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Which article of Sods Law is it that decrees you only notice you've fitted the axleboxes upside down AFTER the epoxy has gone off?
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Traeth Mawr -Building Mr Price's house , (mostly)
mike morley replied to ChrisN's topic in The Railways of Wales
I assume those Cambrian six-wheeler you've got are Peter K kits. I've got one (actually I've got two, but only one has been built) with a Brassmasters Cleminson chassis and in EM gauge it can negotiate sub two-foot radius curves. I reckon an 00 version could probably get close to 18" radius. -
A friend has one of the SEF versions and having had a look at it I'd say it's got one of the best etched chassis currently available.
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For a good example of how easily "fast and frantic" becomes "disjointed and messsy" compare the first half of the Calcutta Cup with the second half. And how long will Owen Farrell keep on getting away with high tackles before he either gets red-carded or decapitates someone?
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One useful tip I was given long ago by Castlefinn of this parish was to use alternate black and white layers of plastic when building up laminates. It makes it much, much easier to see how even (or not) things are when doing the shaping and smoothing.
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Mark's workbench - lockdown loco build (page 17)
mike morley replied to Mark Forrest's topic in Kitbuilding & Scratchbuilding
Not necessarily. My version is about the same age and the roof had already distorted when I started building it about 5 years ago. I made a boiling-water-and-plasticard-around-a-suitable-former replacement which had started to uncurl before I'd even finished building the rest of the kit. Mine has Bill Bedford springing and is undoubtedly the most free-running item of rolling stock I have. Too free running, if anything. It can roll away on sidings my spirit level insists are absolutely level! -
I was once in a lovely little tea room in Sulby on the Isle of Man, absently eavesdropping on the conversation going on in the kitchen, and one of the girls announced that a friend of hers was moving " . . . to Douglas!!!!" in the awed tones one might use to announce a move to Outer Mongolia.
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I found myself on the Tywyn school train six or seven years ago and was quite surprised at how well behaved they were. They were very lively but, unlike the vast majority of school-aged kids around here, they were capable of getting through a f#!?ing sentence without using the word f#!?ing at least three f#!?ing times. Some of the wisecracks were first class and I witnessed an angelic 14-year-old girl delivering one of the filthiest put-downs I've ever heard.
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Mark's workbench - lockdown loco build (page 17)
mike morley replied to Mark Forrest's topic in Kitbuilding & Scratchbuilding
I like the simple but effective way you've marked which hornblock goes with what hornguide. I think I might be nicking that idea! -
Traeth Mawr -Building Mr Price's house , (mostly)
mike morley replied to ChrisN's topic in The Railways of Wales
The reaction of children change. When my daughter was 7/8/9 she was entranced by my model railway and often badgered me to set it up and have an operating session. Now she is 33 and it takes visible effort for her to prevent herself rolling her eyes despairingly when my model railway is mentioned - despite the fact that I can tell from his reaction when he first discovered that I was a railway modeller that her husband had model railways in his past and is still interested now. -
The structure on the right is worthy of comment, too. It appears to be a normal Nissen hut at first glance. Then I realised how high it is and noticed the double-decked dormer. Is it a 12-inches-to-the-foot scale kit-bash or were king-sized Nissen huts available if required?
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To give you an idea of how counter-productive weight in the wrong place can be, I once built a (4mm scale) 0-4-0ST that was ever so, ever so slightly nose heavy. All we're talking bout here is a CofG three or four millimetres in front of ideal, yet running bunker first it would wheelspin when running light engine while forwards it could haul eight BR Mk1's up a 1-in-100 gradient without a hint of slip - which was considerably more than the prototype could.
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I once got into the habit of 90% finishing a kit then thinking "I need a break" and putting it aside and going on to something else. The trouble with that, I later realised, was that when I eventually went back to the model I'd often forgotten what still needed to be done. After several near-fiascos I primed and painted a guards van and was half way through applying the transfers before realising I hadn't fitted the handrails. Now I make a point of getting all projects to the same stage (usually priming and painting, which I do in batches) before putting it aside. And it still goes horribly wrong on a regular basis . . .
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Powsides have long since done "Cambrian" and "Cam\|/Rys" transfers for three-plank dropsides, but despite being told twice by me and no doubt many more times by others in the know, they do not feature on their website so few people are aware of them. They are similar in nature to those formerly supplied by Dragon but rather better in quality (I've never had a Powsides transfer break up on me, which was a regular problem with Dragons), and a slightly better fit on a Wizard white-metal kit. The Powsides transfers also include running numbers, which the Dragon transfers did not. I've more than once wondered how many other unlisted treasures there are in Powsides range.
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My third laptop in six weeks is in the final stages of malfunctioning its way to oblivion. Unlucky or a comment on Windows 10?
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I got through a number of Acer hard drives within 2-3 years. Every time Acer repaired it, within 12 months it had gone again.Fed up of keep sending it away,in the end I paid my local repair shop to do a repair & reinstall. They installed a different version of Win 7 which didn't have the hibernate function and told me hibernate could kill HDs. Hasn't happened again since!
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Puzzled why Paypal will not accept my card when trying to buy a Talyllyn calendar but is perfectly happy to accept the same card when buying a new brake light switch just five minutes later.
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I can do the brake third. I'll scan and PM them to you when I've cooked and eaten my dinner.
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Which kits are they? Also, if you take a look at the relevant thread in the Small Suppliers sction, you will see we have written Coopercraft off as a lost cause.
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Traeth Mawr -Building Mr Price's house , (mostly)
mike morley replied to ChrisN's topic in The Railways of Wales
www.geograph.org.uk/photo/185731 www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2438341 Apologies if the links don't work, but the keyboard on my new laptop has packed up after just a month and the on-screen keyboard is not the easiest thing to use. -
Traeth Mawr -Building Mr Price's house , (mostly)
mike morley replied to ChrisN's topic in The Railways of Wales
Close to the railway in Barmouth is a small, very modellable building that I'm 99% certain was once the town lock-up. And I know what you mean about MRD figures - some are excellent, others are indifferent. The same goes for Falcon figures, but with a rather lower "excellent" percentage. -
The end might be nigh. The Yamaha has failed it's MOT.
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I wonder by how much the take-up rates of Firefox, Opera etc have increased since Microsoft Edge came out.
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Initial signs show a further decline for IE - http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
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Windows 10 is awful. And Microsoft Edge is even worse!
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I posted this a few days ago on a layout thread, but it is just as relevant to this thread. Barmouth Bridge and Cadair Idris, taken April 2007. And doesn't this thread make you grind your teeth over the image size-limit we've had to put up with for the last couple of years!
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Dovey Bridge. August 2010
