walkingthedog Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 It might be old but it looks great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choralc Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 Have fitted this and the Parcels No.34 with MyLocoSound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo1707820979 Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 @Bulver @WTD@choralc I must admit to "cheating" a bit. The No. 22 Railcar body is from an expired Lima loco which I fiited to a brand new Hornby frame and engine as I noticed an article mentioning both firms used the same chassis. So I now have a new Hornby Crimson body which I shall be selling on Fleabay sometime soon. Also the dead Lima ensemble (which I doubt anyone wants). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 Two more 'O' gauge kits arrived by post from Parkside. Both SR, one van and an 8 plank open. They will make up into really goods wagon models. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edvard4 Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 A very nice R3291XS Colas Class 56 with Sound....... A great price + a cup of coffee from a pal..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 A kind donation of 14 Wrenn BR 21 ton hopper wagons from a friend who is downsizing his collection arrived yesterday. These are fairly crude compared to later versions but will look OK as a rake behind my Hornby Dublo or Wrenn 8F, with a Wrenn LMR Guards van. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yelrow Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 2 locos from Mad March sale from Faversham Models, one hornby, one heljan. john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Postman Prat Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 A kind donation of 14 Wrenn BR 21 ton hopper wagons from a friend who is downsizing his collection arrived yesterday. These are fairly crude compared to later versions but will look OK as a rake behind my Hornby Dublo or Wrenn 8F, with a Wrenn LMR Guards van. They'll look good behind the Q6, as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teedoubleudee Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Hornby R3170 GWR Class 4900 "Adderley Hall" 4901 from Bure Valley Railway model shop. 😆 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulver Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 Just received the 'Duchess of Hamilton', R3339, what a masterpiece (my opinion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulver Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 Don't know what happened there! Most of my post has disappeared - oh blow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulver Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 Blimey, it's happened again, have we become a Twitter account, I ask? I'll give up on my ruminations on R3339 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hairy Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 Just had this nice Black 5 delivered: 😆/media/tinymce_upload/d2e55ca1434913497bcbe38f920357cb.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 The new Hornby Railroad 'Deltic' on two tone green arrived yesterday, and for its price I think it is excellent. I have carried out a few little 'improvements' to it. I have painted in red where the cut out for the buffer beam would be, and the shanks of the buffer guides too. Also I have painted the four triangular windows on the cab side black. Ideally these should be cut out, but a bit of black paint actually looks, from normal viewing distance, like they are glazed. My only 'complaint' was the packaging. Why does there have to be so much of it!? The outer cardboard box it came in was about ten times bigger than the actual locomotive box, and was chock full of those giant plastic 'Wotsits' . The actual locomotive box was wrapped round in a double layer of bubble wrap. The insert which contains the model in the locomotive box is expanded polystyrene and is a snug fit. I do appreciate the effort to ensure the model arrives at me in good condition, but surely this can be achieved using slightly fewer resources? On the same day Morgan Computers sent me a new Tablet and a Forward Facing Camera for the car, and these too arrived in boxes at least ten times bigger that the object they enclosed so Hornby is not alone in this. (They used air bags not Wotsits, but the result was the same!), so I couldn't move in my entrance hall for boxes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 Just a few more words about the Railroad Deltic.The model retains many of the Lima features including the moulded warning horns on the bonnet and the HO scale bogies. The story goes that Lima originally wanted to make the Deltic in HO scale because they already had a Class 33, a King and a LMS 4F in HO scale but changed their policy while the Deltic was under development and decided to make everything in OO in future. They had already tooled up the bogies for the Deltic and so rather than scrap them they moulded the body in OO but kept the bogies as they were. Unless you compare them to a scale drawing they are hardly noticable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulver Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 Sadly, my beautiful 'Duchess' , received yesterday, has to be returned, as one of the metal tyres on the fixed Cartazzi truck is loose - thought I'd got 3 wheels instead of 2! Customer services were great, fixed up collection for replacement, Shame really, as I had mistakenly ordered 2 on different dates during December without realising the fact (pre joining the club) and they went straight back yesterday. This model was ordered to allow me to take