TomJ

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.

Best get those Brio finescale standards set in stone.

Well we have serious scale issues! The garrett and Mallard are about the same size and run on the same track. And the flat crossing (again copied from the WHR) has both tracks the same gauge!

The new Madder Valley Railway then...?!

*raises hand*

Its a miracle of existence!

Hurahhhh!!!!!! 

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

I remember my then 3 year old daughter asking if "B*ll*cks" was a "choo-choo" wagon!!

And how did you explain that (admiles)

Have toddlers these days got built in voice recorders or something? If they do, I am in some deep excrement...

wish I had an extra 8 inches to play!

As long as it doesn't interfere with your modelling.

My Mrs would complain about an extra 8"...... stop, just don't go there

He's not enjoying inhaling too much is he?

In my defence he did ask to help! It's win-win - I get to work on the layout and get brownie points for giving MrsJ a rest!!

Had the trains out and running for the first time in months. Definitely good for the soul

And I shall have to go hungry

A searing indictment of deprivation in modern Britain, etc.

Pardon !!!!!!!!!!

If what I've read is correct, that'd fit nicely in a pair of Apa boxes....

Yes go for it, don't waste it!

Going 2FS?

Comes under the same heading as "You are wearing odd socks!"

Get a steel helmet!

Mine wouldn't even notice?

My wife would notice, make a note and present it in about ten years time.

I pity your wallet, if you should decide to pay tribute to your new love in modelling...

...particularly Swiss meter-gauge modelling. Can't help you there as I've long sold most of the good stuff!

Got that t shirt - loved the RhB!

P.P.P.P.P.P.

No....as there's no danger of anything moving.

Ive alway got c02 extinguisher at hand..

.. it's almost as bad as getting your inspiration back and realising you've chucked it all in the bin and the binmen have been :-)

No the feeling!! best leaving it for while...

Tom, its a hobby. If things aren't going right, step away and do something else for a bit. come back when your mojo recharges.

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 ...

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  

Scrap.

Alas, poor layout.

Recycle what you can but not the poor running...

The first question will be why have you moved the rug? have you been cleaning?

agreed, what the hippo said

It reminds me of something Alan Downes wrote years ago. Something like: "The wife soon got to know about it - and the mother in law knew about it before it had even happened."

Not more choice! The problem is I have two 'prototype based' ideas, a roundy and a terminus!!

Do them both Tom!

But which one first??

..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? 🤔

about 12mm?

Go on Tom....you won't look back...

They were very persusive on the 2mm stand. Made building the trackwork seem quite straightforward!

Who knows, need to have a serious think!

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!

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.

Go on, go on, go on !

Just make sure ya house insurance is up to date first !!!

Do you have any means of testing it without connecting the controller?

Everything seems ok. Tested with a multimeter and no obvious shorts. So it ought to work. But not brave enough to try tonight!!!

As long as you have Small Controllers to justify it...

So is Lego

Brio was a huge hit when our kids were young. We still have it for when any young ones call now. And yes, us older ones can still make use of it!

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 .

oops...was that my fault ;-)

On at least one count....!

And Dapol too!!!...