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Recent content by Captain Caveman

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    Regional foods

    Isn't that a hare?
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    Regional foods

    Also within just one country there are regional foods. Take Wales in the UK. South Wales has rissoles and faggots which are both rare in North Wales and also rissoles are rare these days in other parts of the UK as in some places they are an endangered species as the prefer the coastal areas of...
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    Talking About Trains...

    0.3mm is also the smallest size my drill takes. Dare not use that size without a drill stand though and can hardly see it myself without using my reading glasses! Some of the smallest drill bits in my drill set could dissapear and I may not even notice! I have rarely used the smallest ones as I...
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    Talking About Trains...

    I have some drill bits I can hardly see. 0.3mm.
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    Talking About Trains...

    I will drill holes in the right places.
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    Talking About Trains...

    Progress on the build. Making underframe axlebox sides. (These may look a little crude, but they have come out nice and solid which is what I want.)
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    Talking About Trains...

    I made the body from card.
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    Talking About Trains...

    Waggon body...
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    I must teach an autistic girl.

    How does she think? What non-mathematical subjects is she good at or ok at? Why I mention this is because it may give an idea of how her mind thinks as to how to teach her basic maths in a way that she can grasp. Example with me and my Mum as we both differ in the way our minds think in...
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    True or False

    False. But this guy does? You nave a car that can touch 94.2mpg?
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    Talking About Trains...

    I am wondering if I have enough bits and pieces if I should make another one. It may not be quite the same, but it can be something like it.
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    Autistic Burnout--what was it like?

    It hits both mentally and physically. For me, a massive increase in shutdowns and partial shutdowns, along with it being hard to switch off at night so sleeping patterns are out. Trying to do things such as when I was in work feels like daily physical torture. Even small tasks feel like a...
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    Talking About Trains...

    Though much of my paint is old so some of it has been rescued, but brush painting models one uses larger brushes so one does not leave streeks, and then uses smaller brushes to highlite the smaller details. One of my brushes is less than half a 000 size though hand-to-eye co-ordination along...
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    Talking About Trains...

    The tin lid I use (There are my paints inside the tin) when I open and sturdy the paints with a screwdriver or something, and I wipe the screwdriver on the lid and I then use that paint on the little paintbrushs first so as to not waste paint. That is why there is paint on the tin lid. It also...
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