What is now on the the bench was recently a figment of imagination.

[Noel]

Yes, Robert Alexander Schutzmann had an infectious enthusiasm and a most pleasant manner about him on air. A gentleman of another era.

Thanks for posting this wonderful youtube link.

Edited November 7 by Noel

[Fowler4f]

2 hours ago, gibbo675 said:

Hi Folks,

 

How about this for some modelling nostalgia from 1984. Good old Bob Symes !

Enjoy folks,

Gibbo.

I was fortunate to meet Bob Symes one evening on the District Line to Wimbledon in the early nineties. I said hello and congratulated him on his achievements and left it at that.

[gibbo675]

Yo Dudes,

Here is the latest with the Mk1 Postal vans. They are not too far off finished requiring roof vents, transfers for coach end restrictions and the red letter box transfers which a friend of mine is to print for me sometime.

The latest work has involved the extra battery boxes and underframe fittings and a VHF aerial on the roof of the POS Dia. 728. This coach was originally built as a POS Dia. 729 however the transfer set had a number for the Dia. 728 so I fitted the VHF aerial which I decided was easier than arranging small numbers and also gave a different roof profile which I decided was a feature worth having.

POS Dia. 726, W 80367.

POS Dia. 726, W 80367.

POS Dia. 728, W 80325.

POS Dia. 728, W 80325.

POT Dia. 733, M 80456.

POT Dia. 733, M 80456.

In other works I have been building up coats of paint on various other models which will feature once enough of interest to report happens.

Lots of masking tape to be removed on the APT project vehicles as they received the second coat of dark grey which was done in a friends paint shop to prevent bloom which occurred last week when they were painted out side. I shall wait until the paint is fully hard as they were only painted yesterday.

Gibbo.

[gibbo675]

Hi Folks,

I've been painting the POP II train this time around, it yet requires yellow ends the corridor connections painting black and transfers.

I shall have to build some test cars to go with it now so that it may be coupled up to a locomotive, any excuse for more clutter.

Gibbo.

[commerlad]

Just keep an eye on fleabay etc for these. 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/267043782124 Test Car 1 Hornby

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285682381905 Test Coach Mercury Hornby

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/226442417680 Test Car 6 Bachman

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186758265335  Test Car 10 Hornby 

Just wait for a cheap one.

[gibbo675]

13 hours ago, commerlad said:

Just keep an eye on fleabay etc for these. 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/267043782124 Test Car 1 Hornby

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285682381905 Test Coach Mercury Hornby

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/226442417680 Test Car 6 Bachman

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186758265335  Test Car 10 Hornby 

Just wait for a cheap one.

Hi again,

Here is a website that shews various test train formations that the APT project ran in the late 1970's and early 1980's for various reasons.

http://www.25kv.uk/APT.php

Gibbo.

[Warbonnet]

Hi folks,

Can we keep this forum for all things model trains and leave the provocative language and sniping outside please? We all come here to avoid such things. 

Let's leave terms like woke at the door, and talk about vac braking and soldering techniques etc instead.

If that's too much to ask, then please find another website.

Cheers!

Fran 

[Fowler4f]

And so say all of us !

[gibbo675]

1 hour ago, Warbonnet said:

Hi folks,

Can we keep this forum for all things model trains and leave the provocative language and sniping outside please? We all come here to avoid such things. 

Let's leave terms like woke at the door, and talk about vac braking and soldering techniques etc instead.

If that's too much to ask, then please find another website.

Cheers!

Fran 

My Dear Warbonnet,

You have not read my post either and would appreciate that you do not remove posts from my thread especially when I have not insulted anyone except myself.

I should be most pleased that you reproduce my original post in full pointing out where exactly I offended anyone other than those that wish to be offended by proxy. So that those with a modicum of intelligence may make up their own mind instead of you interloping.

If you wish to administer this site then I suggest that you administer it both fairly and with impunity.

Yet again I find that I am being penalised by those that seek to be offended, by proxy or otherwise, and also those that fail completely to understand the usage of words in context and also the correct use of grammar.

By all means throw me off the site, you will be left eventually only with box openers and woke cretins and one less original creator such as myself.

My most kind regards,

Gibbo.

[Warbonnet]

27 minutes ago, gibbo675 said:

My Dear Warbonnet,

You have not read my post either and would appreciate that you do not remove posts from my thread especially when I have not insulted anyone except myself.

I should be most pleased that you reproduce my original post in full pointing out where exactly I offended anyone other than those that wish to be offended by proxy. So that those with a modicum of intelligence may make up their own mind instead of you interloping.

If you wish to administer this site then I suggest that you administer it both fairly and with impunity.

Yet again I find that I am being penalised by those that seek to be offended, by proxy or otherwise, and also those that fail completely to understand the usage of words in context and also the correct use of grammar.

By all means throw me off the site, you will be left eventually only with box openers and woke cretins and one less original creator such as myself.

My most kind regards,

Gibbo.

Hi Gibbo,

You referred to people as numpties in your last post (which I hid, not deleted.) In the above you call people cretins. That is not in keeping in the tone of the website and community we share here. Not to mention posts dripping with passive aggression as above. 

I like your modelling, but the tone needs to be a bit more friendly. If that's too much for you, then you know where the door is.

Cheers!

Fran 

[gibbo675]

6 minutes ago, Warbonnet said:

Hi Gibbo,

You referred to people as numpties in your last post (which I hid, not deleted.) In the above you call people cretins. That is not in keeping in the tone of the website and community we share here. Not to mention posts dripping with passive aggression as above. 

I like your modelling, but the tone needs to be a bit more friendly. If that's too much for you, then you know where the door is.

Cheers!

Fran 

My Dear Fran,

Only those that display such would be termed such, and as such, if the cap fits, wear it. Wearing such a cap is by the consent of those that place it upon themselves or does that point escape you ?

I have not anywhere on this site directly cited anyone in a derogatory fashion, neither would I do so, for I am both polite and proper in my conduct towards all except those that directly attack me. As is usual for such sites, I left RM web for similar abuses directed at my honourable behaviour, I find that the moderators are far too quick to chastise the victims of such abuse.

The trouble is that I find that language skill are so lacking these days that any humour that is posted with the intent to amuse is so misunderstood that the misunderstanding turns into the bigger joke in and of itself.

Pathetic !

I again challenge your skills as a moderator to produce any evidence at all that I have directly cited anyone, other than myself, in a derogatory fashion and post it below.

This has been registered already as a complaint via private email with @BosKonay previously and yet it happens again at the instigation of others not myself.

Ordinarily I would converse via private email however I feel that poor representation of victims of those that claim abuse by proxy is somewhat of a problem that completely lack a sense of humour .

I do not wish any further correspondence upon this matter from you or anyone else less I get offended at the disruption of my thread.

Colin.

[Warbonnet]

7 minutes ago, gibbo675 said:

I again challenge your skills as a moderator to produce any evidence at all that I have directly cited anyone, other than myself, in a derogatory fashion and post it below.

I do not wish any further correspondence upon this matter from you or anyone else less I get offended at the disruption of my thread.

Colin.

Hi Colin,

So you want me to produce evidence, but do not to engage further? 

Right. Okay.

Just give up using the provocative and confrontational language, and nobody will have a problem. Talk to people as you would talk to them if you were visiting them in their home. That's all we ask.

Cheers!

Fran