Jenny Emily
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Because a lot of the materials that were so plentiful and readily available weren't actually all that good? Gone are the days when there was a massive choice of layout trees that all looked suspiciously like assorted sizes of bog brushes dipped in varnish and scatter.
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No matter how many boxes I fill, there still seems to be an equal amount of stuff to pack. This week (and next) I shall mostly be attempting to move house and not explode from stress in the process.
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I must raid my Father's workshop if that sells. He has a foot long section of rail that has been used for a great many years as an anvil. The bloke who gave it to him got it many years earlier whilst working at Horwich loco works. With a gas axe I'm sure I could get six or seven slices out of that foot length Call me paranoid, but the bids by the person who came second look a little suspicious to me. Who bids £49, unless they are anxious to not actually win the item? Given that a complete new Pannier can't be much more, it is a very odd final price that would leave me suspecting shilling.
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Currently high on the combination of paint and glue after having spent four hours in a small room building up Ratio signal kits. Note to self: open the window next time.
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I've got one of those, and my box is in better condition! I suspect this is another misplaced decimal point though. £14.99 would be a far more realistic start. On the other hand, you would think these people would notice at the point they get charged the listing fee?
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Showing faith in a planned layout I have just bought eight coaches from Hattons.
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I hate mortgage providers. Because they took a month to process the paperwork, they are now saying I need to submit another month's proof of earnings. Well, if they had been quicker in processing the application they would not have needed to...
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This annoys me when these are still in stock at most Model Zone's for the original £8.99. I've seen them on the shelves over the last few weeks at the Metrocentre, Trafford Centre as well as Brighton on Wednesday. I have a hard-wired dislike for people trying to rip off other people. EDITED TO ADD: still in stock on Modelzone's website too.
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Just been informed that Waterstones are going to stock my book as a core catalogue item. Can I put down the deposit on that Caribbean island yet?
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It reminds me of the Ebay scammer who featured on an episode of Judge Judy after sending a photograph of a mobile phone to the winner of one auction for a phone. As only 10% of the final amount actually in this auction goes to charity, this is a plain scammer trying to cover themselves with a veneer of respectability by hiding behind a pitiful donation to charity.
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The mortgage provider is being an orifice. Their underwriting goons annoy me - they've gone from giving money out hand over fist with no checks four years ago, to not being able to recognise a safe borrower if one twanged their braces and danced naked on the bonnet of their Porsche.
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I was in the Modelzone in the Metro Centre yesterday, and they've got dozens of their weathered versions on the shelves, even though they are listed on their website as out of stock. They also had a few other limited editions in stock that are officially out of stock including the TPOs, black weathered tanker three pack, NCB 16 tonners, NCB pannier, NSE class 03 and the two parcels two pack coach sets.
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Just had an offer accepted on a house. I have my eye on the garden for a very large garden-based OO layout. My partner suggested I buy a snowplough to run for the winter - I will of course oblige!
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A signing in Bolton Waterstones tomorrow, and just been booked for signings in Chester, Warrington, Preston, the Metrocentre and Hanley. That should keep me out of trouble.
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Which layouts have really inspired you?
Jenny Emily replied to PGN's topic in Modelling musings & miscellany
1: Iron Mould Lane (OO) 2: Federal street yard (HO) 3: Nant-y-glo mine (O-16.5) -
Gonzo, Fozzie Bear and Miss Piggy are all alive and well and bidding in a frenzy on Ebay.
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How realistic are your models? Photo challenge.
Jenny Emily replied to Pugsley's topic in Modelling musings & miscellany
The film you are using gives an excellent olde days gone colour film look. The picture reminds me of some of the late 1970s shots I've seen of shunters parked up on the MSC system at the weekend. -
Are these not the same coaches that box shifters were bumping out cheap a while ago because there was a glut?
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How realistic are your models? Photo challenge.
Jenny Emily replied to Pugsley's topic in Modelling musings & miscellany
Thanks. The locomotive is actually factory weathered by Bachmann and is (from memory - the box is in storage) catalogue number 32-102Z. Its colour is a very nice faded blue (a shame that Bachmann haven't used this for any of the other factory weathered examples). The oil stain is what they applied, and I have added no weathering effects to this loco. On vehicles that rarely get a wash, spilt diesel does seem to acquire a lot of black dirt in it. The skirts on reefer road trailers are a terror for it with black slicks developing down the sides over the winter from the red diesel filler pipe. Not quite as badly as the Bachmann applied stain and more like the 08 in your first picture. Below is the picture prior to going black and white. I use a 12 or so year old programme called Paint Shop Pro 5 for effects, and it is somewhat primitive compared to Photoshop. The biggest achievement was airbrushing out the tension-lock couplings and the edge of the baseboard., both of which were rather prominent in the original picture, which is below the colour version for comparison.
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How realistic are your models? Photo challenge.
Jenny Emily replied to Pugsley's topic in Modelling musings & miscellany
Black and White in the late 1970s in the Mosely Road sidings on 'Grove Street Yard' and 08507 hides beside the overhead crane. This close up it makes me think that I should have posed my Hornby class 08 instead of the Bachmann one to lessen the impact of those fat side rods.
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I've been sorely tempted for a while by the class 14s. They are pricey, but the new batch do look better than the first batch - it really does make a difference having those pickups painted. I agree that it would be nice to get a report on how good the weathering is. Some years ago I bought a Bachmann weathered 04 that looked great up until it ran for the first time revealing a clean line across all the wheels where the side rods had been when it had been sprayed at the factory. I'm torn between the weathered Blue Circle cement one, the BR blue 14029 (shame about those pickups, but nothing a tin of paint and some care won't fix) and - bizarrely - the Loadhaul version, as long as they don't all have upside down connecting rods like the Hattons picture! I was hoping that they might have knocked a tenner off the price of 14029 for being non-weathered, but it hasn't happened. Are there any other niggles from the first batch that have been fixed for the second batch other than the power pickups getting a coat of black?
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It makes me think that as a BR blue modeller I should relinquish from my collection my collection of L&Y pugs. There are five in my collection, including Dapol #19 in L&Y lined black. But then, I have a soft spot for them and the insane silly bidders never seem to find any of my auctions. That said, they did find my Father's auction for an old caravan awning, and started a bidding war that netted him more than it would have cost to buy an awning new of the same size. My Father was, understandably, quite pleased. At the same sitting he sold a band saw to a man who hadn't read that he had to collect in person, so ended up having to forfeit his money and leave my Father to sell it a second time. Canada was a bit of a way to come from and collect really. As for Bachmann wagons, anything past the Chas Roberts tanker (2004?) I suspect are produced in larger numbers than some of the gneral release items, so aren't worth much at all. I joined the club in 2002, so my first wagon is the Marcroft wagons black one (which I do rather like). However, they do not fit well with a BR blue modeller, though will give my NRM GCR 8K something to pull*. *I'm a woman and therefore have an "oh siny!" impulse buy mode that is easily triggered around shoes, handbags, and pre-grouping trains, apparently.
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It's the curse of Ebay again, where 'rare' is ironically the most common word you'll find. 51218 is the easiest to find of the BR black L&Y pugs, from experience. 51235 (the 'C' suffixed version of this model) was the hardest, but still mass produced to the point that 'rare' is an abuse of the word.
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Getting ready to head for a book signing today in Preston Waterstones. I might find time to pop to Transport Modesl if they're still open when I'm done.
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First book signing of 2011 - Trafford Centre Waterstones here I come (good excuse to pop to the Modelzone beforehand)
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