RMweb Gold Hroth Posted June 5 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 5 1 hour ago, Enterprisingwestern said: And when you put it back together you still had a leg left? Mike. 1 hour ago, PMW said: Not quite - just a couple of nuts. Sometimes two... tails! 🤪 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 2 hours ago, Hroth said: We had a copy of "Sherleys Book of Dogs*", chock full of useful info about the care of dogs. I particularly liked the cutaway diagram of a dogs interior. In the section about pests, there was a line drawing of a Sarcoptic mange mite.... * A sort of Haynes Dog manual, if you like... Might Sarcoptic Mange mites be utilised to weather one's models? For that unique, shaggy look? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 1 hour ago, Hroth said: Sometimes two... tails! 🤪 "My dog has no nose!" 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted June 5 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 5 How does it smell? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted June 5 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 5 7 minutes ago, PhilJ W said: How does it smell? Slightly doggy, but it gets bathed regularly! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 8 minutes ago, PhilJ W said: How does it smell? Orrible!! 😉 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted June 5 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 5 (edited) Seeing as this IS Ebay Madness, here's a copy of the book my parents had (and I still have!) for sale on eBay! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/355758986206 I was looking to see if any of the ebay illustrations included the mite, but none so far. I've found some other typical illustrations. In the days before "the Cone of Shame"... Our old friend Sarcoptic (or Common) mange appears a few pages earlier according to the index The Cutaway diagram!!! 🫢 Edited June 5 by Hroth 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted June 5 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 5 1 hour ago, Hroth said: Seeing as this IS Ebay Madness, here's a copy of the book my parents had (and I still have!) for sale on eBay! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/355758986206 I was looking to see if any of the ebay illustrations included the mite, but none so far. I've found some other typical illustrations. In the days before "the Cone of Shame"... Our old friend Sarcoptic (or Common) mange appears a few pages earlier according to the index The Cutaway diagram!!! 🫢 Superbly placed on a stained carpet, what page is house training on?!!!, or perhaps the dog ate it. Mike. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted June 5 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 5 16 hours ago, 40152 said: Ok, tell me I’m wrong. Tell me that the seller, who earlier brought tears to the collectives’ eye with the slightly fuzzy-looking, ‘heavily weathered’ loco: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204764193516? …didn’t source / shave off that err, rust / hairy stuff from this fine item, that they’re also trying to hawk: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204772985164? TBH I can’t decide which is grossing me out the most right now. 😳 I've found someone who might buy it!; Mike. 1 1 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieGuyRob Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 2 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said: I've found someone who might buy it!; Mike. Sorry for pedantic, but, how does glass rust? I do understand that glass can be stained with rusty water though. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 3 hours ago, PieGuyRob said: Sorry for pedantic, but, how does glass rust? I do understand that glass can be stained with rusty water though. Good Gawd! It looks more like fungus!? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
40152 Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 3 hours ago, PieGuyRob said: Sorry for pedantic, but, how does glass rust? I do understand that glass can be stained with rusty water though. Sarcoptic mange is no respecter of such puny concepts as iron / silica boundaries, clearly 😳 It’ll be eating your chips, next… 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieGuyRob Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 7 minutes ago, 40152 said: Sarcoptic mange is no respecter of such puny concepts as iron / silica boundaries, clearly 😳 It’ll be eating your chips, next… Its a kebab for tea, I had better beware..... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
40152 Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 5 minutes ago, PieGuyRob said: It’s a kebab for tea, I had better beware..... Authentic Turkish cuisine? Abandoned steam locos? Glass windows in US diesels? Keep an eye out, my friend, it knows no bounds… Nom nom nom… 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
