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Nah, no mater how detailed if its straight out of a box, plonked on the track and played with it is, just like a matchbox car, a toy. Modelling requires input not take out.

Checked on flight radar around lunch today after hearing helicopter(s) around Glossop. Displayed 2 helicopter tracks nothing notable - a R22 & a R44 - BOTH displaying the same registration G-DLDL. Puzzled. not sure what they were up to as they were all over the area loosely paired. Zoomed out to see MONEY blasting Southwards down the east of the Pennines. On the west a number (4 or 5 from memory) of flights all close to each other were prefixed BIO & all headed to Chester (Hawarden).

This any good from https://www.tankarchives.ca/2016/08/17-pounder-britains-long-arm.html

Moreso when it not all square these days making 'special' pieces for awkward shapes

Old Sheffield saying: "You can't educate pork"

Can't advise on model shops but you're probably aware of: https://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/ claimed to be the worlds largest model railway (also comes with road, ships and aircraft).

Thanks @Kingsman I thought I'd seen somthing mentioned, couldn't recall where, As for re-homogenisation of plate it's not required, the mechanical processing (hammer forging, press forging & rolling, etc.) serves to homogenise the structure of the metal.

Rob, the level of detail you go to is breathtaking.

As indicated earlier I'm now involved in the production of super-alloys (Ni & Co based as opposed to Fe based) but the processes are identical. During the casting of alloys it is possible that pockets within the cast ingot have different concentrations of the constituent elements which would lead to differing properties (strengths etc) throughout the final product - not good in any application. As a result all our ingots go through a process where, once cast, they are re-heated to temperatures that get close to their melting point and held there for a substantial period of time. This allows the elements in any pockets to disperse evenly throughout the metal and thus giving consistent properties throughout the end product, a process referred to as homogenisation. I don't recall this being employed in the production of armour plate. I'm not sure that, due to their large size, material type (i.e steel Vs nickel), production needs, etc. that the cast armour bodies/turrets would have been homogenised in a similar way. Similrly I'm not 100% certain the hardnesses usually seen with armour plate can be achieved with cast armour. It is the rapid quenching from hardening temperatures that fixes the steels structure in the hardened & stressed state, followed by tempering which reduces the stresses, in plate of costnt thickness this is easily controlled, in castings of varying thicknesses not so. Add to this the already brittle structure of the cast (i.e. non-wrought) material probably explains why the early castings were poorer performers than later ones.

Nobody's going to do that with Hornby. The share price is falling back.

Companies that don't deliver what they promise.

Trust she won't see this

Usual way is to asset strip not buy & sell shares quickly. With a share holding of around 10% they're probably not where they need to be in terms of taking control but they're there to have a look at the finances and to have a chance of pouncing if/when the oportunity arises. Watch for further share acquisitions or disposal.

Rob, It bugging me, what's happening with the row of rivets on the smokebox wrapper? Do the pipe bends match?

Not good for diabetics unless they're sugar free

Nice conversion and as Vlad says an important subject in it's own right, 'Shiny Shef' reputedly with the most WW2 battle honours of any RN ship.

Glad you're sorted.

In which case there's nothing to loose from selecting Word if it appears in the list of apps.

Will they open in a text editor such as Notepad or WordPad as sometimes it will display the text of the file, along with all the gobbledy-gook coding that constitutes the formatting. To get to either, right click on the file and locate 'open with' select it and then select choose another app, scroll down the list and they should appear (you may have to use 'more apps' to expand the list. If that works it should allow you to copy & paste into word.

Concur with the above. To get from an orangy yellow to a lemon yellow you'd probably end up adding so much 'prime' yellow that you'd be better starting the lemon yellow from scratch.

At last the secret of why the British Civil aircraft industry failed: whilst our emergency exits required a button push Boeing had developed the fully automated exit for use on 737's

Maybe the crew only had time to clean the loco.

Wolverton was one of the main rolling stock workshops of the LMS railway so these are very possibly ex-railway delivery vehicles. Looking at the thickness of the shelters on the rear of the vehicles they could be using (old?) sleepers which would explain why in the pictures posted by @Kingsman the vehicles look to be well loaded.

I dont think anyone has catagorically said they dont rust what has been said is that, due to the alloying elements, armour rusts slowly and in normal service this is further slowed by regular maintainance.

Best thing is to stick to facts that can be demonstrated e.g. 'Not delivered within agreed timescale. After 3 months* refunded by E-Bay" these then can't be refuted in court. * If it was months - you have the dates.