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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    it's raining sideways out there.  putting xtra duct tape on my rain poncho  

    Thor's day sogginess

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,234
    edited September 2016

    Back in the '90s my other half and I had a "Z" scale setup on about a 2x3 foot plywood board.  No fancy mountains but we did have a double oval with a trainyard in the center.  A circus train, a freight train and a trolly along with assorted village buildings, roads, trees and power lines.  I wired all the switch controls into an empty VHS tape case.  Our plan was to build a coffee table around it under glass but he died before it was completed and I ended up selling it and other hobbies we'd done together.

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  • Jan19Jan19 Posts: 1,109
    edited September 2016
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Back in the '90s my other half and I had a "Z" scale setup on about a 2x3 foot plywood board.  No fancy mountains but we did have a double oval with a trainyard in the center.  A circus train, a freight train and a trolly along with assorted village buildings, roads, trees and power lines.  I wired all the switch controls into an empty VHS tape case.  Our plan was to build a coffee table around it under glass but he died before it was completed and I ended up selling it and other hobbies we'd done together.

    It's hard for me to think of selling anything that belonged to my husband. sad​  Lord knows, we fought like tigers, but I sure miss him.

     

     

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  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    Jan19 said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Back in the '90s my other half and I had a "Z" scale setup on about a 2x3 foot plywood board.  No fancy mountains but we did have a double oval with a trainyard in the center.  A circus train, a freight train and a trolly along with assorted village buildings, roads, trees and power lines.  I wired all the switch controls into an empty VHS tape case.  Our plan was to build a coffee table around it under glass but he died before it was completed and I ended up selling it and other hobbies we'd done together.

    It's hard for me to think of selling anything that belonged to my husband. sad​  Lord knows, we fought like tigers, but I sure miss him.

     

     

    I am so with you there Jan. OK I know it's still very new and thus raw to me, but I do keep thinking about a clear out of some stuff.  Thinking is as far as it has got so far.  We never fought though. I think that makes it harder.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,132
    edited September 2016

    ...yeah my other big hobby was scale display and R/C aircraft. 

    Both have also changed as pretty much now all the best most accurate display scale models are imports (with much higher prices) while R/C had moved into the micro electronic/digital age.  Electric motors are making inroads into the hobby (making it less obnoxious to the surrounding neighbours) as well as actual scale turbofan engines (something pretty much only the idle rich can afford to play with).   With the advent of lightweight cameras you can now effectively "climb into the cockpit".

    If money was no issue the hobby I really would like to et into is high power rocketry. These are not your little cardboard and balsa wood Estes rockets, these are the real thing.  One team actually managed to launch a solid fuel rocket 73 miles above the earth.

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,234
    Jan19 said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Back in the '90s my other half and I had a "Z" scale setup on about a 2x3 foot plywood board.  No fancy mountains but we did have a double oval with a trainyard in the center.  A circus train, a freight train and a trolly along with assorted village buildings, roads, trees and power lines.  I wired all the switch controls into an empty VHS tape case.  Our plan was to build a coffee table around it under glass but he died before it was completed and I ended up selling it and other hobbies we'd done together.

    It's hard for me to think of selling anything that belonged to my husband. sad​  Lord knows, we fought like tigers, but I sure miss him.

    I was not happy about selling stuff.  If I had my 'druthers I'd 'druther keep stuff.  But losing your income & home for 7 years tends to affect one's priorities.  I have photos, recordings, and memories and in the end I won't be able to take any of that with me anyway.  It was just things.  Besides, I learned a long time ago attachments are the cause of pain.  I learned to let go.

     

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    Morning. Steel grey sky with an empty promise of rain and a swelling scent scent of Jasmine in the not-too-cool-today air a little after dawn :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    Chohole said:
    Jan19 said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Back in the '90s my other half and I had a "Z" scale setup on about a 2x3 foot plywood board.  No fancy mountains but we did have a double oval with a trainyard in the center.  A circus train, a freight train and a trolly along with assorted village buildings, roads, trees and power lines.  I wired all the switch controls into an empty VHS tape case.  Our plan was to build a coffee table around it under glass but he died before it was completed and I ended up selling it and other hobbies we'd done together.

