Jon020

me to went up to gatwick on my bike oh well i got a bit of exersise

jbqfc... I stood up and saw if from my desk... hardly a startling run through Gatwick as it passed City Place.... I guess it was waiting for a road through.

I know how you feel, living in Haywards Heath I was looking forward to seeing Tornado in my home town (and Steam in general as we had 44932 back in March, then the Royal Wessex on Saturday started in Brighton but didn't have steam added until Southall then taken off there again with one more trip due this way this year). But Tornado does seems to really dislike Sussex. First her visit to the Bluebell in 2010 for the 50th Anniversary Gala was cancelled after she failed and now this.

Re-wheeling....whats on your list? For the average modeller with some hand skills its easy. Ran a re-wheeling workshop at scaleforum this year ..1st time ever.

In simple terms relating to diesels... couldn't be easier than taking the shell off, taking the keeper plates off the bogies,removing the wheels, bending the pickups out a bit. Refit the new set, lube and replace the keeper plates. You don't need a set of wheels to try.....just remove a set from your deltic and then refit...

If you go for it then I would put and order in for some wheels as "ultrascale" delivery time is 16 weeks (others on the market but these come with gears etc..drop in wheels). Time enough to practice!!!

Thanks for the suggestions and tips. Sorry I missed your workshop. Wher were you - near the DEMU stand? I'll do a search on ultrascale and see what it turns up.

Tim, until I get up to speed with all skills ... the u/s is an easier option... and they are quite good! But, point taken ;-)

Just had a large consignment of Exactoscale 8-spk wagon wheels arrive in the post....

oh, that reminds me, must finish assembly of my ones..... Now wheres the loctite, ah yes in the fridge.....

... makes a break from the 47 project ;-)

Only joking (surprise!). It sounds good, hope we get to see them in the blog.

Thanks Jon

V1000..! Now there's one that doesn't get a mention often! Yes the view through the trees isn't bad... just glad that I caught a glimpse of red... and then watched the grand old lady go off to her new life in the US. She was waiting at the hold behind the all-orange easyjet 319 - their 200th one... quite a contrast. She then pulled forward after a BA 734 crossed the threshold... somehow the 752 in the old livery looked more modern than the 734 in the current one!

Ah yes, formerly G-CPET in the "Negus" livery. Nice gesture by BA to repaint.

Yes, well done BA. I had a air-to-air of one of the G-BIK# series on an exercise book when I was school... never did a livery suit an airliner better. Sad to see it go.... but glad that I got to see it one last time.

I liked it. It resonated with me, I think it is to do with age and memory.

I woudn't entirely trust 6music MS - they all love the bloody awfull Jim Jones Review as well.

As for Bowie - **** off and retire you pretentious ****!!

What kind of track is it? Readay to run P4?

Perfection is impossible.

But I may choose to serve perfection....

Robert Fripp

Jon - think about how much time this is all taking, and compare it with how much time you have to achieve your modelling goals - if they don't match up, then something needs to give! ;-)

Cheers all. 7mm is out for a number of reasons, so I'll not even start that route... but thanks anyway. The time element is a good point Tim... it's something I have too little "spare" to do all of this. But I need to think what I'm trying to achieve. The trouble is, when I see something that I think needs to be improved, I will try to improve it; seeing a need for improvement and being unable to is frustrating

Tim, just a silly reference to reputation scores; mine got to 1000, hence the comment!

Oh, OK, still, it's not something I've paid that much attention to anyway, I've never really understood how some blog entries attract yellow stars and others don't!!

You're quite right! It's practically irrelevant and just an insignificance that purely caused me some mild mirth given the timing of this with current releases. Stars? Oh yes. Who knows!?

must say it was a pleasure to use Andy's tablet in the Holiday Inn bar the other weekend, even in our inebriated state! Needed a good charge though after me and Tim had finished with it LOL

Yes; drunks + youtube =

It's actually an old HP that my mother in law obtaiend from her son (my brother in-law) and was only using it as a clock! My Wife obtaiend it and uploaded some android software and now it works quite nicely. Mainly for use by my lad in playing games etc - but quite useful to browse the tinterweb... although I do prefer using a proper keyboard on a PC or laptop rather that the touchscreen thingy... but I'm old fashioned that way ;-)

Brilliant!

WOW!

WOW!

I once slept through a Vulcan display at Finningley air show, without ear plugs! I was in a pushchair at the time though, so not very old!

Ok... I give up - it was shot in 1991 at the Woodford airshow. I was stood on one of the hardstandings with the Catalina, that I'd flown there on... and this is the takeoff.

cant beat the vulcan howl or the roar on take off

Heljan 26! Lovely little locos.

