TomJ

I went from "I doubt I'll use DCC sound, it's just a gimmick" to never running anything that doesn't have a sound decoder!

Take care though. If you loosen your sanity too much it’ll fall off!

Folding them is OK.  It's when you read them you lose your sanity.

Have total admiration for all of you in the medical front line and appreciate the extreme pressures you are under.  Your skills are 100% needed now. But enjoy the modelling when you can!

Tom, thoughts and appreciation with you. Definitely we have a hobby that will help us all through hopefully..

Another Tom

Best wishes and best of luck at this time, Tom. When this awful virus has finally been kicked into touch, at least you'll still have your lovely layout, though.

I suspect most people wish they'd never heard of Covid.

By the way, I agree with you about modelmaking. The way it forces people to take a step back - and chill - is one reason I've been into the hobby for most of my life.

I've used it before to do invasion stripes on an aircraft kit

Yeah - Google "Hanoi railway station" and it could almost be Waterloo circa 1990. Well, not really...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/shankaronline/30645860913

Strangely enough I had ordered a resin kit for Upnor Castle and between placing the order and it arriving in the post the Fairlie was revealed. Complete revision of my plans ensued - new layout design in progress.

In days gone by, I might have tried to envision a reality where a Double Fairlie worked heavy coal trains over the Mendips, but those days have passed, now, so I'm more interested in those purchased by the Midland Railway for use in the Bristol area.

...but the quarry Hunslets used in the Somerset Cheddar mines were far more cute.

Absolutely - haven't felt this excited about a forthcoming model for years - I have so wanted the SR Booster EL's modelled and the 4-CEP's were a part of my childhood trainspotting then teenage travel then both travel for work & being part of my early BR career.

*raises hand*

Its a miracle of existence!

Hurahhhh!!!!!! 

Yes, those Really Useful boxes do stack quite happily up to 5 feet or more............

I suppose it depends on how you define Britain. Dingle station was reputed to be the most westerly in Europe. Did that once belong to the LN&ER?

Surely it was Valentia Harbour, although that and Dingle are in Europe but not Britain (British Isles maybe)

Westerly in a Great Britain! Arisaig 

..then there's skirting boards, Window sills, plug points, light switches, door opening, etc - all contrive to be in the way when manoeuvring (theoretically) optimum length base boards...

I remember someone making the centre baseboard trapezoidal so it could pull out.

Using dowel type baseboard connectors is a no no unless you allow sufficient space to pull the boards apart.

Don

Is it measure once, cut twice or what? 🤔

Not to be sniffed at (well someone had to say it)

A few years ago I was using a hot glue gun to stick something in place.  The glue began to ooze out of the joint and, without thinking, I used an unprotected fingertip to try and poke the molten glue back into place.

Not the kind of mistake you make twice.

I only bought one a few years back and soon wondered how I'd managed DIY bodging without one.

Leeds?

Yes!

Fingers crossed and all that!

I'll be taking it up as soon as its offered to me...

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The light at the end of the tunnel's been switched on?

Hopefully its not one of these approaching...

If a vaccine can be successful so as to make a meaningful difference, why is it that people can catch COVID more than once?

Far too complex to explain in a status update. But fair to say that reinfections are vanishingly rare in the context of the number of worldwide infections  

I don't mind ballasting, it's the stuff outside the railway fence I struggle with.

Like  Dagworth  I don't mind the ballasting.   I quite enjoy the track laying, wiring and ballast work, its when it comes to the general scenery that I usually struggle with.

With the HD, I minimise the scenic complications by resolutely refusing to model anything beyond the boundary fence. It saves a lot of angst, and is prototypical in modelling terms!

An approach even easier  to achieve in O-16.5 ...

Amusing concept but if you had checked the wiring as you went along you wouldn't be in this state of quantum uncertainty...

Good luck!

Have a thorough check with a meter first.

Don

...I'm usually "disappointed" the first time I power anything up for the first time!

Way to go Tom!

Tried it with mine taking tem to watch steam in the real days of steam....They both turned to soccer and golf - damn!

But at least you tried Larry , some parents dont .

Are you still in Scotland or back in Cornwall Tom?...!

Both, disels and kettles! Will try to focus on completing what I've started and then let the mind wander...

That's just so true....

Absolutely agree. My current layout is merely a bare board pending a house move, but there's nothing like watching them go around!