No layouts running tonight as it was the Club Xmas Dinner. A banquet of Chinese food supplied by a club member who owns a Chinese takeaway/restaurant in Southport along with his wife.
Scrummy nosh and a great laugh

Wonder if I can get them to knock up a model of the old Wolverton station as I spent so much time there in my youth

@LASteve   actually now that you mention it, so do I have access to Adobe Creative Suite.   I currently have in my possession a recently deceased modelling friend's Macs and other devices while we deal with his estate.  He was a school reprographics tech.

Yeah, that's what makes me think it was real.

@ntpntpntp Send me the picture of the moggies if you like and I'll run it through Photoshop - I've got access to the full-blown Adobe Creative Suite here.

Thanks for the reminder, I meant to try and catch this series, but sincerely hope it doesn't major on the weepy-weepy back-stories that programs such as The Repair Shop suffer from.  I love seeing the skills shown by the repairers but not the other bits.

[edit] Sadly it's as I feared.  I skipped the first 6.5 minutes to get to the start of the modelling.   

[more edit] Binge-watching more episodes on iPlayer   Skipping about half of each program.  The miniature modelling is very good and I can appreciate the skills.   I have a former work colleague who's now taken to posting her models of fruit and veg, bread and cakes etc. on Facebook.  They are extremely good, better than others I see in dolls house shops etc.

Quote from: trkilliman on December 03, 2025, 08:15:45 AMHi,

Is Robbies still trading please?

If yes, has anyone made a purchase recently?
And finally, how do his decals compare to Fox?

I am thinking of creating a rake of oil tankers.
 
Thanks guys
Steve.

They are nice but a bit thicker and you'll need to work with decal softener or similar.

One word of warning - a couple of mine are now more than a decade old and they've suffered from some colour shifts so look a bit odd. Not sure why those specifically or if I did something dumb.

This is the problem with some of these AI enhancement tools, they don't just work on your image they selectively replace stuff.   

I noticed this when I gave one of the cheap online photo enhancers a blurry old photo of two of my long missed cats, hoping it would simply do a bit of sharpening. What I got back was a cute photo but clearly were no longer my cats. 
Worse still, the so called "try it for 10p" offer had actually set up an unauthorised recurring monthly payment for £49.99 from my PayPal account, which fortunately I spotted and cancelled after PayPal prompted me to review it!  (I then found several people reported this thievery on TrustPilot).

@Ensign Elliott pointed me in the right direction with this, although I used Copilot AI rather than ChatGPT to generate a snow scene from a picture of my Moorpark layout. Here's the original and the AI versions:






It's not bad at all. The AI image has few anomalies but you wouldn't know if you didn't see the images next to each other. It couldn't read the "Moorpark Junction" sign clearly, so it generated one of its own. It cropped the left side of the picture, maybe because it was out of focus and it didn't recognize the double-track mainline and made one single track instead.

Took about two minutes to generate the new image. Pretty amazing, really.

A remarkable model of the winding head at Silverwood Colliery in S.Yorkshire featured in today's episode