mike morley

I've had Railmatch acrylic that had been applied over a week before object to being sprayed with Testors Dullcoat. Not badly, admittedly, and because it was a wagon I was able to hide the results with a bit of weathering, but the experience has made me wary of the stuff.

Yep!

The Roxey/Chatham short-wheelbase ballast wagon suffers from exactly the same problem My problem was that I didnt realise that until I was past the point where I was able to do anything about it.

I've built the Masokits telegraph pole furniture and they are fantastic. They might indeed be a bit of a fiddle but, like everything of Masokits that I've built, they are so well thought-out and designed,and the instructions are so good that one thing they are quite definitely not is difficult to build.

Good show, nice venue, excellent value for money.

Is that a method you've tried before or an experiment? As the price of copperclad is getting scarily high it has considerable appeal.

I'm obviously missing something here, specifically anything that might be described as sleepers. What's keeping those rails in position and in gauge?

Not necessarily. Tank engine crews often preferred running bunker first because of the improved view. It's easier to see round a bunker that is only three or four feet long than it is past a boiler that is thirty or forty feet long.

Another problem were the traction tyres, which also caused pick-up problems. Railway Modeller recommended removing said tyres, and anyone following that advice soon discovered that the railheads on Peco Code 75 track were an extremely tight fit in the grooves in which those traction tyres sat. Never have so many motors been locked-up and burned-out so quickly. Guess how I know . . .

A few years ago I used surface-mounted Peco motors, along with their mounting plates and linkages on a 7mm NG layout and the only problem I had was with one where the location forced me to mount the motor at a slight angle, resulting in the occasional partial throw. I'd go for Peco. Their stuff is the most readily available - almost all model shops will stock them, while comparatively few will stock Seep and very few Cobalt. I also hear grumbles about the reliability of Cobalt.

Something that happens frequently is that a picture-heavy posting is "quoted" in it's entirety by someone who makes an extremely brief comment that might well have little or nothing to do with anything in any of the pictures. Never mind that it is extremely irritating, would I be right in thinking that they are effectively resubmitting photos and thereby taking up even more server-space?

Peterborough is exceptionally bad in this respect. I've been there twice. Assumed the lack of layouts was a glitch first time. Realised it wasnt second time. There won't be a third time.

The medication I'm on means even modest quantities of beer give me a king-sized hangover, so my son-in-law took pity on me and bought me a mixed crate of alcohol-free beer. Highly recommended is the Big Drop brewery's stout and Brew Dog's Nanny State. And don't you all wish you had a son-in-law who bought you crates of beer? And on the subject of Mild's now being hard-to-come-by, IIRC the widely-available Bank's ordinary is a mild and in the hands of a cellarman who knows what he's doing is an exceptionally nice pint.

A major concern of modern historians is that few people are bothering to make hard copies any more and that research material stored digitally 'fades' with age (there is a technical term for it. Can't remember what it is) and that every time the material is shared a few bytes are lost or corrupted. And that is before you take into account things like computer crashes, accidental deletions, hacks, malware etc. What applies to historical research material applies to everything stored digitally, including tooling.

Oh yes it does!

A friend of mine has both. The Std 4 tank is the easier build but there is something not right about the cab. The Std 5 is more accurate.

Landed on my doormat this morning. We can only guess what the situation is in West Ealing's WH Smith's.

Okay. So is this one acceptable? Also on the Grand Union, about a mile south of where the other one was taken. Taken from exactly the same spot as the other picture. The van is in the very centre of the shot

Not too long ago there was a layout set in Oxfordshire (Windrush?) on the exhibition circuit that had exactly that playing quietly in the background.

Weedon, Northants. Sandwiched between the Grand Union Canal and the West Coast Main Line. You can see the catenary of the latter in the background.

For the best part of a year now I've been finding that passwords recorded using Windows arent recognised if you try to use them with Android. I'd guess you've just joined our gang.

My aunt, at only her second ever exhibition, met ChrisF for the first time and described him as "a gentleman of the old school". And who are we to argue?

It will allow me to open a new window, which is what I'm using to post. Yesterday the synthesized voice-over that comes with the alert stopped when I opened the new window. Today I've had to mute it, so I suppose it must still be evolving. As an aside, I got exactly the same critical alert four or five days ago (from the Criccieth webcam website) but closed that without difficulty. I guess it must be a more refined version that was inflicted on RMweb. Now off to ctrl-alt-delete.

I got the fake Microsoft critical alert page and the log-in box, cannot close either and neither Avast, which I'd already got installed, and Malwarebytes, which I've installed since, can shift either. Suggestions, anyone?