I bought a Farish pannier tank a couple of days ago in Rhyl whilst on my bus tour of the UK, and today i'm Stuck on the bus with nothing to do - then i spotted the pannier in my bag and took out it for a look...

It was coated in oil, and the pick up's didn't look that well adjusted either...Stuff it, i'm gonna strip it and rebuild it on a moving Bus ! 

All was going well, until i dropped a coupling spring...    but a quick scan on my hands and knees (much easier than my carpet at Home) and all was good. 

Overall, it was a bit nerve racking, but i've proved that there's no excuse - you can model anywhere !

Crikey your a better man than I 4x2 I have have to be quiet, the wife not nagging and hands not shaking before I do things like that, I drop stuff and check the vacuum cleaner bag for dropped items so you are lucky you found your lost bits on a bus, "Legend"

Very brave!  I dread to think of the mess on the bus if the bus driver slammed on the brakes!!!

Quote from: Tank on May 31, 2012, 09:03:12 AM
Very brave!  I dread to think of the mess on the bus if the bus driver slammed on the brakes!!!

me and the driver are good friends, i promised him unspeakable verbal abuse If he braked hard !!!  :smiley-laughing
I did cheat a bit, i used the case lid to keep all the bits in - useful tip !

   If I was the driver, I would have slammed the brake on for a laugh.   

Top marks, Mike
I suffer like Dave and would hate to compete in a blancmange carrying race so all has to be perfect before I try anything

Crikey, I lose things when working in my stable, well lit spare bedroom.

Sequence of events typically thus:
carefully extract tinyest item from patient, and immediately drop it. Heaven forbid it should just hit the floor and stop, oh no, bounces off my foot in some utterly random direction. Get off my fat arse and onto hands and knees, nothing to see, brush hand around on carpet under table, find several other things I'd lost but not the one I need. Phone rings. Raise head, bang head on table causing shower of other tiny parts, one of which goes down my neck. Crawl to phone, ready to be slightly impolite to solar panel salesman, but it's the wife, can I go an put the oven on, 170deg. Consider it done, dear. Crawl back to table, but my knee lands on something tiny and painful, and breaks it (the thing, not my knee). And yes, it is the thing I was originally looking for. Stand up, various other items fall off clothing, and the one that went down my neck is now in my bum crack. You don't need the details, but I do eventually recover the situation, but forget to put the oven on, resulting in my untimely death.

Brilliant - the Rise and Fall of the N gauge modeller

Been there... Well Most of it ! 

I've spent countless hours looking for those dam copper springs..... I Have actually spent money for a proper light just for the job !

The farish pannier is actually one of the simpler chassis to work on, i wouldn't want to take apart a Dapol 9f on a table - let alone a moving Bus !

The Tour organiser keeps threating me with an Airfix kit to save my sanity !

4x2 - I admire your audacity - daring the Bus driver like that but as Tank said - had I been the driver I would have definately tested your patience and fielding skills...

Many years ago when I worked in an engineering workshop - if we were working with small components we used to put a piece of towelling or such like on the bench and worked off that.  We also had one of Bills old 'baccie tins to put the components into.  Small components seem to have not developed the ability to leap off towelling and get as far. 

The other trick of course is to sit up to the workbench and not back from it.  So that those small items cannot see to make their bid to freedom...  Therefore with large windows and lots of light - buses would not seem the way ahead...

Quote from: 4x2 on May 31, 2012, 12:51:47 PM

The Tour organiser keeps threating me with an Airfix kit to save my sanity !

Be careful on that one just to wind you up he might get one of the warships with all those tiny gun turrets.
Another option if there was somewhere who had one in the UK get a Tomytec moving bus system  and have a bit of fun with that.

My record for building an Airfix spitfire is 34 minutes !  (i know... Blame james may - it's his fault !)

I reckon i could do it in 45 minutes on a moving bus...
If my tour guide gets me the 1/24 scale one, it could be a long trip !

For those of you out there in Forumland who may not know this, legendary (I think so anyway, but realise he might not be everyone's cup of tea) rocker Rod Stewart has a massive HO scale American layout in Beverly Hills. Apparently he takes his gear with him when he goes touring and builds structure kits and the like in his hotel room! Anyway he recommends draping a sheet or the like across from your work area to your lap to catch stuff. Sounds alright to me until you get up to take a leak and drag the entire table top with ya.

Wake up, Maggie I think ah got something to say to you.....

When I first saw this thread I thought it was going to be about some nutter building kits whilst climbing Everest or something.
A moving bus is quite tame in comparison! Still not easy I grant you, so you're doing well. 
Modelling while white water rafting anyone? 

Quote from: moogle on June 04, 2012, 10:16:36 AM
When I first saw this thread I thought it was going to be about some nutter building kits whilst climbing Everest or something.
A moving bus is quite tame in comparison! Still not easy I grant you, so you're doing well. 
Modelling while white water rafting anyone? 

Funnily enough i'll be going to the Scotish highlands thursday onwards (Leaving our depot in Keynsham and driving to Stranraer - 381 miles at a max speed of 42 mph !).

My tour guide bought me an Airfix BAE Harrier in 1/48 scale - so i'll be climbing mountains, building a kit on a moving bus and all this whilst live music is being played above me...... and no - i won't be painting it !