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  • 3 weeks later...
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That works well! As for that poster, am sure we all know how many ears Mr Spok has.

It's three of course : left ear, right ear  and final frontier.

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That is very cool layout, as a newbie to this forum I'm intrigued how layouts are made and the amount of patience and skills that are required.
I have friends that create 'gaming terrain' where textures/colours are done by hand. I thought the process of producing a layout with a range of different shaped and sized buildings and other features, would be very time consuming to create, after checking out Scalescene I see that there are a few 'shortcuts'. Nevertheless I'm sure plenty of patience and skill are required. 
One of my next projects (not railway modelling related) is to create a building using a similar technique to that used in this video Printed textures and laser cut building. Scalescene could be a useful site for the future.
Fair play for the work on Railway Parade.

BTW I love the questionable Billboard advert

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Propeller wagons built using the 247 Developments resin wagon tops and crates fitted to a Peco chassis.

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The resin wagon tops were somewhat bowed as supplied so I gave them the hot water treatment, which initially straightened them.  They seem to have a memory, however, and the bow returned.

This was fixed by brute force, superglue and a lot of swearing.  247 Developments really need to look at this bowing issue I muttered whilst sorting the bow - or something like that…

Cheers

Darius

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Where I worked, we had an engineering laboratory, which would get involved with all sorts of odd stuff from outside the business. The amount of really interesting stuff declined steadily, as the accountants increased their power to stop things happening.

One chap I often did odd things with told me about the first job he had had as an apprentice. There was an interest in how the airflow varied immediately in front of a propeller disc. So, he was tied to a post in front of a Griffon engine driving a Dowty prop with a pipe in his hand, running back to a pressure sensor. Another chap stood behind the propeller with a bamboo stick, indicating where he wanted the open end of the tube to be.

Obviously, he did survive this, though he said it was very exciting at the time. "They told me that I was selected for the task because I was the smallest and would cause the least disruption to the airflow, which might have been a small part of the whole reasoning..."

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