    It's hard for me to think of selling anything that belonged to my husband. sad​  Lord knows, we fought like tigers, but I sure miss him.

     

     

    I am so with you there Jan. OK I know it's still very new and thus raw to me, but I do keep thinking about a clear out of some stuff.  Thinking is as far as it has got so far.  We never fought though. I think that makes it harder.

    *hugz*

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,352
    ps1borg said:
    Chohole said:
    Jan19 said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Back in the '90s my other half and I had a "Z" scale setup on about a 2x3 foot plywood board.  No fancy mountains but we did have a double oval with a trainyard in the center.  A circus train, a freight train and a trolly along with assorted village buildings, roads, trees and power lines.  I wired all the switch controls into an empty VHS tape case.  Our plan was to build a coffee table around it under glass but he died before it was completed and I ended up selling it and other hobbies we'd done together.

    It's hard for me to think of selling anything that belonged to my husband. sad​  Lord knows, we fought like tigers, but I sure miss him.

     

     

    I am so with you there Jan. OK I know it's still very new and thus raw to me, but I do keep thinking about a clear out of some stuff.  Thinking is as far as it has got so far.  We never fought though. I think that makes it harder.

    *hugz*

    hugs all around.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,431

    Second BSoD of the night complaint

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

     

    hurricane spposedly comin.

    hermine.   her-my-knee?

    miss kulay, thinks we under same storm

    Some wind and rain from tropical storm late; otherwise, overcast

    ENE 26 km/h

    Gusts: 70 km/h

  • Jan19Jan19 Posts: 1,109
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Jan19 said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Back in the '90s my other half and I had a "Z" scale setup on about a 2x3 foot plywood board.  No fancy mountains but we did have a double oval with a trainyard in the center.  A circus train, a freight train and a trolly along with assorted village buildings, roads, trees and power lines.  I wired all the switch controls into an empty VHS tape case.  Our plan was to build a coffee table around it under glass but he died before it was completed and I ended up selling it and other hobbies we'd done together.

    It's hard for me to think of selling anything that belonged to my husband. sad​  Lord knows, we fought like tigers, but I sure miss him.

    I was not happy about selling stuff.  If I had my 'druthers I'd 'druther keep stuff.  But losing your income & home for 7 years tends to affect one's priorities.  I have photos, recordings, and memories and in the end I won't be able to take any of that with me anyway.  It was just things.  Besides, I learned a long time ago attachments are the cause of pain.  I learned to let go.

    No, no -- I'm not criticizing.  I'm sorry if I gave that impression.  I wish I could let go.  That's a huge problem.

    I'm very sorry for your loss.

     

  • Jan19Jan19 Posts: 1,109
    Chohole said:
    Jan19 said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Back in the '90s my other half and I had a "Z" scale setup on about a 2x3 foot plywood board.  No fancy mountains but we did have a double oval with a trainyard in the center.  A circus train, a freight train and a trolly along with assorted village buildings, roads, trees and power lines.  I wired all the switch controls into an empty VHS tape case.  Our plan was to build a coffee table around it under glass but he died before it was completed and I ended up selling it and other hobbies we'd done together.

    It's hard for me to think of selling anything that belonged to my husband. sad​  Lord knows, we fought like tigers, but I sure miss him.

     

     

    I am so with you there Jan. OK I know it's still very new and thus raw to me, but I do keep thinking about a clear out of some stuff.  Thinking is as far as it has got so far.  We never fought though. I think that makes it harder.

    I'm sorry, Cho.  I wondered.  I'm very sorry.  I remember your stage, I think.  That does pass.  I promise.

