I don't see the point in using a day of holiday when the shops are shut and the tv is terrible

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      The terrible thing is that only the radio broadcast was technically live. The TV sound was a couple of seconds behind it! It was like this mad weird echo!

    2. Sailor Charon

      Sailor Charon

      Why does it need to be on BBC1 and ITV1 as well?

      Mind you, it's not as if Daytime TV's that good anyway... :)

  24. Etched Pixels

    is back from Prague, there and back by train, much fun and the Dresden - Prague route is beautiful. Now where did I put the spare Z scale track...

  25. Etched Pixels

    is beginning to think that fitting 2mm scale door handles is a quick route to the asylum

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