Broithe

Location marks have appeared at Ballybrophy.

A visit today revealed little new of note. I thought these ridge tiles were new-looking, but they seem to have been there for a while. These nudge marks have appeared on the new buffers. 219 powered through whilst I was there. Views of the tracks through the heat haze. A scale drawing from 2009. The bees in the roof and other parts of the roof gardens are flourishing.

I see that the Forum has twins born on this day, although the labour does seem to have been a bit protracted...

I want one to be barely visible in an engine shed, will it be possible to just buy the front half?

Availability of a double pack, of what are likely to be quite popular identities, need not preclude individual availability of either - as Airfix did with the Dogfight Doubles, etc. Anyway, whatever suits the producer will suit me.

Same here - possibly worthwhile doing as a double pack..?

That's what they mean by "rock and roll" - ballasting and then checking for wheel clearances...

The old A-3 Skywarrior was the heaviest carrier aircraft in general service, I believe - 82,000lb against an F-14's 74,000lb - - but this will take some beating 121,000lbs by the time they had practised a bit. -

This is the most fantastic thing - go back a few years in your mind and imagine how remote the possibility of an RTR weedkiller train would have seemed.

A lot of dodgy things came out of Mullingar... ...some of them only got as far as Portlaoise.

https://twitter.com/IrishRail/status/1138112197937238016

A previous thread...

Ballast - for extra stability...

The shirts barely covered the money-belts at DEMU...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-birmingham-48476222?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=5cfa60b7c79b82067baa2fb8%26Train set underground gas supply alight%262019-06-07T13%3A19%3A37.402Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:8c9d07ff-056e-4e67-b3b4-ab17ed616474&pinned_post_asset_id=5cfa60b7c79b82067baa2fb8&pinned_post_type=share

A friend of mine opened a hand grenade shop. All was well for the first few hours, as everybody who bought one paid with cash. But then a bloke wanted to pay with a card, so he asked him for the PIN...

Well, we missed this bit of excitement - https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/burton/live-sainsburys-evacuated-after-reports-2950723? - Sainsbury's is just across the road from the exhibition venue. The cops said - "At 5.30pm we were called to reports of a piece of unexploded ordinance in Robian Way, Swadlincote. What was believed to be a small World War 2 bomb had been found by a member of the public and a 100 metre cordon was put in place. This resulted in a number of premises being evacuated as a precaution. After consulting the Explosive Ordinance Division from Chetwynd Barracks, Chilwell, the device was found not to be live. The cordon was lifted at 8.20pm and all premises were re-opened to the public. We would like to pass our thanks to members of the public for the patience whilst this situation was resolved." From that statement, the venue would have been outside the cordon, the discovery was about 200 metres away.

The reversing of the tipper truck is almost impressive...

Excellent! Is that the Long Mynd in the distance..? I'm surprised you can see it today.

You can often grind/file excess material away - and weathering plus a bit of ballast can cover up a lot.

Oh, so it is! I'm less behind than I thought...

Should be - always a good do.

Someone gave me an old Samsung Galaxy S5830 phone, which I've never got around to unlocking and just use as a "Minox spy camera", in situations where a bigger device might be awkward - music events, etc. I experimented with it on close subjects and found it to be quite good, so I used it for a lot of the recent pictures of the Sleaford show. And, the size of the construction means that the depth of field is quite large, too, which is useful. It did, however, receive undue criticism from @Mike 84C for producing rather too detailed views of some of the board joints... I also took it to the DEMU event, but I was unable to use it there as I had broken one of my Golden Rules - never shut the memory card door with the memory card out - Doh! It was still in the adaptor from uploading the Sleaford pictures the previous night. It is very 'pocketable', but it's easy to get fingermarks on the lens. It will accept up to a 32G card, which is thousands of pictures and I'll probably never fill it up. Another thing that I have failed to do with this camera, now that I think about it, though it has been done with the other two, is to take an initial picture containing enough detail to get it back to me if I was to lose the entire camera, or just the card - a mobile phone number is enough.

There's one on Amazon for seventy five quid.... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ruabon-Barmouth-Line-Reflections-Railway/dp/1899889973/ref=sr_1_1?adgrpid=56857148767&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhpGR2OrN4gIVia3tCh25MgMHEAAYASAAEgI4ZvD_BwE&hvadid=259058027188&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=1007121&hvnetw=g&hvpos=1t1&hvqmt=b&hvrand=9976689430284695920&hvtargid=kwd-317650414548&hydadcr=24404_1748884&keywords=ruabon+to+barmouth&qid=1559582841&s=books&sr=1-1

I do like a nice fiddle yard... There was a 1/72 Flower Class Corvette, for those who miss the dormant Dazzle Ships thread. 0 Gauge gets more attractive with each passing year...