The Evil Bus Driver

I used to love that smell when I was a kid. It was like a more intense version of the "electric, rubber, dirt and wood" smell you got in the booking offices back in the 70s and 80s.

What about the East Lancs bodied Daimler Fleetline? (I know the DMS was also a Fleetline) These were Coventry ones, Nearest camera is ROK453M which ended its working life as part of the Brighton Blue Bus fleet, withdrawn in 1990 after a crash. I have fond memories of my dad driving her. Might be better for the layout period than a DMS. https://www.flickr.com/photos/7964319@N03/4422676323/in/pool-covtrans http://www.nowlookhear.co.uk/brightonbuses/details.php?id=494

Parkside Dundas BR Grampus Build I have finally started building the Grampus kit. I have started with the baskets for the planks that sling underneath. these are the pig to do that they looked like at first so i have started with them to get them out of the way. They will of course end up painted in "rust" . All I need now is a suitable container. Sorry about the poor picture quality but mobile phone cameras and all. A start will be made on the body and under frame tomorrow. Once this is done that is as far as I'll go as I need more paints and transfers. Then I'll be able to finish it. Hope you enjoyed reading this and if you made it this far, my commiserations.

Funny you should mention that. There was one incident I remember when around twelve of us...ahem...black clad trench coat types from Brighton headed up to London for a gig. (Sex Gang Children, I believe it was) but one of our group who was a bit of an odd-ball even compared to the rest of us decided to tag along. So after the gig we all went to a club in Islington, The Slimelight, which runs in the Elektrowerkz, near Angel. Trouble was this guy decided to spend the entire tube journey hanging upside down in one of the doorways wearing a gimp suit. Some of the expressions on the punters' faces were pictures and you could see them trying to decide whether to chance it near the upside down madman or push past the crowd of razor-toothed grinning Goths in the far doorway. All of them came our way to avoid Mad Glen (which was the guy's name) Just to get back on topic (again) Another way to get lynched at a show would be to bring a scalectrix car and run it along all the roads making "broom broom" noises. Might not actually result in a lynching but might bring out the men in white coats with a further (backwards fitting) coat in their possession

Yes, We've lynched all the punters and trashed all the layouts. I'd like to see the look on the exhibition manager's face.

Oh blimey! Metrobus! The company I work for shares a management team with them. All our vehicles go to Crawley for MOTs now. It's very rare to pass their yard (The Brighton main line runs right past it) without a couple of Brighton and Hove vehicles in there.

Ah but annoying the No-Sense-Of-Humour brigade is hilarious in itself. It sometimes makes me wonder if some people don't actually enjoy the hobby but suffer from it instead.

Maybe a loudhailer would add to the effect...

I thought that was incoming. And don't you have to dive for cover when the engine cuts out?

That's fair enough , I work shifts so I can;t always go either.

Hey Phil if you're in Brighton have you thought about coming down to Brighton MRC at all? We're at London Road station on Tuesdays.

Hi Barry. These are the ones. You can get them in any co op or tesco, about £4 but you get to eat all the cheesecake

One thing I've found useful is those glass pots you get with individual "Gű" cheesecakes in Co-op, as you can add thinners, inks water etc, whatever you want, and it doesn't eat through them. So as a bonus you get two nice glass mixing pots and two tasty cheesecakes! But yes I am soon going to be going along to my local model shop (Morris's of Lancing) to pick up some weathering powders and inks and generally lark around with a surplus coach practicing the technique. I will post pictures on my wagon thread when I have something to show.

Greetings from Brighton Model Railway Club! Nestor is one of us too.

An excellent idea! Having seen the quality of these boards first hand. Perhaps a few flatpacks for different curve radii might be an idea, which could help produce the long transition curves we've all been reading about recently.

That is seriously amazing! Well done!

And tea making facilities. Most important, that.

Just don't try and limbo under it lol. Now that some standards have been nailed to the turntable I can start looking at planning a module. i'll start simple as this is a new thing for me. if it works, i might well alter my main layout plans to allow it to be joined (either directly or via a translator module) onto other layouts.

Lets see what Andy Y comes up with shortly.

Another thing that might come in handy would be the design of various jigs, such as a template for board ends etc. That would cut out much of the measuring.

Especially if you put a dog near it lol

Question is.Is the blue snow edible? We all know about the yellow...

This is true, although in some cases people might bring stock that they usually run in a fixed formation meaning only swapping one or two couplers. That's pretty much what I would do ie have a mk1 rake and set it up in a particular way, using the pipe couplers and leaving the tension locks or kadees on at the ends of the rake (I can use both). But perhaps in this case couplings are a discussion for further down the line.

You could have a standard for a board connection, or even produce a cutting list and engineering drawing. I was thinking about this earlier on, what if double skin ply is used. Perhaps a consensus can be reached. Or perhaps even a "Converter board" Two skin ply would probably be my preference, due to weight considerations. No reason you couldn't have a solid piece at the end to allow for a g-clamp. I have decided to have a go at making a Freemo module. I just need to gather to wood and things ready, then when some definitive ideas come out i can get cracking. My main considerations are this: Board joins Wiring Connecting electrically to the next board (although crocodile clips would work, maybe have bullet connectors or something). You could fit a switch underneath to allow for going between DC/DCC operation, depending on what it's used for 'at home'.

Excellent idea! Might be worth holding a poll for certain measurements, ie board edge to track centre.