I think SWMBO wishes my modelling stuff would disappear into a black hole!  I currently have the conservatory and living room full of layout and stacks of crates containing various scenery products, packs of people and vehicles etc.  as I prepare my contribution to TINGS    The worrying thing is I'm not sure how it will all fit back where it usually lives: some came from the garage and some from my "hobby room"  (spare bedroom) but it seems to have expanded!

Quote from: Papyrus on May 09, 2024, 11:47:42 AMAges ago I bought a Farish 4P to use the chassis for a project - there is no sign now of the chassis or tender, only the loco body. Which is the bit I don't want.

This has turned up! In the 'to be repaired' box with the rest of the loco. How? Why??

Cheers,

Chris

Pssst.
I snuck in and put it there  

Personally I'm missing

An expensive soldering iron (a present from the Mrs).

My airbrush (should be easy to find in its wooden box which is inside a cardboard sleeve )

A pair of Farish BYA wagons

A USB stick containing the N Gauge Society journals, as PDFs, from 1968 to 2013.

And then the really good magazine article from the 1980s about Carlisle Power Signal Box.

Ho-hum.

Welcome to the forum.
Are you sure you don't have a poltergeist?

Quote from: Newportnobby on August 27, 2024, 09:58:26 PMWelcome to the forum.
Are you sure you don't have a poltergeist?

Thanks for the welcome and quite possibly as there's other non railway stuff that's also MIA.

Try moving house - everything then turns up as you have to clear the old house!
That's why I've now got 7 hammers!
4 tape measures
A box of Pozi and Philips drivers
Approx a dozen Allen keys the same size but not a full set anywhere
5 set squares
Numerous 'Stanley' knives but none with a decent blade!
1 lump hammer that still has a loose head!
3 hose guns - 2 don't work!

In the loft are the N gauge loose items in 5 large, deep plastic boxes plus another large plastic toolbox full of 'useful bits' and V small tools. All the rolling stock items are in one large box so there might be some damage to rectify.
I too have bought various 'spares' over the past 3 years to modify or repair rolling stock and these are somewhere in the loft?
The baseboards halves are still stored on edge in a bedroom where they might just be able to fit - if not its take them apart to get the layout built again in the loft as the loft hatch/ladder opening is too small to allow the boards up as built
The new kitchen is finished, the back door has gone, the garden shed is reduced by 40% and we have 300 bricks and about 300kg of rubble to turn into a circular patio!
Then i get to resurrecting the layout!

Right, I thought, now that the articulated twin is out of the way, I'll get back to the layout. The first job, I decided, was to finish off the pavement on Station Road. I knew I had just the right amount of embossed plasticard left to do that, but the ****** black hole has made off with that too.

And the station canopy still hasn't turned up...

Grrr.

Cheers,

Chris

Well the good news is that the soldering iron turned up but it's now playing a new game, one where it doesn't want to work 

Still no sign of the airbrush

A year or so ago I sorted all my modelling projects into plastic ex curry tubs. Easy to locate projects. The unused bits of plasticard, transfers, etc were all in larger trays in other drawers.

Moving onto a new project, can I find ANY of the new parts that I bought recently and set aside?

Grrrr.

I sometimes start looking for something in my shed and just cant find it anywhere , but then find something that I was looking for a few weeks ago then get interested in that and forget what I went down for in the first place ,
I sometimes go down fully intent on having a complete tidy up and sort out BUT THEN running trains is far more fun and theres allways tomorrow .
Bob

Help!!!

Has anyone seen my little folding magnifying glass? It was somewhere on my modelling desk a month ago, and now my modelling desk has all but disappeared under a pile of odds and ends... and the magnifier ain't there!

Ho hum...

Re my post of August 7th... Yippee! I've found the little devil! And what's more is that during the search I've just found a couple of NGS wagon kits that I'd forgotten that I had (BR 21 ton mineral wagon and the ex-GWR MOGO and van twin kit)- so perhaps it was not a bad thing that I'd lost my little magnifying glass.
Now, I wonder what I've buried under the mess I've created on my modelling desk, while looking for that magnifying glass??
Life is sure full of surprises!