adrian
Flying Squad
I'll get the caveat in before anyone delves too deeply into this thread - if you've come here for any nuggets of Scale7 modelling you may be disappointed. Yes I'll try to cover the modelling that I do but as per the title it's very sporadic. I thought I'd try a slightly different tac with this thread, so the topic's may not always be railway related. It's been sparked by the following comment I made in another thread :
To which I got the reply
So where to start - well in my "spare time" I run a local Beaver Scout colony, for tonight's meeting amidst the games I had spotted that the International Space Station was due to pass over at a suitable time so at 7:10pm we had all the kids out on the playing field watching the space station traverse the sky, the kids were mesmerised. It was the first time I'd really looked for it and it was brilliant, it started off low in the west shining brightly, as it moved higher and to the south it turn a glorious red before disappearing as it went into the shadow of the earth.
Then from the high to the low, I found out that someone had exploited a security hole in one of the websites I have set up. There were using my hosting account to put up fake pages to look like apple computers and gather emails and passwords etc. So I've spent an hour or so digging through the logs clearing out their crap and patching the security hole.
I was then back to another job I some how volunteered myself for - sometimes I ought to say no! This time it allows me to post the obligatory photo of my work bench.
Can you tell what it is yet? I'm batch building 60 CBus kits for MERG, that is I'm putting together 30 CANACC4 and 30 CANACC5
for the group to sell through the stores. Again it was one of those thing where having used the group resources felt I ought to contribute in some way, again why I decided to start this thread. Anyway that's getting too maudlin, so back to the task and I've just spent a hour putting together the last of the resource cards and programming the PICs with the right code. Still got 240 MOSFETS to split up and instructions to print. Hopefully they'll be bagged up and shipped off to the kitmaster this weekend.
Final change of topic for the moment. I've just finished reading "Just My Type" and what a facinating book.
A wonderful trip through the world of fonts and typefaces, and one I'd recommend. In fact I think it's a book that would appeal to many modellers as there is so much history behind many of the fonts and yet there is the attention to small detail variations. There is the craftsmanship of the early punch cutters and type setters and the nuances of the various type faces. And yes the world of typography have their rivet counters, not meant in a derogatory way but an appreciation of their detailed knowledge. They appear to revel in finding faults in films where they use fonts that are newer than the period setting, I suppose a bit like using a Standard tank loco in a Sherlock Holmes story, apparently signs and invites shown the "The Kings Speech" were printed in fonts that wouldn't be designed for another 20 or 30 years.
Remind me again where I put my sanity? - If I get time over the next few days I'll post a few photo's of a MOK Std4 in Scale7 but there's no guarantee.
Adrian Cherry
adrian said:
To which I got the reply
Hey it's the modelling that's lets me keep my sanity although the better half will probably say otherwise.Scale7JB said:
So where to start - well in my "spare time" I run a local Beaver Scout colony, for tonight's meeting amidst the games I had spotted that the International Space Station was due to pass over at a suitable time so at 7:10pm we had all the kids out on the playing field watching the space station traverse the sky, the kids were mesmerised. It was the first time I'd really looked for it and it was brilliant, it started off low in the west shining brightly, as it moved higher and to the south it turn a glorious red before disappearing as it went into the shadow of the earth.
Then from the high to the low, I found out that someone had exploited a security hole in one of the websites I have set up. There were using my hosting account to put up fake pages to look like apple computers and gather emails and passwords etc. So I've spent an hour or so digging through the logs clearing out their crap and patching the security hole.
I was then back to another job I some how volunteered myself for - sometimes I ought to say no! This time it allows me to post the obligatory photo of my work bench.
Can you tell what it is yet? I'm batch building 60 CBus kits for MERG, that is I'm putting together 30 CANACC4 and 30 CANACC5
for the group to sell through the stores. Again it was one of those thing where having used the group resources felt I ought to contribute in some way, again why I decided to start this thread. Anyway that's getting too maudlin, so back to the task and I've just spent a hour putting together the last of the resource cards and programming the PICs with the right code. Still got 240 MOSFETS to split up and instructions to print. Hopefully they'll be bagged up and shipped off to the kitmaster this weekend.
Final change of topic for the moment. I've just finished reading "Just My Type" and what a facinating book.
A wonderful trip through the world of fonts and typefaces, and one I'd recommend. In fact I think it's a book that would appeal to many modellers as there is so much history behind many of the fonts and yet there is the attention to small detail variations. There is the craftsmanship of the early punch cutters and type setters and the nuances of the various type faces. And yes the world of typography have their rivet counters, not meant in a derogatory way but an appreciation of their detailed knowledge. They appear to revel in finding faults in films where they use fonts that are newer than the period setting, I suppose a bit like using a Standard tank loco in a Sherlock Holmes story, apparently signs and invites shown the "The Kings Speech" were printed in fonts that wouldn't be designed for another 20 or 30 years.
Remind me again where I put my sanity? - If I get time over the next few days I'll post a few photo's of a MOK Std4 in Scale7 but there's no guarantee.
Adrian Cherry
... still is for some of us..... :-[ 
