> > By chance I saw a James May's Toy Stories episode at the w/e
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May's_Toy_Stories#The_Great_Train_R
> > ace
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> Wow!
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> Quote:
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> In "Airfix", he builds a full-sized model of a Spitfire WWII fighter plan=
e, using
> the plastic moulding and assembly technique used in the Airfix self-assem=
bly plastic
> toy scale model range. In "Plasticine", he models a full-sized garden out=
 of the toy
> modelling clay Plasticine, as an exhibit in the Chelsea Flower Show. In "=
Meccano",
> he builds a full-sized footbridge out of the mechanical construction toy =
range
> Meccano, to cross a canal in Liverpool. In "Scalextric", he reconstructs =
the
> Brooklands racing circuit in full size using the slot-car toy racing trac=
k used by
> the Scalextric range. In "Lego", he builds a full-sized house in Dorking =
out of the
> Lego toy model brick range. In "Hornby", he re-lays a railway track along=
 10 miles
> (16 km) of a disused full-sized railway, the Tarka Trail, using the 1:76.=
2 scale
> track used in the Hornby Railways model train range. Of the six episodes,=
 the Hornby
> attempt was the only one that failed; May revisited it in 2011 with a fol=
low-up
> episode, "The Great Train Race".
> A new edition, "Flight Club", focusing on an attempt to fly a balsa wood =
glider
> across the English Channel, aired just before Christmas 2012.[5]

I have Flight Club recorded, yet to find some time to watch it.

I know a guy who runs a model shop at Bideford, one end of the train run, a=
nd he reckoned that various larrikins were also sabotaging the first attemp=
t with the train, running bikes over the track, pinching batteries they wer=
e using, and various other bits that messed things up for them. I did like =
the way they ran the track through the flange groove at the railway crossin=
g so the cars could keep travelling without wrecking the track until the tr=
ains got there.

I enjoyed those series, and the imagination he put into them. It's the same=
 sort of 'outside the box' thinking that gets jobs done ...


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