{"id":3738,"date":"2024-02-03T02:30:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T02:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/saturday-variety-22\/"},"modified":"2024-02-03T02:30:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T02:30:17","slug":"saturday-variety-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/saturday-variety-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Variety"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sub-Standard Seven-hundred Seats<\/span><\/p>\n To create a wide aisle for standees, there was no gap between seats, leaving inadequate width for fbb’s admittedly ample posterior.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n UIt looked magnificant …<\/p>\n … but did suffer from an appalling vamndal attack.<\/p><\/div>\n So why all green?<\/p>\n A Puzzle Picture<\/span><\/p>\n When Trams Ruled The Roads<\/span><\/p>\n …\u00a0 from a grand wood-panelled terminal building.<\/p>\n The terminal still had a touch of excitement even in the 1970s. But way, wa back you would walk up the ramp, through the building and there, lined up outside, would be “trams to all parts”<\/p><\/div>\n Transfers Or Tampo For TTA Tanks<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n The rest of the lettering is a single colour but\u00a0 the transfers are crude and thick.<\/p>\n Later you were lucky to get one colour printing, helped by the yellow shell and the yellow tank!<\/p>\n By the time Bachmann came along, Tampo printing was the technology available. (Tampo is a brand name). A rubber blob picks up the image from an inked metal plate and “stamps” it on the model. Because of the high quality of the “stuff” you get high quality multi coloured print which can be very small.<\/p>\n The print on the solebar is barely legible.<\/p>\n The new Hornby model is even better, so much so that fbb’s cheapo mobile phone could not focus small enough in the light conditions available as this blog was prepared. (It’s yer depth of field, mate – again!).<\/p>\n The phones didn’t like the white on green …<\/p>\n … but just about coped with the solebar.<\/p>\n Astounding!<\/p><\/div>\n