Tonight I 'as been mostly.......................

[Fratton]

having a break at the moment to catch up on the forum and to find the coupling spring that shot off into the carpet monster 

you never know this could turn into my next detailing project 

dave 

Great stuff, Dave. I've never seen a detailed carpet monster before

SWMBO thinks I am a carpet monster    it was very cold the other day so I decided to paint a model in the house, I knocked a bottle of Tamiya red enamel paint over and it all landed on the newly laid carpet, now the house stinks of turpentine and we have nasty red paint smears on the carpet 

she must love you though,,,,, my missus would have buried me for that 

[longbridge]

having a break at the moment to catch up on the forum and to find the coupling spring that shot off into the carpet monster 

you never know this could turn into my next detailing project 

dave 

Great stuff, Dave. I've never seen a detailed carpet monster before

SWMBO thinks I am a carpet monster    it was very cold the other day so I decided to paint a model in the house, I knocked a bottle of Tamiya red enamel paint over and it all landed on the newly laid carpet, now the house stinks of turpentine and we have nasty red paint smears on the carpet 

she must love you though,,,,, my missus would have buried me for that 

don't know how much love had to do with it cause I think it was the first time I have seen her speechless 

[Newportnobby]

Dogbox for the next week or so, Dave. Hope you like Winalot

[longbridge]

Dogbox for the next week or so, Dave. Hope you like Winalot

  Your kidding Mike, there are 365 days in the year and I spend 355 of them in the Doghouse   had a letter from the Body Corporate explaining that there are so many homeless people in Oz and would we consider taking in a boarder, wonderful idea I thought SWMBO could move out to the train shed and I will get a nice 30 year old female border, always said upstairs is for thinking 

[EtchedPixels]

I guess you won't be buying any new trains for a while as SWMBO diverts them into the "new carpet" tin

[longbridge]

Hi Alan, thankfully my Stepson is a carpet layer and will be able to fit a new piece in, from now on all the painting will now have to be done in the layout shed.

[Bealman]

Excellent job, Kaiwhara! I haven't built any Metcalfe kits yet, but I am aware of their huge range. I will be looking at heaps of terraced houses for my townscape in the future, and Metcalfe seems to be the way to go.

As already noted, every layout needs a pub! Great job, mate.

[moogle]

Hi Alan, thankfully my Stepson is a carpet layer and will be able to fit a new piece in, from now on all the painting will now have to be done in the layout shed.

If its cold again I hope you have heating in the shed as its hard to do modeling wearing thick gloves! 

[Bealman]

Battling with my own stupidity. I was down the local bowling club for a quiet ale with my mates when I saw 'chicken schnitzel and chips with gravy' for five bucks. Asking if I could get takeaway, they served it up in one of those environmentally unfriendly polystyrene trays with a closeable lid.

Anyway, upon getting it home, I thought I would save some washing up and just throw some frozen mixed vegetables onto it, and eat it off the tray.

I thought the frozen veg would heat up from the hot contents of the tray, thus saving me the microwaving and so on.

Of course what happened is, the frozen veg did not heat up: it removed the heat from the existing schnitzel & chips. I taught Physics for most of my life, for Heaven's sake, and still manage to do dumb things like that! Stick with railway modelling, methinks.

[tadpole]

Playing trains. Phasing out the last of the green and all-over blue, so now well into blue-grey and large logod locos.

NSE and RR will begin to appear next, but I only have one NSE EMU, so some blue-grey ones will survive, eventually being replaced by SWT 159s.

[EtchedPixels]

Putting kit bits into envelopes and attaching stamps.

No rest for the wicked. Hopefully this weekend I'll get to have another go at the 3D printer construction. I have the Y axis attached now, that needs aligning and the drive belts fitting then its onto the X axis !

[moogle]

Checking that loco's run and trying to get two points to work properly. 
Oh and I found out that loco's cant get past the fence into my oil depot!
Brilliant planning that. A job to do after the exhibition me thinks... 

[Lawrence]

Checking that loco's run and trying to get two points to work properly. 
Oh and I found out that loco's cant get past the fence into my oil depot!
Brilliant planning that. A job to do after the exhibition me thinks... 

We've all been there moogle

[jonclox]

I blame EP and Moogle for this.. :'(
Spent close on two hours wading through U Tube for 3D printer instructions and building details.
Fascinating but OTT for me and my needs and the prices  yoiks 

[MinZaPint]

Well it's taken a long time but I've finally completed another of my Scalescenes station buildings (ok chimney pots still to do!) first pic a shot of the interior just to show carpet and picture on wall, can't see them now the roofs on!



then the finished item, how something so small can take so long I don't know!



In place awaiting the booking hall etc. and the gents loo.



As I'm off to the pub shortly, think I'd better do the gents next it might be needed!  have that effect on me!

Enjoying reading the posts on the forum and wish you all "Happy Modelling"