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@@Cristake1974 last summer I rebuilt the folded cloth roof using styrene. The original plastic part went missing many moons ago!

@@Cristake1974 yes, shoes are definitely a form of transport. I've just finished glueing a pair of my own, but I definitely think my wife's ones are more striking 😁

@@patricksmodels You know that we, Romanians, were led by the Megapresidente "Ceaucescu", whom older handicraft was cobbler... 😂

@@Cristake1974 I know the man, I went to visit his birthplace in Scornicești in 2016 on my way to Turnu Severin. He was a shoe maker, but in 1989 "gli hanno fatto le scarpe", to use an Italian figure of speech, and "è rimasto con le scarpe al sole" in Tirgoviste (that's another Italian military slang expression dating back to WW1, there is only one very unpleasant situation when one's shoe soles are exposed to the sun).

@@attuslebeard5133 the Padua city council seems to think the same about the grass along the orbital road.

@@attuslebeard5133 those Sulzer engines make nice sounds

@@paulvozman842 yes, I'm finally using up my stock of clippings!

@@Cristake1974 I definitely endorse the association of the late and much lamented, but immortal, Olivia Newton-John and bodywork. Returning to our less glamorous styrene bodywork, this method is much faster. On applications where sturdiness and flexibility are required, as on the railcar the same method could be employed using 0.75 thickness styrene applied on a vertical frame of profiles of the same thickness.

@@patricksmodels Let the Newtonian (vectorial) forces be with us!

@@Cristake1974 when I read Newton, my mind also associates Helmut Newton, who photographed some of the most stunning women in the world!

@@patricksmodels Didn-t know, thanks for the info! :)

@@Cristake1974 look him up, there are some interesting photos. When I was a teenager I used to hang around one of Padova's main bookshops, reading through all the expensive stuff I couldn't afford and I saw a large poster of one of Helmut Newton's most famous photos and I was captured. I've been interested in photography since I was a boy, my Scottish grandfather was an excellent amateur photographer. One of Newton's muses was the divine British actress Charlotte Rampling, who also performed in the great Romanian film Asfalt Tango by Nea Caranfil, starring Mircea Diaconu, from the Argeș county "my" part of Romania. He also starred in another of my favourite Romanian films, Filantropica, still by Nea Caranfil, alongside the great Gheorghe Dinică and Mara Nicolescu. Mentioning Asfalt Tango, I must add a black Volga M21 to my collection of models!

Yes, the vegetation is too abundant, to say the "management" of CFR is lacking is being kind, and this was 10 years ago, nowadays things are even worse. In the meantime they built the new Pitesti railway station, demolishing the old building, that was part of the original stations of this line, when it could gave easily been integrated into the modernisation. The flooring in the new station is made of gloss light brown tiles, that look permanently filthy, an effect that is amplified by the "cleaning" staff, who wash them with the same black water, spreading the dirt left and right. At least the escalators were working the last time I was there in 2019, unlike on Bucratest's Pasajul Basarab in 2018, when they were all out of service because the municipality wasn't paying the constructor Astaldi for the infrastructure operating maintenance (as per contract), so everybody had to climb the stairs to reach the tram stop on the bridge.

2019 was the last time I used the train to travel from Bucharest to Pitesti, nowadays we rent a car at Otopeni and drive.

@@patricksmodels For the personal comfort, it's the best way. CFR is ill, very ill. In not quite fewer cases, the speed of some trains is worse than 100 years ago - or sometimes, even than of first era trains...

@@Cristake1974 when I first travelled on CFR trains between Timisoara and Pitești 20 years ago I was impressed. The infrastructure was old, but you could see it was maintained with pride, 20 years later it's an utter disgrace, the "management" has been feasting on the railway, to the expense of the normal citizen. At least this is my opinion, just in case some CFR big-wig reads this and gets offended 😅😅. I'm quite sure they spend plenty of time looking at their smartphones while they're filling space in their comfortable offices, at least between naps 😴

@@patricksmodels Until a certain moment, each locomotive had a stable crew. This is why they (the locomotives) always looked clean and shiny, I mean clean outside and clean inside. Man and machine, to use a kraftwerkesque term. Every rail station was excellent looking, clean platforms, flowers, benches etc. CFR was called back then ”the second army”, due to such things. When the crew was not the same for each loco, the situation gradually altered and sometimes one could see a kind of zombie locomotive doing its duty - rust, dirt etc. Today, the best routes are miraculously rented to private operators, while CFR goes in losses with ”leftovers” routes.

I'll publish an update video this evening, I've fitted part of the skin in the meantime.

Thanks, I'm going to print out the decals tomorrow. I didn't know Francesco Dall'Armi. What beautiful paintings, thanks for sharing this piece of information!

Thank you! I'll be posting more truck videos.

@@MegaBreadvan yes, that unexpected fire engine is definitely a bonus! I confirm there was an Ikarus-DAF collaboration in the 90s.

@@tracynation2820 thank you! Greetings from Padua, Italy.

@@Cristake1974 my phone was overheating and the image froze, your laptop is fine. I'm gradually emptying the phone memory with 11,000 plus photos in it.

@@Cristake1974 it has rained in the meantime, nights are pleasant now and there's a temperature difference when you're in the shade during the day. Last week it was a permanent sauna.

​@@Cristake1974 yes, I was thinking about that draisine, it's much flatter than the standard one that has the roof and screens of the DAC/Rocat 112 UDM bus. I'll post that photo on Instagram and on a status post here.

@@jetmec I went to school in Italy so I was taught metric, but I learnt imperial at home. When I was 9 my grandfather gave me my first camera, an ancient 6x6 film bellows one, with the focus in feet. I'm a bit rusty when thinking about measurements under an inch though. At primary school my teacher, considering I was half Scottish, made me do a research and presentation on Imperial measurements. That was a long time ago!

