Quote from: JulianO on Today at 04:43:43 AMEntry to the UK for Dual Nationals:

Apologies if anyone has raised this issue before.

Are those of you living outside of the UK who have dual citizenship (UK and something else,) aware that from February 25th you have to have a UK passport to enter the UK?

An ETA will no longer be acceptable, despite some of us having paid for one last year which was meant to last for 2 years.

Since I haven't had a valid UK passport since 2003, I will now have to go through the rigmarole of applying for one from scratch, at vast expense and hassle.

Meanwhile my wife, who was not born in the UK and is not a UK citizen, can travel to the UK with an ETA which costs 16 pounds.

Is it a revenue gathering exercise? But I can't believe they make much money out of passports.

I have been struggling ever since I found out about this in November to think of what problem they are trying to solve by making this rule.

And I wasn't even born on the mainland of the UK, but in Guernsey!

This is one of the topics which has recently been much discussed by members of the British Overseas Voters Forum (FYI before anyone thinks this is bringing politics to this place- it is not, the BOVF in not aligned with any party but campaigns for a better deal on behalf of all Brits living overseas). Well worth getting involved with them - either to participate or just simply lurk and listen to the discussions about what is happening...

Colin

I must admit I was not aware of this, I will be going back in September and would have just gone on my Aussie passport.
Will have to find out how to apply for one now, as I haven't had one for over 15yrs.
As you say it sounds very much like a revenue raising excercise.

Entry to the UK for Dual Nationals:

Apologies if anyone has raised this issue before.

Are those of you living outside of the UK who have dual citizenship (UK and something else,) aware that from February 25th you have to have a UK passport to enter the UK?

An ETA will no longer be acceptable, despite some of us having paid for one last year which was meant to last for 2 years.

Since I haven't had a valid UK passport since 2003, I will now have to go through the rigmarole of applying for one from scratch, at vast expense and hassle.

Meanwhile my wife, who was not born in the UK and is not a UK citizen, can travel to the UK with an ETA which costs 16 pounds.

Is it a revenue gathering exercise? But I can't believe they make much money out of passports.

I have been struggling ever since I found out about this in November to think of what problem they are trying to solve by making this rule.

And I wasn't even born on the mainland of the UK, but in Guernsey!

As others have said, it really does depend on the paint types and their reactions with one another. Some acrylic paints really react badly with chemical solvent based ones, and the paint will blister, discolor, etc. So you really just need to do your research, learn from others mistakes, so you don't make them, and then do some test. Get yourself some material similar to what you are priming, like plasticard, paint it with your chosen acrylic and then spray your chosen solvent based varnish.

If you go on YouTube you will find loads of such vids. So just do your homework.   

At 65% there's still quite a way to go

Latest update: over halfway to the target number of expressions of interest!
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My initial thought was The Shadows @Newportnobby .
Now, if you like a bit of foot tapping honkey tonk guitar and keyboard you might enjoy this :


Just bear with the first couple of minutes of this clip.

The Shadows in bell jars
The audience (such as it is) looks suitably impressed............................not

Thank you to everyone for your help, it has greatly helped.

I was in the middle of designing some and had that horrible thought I had missed something as it didn't look right, that something turned out to be the font I was using. I had the right height for the numbers however it was too wide. Have found a narrow font while retaining the simple shape of the number 1. There is a lot of narrow fonts however the number 1 is not the same style as used on the cast speed signs.

Re the change from white to yellow letters, like crewearpley40 mention, this is what the railsigns website has quoted "In 1963, following what had been an exceptionally cold winter, BR took the decision to re-paint all cut-out speed restriction signs yellow to improve their visibility in snow"

Blimey, they would look at home in Fireball XL5!