Thank you, I'll dedicate a video to it and to some of my other Brumm models.

In the post 1990 times, in a hospital in Moscow, an old men, war veteran, and a younger one, a so-called "novyy Russki" - a citizen which got very rich, by various business and meanings, not necessarily very orthodox (the meanings, I mean), are both internee in the same hospital ward. At one point, as it is normal, they started to talk, to avoid getting bored etc. Both of them are plastered, injured and bruised. - Hey, grandpa, why are you here? Age related problems? - No, son, not really. You see, I have an old Zaporozhets car, I love it, and one day I thought it would be good to make some improvements. As I had in the garage a Messerschmitt engine, he,he - war trophy, I replaced the original motor with this German beast and then I got out on the highway, to see what it is capable. Of course, when I did accelerate, it got so fast that I only stopped with my car in a trunk of a tree... and here I am, in this hospital ward. What about you, why are you here? - Well, grandpa, I was driving my brand new Lamborghini on the highway, when all of a sudden, I was outrun, in an infernal speed, by a poor bloody Zaporozhets. Knowing that such a thing is not possible, I thought my car is out of gear, so I opened the door to get out and see what's the problem..

​@@Cristake1974Ha ha ha, that's a good one! 😂😂😂

I'm recording on my phone, I always try to speak clearly and towards the microphone. I'll have to get an external mic with a jack. Does it sound muffled throughout the whole video or only in specific parts?

These collections are interesting, but on the long run they can become expensive. There are loads of first issues on the market, like that Romilly coach or my Corbellini Italian ones. What BR stock did you collect? I'll have a look through your channel tonight. Any dedicated videos? Cheers from Padova, Italy.

@@ArcadiaJunctionModelTrains I'll try and source some more O.E. coaches in future, they'd look well behind my Jouef 231C60 sausage motor locomotive or with my Lima FS E656.

@@Cristake1974 I've seen the Simplon Orient Express close up on more than one occasion, but never managed to photograph or film it. I remember seeing it crossing the Ponte della Libertà bridge over to Venice, hauled by an E656, what a spectacle. But I was driving my car in the opposite direction leaving Venice. I also like Roxette, I've got a couple of audiocassettes, must remember to put them in the Panda, the only place I can enjoy cassettes at the moment.

@@patricksmodels E656 is very beautiful, it must have been lo...oking indeed superb with the Orient Express. 🤩

@@MegaBreadvan the van body is in fibreglass. This pick-up has a particularly high ride, they probably fitted Aro 10 springs to improve ground clearance on broken country roads. The Aro 10 is a lightweight off-road car, in the same class as the Lada Niva, that uses Dacia R12 components.

@@patricksmodels Yes I've seen an ARO in France once. Can't say they are very common here. The pick up looks like it does the job. Not built for speed, but robust for carrying stuff around rural areas.

@@MegaBreadvan Ten years ago father in law had an Aro 10 for a couple of years as a second car for going to the country. He sold it on when they eventually surfaced their road in the village of Aref. I made a test drive video in 2014, I'll edit everything into a single video and publish it.

@@patricksmodels That'll be interesting viewing. Some of the roads around here get large pot holes during the Winter. If I were to hit one at speed in my crappy van, then it'd just smash a MacPherson strut.

Ho intenzione di fare il telaio mancante del vagone letto in balsa, con carrelli Jouef di recupero. La cassa è completa di tutto. I dettagli sottocassa li farò in balsa e con pezzi di recupero da sprue di kit di montaggio.

@@Cristake1974 Mr Bean would definitely be doing it with his tongue sticking out, and no doubt cause a major disaster. In the meantime I've also fitted the second one, the result is very satisfying. Have a good beginning of the week!

@@Imieitrenimodello thank you, it's based on the colours worn by Società Veneta trains.

@@raymondleggs5508 it's similar, but I based this blue and white livery on the one used by Società Veneta, a private railway company that operated secondary lines in Northern and Central Italy. This colour scheme is still worn by the trains on the Ferrovia Udine-Cividale in Friuli in North Eastern Italy. Blue and white was also the ministerial livery assigned to interurban tramways in the 1930s, I'll dedicate a video to traditional Italian public transport liveries.

@@Cristake1974 in fact I could try and print the logos on a sheet of silver artwork paper. Thanks for the suggestion! I'm giving it a try right now.

@@railway187 Thank you Erik. Today I made a couple more decal-related videos. They're coming up in the next days.

Yes, all very underground! 😅

@@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).

@@patricksmodels Very interesting slang, especially due to its WW1 dating. Thanks!

@@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.