What's MSRA? All I got tested for was to make sure I didn't have any VBs on me

6am here. Still waiting for hospital transfer 

I didn't have a layout as such, Christmas 1939 saw a clockwork Hornby 0 gauge 0-4-0T, followed in 1940 with a Hornby electric Flying Scotsman, definitely not a scale model, a 4-4-2, in those days Hornby produced this 4-4-2 model in numerous liveries including a French company with either electric or clockwork motors, coaches also the same models in many liveries. As said no layout just bare track on the floor.
I also had a fairly big Meccano set.

Deffo an Me 109
Tak-a-tak-a-tak

What a splendid idea Martin @port perran , I will see what I can dig up for a proper reply, In the meantime, the German aircraft looks like a Messerschmitt Bf 109 to me,

Tim

Good to see on the Dapol website that these have gone for tooling.

Memories

I've been thinking of starting this thread for a while as I was/am completely unsure about the level of interest but here goes anyway.

The idea is partly inspired by the excellent tales from John @Train Waiting on his inspirational Poppingham threadingham where he frequently waxes lyrical about trainsetty trainsets.

I'm sure that many of us had model railways or trainsets, call them as you will, as youngsters and I thought it might be an idea to share photographs of such layouts regardless of quality of modelling or the photographs themselves.

As a start, here are the only two photos of my loft layout which I/my Dad probably started in around 1964 and continued in use until I lost interest in about 1969 or so.

The layout was Hornby Dublo three rail which ran right around our loft. The locomotives I can recall were 7013 Bristol Castle, Standard 4 80054, 46232 Duchess of Montrose, 8F no 48158 plus an A4 and what is now a BR Class 20 diesel loco. There may well have been others.

Anyway, here are the VERY poor quality photographs probably from 1965 when I would have been 10/11 taken with a Box Brownie camera in poor light.
Note the thumb print which must have been on an original negative.
Note also the Airfix German fighter (possibly a Junkers?) hanging from the roof.




The track laying, as you can see, was not all that it might have been but remarkably the trains ran well enough.

It's frightening to think that this was all some 60 years ago but I had great fun with that railway.

Hopefully this will encourage others to share their childhood modelling efforts.

Martin
 

Quote from: joe cassidy on Yesterday at 02:02:25 PMThere are people in France offering to change the ink pad for 45 euros but I preferred paying 70 euros for a new printer.

Has the value of the Euro really plummeted that mutch??
It was less than a fiver last time I changed one, and for your printer can be had for £5.60 on Amazon right now...

That's what i have done Alan.

There are people in France offering to change the ink pad for 45 euros but I preferred paying 70 euros for a new printer.

Quote from: joe cassidy on Yesterday at 11:42:30 AMMy 7 year old Epson XP 452 printer gave up the ghost yesterday.

It's final words were :

"The printer's ink pad is at the end of its service life. Please contact Epson Support."

Is this Epson's way of saying "go buy a new printer" or can the ink pad be replaced ?

Thanks in advance.

There are ink pad replacement kits for most Epsons although I've no idea if just getting a new printer would be the better investment.

Strewth!!!
A 15 year
Nice one, Joe