     

  • Jan19Jan19 Posts: 1,109
    Tjohn said:
    ps1borg said:
    Chohole said:
    Jan19 said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Back in the '90s my other half and I had a "Z" scale setup on about a 2x3 foot plywood board.  No fancy mountains but we did have a double oval with a trainyard in the center.  A circus train, a freight train and a trolly along with assorted village buildings, roads, trees and power lines.  I wired all the switch controls into an empty VHS tape case.  Our plan was to build a coffee table around it under glass but he died before it was completed and I ended up selling it and other hobbies we'd done together.

    It's hard for me to think of selling anything that belonged to my husband. sad​  Lord knows, we fought like tigers, but I sure miss him.

     

     

    I am so with you there Jan. OK I know it's still very new and thus raw to me, but I do keep thinking about a clear out of some stuff.  Thinking is as far as it has got so far.  We never fought though. I think that makes it harder.

    *hugz*

    hugs all around.

    Thank you.  smiley​ 

     

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Kulay Wolf said:

    Second BSoD of the night complaint

     

    head scr'ch  bsod?

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,431
    MistyMist said:
    Kulay Wolf said:

    Second BSoD of the night complaint

     

    head scr'ch  bsod?

    Boo Screen of Death

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,709
    MistyMist said:

    hurricane spposedly comin.

    hermine.   her-my-knee?

    Rhymes with "air mean"

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    oh, that dont sound healthy

     

    sigh, craving a cosmo. haz to wait for tmorrow.

    big plans to watch space balls tomorrow.  ludicrous speed.  full-stop?!

  • Jan19Jan19 Posts: 1,109
    edited September 2016
    MistyMist said:

    oh, that dont sound healthy

    ​​Everybody here -- no, I'm exaggerating -- some are freaking out, all over the place.  Code Red Alerts, Stay Inside warnings...nobody down here stays inside all day.

    I don't intend to notice a thing. laugh​  Please, Universe, don't take me seriously. 

    Just give me a few minutes of calm to take the damn dog out, and I'll be ok.

     

     

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  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,322
    McGyver said:

    That's cool and weirdly coincidental... (Not sure when I wrote my post... I don't pat attention to me, but...) yesterday I dumped a bunch of coffee (enough to make at least two gallons) into a two liter orange juice bottle and stuck it in the fridge with the intent of leaving it there for a couple of days until it just cold brewed itself out... I'll filter it out using first a steel mesh strainer and then one of those old fashioned cloth "socks"... But, it's good to know that works... Secondary coincidence... I too have used coffee grinds and tea leaves for scale dirt, fallen foliage and other special effects details. I've done a bunch of HO scale modules for people years ago... I moved from HO indoor to G scale (actually mostly 1/24 scale) outdoor modules with full landscaping... Some could weigh tons due to the dirt and concrete rockscaping... I actually still have what's left of a 30 ft x 30ft demo set in the far back of my yard... Sadly, it's been quite destroyed by a neighbor's contractor knocking down an large oak tree onto it, two hurricanes of damage and several million squirrel attacks... It was pretty cool, had a complex working irrigation and drainage system where the streets drained via actual sewers, full street and interior lighting, working streams and waterfalls, paved streets (real scale asphalt), dwarf trees, miniature plants and mosses, structures with full interior details with the actual buildings cast in a special thin set concrete, the some interiors had figures inside that were cast in elastomeric resins with separately made clothing (cut from a specally prepared polymer material that had scale draping and stretch characteristics)... The figures were each a project onto themselves as they were posable due to an internal flexible skeleton added to the mold before the resin was injected... People who were into this stuff would get blown away when I'd pick up a figure and reposition it from sitting to standing, because the figures didn't have weird action figure joints, but natural looking limbs... There wasn't much track (more or less point to point), and I myself only had one RC train to run on it as a demo, but I started to build an R34 style NYC subway car (and partially finish one station)... In addition to the trains I made 1/24 scale RC automobiles... Those were a pain because I had to fit all the guts under the hood and in the trunk, as I hate blacked out windows and partial interiors... I didn't make many of those... four or five maybe... The rechargeable batteries were crap back then and would barely last five minutes, less if I turned on the lights... It was pretty cool and lasted about ten years outside with basic maintenance, but when the idiot knocked the tree over on it, it created so many places where water could get into the interior structure that despite fixing everything, eventually water rotted out the electric system and substructure and several sections collapsed... I gave up on repairing it and when the economy tanked nobody wanted these kind of things anymore so I lost interest in constantly fixing it... Besides all that, what I charged as "hobbyist fees" was significantly different from my prototyping fees, so it really was barely worth it once the fun was gone... 

