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    #16
    Re: Function Help Please

    Made a couple of small changes. Use this one instead of the original.

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      #17
      Re: Function Help Please

      Hi Jeff,

      You are a STAR. The code is exactly what I needed. I can now use the Job Queue as is, and can customize it in between jobs.

      Richard did get back to me, and I purchased v8 last night. O'h boy does it look GOOD. I'm sure glad you suggested doing the code in v8.

      This help will save me loads of valuable time which I can spend on my customers models, which are backing up like hot cakes.

      This started and still is a HOBBY, but I get great pleasure out of making their locos look like the real thing, and gives me a bit of pocket money to boot.

      Are you sure I cannot send you some money for doing this precious work for me?

      If you ever need a Locomotive Weathering, Email me at [email protected] and I'll do it for you FOC with the greatest of pleasure.

      BTW: You may be interested in my website "under construction - again, in between jobs" at:- http://www.railwaymodels4u.co.uk

      Kindest regards,

      Ant.

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        #18
        Re: Function Help Please

        Ant.

        You are most welcome. I am glad you like it.

        I am glad you went with V8 too. It really is nice.

        Nope, no need to pay me anything. Your thanks was payment enough.

        The couple of pics I saw on your site look awesome. You are truly gifted. Are there pics of the weathered locos on there anywhere. I couldn't find them. You might not have time to get photos posted. I had one quesiton. Does the term weathering mean just what it implies. You make the locomotives look like they have been out in the weather versus being shiny and new looking? You have a repainting process for the locos to make them look this weathered? I know - that's a lot of questions, I do have an inquisitive mind.

        Regards,

        Jeff

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          #19
          Re: Function Help Please

          Hi Jeff,

          Thanks. I've been doing a bit here and there, but is now waiting the have the products entered. The two locos that are on one of the pages are there as examples of weathering, but are acting as place holders at present. They will be mostly images of Buildings.

          Eventually all images will open a larger image when clicked on and will take you to the Ordering Page. My wife makes up the Buildings from card kits, and I weather them before they are sold. Locos are donor Models from customers who send them to me for weathering or re-spray to a different livery.

          You are correct, weathering is to make them look as though they have been in service for some time and are ageing in the sun, which also includes getting rusty. It's hard to see the process in the example images on the site, but if you have a look a bit later on, they will all be up there.

          The only time one would a loco in a shiny state would be when it comes out of workshops having been re-sprayed or is new having just come out of the loco works. Within about two to three miles on the track, they begin to pick up dirt, dust, and oil along with soot from the exhuast on a diesel, or ash and soot on a steam loco. Then as rain is mixed with that lot, it beds it'self in and is then baked on in the sun. Cleaning never get it all off and after a few weeks they look as though they have been in service for some years. In fact in 99.9% of cases they will have been. Some British diesel locos were built in the 50's/60's and are still in service having undergone an engine re-fit a few times and, each time the loco is moved to a different company it gets a re-livery and major overhaul a bit like new shoes and coat; to start the same process again. Some Modellers like the Prestine and kept in boxes or in glass cabinets as collectors, but thoses like me; like them dirty and running on the layout like the real thing, but in miniture.

          We get locos from all over the globe, so there goes the old saying "where there's muck there's (pocket:) ) money".

          Thanks once again for your kind help, and the offer's always open if you ever get into Model Railways you know where to come to get them dirty, and or advice. FOC.

          Kindest regards,

          Ant.

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