tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308436923321175757.post5506405926884395427..comments2024-01-30T07:21:55.119+13:00Comments on Motorised Dandruff: Saturday MorningRABhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00929466289526140335noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308436923321175757.post-82145523685572218712013-02-18T15:15:01.107+13:002013-02-18T15:15:01.107+13:00Was just thinking that looking at http://www.scale...Was just thinking that looking at http://www.scalefour.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1435&sid=962af87caf7cb85e12a156c4fc08125c&start=50 and Jim S-W's lovely P4 New Street model. This is a guy who uses all the techniques to the full - protypical drain covers for the area anyone, bus shelters, bespoke overhead.<br />http://www.p4newstreet.com/category/workbench <br /><br />KevAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308436923321175757.post-61205110514304994532013-02-18T10:06:15.709+13:002013-02-18T10:06:15.709+13:00One of the things about having all this technology...One of the things about having all this technology around is that it doesn't actually lead to cohesive progress in any one niche of the hobby, but rather a diaspora where people scatter to all sorts of esoteric extremes (Like the Druff bush tram perhaps).<br /><br />So now, when you produce a wagon in an established scale, instead of a rush of orders from the product starved masses you get "can you do me one in 1:99.3" or "can I have a widget casting for my model of the ...?"<br /><br />I'm not bitter about this, but it does mean that the hobby is morphing into something new. For those of us that can this is probably no bad thing. <br /><br />In the UK it's great as RTR is fantastic and all this techno stuff can be applied to structures and one off projects. I'm not sure what it means for NZR.<br /><br />LNZFinescalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14397757882923819122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3308436923321175757.post-71526194716691421452013-02-17T10:42:46.221+13:002013-02-17T10:42:46.221+13:00In my defence, I had been drinking the Lady Druff&...In my defence, I had been drinking the Lady Druff's wine, plus the closest I'd ever come to using a proper coffee machine before was saying "I'll have a latte, please" to the gorgeous young women in Trax cafe.Amateur Fettlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15955755665888652271noreply@blogger.com