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  • From: Modeling the Seaboard Air Line Ry.
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Posted by citylimits on Friday, September 19, 2008 10:34 PM

Whew, I'm glad that's all over now and you've all made up to one another.

It was kind of like watching a Friday night bar fight that had spilled out onto the street outside - some insults, misinterpretations and misunderstandings of what had been said, some stepping on a few sensitivities, a few wild swings that found home and then common sense prevailing at the end with some good on yer, mate, kind of back slapping - perhaps even some additional acknowledgement of another guys point of view with the return of fraternal feelings of well being replacing earlier pronouncements delivered from a high horse. And now we're all happy and a bit warn out from it all - exhausted and pleased to be able to return home again in one piece perhaps some a little bloodied and worse for wear, yet knowing that no matter what endeavors we pursue to make us happy there will always be some lone gunman out there oiling up his Peacemaker ready to take a shot at what we enjoy doing and endeavor to produce.

Semantics is just bullshit dressed up in a big girls blouse.

Cheers

Bruce (I don't know beans about scratchbuilding, but if it looks good then model it)

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  • From: Sydney, Australia
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Posted by marknewton on Friday, September 19, 2008 10:43 PM
 gunkhead wrote:
Well, for some good scratchbuilding advice, look in "The Boy's Book of Model Railroading" by Raymond F. Yates. You'll have to adjust the proportions for HO scale but it's good.

I wonder how useful a book published in 1951 would really be today, since it would predate the availability of styrene, ABS, lost-wax castings, photo-etching, custom decals, and many more products and raw materials we now take for granted. Still, I haven't seen it, so it may well be something worth having. Anyone else here seen it?

Cheers,

Mark.
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Posted by citylimits on Friday, September 19, 2008 10:46 PM

Quote: I'm still trying to figure out what "solipsitic" means.

 

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sol·ip·sism      (sŏl'ĭp-sĭz'əm, sō'lĭp-)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   Philosophy
  1. The theory that the self is the only thing that can be known and verified.
  2. The theory or view that the self is the only reality.


[Latin sōlus, alone; see s(w)e- in Indo-European roots + Latin ipse, self + -ism.]

sol'ip·sist n., sol'ip·sis'tic adj.

Enlitenment is just a Google shot awayWink [;)]

Cheers.

Bruce

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