2mmMark

In years to come, will we look back on this and, in the fashion of the popular press reporting on conspiracies, call it the Margategate?

No you don't Yahoo News very often gives access to paywalled articles. Just need the right search words. I assume this kind of thing is legal but let Yahoo worry about that. https://news.yahoo.com/spent-20-000-model-trains-145014645.html

Those Scalesecenes papers are impressive. What printer are you using? There are times when I wish I was back at work with unfettered access to colour laser MFDs... ;-) What's your plans for track? The British Finescale N track looks absolutely the business. Mark

I've been following progress on this for a while and it's a lovely scene, well done! I have a similar lighting setup for my 2mm narrow gauge layout An Clár and found it was much improved when I laid some translucent frosted polycarbonate sheet over the LEDs. It massively decreases shadows and removed the pin points of light reflected on the tops of the rails. The LEDs are warm white, which is the closest I could get to the original incandescent lighting under which the layout was built and painted for.

Very important to have the right oil to seuthe a baby.

Did you find that for some reason, visitors to your particular workstation tailed off... What would have really blown their minds would have been a model of the slip-wing Hurricane. "A biplane Spitfire!"

Shall we meet in no-mans land for a game of football?

Someone pointed to the wagon and said "The weathering needs to be more dire 'ere."

I was wondering how the testing is going. It's certainly very thorough, judging by the length of time it's been going on. :-)

Google developed a camera system for rapidly scanning books without the need to lay them flat on a scanner, which can potentially damage the spine binding. It worked but came a cropper on the legalities. https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-08-10-what-happened-to-google-s-effort-to-scan-millions-of-university-library-books

Do you have a smart phone? The Live Transcribe app can sometimes do a reasonable job with subtitles. The background music might not help though. Apologies if you've already tried this. My 92 year old mum has a hearing loss and finds Live Transcribe helpful.

Neatly illustrating why a modeller shouldn't be narrating the TV programme.

I had one, the clear cockpit canopy was incredibly fragile for something designed to be launched.

I thought it a well-constructed and enjoyable 45 minutes of TV. Well done to those involved! Having worked on some of the filming of "Secrets Of The Transport Museum" (series 2 now filmed and in the process of editing) I could see a lot of similarities in the editing and presentation. I bet there's a lot of interesting material on the digital "cutting room floor" As Phil says, these programmes are aimed not at us but at the public at large. Let's hope the programme gets good ratings. We need this sort of stuff as an antidote to "strictly come bake me a celebrity get me out of a gogglebox". Narration is a whole subject on its own. There are some well known voices that will never go hungry, Ralph "Dave" Ineson for example.

Reminds me of those BBC test transmission films from the 1950s & 60s. Please can we have the potters wheel?

"Is it safe?"

Yes, that's such a bother isn't it? Probably takes all of 5 or 10 minutes. If "can't be bothered" is your judgement ethos then maybe MRJ isn't the magazine for you.

Mortenhampstead article - brilliant, superbly written and illustrated! A sure contender for the 2mm Scale Assocation's "Geoff Balfour" award. Demonstrating once again that erudite isn't just a sort of glue.

The fact that we are now are at issue 285 of the magazine seems to indicate that MRJ's business model is quite sustainable and has survived a number of difficulties along the way, that latest being obviously Covid. The change to a four-issue subscription model shows a sensible awareness of the risks to a small business like Cygnet. Whenever I've had rare cause to telephone the office, the call has always been cheerfully answered. No call centre nonsense - "press 1 for this, 2 for that, your call is important to us blah blah blah greensleeves blah blah blah" I undertand that the initial production process is very traditional which is how Paul Karau prefers to work but somehow the end result is able to make the jump to into the computer typesetting environment. I rather like that and the fact that MRJ is an antidote to the rather garish "Hello Magazine" style of some other model railway magazines. It's like our very own Radio 4 compared to BBC3. Mark

I'd suggest writing them a letter to express this viewpoint. Actually, I sort of envy them, looking at my own mailbox and the time I spend on emails for a voluntary membership organisation.

Looking forward to this. There's some good material on Yesterday.

I know him when he was young Queensquare. The lad done well for himself.

Understandable but that's punishing the innocent. it's the web designer behind this that needs to be put in the stocks and pelted with rotten vegetables. If I might make a suggestion, it would be helpful if the adverts could be in proportion to screen size. On a larger screen, the drop-down box at the top is just about tolerable but on a smaller screen, it really eats into the screen space.