Doctor Who

[lionwing]

Well the new Doctor has been announced (Peter Capaldi) and we all eagerly await there dramatic debut!

Had a wild thought to include a police box (Tardis) in my layout!

[EtchedPixels]

What a tedious pile of luvvievision at its steaming worst.

As ever the doctor can be anything ... so long as its white male and british ;-)

[Agrippa]

My money was on Bruce Willis to get the part...

[lionwing]

I had Jimmy Carr at 300-1.

[OwL]

My money was on Bruce Willis to get the part...

I lost money too......

My dosh was on Tony Blair

[Oldman]

Never watched it but remember some of the baddies.

How about a group of N Gauge Daleks going down a street?

[EtchedPixels]

I did try and draw up a Dalek in N for 3D printing but never finished it. I do have a tardis

[lionwing]

I did try and draw up a Dalek in N for 3D printing but never finished it. I do have a tardis

Would be a great "easter egg"!

[Adam1701D]

Peter Capaldi is a great character actor and a superb choice for the new Doc. I was a bit worried that they were getting younger and younger, we'd end up with a foetus for the next one.  I'm getting old and grumpy.

In the recent Brad Pitt zombiefest, World War Z, Capaldi portrayed a doctor working for the World Health Organisation - a WHO Doctor!

[mereman]

Damn you mean I didn't get the part

[CarriageShed]

You might not realise it to look at him, but Peter Capaldi is the same age as William Hartnell was when he became the Doctor. 55 certainly isn't what it used to be (although in his defence, Billie did wear a wig to make him look older).

[OwL]

In the recent Brad Pitt zombiefest, World War Z,

An absolute Terrible film and Brad Pitt's worst performance for years! I actually felt cheated out of the £8.50 entrance fee when i came out of the cinema!

[Agrippa]

In the recent Brad Pitt zombiefest, World War Z,

An absolute Terrible film and Brad Pitt's worst performance for years! I actually felt cheated out of the £8.50 entrance fee when i came out of the cinema!

I saw part of it being filmed in Glasgow's George Square, made to look like
a US city with police cars , taxis etc. Dozens of clowns in yellow vests trying
to move onlookers along from public pavements, met with remarks like
I've paid my ******** council tax mate , I'll stand where I want..

On a railway note,Brad Pitt and his family arrived in Glasgow Central
station by private train. From the crowds there you'd have thought
Jesus Christ had returned.

[PLD]

Well the new Doctor has been announced

WHO Cares???

Had a wild thought to include a police box (Tardis) in my layout!

Argh.... Over done cliche no 10045....

[NeMo]

Boy, there are some real killjoys on this thread! If you don't like the show and don't care about the actors, then don't comment. But do try and accept that some people do like the show, and for them, this is news. I couldn't care less about football, real ale or ballet, but I don't mind other people enjoying them and talking about them. I dare say a few of us have friends who think our interest in trains is a bit nutty, let alone the desire to spend hundreds of pounds buying toy trains instead of spending the money on something more useful or trendy.

As for cliches, well, practically everything we do in railway modelling is about evoking the cliche rather than creating something new. GWR branch lines, modern image traction maintenance depots, happy cows in green fields along railway lines... all cliches. Hardly any of us work on the modern railway, let alone have experience of the pre-nationalisation railways, so what we strive to create is something based on photos in books or visits to preserved railways, so again, we tend to model the cliches rather than the reality.

Cheers, NeMo

Well the new Doctor has been announced

WHO Cares???

Had a wild thought to include a police box (Tardis) in my layout!

Argh.... Over done cliche no 10045....