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« Reply #50 on: February 27, 2009, 09:22:49 PM » |
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Feel free to mail me the gun whenever you're ready.
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« Reply #51 on: February 27, 2009, 10:09:45 PM » |
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Looking good  How does one get in and out of it? I don't see a hatch ... |
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« Reply #52 on: February 28, 2009, 12:13:50 AM » |
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The hatch? It's round the back.
Personally, I prefare the "Traveller" or "Countryman" version.
Paving slabs?
What's wrong with cobbles?
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« Reply #53 on: February 28, 2009, 06:58:09 AM » |
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Looking good How does one get in and out of it? I don't see a hatch ... Actually, the hatch is just there on the right, at the top of the retractable boarding ladder. Then there's also the cargo hatch which is hanging open on the left, behind the top of the gantry... EDIT: I say, Herr Döktor – I've just noticed that you've never posted a finished image of the life-support bay. You know, just for the sake of completeness... |
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« Reply #54 on: February 28, 2009, 02:31:33 PM » |
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Paving slabs?
What's wrong with cobbles?
Dr. Q.
What could be better than "Haslingden Flags" as used in Trafalgar Square  RE the motive power for the gantry - may I suggest using a "Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway" 0-4-0ST "Pug" as a guide, if not a prototype used extensivly at Liverpool and Manchester docks, oftern perminantly coupled to cranes and similar devices? |
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« Reply #55 on: February 28, 2009, 05:07:40 PM » |
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RE the motive power for the gantry - may I suggest using a "Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway" 0-4-0ST "Pug" as a guide, if not a prototype used extensivly at Liverpool and Manchester docks, oftern perminantly coupled to cranes and similar devices?
Funny you should mention that:  And looking at the time of your post, I would have been in the modelshop purchasing it at about the same time... Oh, and since Herr Faust asked so nicely:  |
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« Reply #56 on: February 28, 2009, 05:34:12 PM » |
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Oh, and since Herr Faust asked so nicely: (...)Though I do consider myself to be nice, I can not remember asking for such a photonic recording  |
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« Reply #57 on: February 28, 2009, 05:44:51 PM » |
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My apologies, it was Mr. von Corax; as to the niceness of forum members, heck, EVERYONE'S nice here! |
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« Reply #58 on: February 28, 2009, 06:02:56 PM » |
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as to the niceness of forum members, heck, EVERYONE'S nice here! Piss off... Sorry, couldn't resist.  DB |
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« Reply #59 on: February 28, 2009, 06:09:05 PM » |
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Wouldn't that be Mijnheer Faust, for the same reason that led to the translation of Weatherwax to Wedersmeer (old fashioned ways to say things are cooler by default)?
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« Reply #60 on: February 28, 2009, 06:18:39 PM » |
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Looks like the base board is well advanced.
Glad to see your enthusiasm has not "flagged".
Snarff, snarff............. see what I did there?
You are aware that the next step involves grouting?
I love a good grout now and again.
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« Reply #61 on: February 28, 2009, 06:24:13 PM » |
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Wouldn't that be Mijnheer Faust, for the same reason that led to the translation of Weatherwax to Wedersmeer (old fashioned ways to say things are cooler by default)?
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« Reply #62 on: February 28, 2009, 10:37:56 PM » |
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Well, I'm glad we sorted out the semantics of Germanic root languages. In the meanwhile, careful there, Dr. Quack: I wouldn't want the other forum members to 'stone' you over something I'd 'cobbled' together. A-hem. The current state of play:  That's how the shunter works! |
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« Reply #63 on: February 28, 2009, 11:05:46 PM » |
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Will there be an elevator in that tower?
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« Reply #64 on: February 28, 2009, 11:18:39 PM » |
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More than likely a crane- don't worry, I've got it covered! |
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« Reply #65 on: February 28, 2009, 11:31:12 PM » |
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Quite right too. I knew you wouldn't "jib" at the idea. And while we're about it, I hope you going to put some form scale chippings under the track. The "ballasted" thing looks a bit bare without it. O.K. Your turn. Dr. Q. |
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« Reply #66 on: February 28, 2009, 11:35:21 PM » |
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Glad you're 'siding' with me, nothing like two old 'buffers' on the same 'track'. 15, 30, your serve. |
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« Reply #67 on: February 28, 2009, 11:54:47 PM » |
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Didn't realise we were playing for "points."
Wonder how it'll "turnout?"
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« Reply #68 on: March 01, 2009, 12:06:09 AM » |
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End of the line you two!...
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« Reply #69 on: March 01, 2009, 12:07:37 AM » |
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Does that 'signal' that we've reached the 'destination?
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« Reply #70 on: March 01, 2009, 12:24:57 AM » |
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So it's "Mornington Crescent" from me........
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« Reply #71 on: March 01, 2009, 01:18:38 AM » |
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Fine with me. Mornington Crescent is the game. Let's say, over in Off Topic?
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« Reply #72 on: March 01, 2009, 05:00:35 AM » |
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Once this thread is back on the rails again I do have one small suggestion...
Dok, could you put a face on the front of the loco (and fit goggles to it), then we can have Thomas the punk engine.
But seriously - this is an exquisite diorama and worthy of exhibition at the next local model railway convention, just to show people how to take toy trains and think outside the box.
You now have me thinking about a whole steampunk themed model railway layout, with industrial workshops, mad scientist laboratories in castles, gothic houses, launch pads, etc... all in HO scale and serviced by a narrow gauge railway.
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« Reply #73 on: March 02, 2009, 02:52:40 AM » |
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Well, I'm glad we sorted out the semantics of Germanic root languages. In the meanwhile, careful there, Dr. Quack: I wouldn't want the other forum members to 'stone' you over something I'd 'cobbled' together. A-hem. The current state of play: (Image removed from quote.)That's how the shunter works! Well done Sir! - I only wish I had such modelling skills. Too bad you couldn't get something like tis for your shunter... 1922 Achot-Bourdon-Baldwin (from the 1922 Locomotive Cyclopedia)  Cheers Harold |
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« Reply #74 on: March 02, 2009, 12:11:08 PM » |
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Harold, that engine is fantastic beyond words, even these ones.
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