@@jetmec this empirical method to calculate the correspondence between PTs and real scale measurements can be applied to imperial too. I could make another video and polish up my knowledge of imperial.

@@Cristake1974 yes Dacias of all models. More to come. I've not seen a daily driver Oltcit for years.

@@Cristake1974 😅😅 angry miners are not to be taken lightly, they have a heavy hand!

😀🤣😅😂👍👍👍👍

@@Imieitrenimodello grazie!

@@ArcadiaJunctionModelTrains I've got another Lima V100 shunter to convert into a railbus, this time I'm going to try and use the original chassis fitting a lower cur upper body and panelling over the chassis down to the leaf springs. The balsa chads is great, but it's extremely labour intensive.

@@railway187 I'd quite like to obtain a result similar to a real CFR Malaxa Class 77 using my composite styrene and balsa technique. I'm considering a red and silver livery for the next V100 based project, as well as trying to reuse the locomotive chassis. The balsa chassis of my first railbus is good, but it was very labour intensive.

@@patricksmodels Hi Patrick, I am looking forward to the result! I have worked with original chassis for my railway draisine/crane and I feel that as a result the draisine sits much to high. The motor chassis for the UK chassis came from a job lot of unrepairable rolling stock (of which most of it is repaired and running anyhow now) and it came without chassis and body shell (and some parts of the motor were missing too). That forced me to make an own chassis and I feel that the railbus sits just a little bit better on it, in comparison to the draisine. But yes, much easier with the original chassis, so I look forward to seeing your technique on that!

@@Imieitrenimodello yes they are really beautiful!

@@Cristake1974 I didn't know about the livery nicknames. This one does look like a leaping dolphin! In 2012 this red and silver livery was brand new, previously the Class 77s wore the yellow and green livery. In 2007 I filmed one with the older dark red and silver livery. It's a pity that nowadays graffiti have spread to Romania and many trains look a bit messy.

@@attuslebeard5133 I like the colours, even if I'm more conservative in livery application, preferring horizontal lines. Maybe I'm still traumatised by all the diagonal stripes that appeared when British bus services were deregulated in the mid 80s 😅😅

@@patricksmodels Yes I know what you mean - my local buses (East Yorkshire) used to be a very smart navy blue with cream stripe and gold lettering. Now they are a horrible patchwork of yellow, orange, red and light brown

@@attuslebeard5133 let's not mention the notorious Barbie bus livery of "Last Bus" 🤣. Glasgow's buses were painted in various combinations of green , yellow and some white, green and yellow being the city colours. Then they switched to "Strathclyde red" and black in the 80s, the red being actually orange, but that colour has a certain "colour" in Scotland 😉. And then came Last Bus with it's sickly livery, that reminds me of cheap and nasty chewing gum. Edinburgh fared better, Lothian was never sold off and madder and cream still ply the capital's streets in an updated version.

@@patricksmodels Yes certainly lots of livery changes - I did quite like the SPT orange and black and the following Carmine and cream on the various EMU and DMU types. I certainly won't be adding any barbie items to my bus and train collections🤢

@@attuslebeard5133 the orange and black livery was originally applied only to the railink buses, the famous single deck Atlanteans, then it was extended to the entire bus fleet. The last version of the green and yellow livery, with the black lower deck window surrounds was also very nice.

@@raymondleggs5508 this is my first one, it needs a good clean and lubrication. It must have been run on a carpet by the amount of fluff on the pick-ups. I've got four Kleinbahn Viennese suburban coaches, an orange 1980s coach and an FS silver painted goods wagon (of the type used to carry foodstuffs).

@@Cristake1974 that water crane is interesting, I might have a go at making one from scratch. I'll look up some information in the Romanian water cranes, what's the specific Romanian term for this piece of equipment?

@@patricksmodels ”Coloană hidraulică” or ”coloană de apă” or, (more casual) ”pompă de apă”. Coloană means column, the rest do not need translation. It would be good, if search on the web, to add a ”CFR” or ”feroviară” particle to these terms, just to refine the results.

@@Cristake1974Mulțumesc, I'll do a search, I've got an idea for the internal illumination.

@@MegaBreadvan more car videos will be trundling along.

@@Imieitrenimodello yes, there was quite a lot of work also because it was my very first attempt at making a scratch build.

@@Cristake1974 my father in law's first private car was a Trabant, bought second hand in Bucharest, because cars from the capital were always in better condition than the ones in Muntenia. He bought it in 1978 and kept it until 1982 when he changed it for his first Dacia 1300, another ex Bucarest car. Before the Trabant he was using the Aro M461 freight taxi "Taxi Marfă" he was issued with as a driver of the local IGO company "Întreprindere Gospodărească Orășenească" or City Services Company. He's still working as a taxi driver, several Dacias l(he's lost count of how many 1310s he's gone through) and two Logans later. Nowadays he drives a Dacia Sandero Stepway. He became an independent taxi driver in 1991. He's told me several stories about the Trabant.

@@Imieitrenimodello I've got a few Trabants in HO scale, both saloon and station wagon.

@@Cristake1974 yes, such videos are a good source of inspiration.

@@Imieitrenimodello thank you! These old videos, that I never had the occasion to publish, bring back happy memories.

@@Cristake1974 thanks! I'm taking advantage of the hot weather to defrost the fridge.

@@Imieitrenimodello Grazie Alberto! Come mai hai disattivato i commenti? Hai avuto qualche problema? Salutoni da Padova, dove questa sera si respira un po' meglio. Ha fatto un caldo pazzesco tutta la settimana.