    I suppose the set could do a stand-in as a model of one of the nuked towns from Fallout 4 now... Megh, I get really annoyed when I talk about this... I should go check that coffee and see if it's anywhere near done... 

    I build in Z Scale, because people are downsizing and want small layouts. The economy hasn't hit me that hard, I'm pretty specialized. I just took a tape measure to a layout I'm working on now, to be certain... It's 7.5" X 25.5". A full oval. I thought about adding a siding.

    The last layout I sold was inside a coffee table. The customer provided the table. Paid a decent hourly amount, and it still didn't cost as much as the table did. It was a real antique, but she didn't care. She wanted a train set!

  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,322
    kyoto kid said:

    ...you don't by chance have a scale model of Devil's Tower in your dining room....do you? wink

    Kidding aside,  I used to mess around with model railroading (indoors N-Scale due to space limits).  Had a pretty nice cetup back when I was still in HS. which included a lot of Euorpean locomotive and carriage sets which I bought when I was over in Germany (the dollar was very strong back then and the duty free limit reasonably high). Actually had the full set of the TEE (Trans Europ Express) as well as various freight and loal passenger carriages and locomotives.  Yeah made for an "internationally eclectic" setup seeing DB trains running next to Union Pacific, Burlington, Penn Central, and Santa Fe.

    Unfortunately when I went off to college, younger members of the family relation got into it and pretty much most of it was either gone or broken.  Now I have plenty of time, but no space and no money as it has become quite an expensive hobby these days (especially considering the motors for N-gauge locomotives are almost akin to Swiss watch movements).

    Have you looked at Z Scale? Those suckers are tiny!

  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,322
    edited September 2016

    How's this? Z Scale:

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    3648 x 2736 - 7M
    P9012934.JPG
    3648 x 2736 - 6M
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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,234
    edited September 2016
    Jan19 said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Jan19 said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Back in the '90s my other half and I had a "Z" scale setup on about a 2x3 foot plywood board.  No fancy mountains but we did have a double oval with a trainyard in the center.  A circus train, a freight train and a trolly along with assorted village buildings, roads, trees and power lines.  I wired all the switch controls into an empty VHS tape case.  Our plan was to build a coffee table around it under glass but he died before it was completed and I ended up selling it and other hobbies we'd done together.

    It's hard for me to think of selling anything that belonged to my husband. sad​  Lord knows, we fought like tigers, but I sure miss him.

    I was not happy about selling stuff.  If I had my 'druthers I'd 'druther keep stuff.  But losing your income & home for 7 years tends to affect one's priorities.  I have photos, recordings, and memories and in the end I won't be able to take any of that with me anyway.  It was just things.  Besides, I learned a long time ago attachments are the cause of pain.  I learned to let go.

    No, no -- I'm not criticizing.  I'm sorry if I gave that impression.  I wish I could let go.  That's a huge problem.

    I'm very sorry for your loss.

    And I'm not retorting.  Sorry if I gave that impression.  Just explaining my lack of emotion over not keeping stuff.  Besides if one were able to acquire and keep everything, where would one put it? surprise  Hugs.

     

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,234
    Petercat said:

    How's this? Z Scale:

    Yep, that's the stuff. smiley

     

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,097
    Jan19 said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Back in the '90s my other half and I had a "Z" scale setup on about a 2x3 foot plywood board.  No fancy mountains but we did have a double oval with a trainyard in the center.  A circus train, a freight train and a trolly along with assorted village buildings, roads, trees and power lines.  I wired all the switch controls into an empty VHS tape case.  Our plan was to build a coffee table around it under glass but he died before it was completed and I ended up selling it and other hobbies we'd done together.