They are aren't they. I bought 2; one for my youngest to play with on their railway and one for me "to do". I've got the body bits (grills and glazing, and discs) from Brian but those bogies need beefing up (brake cylinders) and some new snpw ploughs are needed... add to that M-L-Illustrated this month (I picked up a copy today) is on the class 26 and 27. As if I needed more incentive ?

I'd be interested to see what you could do to a 37. It would give some pointers.....

yes - rolled lightly and fixed, but they're still fragile - the most fragile of the lot so far. Care needed!

The answer to your question is - how many have you got left?

:-)

If I did, I can't find it... doubly annoying. I;m guessing I'll get nowhere but I'll see what they come back to me with first; I've e-mailed and phoned (message left) ... Let's see how long before they get back to me.

You used to get an order confirmation email with all details on it... now it's just an online confirmation and "link" to the order status.. so there's nothing to track back to. Annoyed... possibly at them, possibly at myself.

David from Ultrascale has offered to replace them (reasonably quickly)... original order glitched? Sorted at least.

I'm still at the Swindon built Warship stage.

Think Sulzer!

Very good :-)

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Don't worry Jon; all part of the same.

Cheers Andy;had me worried that youngest had done something to my laptop first of all. Glad that it's getting back on track

Paper? possibly. Not sure... but then bending this would not be as easy. Varnish... hmm, used railmatch ... to waterproof it all. That's my problem. Last night, after friends had left (after wine consumed) I thought about the problem. Wondered about how to stick new top sheet accurately. Settled for use of pritt stick which allows some repositioing ... and it's almost all redone. I will need to varnish it again, but this time I will use the humbrol hobby spray (which worked before) an...

Stick with it Jon...

Will do Pete. Followed DonB's advice and added a thread and used fabric waterproofer - not from Lidl as suggested (they didn't have any) but the kiwi stuff we already had. It works on test piece. Board covered in printed sheet back onto the existing messed-up card - with Pritt to allow repositioning... which went on ok late last night (even after a couple of bottles of wine), finished this morning.... and stuff applied, now drying. Will look to ballast this week once the fueling point...

Incredible stuff.

That is like the that is at the Colne valley railway

Incredible. A bit like the RPSI loco shed, except more chance of it running...

It is protein, after all....

Did you find a full one or half a one.

Right at the core ... as I finished, a small dark worm poking out of a hole. Looked dead and, importantly, intact. Put me off a bit.

... oh and I was able to de-distort the first one too.

... fitted manufacturing plates too. Don't tell anyone, but I brought the wrong ones; convinced that oval was Crewe... so that's what I got - on these oval is Brush (oops)... but as they're flush and will be bathed in blue paint, I think I'll get away with it. oval plates on a diesel cab side are a pig to fit straight - second one fitted and left on 5th attempt... but happy now.

I wont tell anyone! They do look rather easy to distort. I'll have to find my paint stripper before attempting to fit them on the one I've started. Not too sure where I've put that. It might be in store along with my cellulose thinners. Don't tell the storage people!

Seriously... have you tried turning it off and on again? Mate's Jaaaag TC used to throw a wobbly occasionally, usually after it had been "tested", was always fine after leaving the car shut off for a bit.

Will look in the morning... but yes I tried that! Lots of lights still on! Toyota. Now bath and whisky called for!

Bother! Worth a try though...

My Sat. favourite is "Echo" :-)

"flying in a blue dream" any day of the week

twa_gogs... that's the one. Have had it years (a tape)... it hits the spot every now and then.

How was the exhibition overall Jon? Last time I went there were more boats, soldiers and. daleks than trains :-O

The show is definately a general model show.., it didn't take me long to walk around and see what I wanted to see - which there wasn' ttoo much of... some nice chats though (including the NMRA) and got a good deal on a DCC fitted Craven DMU, which will go nicely with my deltics (the first trains I rode). The Daleks were there in force - might still take the boys on Sunday if possible

Kinda like Daleks TBH...but the show isn't the same as was 2o years ago...reflects change in the hobbies I guess...

Hmm, images appear ok, and all works quite quickly for me. Nice to scan through some threads and modeling that's so far passed me by. Superb stuff!

V excited to see Cross St up there, though the photo that pops up isn't perhaps the most inspiring!

My first thought was that it was associated with the Stafford show as a "look what we have for you to see!"

Thanks guys... 1216 - they're very pretty... how secure for haulage I don't know. HT - 0.5mm screws.... it seems quite strong, but i'll not be pushing it too much... CR.... ID ... now i'm confused. Thanks anyway

Had many a "Modelling Crisis" Jon if you see what I mean - that is the origin of it....

CR... ah, understood. Quite - I'm with you there