advantage of the 10% club discount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 A couple of 'Lionheart' gauge O wagons arrived in the afternoon post. A 'Berry Wiggins' tank wagon and a BR 1/109 mineral wagon. Returning to the theme of packaging, the wagons are in a similar box to those used by Hornby, with a cardboard outer and a moulded clear plastic inner. This inner grips the model tightly The two boxes were contained in a single corrugated cardboard box which simply enclosed the wagon packaging, with no bubble wrap, 'Wotsits' or any other padding. They both arrived safe and sound by Royal Mail, despite some minor damage to the cardboard outer packaging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edvard4 Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 A Hornby R4633 BR Mk 3 coach with lights, the last one that was in stock, you could tell too because the box was covered in black dust from the warehouse. Purchased with my 10% discount online, but actually would have been £1.24 cheaper if I had purchased from Fenwick of Canterbury with the concession doscount. That said it gave me a box full of wotsits I can re-use when selling one of my duplicates ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edvard4 Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Today 1 x R6709 Rudd wagon in load haul colours, picked it up at the Hornby Visitor Centre when I stopped in to have a coffee. 😎. Great place to have a cuppa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VESPA Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Last Saturday, an Oxford Radial Tank. Excellent model with all earlier nigglesmentioned in the model press, fixed.I also got a bottle of Micro Kristal Klear to attempt to make windows for a couple of locos. We will se how that goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulver Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 2 Dapol Kitmaster blood & custard Stanier kits, plus some rather nice coach wheels from DCC Concepts, and Pat Hammond's fine 2 part British Model Trains catalogue. All from the Ally Pally show today, couldn't justify £120 for 3 LMS Coronation coaches, much as I would have loved to have them! Also met some nice people from Southampton MRS, who knew my late brother, took a picture to show my sis-in-law next week. Their display was one of the best at the show, along with the 3 rail HD layout but the standard was, to me, as high as ever with all the displays. The Hornby stand had 2 nice layouts, but seemed smaller than when I last went, as did the Bachmann and Dapol stands, perhaps a sign of the pressures these companies are under. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twintop Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 I went to the model shop today and bought 4 x Railroaf MK1s in maroon for £12.95 each. (2 composites, 1 open second and 1 tourist open second). Also 2 R6712A packs of 3 BR 5 plank wagons. Bargain at £16.50 for each pack.That will have to be all I spend for a good while now as I have spent £220 in the last 3 weeks and its too nuch really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VESPA Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 Well over the last couple of days I have got myself 3 Bachmann Fish vans to go with my Hornby Blue Spot fish vans. I remember them well when train spotting as a youngster and the fishy smell they left behind. I also got my hands on a donor Britannia class Western Star, that will soon be Rising Star. I paid a bit over the odds for it but so what? If I want it I will buy it. I researched it fully to make sure that it was suitable and that took two days of looking at photos. Nearly all the earlier pictures I found had either smoke deflectors with hand rails or the WR deflectors but with a reversed later logo. The logo on the tender that the lion and wheel pointed forward. Eventually I found a photo of the logo facing to the rear as per the model. Luckily the real loco was never fitted with a speedo as per the model donor. Neither was it fitted with AWS, which I found rather strange being allocated to the WR. Small details but all that better. I was looking for a donor for Coeur De Lion 70007 and Royal Star 70028, The latter was fitted with LMR hand holds in the smoke deflectors. The donor loco, that I purchased just may have ended up as Polar Star but I plumped for Rising Star and ordered the nameplates. I am going to paint the brass handholds on the smoke delectors with brass paint as I cannot make out (YET) whether they later got painted black or left polished brass, that the WR seemed to like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Postman Prat Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 Hi Vespa Having seen a couple of Western Brits litrally within hours of coming out of Doncaster works. I recall them having polished brass handholds. I've seen the same thing in photos. I'm not saying they all were polished by any means but the scenario is established. The 2 I saw were 70016 and 70018. Hope that helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VESPA Posted March 27, 2016 Share Posted March 27, 2016 Hello PP, I have quite a few research photos and the vast majority show the hand holds as polished brass on the WR altered smoke deflectors, as you say. I also have some photos of Rising Star with, what looks like, the brass painted over in black. I think that I will be having my model with brass finish. I am not 100% certain but in my trainspotting days I think I got a photo of the loco that turned out blurred with camera shake, from my Brownie 127. I just wish I had all my Nikon gear then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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