    It's hard for me to think of selling anything that belonged to my husband. sad​  Lord knows, we fought like tigers, but I sure miss him.

     

     

    I'm pretty sure when I kick the bucket, my wife is gonna rent a bulldozer... Not one of those piddly little backhoes, or bobcats... I'm talking one of those big tracked D11s with the big ripper blades in the back, and she is gonna run over all my crap till its in tiny pieces, dig a big hole, push it in and set it all on fire. No maliciousness to it, I just think that after 25 years, she is sick of it all, all my junk, all my contraptions, all of the weird stuff nobody but me knows what it's for... I'm pretty sure one of my daughters is gonna take most of the tools and some of the sci fi stuff, but the rest is bulldozer fodder.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Jan19 said:
    MistyMist said:

    oh, that dont sound healthy

    ​​Everybody here -- no, I'm exaggerating -- some are freaking out, all over the place.  Code Red Alerts, Stay Inside warnings...nobody down here stays inside all day.

    I don't intend to notice a thing. laugh​  Please, Universe, don't take me seriously. 

    Just give me a few minutes of calm to take the damn dog out, and I'll be ok.

     

     

    wind is making noisier. not scared yet, cautious is the feeling.

    house owner is tellin me to bring my lil patio table inside, he has worries wind could blow it and damage stuff.
    said supermarket crowded people stocking up.

    i'm worried about wifi going down.

    batteries, flashlight. charging phones.  worst case i haz mars bars non-perishable.

     

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,132
    MistyMist said:

     

    hurricane spposedly comin.

    hermine.   her-my-knee?

    miss kulay, thinks we under same storm

    Some wind and rain from tropical storm late; otherwise, overcast

    ENE 26 km/h

    Gusts: 70 km/h

    ...nah, listened to a couple reports where it was pronounced:  her - mee - nee

    Hermione would have been better.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,366
    Jan19 said:
    MistyMist said:
    Jan19 said:
    MistyMist said:

    why do i get all jazzed thinkin about skimpy vivki outfits on gianni6?  is it a vitamin deficiency thing?

    ROFL.  That is hilarious.  Dude Looks Like a Lady. laugh 

    Lord, do let me get off the Aerosmith kick.  No, no, I don't want to.

     

     

    do it, lol  y'know yoo wanna

    I ought to, I guess.  laugh​  All right, no more dude posts.

    That song still cracks me up though.  What's not cracked already, that is.

    It is raining cats and dogs here.  Whew.

    Better stay inside...that could hurt!  Especially if one of those really big dogs lands on you!  laugh 

    Dana

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,352

    Down to using names I never heard before. Have they used Throckmorton, or Wilhelmina? I've heard of them.

  • Jan19Jan19 Posts: 1,109
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Jan19 said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Jan19 said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Back in the '90s my other half and I had a "Z" scale setup on about a 2x3 foot plywood board.  No fancy mountains but we did have a double oval with a trainyard in the center.  A circus train, a freight train and a trolly along with assorted village buildings, roads, trees and power lines.  I wired all the switch controls into an empty VHS tape case.  Our plan was to build a coffee table around it under glass but he died before it was completed and I ended up selling it and other hobbies we'd done together.

    It's hard for me to think of selling anything that belonged to my husband. sad​  Lord knows, we fought like tigers, but I sure miss him.

    I was not happy about selling stuff.  If I had my 'druthers I'd 'druther keep stuff.  But losing your income & home for 7 years tends to affect one's priorities.  I have photos, recordings, and memories and in the end I won't be able to take any of that with me anyway.  It was just things.  Besides, I learned a long time ago attachments are the cause of pain.  I learned to let go.

    No, no -- I'm not criticizing.  I'm sorry if I gave that impression.  I wish I could let go.  That's a huge problem.

    I'm very sorry for your loss.

    And I'm not retorting.  Sorry if I gave that impression.  Just explaining my lack of emotion over not keeping stuff.  Besides if one were able to acquire and keep everything, where would one put it? surprise  Hugs.

    Hugs back. :-)

     

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