Broithe

This looks to have had the potential to turn into something rather more exciting very quickly - but they seem to have got away with it.

I reckon the lad in the green t-shirt is responsible for that chewing gum all over the footpath...

17 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

 

Nose-first running???

It looks like it - there are no queues at the barriers.

Are Americans as adverse to that arrangement..?

I have seen it suggested that, as they have rather more 'interaction' with road vehicles on grade crossings, having the crew-space some way back from the front is perceived as a preferable arrangement, in the event of a collision.

12 minutes ago, tonybonneyba said:

It's 43%, its fiiiiinnnnneeee....

Mine gets to 4% - 2% before i remember to charge it

I know someone like that. Her phone is constantly on the point of death. She is considering getting an electric car. I have suggested that she gets a bike instead. Even with her current petrol car, any journey that might go outside the urban speed limit zone has to start with a visit to a filling station 'to put enough in'.

I'm not a huge user of mobile phones, I still run a Nokia 3510. From when I did use it a bit more, I have a 'rule' that it should always have a £10 minimum credit in, just in case a bout of heavy usage becomes necessary. A few weeks ago, I thought I'd better check the current balance, even though most of my outgoing stuff is just the occasional response to a "Use it or we'll turn you off!" threat from the provider. I still had £18:70 in it and it was nearly twenty months since I had topped it up.

8 minutes ago, Gabhal Luimnigh said:

The viaduct will need more support underneath but that's not a problem.

That's what they said about Malahide...

For stuff bigger than rolling stock, like larger buildings and the general layout, scale rules can be convenient.

Marked out in feet and with 3" submarks, on one side.

And in metres and 100mm submarks on the other side.

https://www.facebook.com/networkrail/posts/pfbid022XGdZ8WkMUK82MNyPKYmLFhy6UCAii2aRSC7Fm6dBPVzvf77z7dTp9x9kYc5EeZtl

Hastings.

We did have this a while back.

A bit less frenetic and more suitable for those with delicate hips.

5 minutes ago, Flying Snail said:

Looks good, but I hope you've little or no sense of taste too if you're planning on using that toothbrush yourself before bed 

Mmm, I'm having flashbacks now.

My father once left a tube of Deep Heat in the bathroom here.

It takes about an hour for my onboard systems to be fairly operational in the mornings and so I just used the tube that was where the toothpaste should be...

I can still taste it.

You could end the bend a few inches earlier and then have long single bend to approach the points.

9 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

Is it same wagon every time or do they all do that ? 

And, does it happen if you reverse one or other of the wagons?

Will beets be available in multi-packs?

How many beets would you need for each wagon?

Well, the Jinty will also be back - via Mark's Models...

It seems to me that there's just no need for all this trauma.

There's enough of 'us' and we have enough information between us, to just kidnap one of 'them'.

Then, either :-

If we have one that they actually want back, we trade him for the information we want.

Or, if we find we've got one they're not that bothered about, then we should have enough bits of wood from old layouts to just beat it out of him.

It just needs a little bit of organisation - and, maybe, some ear defenders.

F14s were a bit loud, and you would have to go to Iran to record one now.  

16 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

 

So I assume after fifty years, everybody has a boat stored, ready to go.

19 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

 

Can you clarify the approx sq km of the big island and the very small island, please?

Relative to 2000 sq km and a population of just under a million, in the middle of nowhere.

Big Island = 209,000 km² and about 65,000,000 people.

The Small Island that I was basically marooned on for five days is about 3 km² and around a thousand people.

Getting into the local metropolis from here involved a voyage through the lake by the fuel station - it's only been happening for fifty years now, so people are still getting used to it.

I've been back on the Big Island for a few weeks and have been collecting "bits for things", mostly from eBay and via various delivery agents, including Royal Mail.

Mostly, but not exclusivelly, small stuff.

It has, however, been very noticeable just how quick* and efficient all of the various deliverers have been, compared to the chaotic lottery that used to go on.

* Even during the recent flooding events, when I was essentially living on a very Small Island for five days.

2 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

That looks really really excellent! The sandy lane in particular looks so realistic.

Yes, the way it widens on the bend due to the separation of the wheel-tracks as they turn - excellent detail!

This looks easy enough.

An end in sight for the 16.5/21mm dilemma?

To be incorporated in all future IRM releases?

On 12/5/2023 at 10:11 AM, Broithe said:

Does your domestic supervisor need a new coat?

Get her a Ballybrophy coat. Ideal for going to exhibitions and trudging round model shops behind you.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334866370054

Only £160 - but, if you watch it for a few days, you'll get an offer of £120.

Is she worth that..?

Lads, lads!

Christmas is coming and this Ballybrophy coat is back on and currently at a mere £6:50.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/276107719505

She has to be worth that, and it'll do for her birthday, as well.

20 minutes ago, Darrman said:

It's definitely black. What's the yellow pixel?

 it's definitely not a Dart. 

It could be a triple bluff - a Guinness DART.

3 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

the moon landing was faked

The Moon Landing Hoax was actually started by NASA.

Do you really think they haven't been going back there for the last fifty years?

They are -

A, Hiding the fact that they found an alien base there and have been in continuous contact with them ever since.

Or.

B, Building a base on the Far Side, so the Illuminati can escape there when the Earth becomes uninhabitable and the rest of us will all just be left to die down here.

It's obvious, if people just think about it...

6 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

 

Whopper of an exhaust for an electric vehicle.

When I pointed that out, the "believers" assumed that it must be an innocent victim of a fire caused by an EV that had burned to the ground or been removed.

2 hours ago, Noel said:

Think about the risk a model layout possesses 3 or 5amps of a DCC controller is enough to set fire to 16v wiring, all that wiring that could become damaged or shorted, even a loco decoder frying could potentially set a layout on fire if adequate short circuit protection is not available. Think of all the lighting on a layout. I keep a smoke detector in the layout room and never leak the electronics switched on unless I'm in the room. I'm sure many of us have electric heaters in layout sheds and rooms during winter, and all manner of solvents and combustable paints, thinners and primers in sheds. Life has risks, once we mitigate enough we can live without stressing over it.

Back in the days of grain-of-wheat bulbs, they could get very hot, if run at the full 12V - I found a few scorch-marks from them, particularly in cardboard Metclafe-type buildings, and always made a point of ensuring that they were 'in the middle' of an air-space and not up against anything solid.

And I once took apart an old steam model, to tart up its running a bit, only to find that it actually had a smoke unit installed - and there had clearly been a fairly exciting fire in the past, as the oil took light, although there was little visible damage externally.

The materials used in the scenery of layouts are essentially a form of tinder, should anything happen...