simond
Western Thunderer
Martyn
yep. Same-same. Raymarine Axiom on the boat, Navionics on the iPad. Plan route when planning holiday, download it when I get to the boat. Integrated radar, autopilot & 3D sounder, and recently fitted engine instrument monitor as well.
but I still have paper just-in-case!
yep. Same-same. Raymarine Axiom on the boat, Navionics on the iPad. Plan route when planning holiday, download it when I get to the boat. Integrated radar, autopilot & 3D sounder, and recently fitted engine instrument monitor as well.
but I still have paper just-in-case!
Pencarrow
Western Thunderer
I assume generally you aim to stay out of the yellow and green?
Malcolmcelyn
Active Member
Nah, it’s the white icy bits you need to avoid. Look what happened to the Titanic.
simond
Western Thunderer
Yellow is difficult, and bad for the props.
Green depends on height of tide.
If it’s icy I’m not going!
Actually, ice is a potential issue for glass fibre boats. It’s abrasive and hard and it floats in thin layers. I’ve read accounts that a trip along an icy river on a crisp winters day can cut the boat in two like a bandsaw, along the waterline.
This tends to lead to submersion, which spoils the day out.
Green depends on height of tide.
If it’s icy I’m not going!
Actually, ice is a potential issue for glass fibre boats. It’s abrasive and hard and it floats in thin layers. I’ve read accounts that a trip along an icy river on a crisp winters day can cut the boat in two like a bandsaw, along the waterline.
This tends to lead to submersion, which spoils the day out.
adrian
Flying Squad
At least one of them does - it's local to us and some friends did buy a house on that estate so I have educated them on the location. It was a fairly easy call because it's one of those locations I've looked at and if I had the space it would be a serious contender for a retirement project.
simond
Western Thunderer
daifly
Western Thunderer
Well that's increased my vocabulary by one word!
fother in British English
VERB (intransitive)3. nautical
to stop a leak in a ship's hull
Dave
simond
Western Thunderer
New one for me too.
I’d be concerned that whilst you might be able to block (fother!) the slice to enable pumping out, the motion of the boat would perhaps tend to open it up again.
Then again, without understanding the structure, and the nature of the damage, it’s very much conjecture.
and having seen that it was meaning #3, I’m now going to have to look up the other two…
I’d be concerned that whilst you might be able to block (fother!) the slice to enable pumping out, the motion of the boat would perhaps tend to open it up again.
Then again, without understanding the structure, and the nature of the damage, it’s very much conjecture.
and having seen that it was meaning #3, I’m now going to have to look up the other two…
simond
Western Thunderer
I rather like the idea of a “wildly inconsistent measure of a quantity“ usually of lead.
en.wiktionary.org
fother - Wiktionary
simond
Western Thunderer
Ok, back to trains, well, locos actually...
I have wittered on a bit about my pal, Tony's, aquisition of an old coarse scale scratchbuilt Manor - it now has a functional tender, and the template has been sent to Bill at Premier for the frames to be profile milled - it's currently sitting on a pair of laser-cut MDF frames, which, I guess, with a bit of soaking in superglue would probably do, but brass somehow seems more appropriate. Tony purchased the wheels, motor-gearbox and some other bits and pieces at Kettering.
I'm looking for a decent drawing for the GW 18" x 30" piston valve cylinder castings, from which to prepare a 3D model and subsequently print him a pair of cylinders (and maybe motion plates, tho' they might be better in brass). There will be a few other 3DP bits to do, including the backhead, but there is plenty of documentation of that bit. Cylinder drawings seem a bit less easily found...
