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That looks so much better without the plates sunken into the sides.
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57xx's Workbench - more wagons and a Siphon C
57xx replied to 57xx's topic in Kitbuilding & Scratchbuilding
I've been busy in the workshop the other day. Santa brought me a lovely GW rivet press for Christmas, so I thought I'd give it a plinth to sit on to make it a bit more stable and protect the surfaces it will get used on. An off-cut of wood was cut to size and given a few doses of teak oil to protect it and then had a bit of old speaker cabinet felt glued to the bottom. Result - a nice stable platform for forming rivets on the stash of brass kits that is building up! No excuses for not diving into them now.
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Wow, The Farthing blog look fantastic, Mikkel. I can see a load of time spent catching up on missed post. I hated the old blog format, I found it too hard to find things and thus never ventured into the area. I hope others follow your lead and spruce their blogs up.
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Read. The. Thread. You are correct, IF it works, why fix it? Answer -it DIDN'T work! Unless you were happy with it's security flaws and hackers attaching it...
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No he's not...
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Or people could read this thread's OP rather than just replying to it and ignoring the info in there.
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Nope. I ordered something from Amazon today and have already put in a complaint that it didn't arrive yesterday.
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Still picking bits of apple out of my keyboard after reading that... On a forum feature note, I love the bit where you can highlight some text and then just click "Quote Selection" for the reply (how I picked out Phil's post above). Should save lots of editing time.
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It does what it says on the tin. I just tried it as there's hardly any "new" posts on here since the upgrade. It pops up an "Are you sure" check so you can't really do it "by mistake" without your own approval.
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It's called progress. Otherwise we'd still be using totally insecure software written decades ago.
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Looks good, thanks for the perseverance in getting it going. Having done many IT systems upgrades myself, I feel for you with the unknowns that rear their ugly heads just when you don't need them!
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Why?
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GWR freight grey (e.g. dark).
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Thanks Tony. I have a set of the same bogies that I was going to put under an old Mainline Siphon and was going to use the same L shaped trick with the older screw on type coupling. I noticed the NEM pocket they do for their rigid bogies on their site the other day, so have also been contemplating how they could be adapted.
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As well as the Haye tool vans above (note, the £60 would be for both the vans I presume, as it was when sold by CSP?), you could also consider kit bashing the Ratio 4 wheel coaches.
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They also had exclusive fuel and tyres not available to other teams. For Irvine to then imply Hamilton's racking up of wins is partly due him have the best car smacks of hypocrisy. Every top driver will go for the best car they can get a seat in, why wouldn't they?
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Has any got any almost empty tinlets of Phoenix Precision LMS Bauxite or LNER Oxide they would part with? I only need enough to paint a couple of wagons in each, so something 1/4 full or less would probably be fine.
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Tony, did you use the MJT NEM coupling box to fit the tension lock coupling on your bogies?
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The website appears to have been closed.
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My bits box is an old biscuit box. Zip lock bags are used to organise the contents, there's a bag for sprue cut-offs, one for buffers, one for wheels, etc etc. It's chock full so a new box is being pressed into service.
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You know that as soon as you do that, you find you needed some of those bits for a new project.
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Throw in estate agents working on % commission bumping up selling prices so they can get their down-payment on their next Porsche 911.
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I've also been hankering for a Compound in LMS livery and often thought this was a big "miss" not to have produced that livery yet.
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Taff Vale Coach Brown paint
57xx replied to timbowilts's topic in GWR Rolling Stock: model and prototype
How much did RR charge for postage? Been trying to find a supplier of Phoenix paints who isn't charging double the price of a tinlet in postage/courier fees. -
That's cleared that up then.
