2mm Andy

Sunderland Air-show this week end

Ahhhh there's nowt like t'roar of a Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Adour engine, followed by the sound of massed Rolls-Royce Merlins! http://www.stelzriede.com/ms/mus/spitfire.wav

Yes, that makes sense as they were all heading North. Shame I've got other things on - would have liked to have gone.

Hearing that many Merlin engines runnin makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end!

OUCH! Don't get many pheasants down in Cornwall (only peasants, ha ha). But my experience when I lived and drove in Wales and East Anglia was that they had a death-wish... getting 3/4 across the road, having second thoughts, and then heading back again. Stoopid, stoopid suicidal birds! Glad you weren't hurt, Andy. Hope the insurance coughs up.

Suicidal, stupid, and forgettfull; wings whay are they?

And to make things worse because it hit your car you cannot take it home to eat by law but the people in the car behind you could.

You absolutely sure it was today (1st?) my memory of today was a disaster of a days running!

well yes Boris, the trains were a bit of a mess (failed black 5, 1hr delay then diesel with no steam heat, etc.), but the weather was good and we still enjoyed ourselves!

Robertson's ?

Hopefully you've not designed anything I might be interested in - I'm starting to develop a backlog!

Don't suppose they're in 1:64 scale... thought not, phew!

watch out for magpies

Almost done, Tony! (doesn't help that I've spent most of the evening painting/filling walls!

I wish, Pete!

When someone else does it why does it always seem they were at a different meeting?

Excellent - be sure to check out 'Ogwen' and 'Glyder' (ex- Penrhyn Quarries), recently repatriated from the USA:

How was the event ? The Coal mine and Pit Village is my favourite part of the Museum.

@Andy: Indeed, originally for S scale we would use only one half of a 9.52lb hammer, not imperially. (work it out cryptically)

At the detailing stage then?

@RJL: You could be right. But the secret of 2-mil 'detailing' is what you leave out. Andy's lump hammer is used to knock off any unnecessary rivet detail ;-)

I like them...but I still can't get the loops right!

I make the loops from one piece of steel wire - much easier. I've been struggling with mounting the things on the wagons!

With Ice cream. YUM

Shoulda popped into my parents for tea! you go on the WR?

No - it wasn't that well-planned a trip! A1/A66 to Kirby Stephen, then over the hill to Keld, and down Swaledale to Richmond (stopping for ice cream at Muker!).