And lo it came to pass that Arran sent forth his new wares and his people rejoiced and were happy...

Quote from: Papyrus on Today at 05:38:18 PMQuite why so many ended up shedded here is a mystery.

Haven't you missed out a letter "r" there?

 

It's some years since I converted a Brit to the Duke, but I'm pretty certain the double chimney was from BHE. It came as part of a twin pack of some sort, possibly 9F detailing kit?

Martyn

Quote from: Papyrus on Today at 05:38:18 PMTalking of the DoG, does anybody know of a source for a double chimney? N Brass is no more, of course, and BHE don't do them.

Cheers,

Chris

There used to be a double chimney kit for the Peco jubilee. Also isn't there a current Farish loco with a double chimney? Farish spares are pretty good source of bits. Failing that a dead Dapol 9F?

Bob

Meanwhile, here is an undercover peek inside the ramshackle, inefficient works that is SPAM Lindfield:



Currently undergoing what is laughingly referred to here as 'maintenance' are no less than four Britannias. Quite why so many ended up shedded here is a mystery. Boudicca Boadicea in the box at the back is the one with the broken crank pin, but otherwise runs fine. She is going to have a chassis exchange with the next in line, Duke of Gloucester, who can cope with a modified motion. His chassis is currently a non-runner but the Chief Mechanical Eejit thinks it is only detached/missing wires. He (the Dook, that is...) also has a missing nameplate and chimney. Third in line is Firth of Forth, running status unknown, which is going to become Hereward the Wake. Finally, there is John of Gaunt. He is OK apart from the fact that he also is missing a nameplate and needs new traction tyres. The CME is losing brain cells and there are none left in the spares box but he's coping with the stress.

Talking of the DoG, does anybody know of a source for a double chimney? N Brass is no more, of course, and BHE don't do them.

Cheers,

Chris

If you do need vinyl style sides for old coaches and are willing to draw up your own loads of online and local printshops can do vinyl cut stickers with transparency these days and usually with really quite good alignment (you still fill the uncut window bits with the window frame colour and extend the colour out a bit past all the cut points)

So if you are ok with some drawing tools it's quite possible to do without actually owning any machinery.

Or you could just do the job properly. You don't need a giant energy sucking guess the next word machine in order to put the correct date on a notice.

In this case though it looks like someone's nonsense newsbot spewing delusions not the company in question. Which is fairly typical and a good reason why you don't use AI for such things. If you need delusional news there's a wide choice available on TV.

It's not the AI itself that is stupid, but the people and organisations that put blind faith in it and trust the outputs without any form of review or sense-check. All the more reputable systems do caveat that AI can make errors and outputs should be checked...

It is very good at answering the question exactly as you ask but not the question you meant to ask.

Used as a digital assistant it is powerful. But Companies whose non-tech-savy leaders see it as a cheap replacement for human staff are likely to rapidly run into trouble.
There is a reason Microsoft call their version CO-Pilot and not Chief-Pilot...

Yeah I was also going to wait for Kinlet as I wanted late crest, but in the end I couldn't resist getting Ragley and rebranded the tender instead. I'll get at least one Kinlet when it arrives.

Halls were fairly prominent in Cornwall, so I'm hoping to have 4 or 5 in my fleet eventually, all BR lined green with late crest. I've so pleased that Farish are doing the modified halls (which I actually prefer) and the Hawksworth straight sided tenders. I may well end up getting a couple of spare straight tender bodies to run with a couple of castles. I'm guessing a BR lined green modified with straight sided tender will come out in a future run.

I thought mine ran at least as well as the V2 and 8F, which are my current star performers, absolutely perfect straight out of the box. My only slight niggle is the largish gap between the loco and tender, though nowhere near as bad as the V2 gap was.

Yeah, we all know it can be stoopid but.............

. United Utilities has announced a Temporary Use Ban starting on Sunday, August 5.

5th Aug is next Wednesday

Edit:- Checking United Utilities website there are no plans for a hosepipe ban