I've downloaded the NRM index of GW loco drawings
and I've searched it - there are a couple of potential references, and rather than a wild goose chase, or honking up the wrong tree, can anyone advise what the correct drawing reference is? This is on page 86 and appears to be the prime suspect;
245 48045 1913/01/xx 18" x 30" cylinder for 4-4-2, 2-6-2, 2-6-0 outside cylinders Previous drawing no 37620 151, 175 Linen 1
Any pointers gratefully received - once i'm confident about what I'm ordering, I'll speak to the museum and see if they can send me a print without me making the pilgrimage.
tia
Simon
I have wittered on a bit about my pal, Tony's, aquisition of an old coarse scale scratchbuilt Manor - it now has a functional tender, and the template has been sent to Bill at Premier for the frames to be profile milled - it's currently sitting on a pair of laser-cut MDF frames, which, I guess, with a bit of soaking in superglue would probably do, but brass somehow seems more appropriate. Tony purchased the wheels, motor-gearbox and some other bits and pieces at Kettering.
I'm looking for a decent drawing for the GW 18" x 30" piston valve cylinder castings, from which to prepare a 3D model and subsequently print him a pair of cylinders (and maybe motion plates, tho' they might be better in brass). There will be a few other 3DP bits to do, including the backhead, but there is plenty of documentation of that bit. Cylinder drawings seem a bit less easily found...
I've downloaded the NRM index of GW loco drawings
and I've searched it - there are a couple of potential references, and rather than a wild goose chase, or honking up the wrong tree, can anyone advise what the correct drawing reference is? This is on page 86 and appears to be the prime suspect;
245 48045 1913/01/xx 18" x 30" cylinder for 4-4-2, 2-6-2, 2-6-0 outside cylinders Previous drawing no 37620 151, 175 Linen 1
Any pointers gratefully received - once i'm confident about what I'm ordering, I'll speak to the museum and see if they can send me a print without me making the pilgrimage.
tia
Simon
simond
Western Thunderer
A brief discussion with Chris @Pencarrow suggested that there was little modelling going on, and less still being posted. Well, I have been doing a little, a few minutes here and a few there. It’s not finished, but it’s making progress. It’s a 1/48 Opel Blitz truck, which would be unlikely in 1930 North Wales, but I had it, and it seemed like an ideal candidate to try the weathering techniques using powders that Rob @NHY 581 kindly shared a few months back.
Post in thread 'The Sheep Chronicles. A Sheep dips his hooves in various bucolic backwaters.'
The Sheep Chronicles. A Sheep dips his hooves in various bucolic backwaters.
I'm reasonably happy with the deck, less so with the sides. The beauty of this approach is that you can keep doing a bit, or indeed, scrub it off, until you are happy, and then you can fix with some acrylic varnish.
I shall persevere, more at some point…
I also used it as an opportunity to try out my new airbrush (Birthday pressy from MrsD a few months back) along with the compressor, a Sparmax TC610H that I bought second hand from @Michael Hall here on WT. I had already used the airbrush but the new compressor is a revelation - it doesn’t make a lot of noise, indeed, it’s nearly silent, and it doesn’t wander off across the floor. A great improvement over the old model, which, though annoying, steadfastly refused to die. It’s in the garage, if anyone wants a diaphragm compressor that works but is thoroughly irritating, do let me know.
atb
Simon
Post in thread 'The Sheep Chronicles. A Sheep dips his hooves in various bucolic backwaters.'
The Sheep Chronicles. A Sheep dips his hooves in various bucolic backwaters.
I'm reasonably happy with the deck, less so with the sides. The beauty of this approach is that you can keep doing a bit, or indeed, scrub it off, until you are happy, and then you can fix with some acrylic varnish.
I shall persevere, more at some point…
I also used it as an opportunity to try out my new airbrush (Birthday pressy from MrsD a few months back) along with the compressor, a Sparmax TC610H that I bought second hand from @Michael Hall here on WT. I had already used the airbrush but the new compressor is a revelation - it doesn’t make a lot of noise, indeed, it’s nearly silent, and it doesn’t wander off across the floor. A great improvement over the old model, which, though annoying, steadfastly refused to die. It’s in the garage, if anyone wants a diaphragm compressor that works but is thoroughly irritating, do let me know.
atb
Simon
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Chas Levin
Western Thunderer
Nice job Simon; there's something very pleasant and satisfying about replicating the look of wood using paints and similar things, isn't there? It's perhaps the closest we regularly get to painting in the artistic sense, I think.