40152 Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 Getting back on track, this seems a bit pricey for a mash-up set: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334309578868? 3 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieGuyRob Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 13 minutes ago, 40152 said: Authentic Turkish cuisine? Abandoned steam locos? Glass windows in US diesels? Keep an eye out, my friend, it knows no bounds… Nom nom nom… Living the dream! 8 minutes ago, 40152 said: Getting back on track, this seems a bit pricey for a mash-up set: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334309578868? How much! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium SteveyDee68 Posted June 5 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 5 Why? I thought for a moment that Triang had produced a Queen Mary brake van! I really shouldn’t look at eBay after a couple of ciders! HOURS OF FUN! 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium SteveyDee68 Posted June 5 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 5 (edited) 21 hours ago, Paul H Vigor said: "My dog has no nose!" Never mind that, did you hear about the sewage worker who had a dog with no nose?! (“How does he smell?!” I hear you cry) Worse than the dog! Bedum-tish! Sorry! Couldn’t resist!! Taken directly from the script of the 1989 Edinburgh Fringe Festival production of “Miller & Me”, when the strip club’s resident MC (aka ‘bad comedian’) is doing his act before the ladies come on to do their’s! I was in the on-stage band, and after the first performance the actor playing the MC asked if we would call out the second line, as the audience did not respond as anticipated (ie not at all). This we duly did for 13 of the 14 performances, and each night he would then ad lib some quip at our expense. On the last night, however, the joke went… MC: Did you hear about the sewage worker who had a dog with no nose? Band: What’s his name?! Comedian: (startled pause) (over shoulder to band) You b@st@rds! Oh, how we chortled at our revenge, getting him to corpse so badly he dropped out of character! Terribly unprofessional we may have been, but he carried it off in much the same way as the late great Rik Mayall did in his live shows when things went wrong, and the audience loved it! Meanwhile, I appear to have purchased a couple of wagons, both kit-built - a GWR bloater van and a Python (van). Both will need to be repainted into appropriate liveries for BR period (so guessing maroon) but if they run straight then I feel I’ve had a bargain (albeit unintended) for £10 each! Of course, if they run like a three legged donkey then I’ll suffer my own form of self-inflicted eBay Madness! Steve S PS Were Python vans ever used as engineering stock for use in, say, a breakdown train? Edited June 6 by SteveyDee68 Corrected the type of van! 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted June 6 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 6 19 hours ago, PieGuyRob said: Sorry for pedantic, but, how does glass rust? Well..... 🤔 You get an anglegrinder and grind some scrap iron, letting the sparks fall on to the glass. The sparks are red-hot pieces of iron, which melt into the surface of the glass. Throw a bucket of water over the "treated" glass and Wolla!!! The glass will "rust". Simples! As they say... 🤪 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted June 6 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 6 In fact you can see rusted glass on the Titanic where the rusticles have covered some of the windows. So if that locomotive had been at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean for over 100 years it would be accurate. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 5 hours ago, Hroth said: Well..... 🤔 You get an anglegrinder and grind some scrap iron, letting the sparks fall on to the glass. The sparks are red-hot pieces of iron, which melt into the surface of the glass. Throw a bucket of water over the "treated" glass and Wolla!!! The glass will "rust". Simples! As they say... 🤪 Good old grinding / welding spatter. I take it you bought a cut N shut Ford XR3i back in the 1990s ? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted June 6 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 6 1 hour ago, MrWolf said: Good old grinding / welding spatter. I take it you bought a cut N shut Ford XR3i back in the 1990s ? No, but I saw a tv programme where a logo was "etched" into glass in that manner! 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 On 06/06/2024 at 23:20, MrWolf said: Good old grinding / welding spatter. I take it you bought a cut N shut Ford XR3i back in the 1990s ? Didn't everyone? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted June 8 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 8 On 06/06/2024 at 16:20, MrWolf said: Good old grinding / welding spatter. I take it you bought a cut N shut Ford XR3i back in the 1990s ? 1 hour ago, PatB said: Didn't everyone? Not me! 🙃 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deeps Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 3 hours ago, Hroth said: Not me! 🙃 Hopefully, therefore, you weren’t one of those doing the cutting N shutting? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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