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On an old 00 layout, with code 100 track, we had one old loco which would clatter on the chairs of one particular set of points. The loco got through other, apparently identical, points without any issue. And no other vehicle had an issue at those points. It was probably just a tolerance issue - I suspect the rail was a touch undersize. I 'fixed' the issue by grinding almost nothing off the flanges. It may even have only occurred on one side of the vehicle, or one rail, but I did the wheels on both sides before I thought of that.

Yes, the Ansons strolled on and didn't seem to crash much, but they just looked frail - even if you could fly one into another and the top pilot could 'land' both, after the chaps in the bottom one had got out...

I'm old enough to have seen Ansons still in RAF service. They had a bit of a delicate, 'home-made' look about them. Something along the lines of a prop for a school play. By the mid/late 1960s, things as 'pre-war' as them were largely well in the past...

Could it be the valuation of the kit as being 'zero'..?

Can you get 00 scale guano?

Anything is possible, but the wheels are solid.

It was, a lot of agencies had to tick boxes before anybody could actually do anything about removing it.

Yes, I got distracted and accidentally did the chassis in black.

Working on it now...

I would prefer to see it seized* and sold. It's not the van's fault. *Assuming it belongs to the driver, who 'left the scene'.

Park & (Not) Ride on the LUAS.

OK, it is a model, but it's not really the result of modelling, as it would be understood in here. This is an H0 scale Monogram Metal Master, Snap-Tite kit, that I got around the late 80s. Someone saw it here yesterday and asked me about it - a quick check found that there is one on eBay now. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/315445947124 From opening the box to the finished item would take around ten to fifteen minutes - no gluing, no painting, nothing except carefully separating the items from the sprue and clicking them together. There are four pins which attach the vehicles to the track and they are a tiny bit oversize, a little (invisible) sanding will sort that - other than that, there is little modelling to do, it just snaps together, as seen. And the pins aren't really necessary, if you're prepared to rely on gravity. The design of the mould is a true masterpiece of the art. The kit was available in four forms, the 'silver', as above, a 'brass/gold' colour and a strange metallic blue version, plus a 'plain', unfinished moulding, for a painted final result. (What you get is the silvery stuff - the base and the glass case are my work, to keep the dust off). I did once convince someone, who had seen it from a couple of feet, and not felt the (lack of) weight, that it had been made in Hatton Garden, as a retirement present for Barnes Wallis. There's enough volume inside the boiler and the tender to add the missing weight...

Commentary is NSFW. If I ever get a sat-nav, I want the voice changed to this.

A Dutch bicycle company used to get a good bit of transit damage to their bicycles that were shipped in flat cardboard boxes. So, they just added a TV to the image on the box and got a lot less damage as a result...

Talk of the Killamuck Bog Trail reminded me that I found this video the other day, recorded under the skew bridge on the Rathdowney & Templemore road, by the old station house.

https://consultations.tipperarycoco.ie/consultation/littleton-labyrinth-proposed-greenway

Is it sound-fitted..?

I often wonder if anybody ever found a old box of spares at the back of the stores in the 1960s, with "Westland Whirlwind" written on them, and then wondered why they wouldn't fit the big yellow helicopter he was working on..?

It may not matter so much if concrete sleepers are buried.

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=8275431195813290

Looking forward to it. In general, model ballast tends to be overscale, I find - so N usually looks better on a 00 layout.

That's the loop platform, about ten years ago now.

Some pictures of ballast at Ballybrophy.