RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted March 11, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 11, 2023 I'm calling it a day after another three washes over the buttresses. Possibly a bit too much lichen on the lhs, but I'll see how it looks once I've finished the rest of the bridge. 9 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 45 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: I'm calling it a day after another three washes over the buttresses. Possibly a bit too much lichen on the lhs, but I'll see how it looks once I've finished the rest of the bridge. Looks alright to me Big H but those windows behind look as if they could do with a splash and dash me old son. 5 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted March 11, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 11, 2023 More shovelling done, first potager, ( raised bed) filled. Coffee being consumed. Jamie 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted March 11, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 11, 2023 (edited) Some time ago I mentioned about having a clear out of my loft. I started with model railway stuff, so far I have emptied 8 large plastic storage boxes and several carboard boxes, the contents of about 6 of them have gone in the bins. Today I got to the electrical bits. I have found 54 spare point motors - H&M SM3, Peco (both types) and Seep. Then there were over 200 assorted switches, several 100 metre drums of wire and lots of other bits. Most of the switches are very old and will go in the bin - I have plenty of brand new ones I bought a few years ago which are better quality. The wire will be kept as will the point motors - mainly because they can act as spares for those on my layouts - I think there are probably enough for about 70 years at the usual failure rate. Earlier I found a lot of old backscene sheets, I have kept enough from Faller, Gaugemaster and others to act as spares for the current layouts or to use if I ever scrap a layout and build a new one. I got rid of a number from other German and Swiss firms as well as some early Peco ones. I did keep some of the Hamblings Vacy Ash Bilteezi backscene sheets - mainly as reminders of a bygone age. There remains a large box of n gauge catenary parts - some will be used on my Swiss layout, the left overs should prove useful when I need fine wire for 0 gauge locos and stock. David Edited March 11, 2023 by DaveF 15 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium SM42 Posted March 11, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 11, 2023 Mrs SM42 is in Boney M mode again. I'm sitting it out this time. Andy 1 10 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted March 11, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 11, 2023 6 minutes ago, SM42 said: Mrs SM42 is in Boney M mode again. I'm sitting it out this time. Andy I always like the way that 'Night Flight to Venus' blended into 'Rasputin' on the Greatest Hits LP 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium SM42 Posted March 11, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 11, 2023 1 hour ago, Happy Hippo said: I always like the way that 'Night Flight to Venus' blended into 'Rasputin' on the Greatest Hits LP We've moved onto "similar artists" in the shuffle now. ABBA, Ottawan, Baccara and so on. Still sitting it out. Andy 1 7 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted March 11, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 11, 2023 Had several sports injuries over the years all healed themselves... Reached the age of 50 joined the family history of becoming T2 diabetic around that time. Since then all the old injuries have one by one come back to be annoying. No injuries have been caused by prancing, I've always sat that out... Dave's comments remind me I'm out of thinner wires.... 7 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted March 11, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 11, 2023 1 hour ago, SM42 said: Mrs SM42 is in Boney M mode again. I'm sitting it out this time. Andy When we went round the Yusapov palace where Rasputin was killed (repeatedly we were led to believe) I think it was hard not to have the Boney M tune as an ear worm. I suspect the guide would not have been amused if we had started humming while observing the scene recreations, quite good waxworks actually. 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted March 11, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 11, 2023 2 hours ago, Winslow Boy said: Looks alright to me Big H but those windows behind look as if they could do with a splash and dash me old son. I won’t be posting any photos of our windows then! 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted March 11, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 11, 2023 (edited) @SM42At least you'll be able to dream of Agnetha and she won't know. Jamie Edited March 11, 2023 by jamie92208 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted March 11, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 11, 2023 It's just taken me 40 minutes to comment on one post as my keypad keeps disappearing. NNoidea what's wrong with it but the new tablet nearly exited the window at high speed. Jamie 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted March 11, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 11, 2023 1 hour ago, SM42 said: Baccara But yes sir, you can boogie....c'mon, we need to see you in action! 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 58 minutes ago, jamie92208 said: It's just taken me 40 minutes to comment on one post as my keypad keeps disappearing. NNoidea what's wrong with it but the new tablet nearly exited the window at high speed. Jamie Just a guess but it might be switching to voice input. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted March 11, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 11, 2023 On 10/03/2023 at 17:59, jamie92208 said: I just thought I was trying to keep the firebox of a Duchess full, going up Grayrigg. Jamie Twenty shovelfuls each side and ten under the back door should see you half way up - provided you had a good base to start with. