Thorness

and one with a bit of s**te on,

for authenticity they will all need that at the rear.

I said to the baker: “How come all your cakes are £2 except that one is £3.

He said: “That's madeira cake!

An absolute work of art!

14 hours ago, SM42 said:

What an elecrric car needs is a nice little diesel engine running a generator to power the motor. 

 

Why it has never been thought of remains a mystery.

 

Andy

The Nissan e-power vehicles use a petrol engine to create electricity to drive the car.

I was a bit worried that you were using a cable from the mains wall socket with a  3 pin mains plug on the end to connect to transformers/controller built into the board. Mains power potentially available available on exposed pins!  It sounds daft but I've seen it done.

Cheers

Don

On 30/05/2023 at 00:39, Schooner said:

 

4-wheel coupé 

Prototype: Wot Wolfie Sed

 

How it started

 

How it's went

 

Relevant dates along the way include build (early 1843, probably), coversion to 6-wheel chassis of 6'4"+6'4" (1846<1855 ), new 4-wheel chassis "on entering public service" in 1876 (I struggle to believe this doesn't actually mean 'on leaving Royal service'). After which it goes walkabout, only to turn up in Col. Stephens' sights whilst he was engaged to convert the East Cornwall Minerals Railway from 3'6" to standard gauge and knock out an extension to the main line at Bere Alston, in 1905.

 

Model:

https://www.steamandthings.com/page20c.htm

Body only; not longer in production but photo-tool available for local etching.

 

A stretch of my modelling chops - the build and the painting will be excitingly beyond my comfort zone!

 

M&WJR:

Good question! I suspect a quiet word might have been had in the right ear when it was withdrawn from Royal service in 1876, as thereafter it was reportedly sighted in Gloucestershire, presumed for use as the Director's "Inspection" Saloon.

 

30 years old and archaic, I can't see it being put into regular use even on the M&WJR by the time the Ingleford scene is set...but I can see the Directors' vanity getting involved if such a vehicle was known to be available...

 

8-wheel clerestory (makes me smile just to type that!)

 

Prototype:

Built 1885 by the Metroploitan Carriage and Wagon Company for the Suakin-Berber Railway in The Sudan. This line closed before completion, and the related scandal saw Parliament demand the repatriation of all stock. Although I assume they're of the same house, I don't believe the coach is the same as that preserved at Chatham

 

Model:

https://www.steamandthings.com/page50.htm

 

M&WJR:

No oven-ready excuse for this either, but it's the smallest, cutest, most Ingleford little coach I think I've come across in 4mm. Is it a regular passenger vehicle serving the wharf? Is Ingleford station itself on a short spur, and it is simplest to clear the coach down to the wharf during the midday passenger traffic slump? Is it a Sunday Special to get the bargees up to church in Stroud?! More detective work on the route of the M&WJR just West of Stroud as it dived down into the old canal bed is in order...

 

Layout:

In short, it's Rule 1. I want a bit of passenger stock, I like these, these shall be my passenger stock! I like the world-build aspect of being able to run little mixed trains (it makes use of the extra cassette and siding length I have available without pushing the size of the Inglenook Puzzle beyond the bounds of fun). and the fact I can use them 'stored' at Ingleford Wharf to artificially reduce siding length, enforcing 'real' Inglenook Puzzle rules/generally increasing challenge etc. As mntioned above, both carriages will force me to up my modelling game, and the challenge won't do me any harm.

 

In other news:

Before.

After.

...well, during. Had a Bright Idea to improve ease of controller placement/removal/rotation with DCC system, so there's a little bit more to do tomo than planned, but I think we can call this an improvement.

 

Thanks for the etching recommendations, will follow up ASAP. Broader update in the next day or two...

Why the two mains supply sockets under the baseborad?

My local KFC will be celebrating Star Wars day on May 4th with an Anakin special.

It’s an extra crispy chicken with no legs and only one wing.

The Tate gallery is named after sugar magnate Henry Tate of Tate & Lyle, who had laid the foundations for the collection.

Henry Tate established his business in 1859, in Liverpool, later expanding to Silvertown in East London.[3] He used his industrial fortune to found the Tate Institute in Silvertown in 1887, and the Tate Gallery in Pimlico, Central London in 1897. He endowed the gallery with his own collection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings

2 hours ago, J. S. Bach said:

What really caught my eye was the building statue properly superimposed to appear to be on top of the van roof. At first viewing, I actually thought that it was. Also note that the term "Wi!!y" is not used over here very much; well, at least for "that".

 

The photo has only been cropped a bit. The hashtag on the van appealed to my childish sense of humour so I took the pic with my phone while we were stopped at the lights. It was entirely by accident that the "exceedingly bare" statue appears to be on top of the van!

Cheers

Don