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The Baby Boeing

2nd April 2018 Æthelberht 1494 Comments

I think most of us here don’t get terribly excited at the thought of the Boeing 737. It’s quite mundane, unremarkable, pedestrian even. I suspect more than a few of us here have been herded [more…]

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Shunting Prototypes

13th March 2018 Sweaty Dave 2126 Comments

Work on the layout has slowed a little with the recent weather disruptions affecting routines. The successful completion of the cyclists/ Sweeney run was also the closing of a chapter. As you can see Wiggins [more…]

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Gmbd, something about pixels

10th March 2018 Gmbd 1035 Comments

I looked at some of these videos where they put another head over a bit of film and I thought; “that seems to wobble about a bit, I wonder how they do that because I [more…]

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Shunting into February

19th February 2018 Sweaty Dave 1782 Comments

Thank you for all your kind comments upon this series of posts. As you’ve probably noticed the cyclists aren’t as reliable as they need to be, and that has been bothering me. They’re meant to [more…]

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Shunting towards Spring

11th February 2018 Sweaty Dave 2078 Comments

Following the terrible van attack witnessed in last month’s instalment, I am pleased to inform you that the cyclists have survived and are in good health. A kink in the road at the top of [more…]

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A Balls-Up in and out of the Barracks

30th January 2018 Going Postal 2741 Comments

Everyday dental life in the Clinic was fairly normal. Normal that is if I had been used to working in a practice with limited equipment and materials, alongside three other dentists, one of whom had [more…]

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Shunting into January

23rd January 2018 Sweaty Dave 2070 Comments

Shunting on Finally back into the routine after something of a hiatus during the Christmas period. I had been looking forward to the break to get ahead, but the opposite occurred. Not only due to [more…]

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6th January 2018 El Cnutador 2222 Comments

“Commodore VIC-20” by Soupmeister is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 So there I was, at 16, with my Commodore 64, a Programmers Reference Guide and no assembler, translating assembly instructions into hexadecimal opcodes, by hand, [more…]

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Shunting Puzzle, Part Three

2nd January 2018 Sweaty Dave 2289 Comments

Christmas Lull – Shunting on slowly Last time you saw a relatively quick transformation of my winter project – from bare shelf which was hollowed out, wired up, a baseboard added, ramp, rails and magnorail [more…]

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