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted March 11, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 11, 2023 2 hours ago, jamie92208 said: It's just taken me 40 minutes to comment on one post as my keypad keeps disappearing. NNoidea what's wrong with it but the new tablet nearly exited the window at high speed. Jamie I almost punched the "smile" rating with the image of the tablet's exit in my mind's eye. And its arrested landing! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted March 11, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 11, 2023 On 10/03/2023 at 17:16, Northmoor said: This week I did a very rare thing and bought a new loco. I can just about justify it for what will be about layout #3 on the to-do list but discounted to the level it was, resistance was futile. The Peckett W4 is exquisitely tiny: There are people on RMWeb who found a long list of things on this model to complain about. My sympathies to them. I can't see any lamp irons on it.............. 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted March 11, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 11, 2023 Evenin' all. Back from a week on the Iberian Peninsula. One and half busy days in Lisbon - riding and dodging trams, and 5 days just chillin' down on The Algarve. Took the opportunity to take the train from Loule to Lisbon and back - 27 euro one way, but pushed the boat out to go business class for the princely upgrade of 2euro.... 30 Euro coming back, but that was on an Alfa Pendular getting a move on - 140mph isn't too fast in this day of the TGV/Shinkansen etc, but this was on a single track route. The return flight was delayed because of the snow. The flight that formed our return from Faro, departed from Liverpool after the scheduled departure time from Portugal- so nearly a four hour delay. Normally, a weather delay is one of those things, but we had plans for yesterday if we'd returned on time. Junior NB has landed a minimum two year contract in Dubai and we were hoping that she could be on her way before we went on holiday, but the paperwork didn't come through in time. The work permit arrived last Tuesday and the company she is going to work for arranged a flight for 8.40pm Friday as she starts work on Monday. A 5.40pm checkin would give us plenty of time for us to get home from Faro via Liverpool, and then take her to Manchester Airport. But - we had a plan B in place in readiness. She's going out with one of her friends and their parents picked up Junior to take her to the airport and we would meet them there - but it was a bit tight! Junior had already checked her bags in and was waiting to go through to security as we arrived in the Departures hall. 5 minutes later and we were back in the car having said our goodbyes. There is a possibility that Junior may be home for 3-4 days in a few weeks for her cousins wedding, but that depends if she can get a reasonably priced return flight. So I no longer have a Sunday night hockey buddy - but there's only two home games left for this season and Mrs NB has offered to stand in for one of them. I spent an hour this evening setting up the scenic section of Deadmans Lane at my work's warehouse, in preparation for a magazine photo shoot tomorrow. 11 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted March 11, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 11, 2023 (edited) 5 minutes ago, newbryford said: You are going to have to get up to about 800mph to jump the gap you've left at the end! Does the photo include some willowy blondes in bikinis draped over the layout? Edited March 11, 2023 by Happy Hippo 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted March 11, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 11, 2023 4 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: You are going to have to get up to about 800mph to jump the gap you've left at the end! And do a 180 degree turn to return on the adjacent line.... 4 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: Does the photo include some willowy blondes in bikinis draped over the layout? No - just me..... 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted March 11, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 11, 2023 2 hours ago, AndyID said: Just a guess but it might be switching to voice input. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted March 11, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 11, 2023 Thanks @AndyIDno it only does it when I quote a post. The keypad appears then disappears in half a second so Ican't type my reply. I tried talking g to it. I got as much response as from SWMBO. Jamie 1 9 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted March 11, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 11, 2023 4 minutes ago, jamie92208 said: Thanks @AndyIDno it only does it when I quote a post. The keypad appears then disappears in half a second so Ican't type my reply. I tried talking g to it. I got as much response as from SWMBO. Jamie What browser are you using on your tablet? On my IPad, it just works with any browser. If I use an android device (Samsung) with the Edge browser I get strange keyboard errors when editing quotes. Works fine on same device with Chrome browser. Only a problem on RMweb. 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted March 11, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 11, 2023 1 hour ago, newbryford said: I can't see any lamp irons on it.............. I can, but that's not fair because I know where they are, front centre top of smokebox drum and amidships between the spectacles on the cab rear sheet. Modelu do nice little industrial loco lamps that will fit on these, easily removed if you want to change them around. I use white both ends on mine, seems ok for colliery work. 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted March 11, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 11, 2023 Just now, The Johnster said: I can, but that's not fair because I know where they are, front centre top of smokebox drum and amidships between the spectacles on the cab rear sheet. Modelu do nice little industrial loco lamps that will fit on these, easily removed if you want to change them around. I use white both ends on mine, seems ok for colliery work. Moveable lamps - who would have thought it? I bet that's a fiddly job. 1 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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