£1.38 Posted October 11, 2017 Share Posted October 11, 2017 Pre-grouping colours are easy, everything was just a shade of grey in those days... ......or brown (sepia) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted October 11, 2017 Share Posted October 11, 2017 ...... I remember a parade at a French town my regiment had "liberated" (driven through rapidly?) in 1944. Our band played along with the band of the local fire brigade. The style and sound of French military/brass bands is very different. I do not know enough about music to explain why, but the difference in the sound is very evident, particularly when a French and English band are playing the same piece at the same time! There was a superb "patriotic song" celebrating the self-confidence of Victorian Britain written for the RSC's famous adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby. I hadn't realised that you were that old Edwardian! Liberating French villages with your regiment in '44, even if you were only 18, that would put you at 91 now. I had a mental picture that your were younger..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Edwardian Posted October 11, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 11, 2017 I hadn't realised that you were that old Edwardian! Liberating French villages with your regiment in '44, even if you were only 18, that would put you at 91 now. I had a mental picture that your were younger..... Men are born and men must die, but regiments live forever! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltim Posted October 11, 2017 Share Posted October 11, 2017 Edwardian must have been at least 34 in 1944 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted October 11, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 11, 2017 Men are born and men must die, but regiments live forever! Unless they've been merged in a round of "cuts". 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted October 11, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 11, 2017 If he's Edwardian he is most probably a centenarian. Obviously keeping well. Don Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted October 12, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 12, 2017 If he's Edwardian he is most probably a centenarian. Obviously keeping well. Don I believe the phrase is "well preserved".... (On my part, I sometimes wake up of a morning and feel anything but that!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted October 12, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 12, 2017 I believe the phrase is "well preserved".... (On my part, I sometimes wake up of a morning and feel anything but that!) kyanised or creosote? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted October 12, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 12, 2017 kyanised or creosote? Whatever it says on the tin....... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold teaky Posted October 12, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 12, 2017 Pickled? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted October 12, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 12, 2017 kyanised or creosote? The former, I think. “I was totally kyanised last night,” has a definite ring to it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Edwardian Posted October 12, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 12, 2017 Pickled? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted October 12, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 12, 2017 Pickled? Remarkable! (But I'll refrain from remarking...) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Edwardian Posted October 13, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 13, 2017 Well, still no C&L Finescale delivery, so no chairs. Everyone else - SMP/Marcway, Timber Tracks and Charles Cantrill - delivered with satisfactory speed. Don't anyone hold their breath waiting for any track to be laid. Will I actually have the gumption to set about when the final components do arrive? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Edwardian Posted October 13, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 13, 2017 Hah! It worked! I knew that the moment I typed that the chairs hadn't arrived yet, they would!! Right, now, must pull finger out, get that cork laid and see what's what! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Edwardian Posted October 13, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 13, 2017 Now, it is funny how a little thing like that affects motivation. There are two problems. One is that one comes to believe that lack of progress is inevitable and, truly, it will never be finished. The other is, of course, the lack of skills and lack of confidence in developing them. There is always something else I can find to do instead of learning to lay track, or face Silhouette, not least because, usually, there is something else I should be doing. The answer is to pull my finger out, of course! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium nick_bastable Posted October 13, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 13, 2017 (edited) Now, it is funny how a little thing like that affects motivation. There are two problems. One is that one comes to believe that lack of progress is inevitable and, truly, it will never be finished. The other is, of course, the lack of skills and lack of confidence in developing them. There is always something else I can find to do instead of learning to lay track, or face Silhouette, not least because, usually, there is something else I should be doing. The answer is to pull my finger out, of course! feel the fear but do it anyway interlaced sleepers as well Nick Edited October 13, 2017 by nick_bastable 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG John Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 feel the fear but do it anway interlaced sleepers as well Nick Where is it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted October 13, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 13, 2017 There are two problems. One is that one comes to believe that lack of progress is inevitable and, truly, it will never be finished. The other is, of course, the lack of skills and lack of confidence in developing them. Two problems, but one solution...The answer is to pull my finger out, of course!...of which you are well aware! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 The Brill tramway? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caley Jim Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 The answer is to pull my finger out, of course! As my granddaughter once said to me when I questioned why she had given me a purple pen to colour in the hair of a girl on a drawing 'Just do it!'. You'll never learn how to do it if you don't try, and remember, 'if at first you don't succeed, try, try and try again!' feel the fear but do it anway And not a hard hat or hi-viz vest in sight! As Mr Punch would say 'That's the way to do it!' Jim 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted October 13, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 13, 2017 As my granddaughter once said to me when I questioned why she had given me a purple pen to colour in the hair of a girl on a drawing 'Just do it!'. You are now adept at portraits of purple haired girls? I'm afraid my reaction to demotivation on other projects is to start another wagon... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium nick_bastable Posted October 13, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 13, 2017 Where is it? no idea it came up on a search for Navvy's Nick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Edwardian Posted October 13, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 13, 2017 no idea it came up on a search for Navvy's Nick If you want to search for a Navvy, there's probably a 'phone app that could help .... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caley Jim Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 You are now adept at portraits of purple haired girls? Provided the outline is drawn in first! I'm no artist. She is now 13, so I expect her to appear with purple hair any day now! I'm afraid my reaction to demotivation on other projects is to start another wagon... I have to resist the temptation to start another etched kit and get on with the job in hand. I have to confess that after I had finished the warehouse for Kirkallanmuir I made up some etched point levers as I was in need of a 'fix', finding myself suffering from soldering withdrawl symptoms. Jim 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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