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An interesting start.

Any West Highland layout is a welcome sight.

On 25/02/2024 at 11:02, railsquid said:

Nice little Woodhead diorama, probably N-gauge.

 

https://flic.kr/p/2py8nyu

I don’t like the way the back scene just rises up with no attempt to hide the join/transition.

Only you can decide if you want to redo that section or can live with it. You won’t be the first or the last to ‘go back to the drawing board and felt happier with the result.  I’m not sure how long it would take to redo but it will be a relatively short time compared to how long you will be bugged by it if you don’t.

I know it’s how things have to be and I’m just being picky, but that nose just doesn’t look right at all.

Now that they are going I will probably wish I could see even them before too long.

On 24/02/2024 at 16:12, Legend said:

What you can do is go outside the hall and sit down and take refreshment , as long as you are stamped you can get back in again 

That stamp is a swine to wash off though.  
Actually it might save me the entrance fee next year.

3 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

I got up to 6 bathrooms done so god knows how many modelling applications it would encompass!

 

You detail the bathrooms on your models.  Kudos.

I bet Noch do suitable figures.

I’m sitting in a hotel in Glasgow ready to go off to Model Rail Scotland tomorrow when I checked my e-mails and saw this.

Sad. Poignant. Touching. Appropriate.
 

All of those and more - but typical of the personal  way in which Hattons have dealt with their customers over all of these years.

17 minutes ago, PupCam said:

 

This should be all we need then  🤣

 

Whatever book you use the answer is still 42.

9 minutes ago, PupCam said:

I'll leave you to check the workings-out for the Voyager trajectories then and you can report back and compare your answers with NASA's ..... 

I note from this link that they assessed more than 10000 trajectories during the mission planning.      I would have enough  trouble picking 1 from 10!

That’s not rocket science … just basic map reading skills.

It becomes a model railway when it isn’t a 6x4 (or similarly proportioned) baseboard (in 00) with a double oval in each direction and as much extra track fitted in as possible.  

If you know the particular type of wagon you are looking for you could try searching Paul Bartlett’s excellent site.

https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brsealion

Edit:  Sorry - just realised that this was posted in London Underground section and so you are probably referring to a very specific wagon. 

10 hours ago, The Johnster said:

IIRC the Romans were the first to use sponges, and they used them for *rse-cleaning purposes. 

Nope, history got it all wrong.

They were the first to use sponges to wipe their soldiering irons.

That looks fantastic, Paul.  Is it the product of the silhouette cutter?

On 16/02/2024 at 21:14, Dagworth said:

The plan is that there will be a two foot walkway either side of the layout for the operators so that fillet shouldn’t get in the way

I suppose it depends on the girth of the operators - aesthetically pleasing or otherwise.
 

Me?  I’d need shortened gardens, houses truncated and a wider walkway anyway.

Hope this helps.

15 minutes ago, tigerburnie said:

Scotland are however in desperation as to what to do next

Long gone are the days when the interest was such that the Scottish rugby results were read out every Saturday on Grandstand.

Or was that just Bill McClaren’s influence?

26 minutes ago, Kylestrome said:

 

Blame it on AI ...

… and unfortunately there’s a lot more of such crap to come.  

24 minutes ago, Kylestrome said:

A freind of mine started a poultry farm but he soon found himself in a chicken and egg situation.

… and when his chickens escaped it was just poultry in motion.

Arrangements made, various advanced tickets bought, and I will, fingers crossed, be heading up for the weekend. ASLEF willing.
 

 Given that a certain rugby match will be taking place that weekend it wouldn’t surprise me if they took the opportunity to disrupt.

8 minutes ago, Module00 said:

for the water of your loch you can paint the bottom of the water with acrylic paint with green and black (or blue/green and black) you start from the almost black center and you make a gradient towards increasingly lighter green towards the shore

I have found through much trial, error, angst and even more error, that the painting of the bottom has a far more greater effect on the final appearance than whatever is layered on the top.  
 

Something to practice first?

On 11/02/2024 at 18:00, Deeps said:

One of the things that preoccupied me watching the game was the issue of scrums. Usually, several minutes of the game are wasted whilst they form up and invariably the scrum has to be stopped due to a collapse etc. and the ref will lecture the participants on how to do it properly. I understand the reasons, predominantly player safety, but can’t help thinking that the whole episode is pointless because in the majority of cases the side with the put-in will win the ball anyway. 

I like the quotes made by Nigel Owens when calling together the two front rows for a ‘lecture’.  (Best said/read with his Welsh accent)

’If you don’t like scrummaging you are in the wrong position. Let’s just get on with it’.

and

’Do it properly or we’ll get somebody else on who can’.

Opinions on his level of ‘input’ into a game vary but I think those two are classics.

On 10/02/2024 at 15:12, CameronL said:

I just phoned a model railway helpline and said: "Can you help me, please?  I'm a rubbish modeller. I'm trying to build a layout and I keep dropping track all over the place."

 

The man on the other end said: "Can you hold the line?"

 

I said: "No. That's the problem."

I once phoned Gamblers’ Anonymous and they said ‘Would you like to hold’.