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Ah, but you had the lure of the Hatters on Kenilworth Road - I had two buses a week to the outside world, if it was still there.

I did 'live' in Lincolnshire for a while, that was enough for me...

I have, in fact, never been in Norfolk in my entire life.

Preiser do a selection of denominations of wedding groups. No issues have been reported. I know this, because I had to be careful to get the 'right side', as an acquaintance of the layout's owner was a CofE vicar, and also a noted participant in the world of radio controlled aircraft. We added a piece of fine wire into the celebrant's bible, to convert it into a transmitter, and had a small plane suspended just off the church tower.

Mmm, installing steep gradients on model layouts... ...it can be a slippery slope...

Wandering through the forum whilst having my tea, I initially thought these pictures were shots that you had found and were using for weathering inspiration...

Getting my second Covid jab - and being stabbed by someone with the same name as me, which must have made the paperwork look odd - I was told "My mother would make you eat a sack of spuds!"

Hornby, a model world - are we really sure it was about trains? It could have been about Twiggy, the model formerly known as Lesley Hornby...

You need secondary codenames, like Cheese Slice and Little Drummer Boy.

Turn the volume up to 11 for this -

I was unaware that I was under surveillance. I've been hiding in the Shed - and I generally have a rather lower profile in morning periods...

A difficult modelling prospect - the paint job on the piano would be hard enough, but getting a sound chip and a decent speaker into it would be much worse.

Does anybody here know..?

Bigger image -

Wikipedia says that they included the 'Saxby' name in their title until 1935, so after that, if true.

Combine two hobbies into one space? It's fairly high at the back, I wonder if they turned the mains off?

"Years ago", there was 'Metalskin', sort of adhesive foil, that did give a fine effect. I'm not sure if it's still around, Google comes up with all sorts of "matches" that aren't it - the aircraft boys may know? Humbrol also did some 'burnishable' paints, that were pretty good, but took some work to get right, especially on large areas.

A handy reference for those thinking of populating their carriages.

A common issue in the weeks after Christmas...

A friend walks past this in Birmingham most days, and finally knows what it is now. A building clearly inspired by Gerry Anderson. https://ichoosebirmingham.com/inside-new-street-signal-box?fbclid=IwAR2BWPTe70mwa-Pc39mQjFBAgXS5wZv8GgGa3qYS5vnJGbR-RK7Mr__w4O8

Talk elsewhere about supplying military bases by rail, has reminded me of an event in the 80s. The Stafford-Uttoxeter line was closed to 'public' traffic in the 50s, but a spur remained, connecting RAF Stafford to the main line, just north of Stafford station - this ran on into the mid-70s, and the station had a fairly extensive internal rail system. RAF Stafford was built in the 30s, just in time for the main event and was a supply site - amusingly, for an RAF Station, it had no runways, any air transport in or out was by helicopters only. This led to an amusing event at an air display there in the late 80s. Various aircraft performed their activities much as would be expected, except for one... A USAF KC-135 tanker was due to whizz by over the crowd a few times, but he didn't seem to be arriving on cue, then people realised that he could be seen, four or five miles away, beyond the top of the hill, performing his display, at the end of which he trundled off southwards, back to Fairford. It was clear what had happened, although there were very strenuous official denials of this. He had drifted up from Fairford, to where this Stafford place should be, but had then been misled by spotting the runways of ex-RAF Hixon, clearly visible below and in 'nearly the right place', this, plus the full car parks of the adjacent industrial estate had convinced him that this was the intended venue. I presume he got home alright...