LCDR Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 How many of you are members? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rog RJ Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Not me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fazy Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 I didn't fancy rolling up my left trouser leg showing my left nipal and doing some strange hand shack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Postman Prat Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 I'm not a member (never heard of it) The initiation outlinned by Fazy makes it sound like fun ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Somebody must be a member. LC can't be the only one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted December 21, 2015 Author Share Posted December 21, 2015 I think I know the nom-de-plume of at least one other contributor to this forum. If you like Tri-ang and collect it, and run it, you really ought to be a member, and support it. There is strength in numbers! AND it isn't limited to Tri-ang OO trains either, but all Lines products. Sorry Fazy and PP there is no initiation ceremony, sounds like a fun idea if there was, but we are much more sensible!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffnut Thorston Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 I think I know the nom-de-plume of at least one other contributor to this forum. If you like Tri-ang and collect it, and run it, you really ought to be a member, and support it. There is strength in numbers! AND it isn't limited to Tri-ang OO trains either, but all Lines products. Sorry Fazy and PP there is no initiation ceremony, sounds like a fun idea if there was, but we are much more sensible!!I wonder who that could be? ;) I do agreee that the Tri-ang Society is the home of lots of useful information, and there is a twice a year (at present) magazine for members, for which articles are always required! There is a web-site, and a Yahoo Group as well! /media/tinymce_upload/c2f0ed546f380a315901a12872d9a125.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffnut Thorston Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 I think I know the nom-de-plume of at least one other contributor to this forum. If you like Tri-ang and collect it, and run it, you really ought to be a member, and support it. There is strength in numbers! AND it isn't limited to Tri-ang OO trains either, but all Lines products. Sorry Fazy and PP there is no initiation ceremony, sounds like a fun idea if there was, but we are much more sensible!!I wonder who that could be? ;) One thing about the Tri-ang Society is that all members have a number....R.XXX! (XXX is where your number would go!). So, the initiation ceremony could be you looking up which models carried your mebership number... With the re-use of some R. numbers, you may find more than one model as well! So....yes, I am a Tri-ang Society Member...... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dynax Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 i don't think that my becoming a member would be appreciated somehow, i do collect triang and i do run them but i also butcher them into something else, my latest butchery is a rake of pullmans that i am repainting in a ficticious blue pullman livery and a brake coach that is being butchered to make an observation coach, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted December 24, 2015 Author Share Posted December 24, 2015 Yes Sarah, very true! I am a set of six catenary adaptors, page 16 of the 7th Tri-ang catalogue.or maybe County of Bedford! I do like your recent contributions to TT. buy the way. More please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted December 24, 2015 Author Share Posted December 24, 2015 i don't think that my becoming a member would be appreciated somehow, i do collect triang and i do run them but i also butcher them into something else, my latest butchery is a rake of pullmans that i am repainting in a ficticious blue pullman livery and a brake coach that is being butchered to make an observation coach,There isn't anything wrong with that, the society magazine occasionally includes features about just such projects. Unlike some groups the Triang Society is a 'broad church' and welcomes all types of interest in Lines products. And it is not just trains either. I have used plenty of Tri-ang locos and rolling stock as a basis for new types. One of my earliest was to use a Tri-ang Princess Elizabeth R50 to motorise a Kitmaster 'Biggin Hill'. Their Mark 1 coaches are still providing me with raw material. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffnut Thorston Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 The Tri-ang Telegraph...The Journal of the Tri-ang Society....covers from 2015.... /media/tinymce_upload/1a52b2bb1e17df6b8db6e724e7abc74f.jpg/media/tinymce_upload/34ee4c8c736b9a2738d25f3a39a82202.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffnut Thorston Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 i don't think that my becoming a member would be appreciated somehow, i do collect triang and i do run them but i also butcher them into something else, my latest butchery is a rake of pullmans that i am repainting in a ficticious blue pullman livery and a brake coach that is being butchered to make an observation coach,There isn't anything wrong with that, the society magazine occasionally includes features about just such projects. Unlike some groups the Triang Society is a 'broad church' and welcomes all types of interest in Lines products. And it is not just trains either.That is true...there is a whole subject of "Genuine Fakes" for starters... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffnut Thorston Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 A Tri-ang Rebuilt Merchant Navy....Made from Airfix/ Dapol "Biggin Hill" parts, Tri-ang "Winston Churchill" Wheels and pony truck, and cut down tender. Based on a Tri-ang R.259 "Britannia".... It needs finishing! ;) /media/tinymce_upload/d3193dde46eb2c4b4561b8737bc7e315.JPG/media/tinymce_upload/878fd4bcb06c57c81d3b367a0bd1434d.JPG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted December 24, 2015 Author Share Posted December 24, 2015 /media/tinymce_upload/a21a35f2c800171f2c7de4c87f4fda90.JPG Not sure if it is a 'fake' or not but I bought a Maroon R155 Switcher at a toy fair that someone had repainted green but had put R53 Princess Elkizabeth cab side transfers on. (see above) . Not yet made up my mind whether to strip the fake livery off or leave it as a curiosity. Fortunately it was cheap, and it does go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dynax Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 the green looks ok, but i would be tempted to restore it, give it a nice gloss finish and run it as a preserved loco, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2e0dtoeric Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Looking at Sarah's image of the May 65 mag, there must have been a dreadful crash there, because the rail lines go through the smokebox and left tank of the Jinty, and through the cab of the Electric! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Postman Prat Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Hi Sarah The 'Merchant' looks good - be better finished!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo1707820979 Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Could someone PLEASE give a few details about this mysterious Triang Club. Is there any connection with the Triads ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted December 29, 2015 Author Share Posted December 29, 2015 If you are interested why not visit their website. And if you want to join the application form is here -http://www.tri-angsociety.co.uk//applform.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffnut Thorston Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 /media/tinymce_upload/a21a35f2c800171f2c7de4c87f4fda90.JPG Not sure if it is a 'fake' or not but I bought a Maroon R155 Switcher at a toy fair that someone had repainted green but had put R53 Princess Elkizabeth cab side transfers on. (see above) . Not yet made up my mind whether to strip the fake livery off or leave it as a curiosity. Fortunately it was cheap, and it does go.Now that is interesting.I wonder how the maker got hold of the transfers, as they were not on general release!Possibly via a Service Dealer?I don't think it was a Tri-ang exhibition layout model, the body screw recesses are in red? Or is that the old body colour coming through? Thanks to Admin for clearing the photo uploads! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted December 30, 2015 Author Share Posted December 30, 2015 The red is the original body colour coming through. When I found it it was dumped in a boxful of 'non-runners' and as such was dirt cheap. I had a few spares for the EMB so I quickly returned it to running order. It is the paint scheme that has got me mystified. Why disguise it as a Princess? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo1707820979 Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Thanks LC for the link to the Application Form. Much obliged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo1707820979 Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Just received a Transcontinental Observation Coach (last series). Will now try to upload a photo.Seems to have worked. Excuse the A30 van driving on the platform. Must have been in a hurry./media/tinymce_upload/d5e46da0b9a0e44e0282668f5c58b121.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted January 1, 2016 Author Share Posted January 1, 2016 That isn't Wallace & Grommit in the van is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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