The son of Triangman

Latest aquisitions L.ma Class 40 D205 mint boxed, L.ma Class 47 Two Tone Green Mint boxed, Two Gr.h.m Farish Pullman Diner Coaches, Hornby R.122 BR Hymek mint boxed, Hornby R.878 Class 25 Diesel Two Tone Green, box of ringfield field magnets early sort, new armature re-winding/winding machine.

N gauge is very tempting and I have the feeling I'm going to become an N gauge addict!

Latest aquisiton a large trade box of N gauge coaches from the Blue box outfit.

The Greatest Gathering more A4's than the Great gathering!

Yup good idea LC&DR. The trade deal was too good to turn away so I snapped them up, also got a box of 8f's and tender bodies and a box of BR Green Duchess's

For all you A4 fans http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/thetriangman/DSCN0359_zps4fa72337.jpg http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/thetriangman/DSCN0358_zps1b248fdd.jpg http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/thetriangman/DSCN0362_zps7202a99a.jpg

Latest aquisitionm two big boxes of A4 bodies.

"Jinites" never carried LMS Maroon livery in LMS service, an example at Butterly Midland Railway Museum has appeared as 16440 in LMS Maroon livery and Br Marron/Red in preservation. Hornby have modelled 16440 a few times over the years. The jinty in the mail set is in LMS Maroon so caries a fictional livery.

The codename strikeforce set will be a collectors item in time if wellc ared for and the box put away carefully. On the plus side the mail train will be more fun and is realistic apart from the jinty livery.

Quite possibly LC&DR, such oddities turn up now and then. I found a pink Jinty with Tri-ang BR double arrows a while ago! I stripped her back to the plastic and reliveried the loco into LMS livery, it made a nice loco.

I mean showing

Side shot of an 08 that came in for tlc shoeing the later BR steam era Totem Transfer in situ. http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/thetriangman/DSCF0004_zps107d0163.jpg

They did indeed sell the princess transfers LC&DR and late and early BR totems, GWR 8751 transfers were available and others. strangely the BR roundel transfers weren't on the trade list but odd ones turn up on the "bay" sometimes. Transfers were sold to the trade for repair work mainly. Tri-ang Transfers Early BR Lion Riding Wheel, Light Yellow later BR Totem and post 1965 BR steam late totems. http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/thetriangman/DSCF0016_zpsc05f1d0b.jpg http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/thetriangman/DSCF0008_zpsa15b432e.jpg http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/thetriangman/DSCF0009_zps9825965f.jpg http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/thetriangman/DSCF0015_zps2fd770db.jpg

Totally agree PP, we need more small locos. I agree LC&DR the pantographs are hard to find. The Maroon steeple cab is a very rare version, it's always had a working pantograph and carries the BR roundel instead of the usual TR symbol, I've only ever seen one other like it with the BR roundel and that was 30 odd years ago in a junk box at an indoor fleamarket in Newark-on-Trent. It was bought from a trade fair from the Tri-ang stand around 1962, instructions say 1962. It has been out of it's box 3 times in all the years I have known it. Would be worth a mint if it came to general market.

For EM2 fans http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/thetriangman/DSCF0065-1.jpg

For my friends here, a little of the collection I inherited for you all to see http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/thetriangman/DSCN0289_zps79b929fe.jpg http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/thetriangman/DSCN0290_zps0d1ed42a.jpg http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/thetriangman/DSCN0288_zps201bce73.jpg http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/thetriangman/DSCN0286_zps7e6a35c3.jpg http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/thetriangman/DSCN0292_zps475e5950.jpg http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/thetriangman/DSCN0293_zps0a924507.jpg http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/thetriangman/DSCN0294_zpscfebc2a5.jpg http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/thetriangman/DSCN0297_zps90eeb118.jpg http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/thetriangman/DSCN0299_zps084dca25.jpg http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/thetriangman/DSCN0298_zpsea476c03.jpg

Steeple cabs were always hard to get hold of and always sought after even when new. Their appeal hasn't changed they are still sought after models. I have two mint boxed examples in the collection. They would command silly money today if I were to sell them.

Yup, the Tri-ang diesel 0-4-0 shunter is a nice little shunter, it would make a good club or railroad model. Catalouge number for the loco is R.559, it was also realed in train sets in vairous colours and as a clockwork model too. The rarest version is the bright red R.858 Battlespace version, usually as part of the Satellite Set, I was fortunate to come across an individually boxed example of the battlespace shunter some years back so a few must have found their way into boxes.

The Postal service is getting worse since the government decided to privatise it. They have lost 4 of my customers parcels in the last six months. One parcel was returned to us as the customer was on holiday, they didn't put a card thorugh my door or my customers but sent it back to my local post office. It sat there for a month before I went into the post office up the road and then the postmaster mentioned he was holding a returned parcek for me. Both myself and the customer were totally mystified as to where it had gone.

Will keep you all posted as restoration continiues

Yes indeedy, top coat spraying the other side deflector this afternoon, then touching in paint areas. Going to be a nice examplpe of it's kind. I love these projects, next job is a boxed Hornby 1973 margate made R.450 fowler 2P(former Tri-ang L1 moudling).

Hope these links work LC&DR http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/thetriangman/DSCN0270_zps1e651661.jpg Loco showing broken deflector sitting next to loco and replacement sprayed and fitted. http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/thetriangman/DSCN0272_zpsd60142bc.jpg

http://s157.photobucket.com/user/thetriangman/media/DSCN0271_zps635cdaf0.jpg.html?filters[user]=43692067&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=0 http://s157.photobucket.com/user/thetriangman/media/DSCN0272_zpsd60142bc.jpg.html?filters[user]=43692067&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=2 Here's the loco, just got to top coat the other deflector and fit it's nameplate and then detail up the deflector handrails. The loco body is coming along nicely with just touching in and minor varnish issues to sort. The loco chassis is a different proposition and needs two new driving wheels which of course I have in my stocks.

Totally agree LC&DR. It's so rewarding to see a former wreck come back to life, the loco looked so sad sitting in a pile of locos and dross on the chaps shelf and I was there on holiday with some spare cash so I bought it, it just had to be saved, it will be a beauty when it's done. I found a box last week at Holt toy and train fair, we had a small stall there selling new and s/h loco bodies and new Hornby and D.pol and whilst we were setting up I went rummaging on another traders stall and found a good box with sleeve. Just need a box plastic liner tray now.

Latest personal aquistions are a tired 1974 Margate made Hornby Britannia, bought as a rainy day restoration project along with 6 Maroon MK1's and an LMS brake Van, and two of those cheapo part work magazine Mk1's. The Britannia was on a model shops "graveyard" shelf in Sheringham, and I took pity on it. It's slowly coming back to life, I airbrushed a spare set of smoke deflectors gloss black yesterday as one of the oiginal gloss black ones had been bodge repaired at sometime and looked terrible. New nameplates and a full paintwork overhaul await, along with a full chassis and motor rebuild. It had one side of broken valve gear and the cylinders were tired, the motor is in good fettle but will be fully overhauled, still have to hunt out from the stock of parts I keep a tneder ladder. Going to be a nice loco.