Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ 13th October 2023, 2:19 AMThat's interesting Herc. ........................... used for very basic landscape padding before being covered in scale grass matting.
Thank you, and for a choo-choo layout? Which is another thing I hope to get together soon - have loads of track, locos, rolling stock, buildings etc., just need the time and space to put it all together.
Nice to see! Nestlè ahead of the game with a house husband advert, in 1934!
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 13th October 2023, 8:45 AMThank you, and for a choo-choo layout? Which is another thing I hope to get together soon - have loads of track, locos, rolling stock, buildings etc., just need the time and space to put it all together.
Me & my brothers used to use Plaster-of-Paris for buildings (Cottages, Churches, Tunnel entrances etc) on our model railway. We had a kit where you laid out a frame on a transparent sheet over a 'blueprint' & then poured plaster mix into the frame, creating a wall or roof of a building. Then you joined the 'slabs' together by pouring plaster mix in the corners of the rooms etc. Finally we fitted translucent paper or plastic as windows etc, painted the outsides & placed it on the layout, where it covered a little torch-bulb light.
Nowadays the toy manufacturers try to do too much, so you get individual rubber molds for making things instead of the more versatile square sticks, pins and a plastic sheet over a blue print., where you could design your own mold for your own structure. So kids don't learn to THINK.
I remember the sheets of brickwork you could buy to stick onto your bare buildings, and trying to get it straight and to match around corners.
1990.................. What was the old joke? How do you double the value of a Skoda?.................
You fill the petrol tank up.
1923........................One for Billy (the Fat Owl) here, with an "No excuse for being fat" article, or one on horse racing, or he might fancy popping into town to pick up a new gaberdine raincoat for 62½p
1959............I used to drive one of these in the mid 1960s when I worked for Heinz as a merchandiser - gutted when I saw the van on my first day, as I didn't think Austin made them anymore
1893.......................
1941 - that's a helluva range they did! In the days when British engineering led the world. But where are they now?
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1919........................Stylish - lovely Art Deco period
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 22nd October 2023, 8:27 AM1973........................
You do love exposing your Dinky don't you.