Famous Modellers

MikeDunn · July 12, 2014, 03:22:26 PM

Awwww, you should let her out sometimes ...

Agrippa · July 12, 2014, 04:18:05 PM

Beam me up Scotrail................

Sorry about that

I'll get my spacesuit.....

talisman56 · July 12, 2014, 05:37:30 PM

Quote from: Tom U on July 11, 2014, 02:07:38 PM
Presumably if Benito Mussolini was a railway modeller, he would have made his run on time!!
(p.s. for young 'uns - you had to have been around then to understand).

I can't remember whether this was a Mussolini story or some other ~~despot~~ ~~dictator~~ supreme ruler:

But the ideal way to make the trains run on time is to adjust the clock to the correct time when it arrives...

mr bachmann · July 12, 2014, 07:09:06 PM

the late Frank Sinatra had a very big set up - when clearing the estate Nancy sold the layout to - Rod Steward , who made his much bigger , i belive its a 125 foot basement.

The later than late Hughie Green had a large train layout , not scenic as he collected trains .

alan

Sprintex · July 12, 2014, 09:38:09 PM

Suddenly remembered this I posted last time this subject came up:-

One more little story (if I remember correctly) courtesy of Dr. Alex Moulton, the inventor of the rubber-sprung Moulton bicycle (who remembers them?

). He also invented the rubber-doughnut springs used on the Mini instead of coil springs, and when he was first invited to meet Alec Issigonis (designer of the Mini), Jack Daniels (the chief engineer behind the Mini) and John Cooper (later of Mini racing fame) he was a little nervous. He arrived at Alec's house and was taken straight up to the attic where the aforementioned three 'important' men were happily playing with Alec's vast model railway whilst drinking merrily!! Apparently this was how most major design decisions were made during the Mini's conception

Paul

Bealman · July 13, 2014, 01:12:30 AM

Quote from: talisman56 on July 12, 2014, 05:37:30 PM
But the ideal way to make the trains run on time is to adjust the clock to the correct time when it arrives...

If trains run late on my layout I tie the little plastic station master to the track and run him over

kirky · July 13, 2014, 08:01:32 AM

Do fictional famous people count?

If so... Dr Sheldon Cooper.

Ok it's HO but he has declared a desire to have N.

Cheers
Kirky

Lawrence · July 13, 2014, 08:43:34 AM

Quote from: kirky on July 13, 2014, 08:01:32 AM
Do fictional famous people count?

If so... Dr Sheldon Cooper.

Ok it's HO but he has declared a desire to have N.

Cheers
Kirky

Bazinga!

Tom U · July 13, 2014, 09:40:25 AM

Quote from: kirky on July 13, 2014, 08:01:32 AM
Do fictional famous people count?

If so... Dr Sheldon Cooper.

Ok it's HO but he has declared a desire to have N.

Cheers
Kirky

He only wanted N because he could put the whole locomotive in his mouth..........

Bealman · July 13, 2014, 09:45:57 AM

Who is the fictional Dr Sheldon Cooper?

D1042 Western Princess · July 13, 2014, 09:57:26 AM

Why not Sheldon Cooper, surely the greatest advocate of model railways on TV. $:-\$
One thing though, I imagine he only builds rope worked incline railways - after all he is always talking about "string theory"!

D1042 Western Princess · July 13, 2014, 10:01:46 AM

Quote from: Bealman on July 13, 2014, 09:45:57 AM
Who is the fictional Dr Sheldon Cooper?

You ARE joking, aren't you?

Bealman · July 13, 2014, 10:16:23 AM

Not at all. This particular mod Iives in Oz, remember. Is he a sorta TV personality like Stephen Hawking, or Rolf Harris?

But he's fictional, yes?

I don't watch a lot of TV.

D1042 Western Princess · July 13, 2014, 10:34:56 AM

Quote from: Bealman on July 13, 2014, 10:16:23 AM
Not at all. This particular mod Iives in Oz, remember. Is he a sorta TV personality like Stephen Hawking, or Rolf Harris?

But he's fictional, yes?

I don't watch a lot of TV.

Sorry Bealman. Dr Sheldon Cooper, played by Jim Parsons, is one of the stars in the hit US comedy show "The Big Bang Theory", which plays around the world and am fairly sure Australia shows it (hence my surprise).
He is a major advocate of railways, an expert in US railroad history, and was once an advocate of O gauge. He was then tempted to HO but has now settled on N gauge trains as the ideal modelling scale - because he can actually fit a "switcher" (shunting engine) in his mouth.
He also mentions several model shops in the area, some of which check out on the web so must be real.
If you get a chance to see it please do; it's about the greatest comedy on TV at the moment although it has just come to the end of the 7th series in the US/UK but repeats are on every day.
My knowledge of computers is limited but put "Sheldon Cooper/Big Bang Theory/ Model Trains" into the search engine - plenty on there to get a flavour of the situation.

Tom U · July 13, 2014, 02:49:22 PM

To amplify a little bit...but probably more detail than this thread warrants - Sheldon is the central character in a group of extremely nerdy scientists/astrophysicists. Sheldon is borderline autistic savant in that he is brilliantly clever but has the social graces of a sledge hammer. My son is a computer science graduate, and says Big Bang Theory is about as real as it gets!! The first time you watch it you will think it is really silly - then you get addicted.