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radiojoe

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Re: What I've been up to
« Reply #25 on: November 18, 2018, 06:53:44 am »
Cheers Mark  hope your move goes ok.


Regards  Joe.
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Re: What I've been up to
« Reply #26 on: November 23, 2018, 06:43:26 pm »
Having a flap to enter the centre of the layout dose make it better than crawling under, but I powered up the layout the other day with my back to the flap and had left it open without realising so there was a potential for a expensive train to end up on the floor, so I've now fitted an alarm to the flap via an mini switch and a small alarm from E-bay for the princely sum of £1.95, so now if the layout is powered up with the flap open the alarm sounds till I close it, at 73 I need all the help I can get.   %% O0
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Re: What I've been up to
« Reply #27 on: November 23, 2018, 10:20:29 pm »
Why not put a switch on the flap so that the layout only works when it is down.
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Re: What I've been up to
« Reply #28 on: November 23, 2018, 10:58:26 pm »
Quite right Brian that was one of my options, but I decided on an alarm so I have the option of nipping out and leave trains running without interrupting the sound from each loco.
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Re: What I've been up to
« Reply #29 on: November 27, 2018, 06:15:45 pm »

A bit more done to two of the corners, shops in one and a hint of the tv series Heartbeat in the other.


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Re: What I've been up to
« Reply #30 on: November 27, 2018, 08:18:20 pm »
I love the scenery more than the trains and this is gorgeous Joe. But then would we expect anything less than first rate?
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Re: What I've been up to
« Reply #31 on: November 28, 2018, 02:01:07 pm »
 
Quote from: ballastanksian on November 27, 2018, 08:18:20 pm
I love the scenery more than the trains and this is gorgeous Joe. But then would we expect anything less than first rate?





as you say Ian Eddies modelling and detailing is exceptional, but that model shop must be one of the few left trading in this country, lol...…………..wonder I the stock ZAP epoxy and the Model Boats magazine...……..as I cant get them anywhere locally,  O0 ;D %)
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Re: What I've been up to
« Reply #32 on: November 28, 2018, 02:09:42 pm »
Ah, but the model shop is in the old days - so it was possible it had the items from that era available, different story these days, charity shops and coffee shops are prevalent (got to be careful not to get my post deleted - even in humour) even the pharmacy is taking up two different units
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Re: What I've been up to
« Reply #33 on: November 28, 2018, 04:10:10 pm »

Ah, the Pharmacy, in the words of Cap't Mainwaring I wondered who would notice that first,  {-) {-) 


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Re: What I've been up to
« Reply #34 on: November 28, 2018, 04:25:37 pm »
Yipee - do I get a prize  :}
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Re: What I've been up to
« Reply #35 on: November 28, 2018, 09:45:14 pm »
In those days surely it would have been a Chemist shop  {:-{
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Re: What I've been up to
« Reply #36 on: November 28, 2018, 10:47:53 pm »
I like the name of the Chippy!!!
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Re: What I've been up to
« Reply #37 on: November 28, 2018, 11:09:00 pm »

Well Lloyds Pharmacy opened in 1963 and I have no firm time scale in mind anything from 1960 to 1990 I guess,  I'm running locos from a Jubliee class to a 150 class DMU so there is some fairly modern and a few heritage running.
Top marks to Warspite though I honestly hadn't noticed I had made to Pharmacies I'll have to evict one of them. %% %)


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Re: What I've been up to
« Reply #38 on: November 29, 2018, 08:23:55 am »
I suppose one could be the dispensary, and the other the one selling all the other pharmaceuticals.
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Re: What I've been up to
« Reply #39 on: November 29, 2018, 09:22:10 am »
Well.....


On good advice by a person qualified in the pharmaceutical industry......in 1963, not too many prescriptions were <*< with a Mortar & Pestal ..but the counting out of tablets was achieved by a triangular counter tray....then the prescribed quantity placed in a bottle with the appropriate label typed & affixed

A few things have change today & prescriptions are written with the specified number of individual tablets.....so all the Pharmacist needs to do is take the cardboard/plastic container off the shelf & attach a similar type label

So the decision to name the shop as a Pharmacy type is clearly OK...as no clinical chemistry would have been dispensed...

Looking good Joe :-)) ........we at our Illawarra Live Steamers have a Garden Gauge outdoor facility with both live steam and electric models which is gaining popularity day by day

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Re: What I've been up to
« Reply #40 on: November 29, 2018, 10:01:36 am »

Thanks Derek,   Live steam! ooh luvly jubly  O0


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Re: What I've been up to
« Reply #41 on: November 29, 2018, 12:49:31 pm »

Hi Derek just visited your ILS website, looks like a great place and I just love the safety regs   IE. persons in bare feet, THONGS etc. will not be permitted on the trains, just conjures up a great picture  {-) . I'll bet a day spent there just flies by.
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Re: What I've been up to
« Reply #42 on: November 29, 2018, 01:27:21 pm »
For the avoidance of doubt; Thongs in Australia refer to flip-flop footwear not items of personal apparel.
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Re: What I've been up to
« Reply #43 on: November 29, 2018, 02:25:37 pm »
Now that makes a difference, the picture is gone.   {-) %%
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Re: What I've been up to
« Reply #44 on: November 30, 2018, 07:17:25 pm »

I closed one of the pharmacies and opened an antiques shop, most towns have 1 or 10 of them,  ;)


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Re: What I've been up to
« Reply #45 on: November 30, 2018, 09:20:31 pm »
You need a few people around to spend some money or the shops will go out of business.  %%
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Re: What I've been up to
« Reply #46 on: November 30, 2018, 10:06:01 pm »
Agreed but I still have a lot to do and I'm constantly using a vacuum so I leave figures till scenics like grass scatter/ ballast etc. are done, figures are too expensive to keep looking inside the hoover  {:-{
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Re: What I've been up to
« Reply #47 on: December 01, 2018, 02:15:55 pm »
Quote from: BrianB6 on November 30, 2018, 09:20:31 pm
You need a few people around to spend some money or the shops will go out of business.  %%





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Re: What I've been up to
« Reply #48 on: December 01, 2018, 02:21:34 pm »
Ain't built the Church yet :embarrassed:
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Re: What I've been up to
« Reply #49 on: December 05, 2018, 05:02:03 pm »

Having done the track ballast next to the shops area I added some people, not the best figures just some I got on e-bay that needed painting, and as you can probably tell I'm a big fan of TV series Heartbeat, scratch built Scripps Garage, well loosely based on it anyway, just needs a petrol pump.


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