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by ChrisGreaves
Sun Feb 28, 2021 1:03 pm
Forum: Model Railway Shop
Topic: In praise of online shopping
Replies: 10
Views: 1541

Re: In praise of online shopping

... There is no option for me but to order from an online supplier. ... And then I found myself browsing a thread by Ironduke: Picnic Creek - An US N gauge train set with superb models and components such as angle-brackets from a 3D printer. That would be a path to follow. Instead of buying a Kitma...
by ChrisGreaves
Fri Feb 26, 2021 10:01 am
Forum: Model Railway Shop
Topic: In praise of online shopping
Replies: 10
Views: 1541

Re: In praise of online shopping

I don't think there are any suppliers in Hutt River Province. Prince Leonard passed away recently. Hi captrees! I know, and I know. The latest podcast can be found at https://wildwapodcast.com/episodes/. OTOH there remains scope for an extensive garden layout with no gradients! O-scale to full-size...
by ChrisGreaves
Thu Feb 25, 2021 9:52 pm
Forum: Model Railway Shop
Topic: In praise of online shopping
Replies: 10
Views: 1541

Re: In praise of online shopping

... Anyone have a realistic figure for the number of brick-and-mortar stores in England? The UK? This is a good site. https://www.ukmodelshops.co.uk/ Thanks BigMeet. The first page showed 54 shops, of which perhaps 10% were closed, and I saw that we had 15 pages, so assuming 90% of 54 shops times 1...
by ChrisGreaves
Wed Feb 24, 2021 12:36 pm
Forum: Model Railway Shop
Topic: In praise of online shopping
Replies: 10
Views: 1541

Re: In praise of online shopping

To be honest Chris there's a lot of posts on specific model shops already within the forum. Thanks End2end, and to continue being honest, I did see the various lists. I'll present two examples here, both in England: (1) Model railway shops in Manchester while led me to GREATER MANCHESTER MODEL SHOP...
by ChrisGreaves
Tue Feb 23, 2021 10:56 pm
Forum: Competitions
Topic: Future Competition
Replies: 22
Views: 4374

Re: Future Competition

... Press Ctrl + W. A box will appear giving you changable dimensions named "STRETCH AND SKEW" ... This will change the apparent size of the picture (in the MSWord document), but it will not change the size (in Bytes) of the image file, and hence it will not change the overall size of the...
by ChrisGreaves
Tue Feb 23, 2021 10:41 pm
Forum: Model Railway Shop
Topic: In praise of online shopping
Replies: 10
Views: 1541

In praise of online shopping

I'm new here and busy reading through old posts. MAN but you guys write a lot ...(grin!). (but see below!) Sixty years ago there were two or three model train shops in Perth Western Australia, which did me no good because we lived 230 miles to the east. Still and all into my teenage years (high scho...