Sam-371149

Well it’s started… he’s looking at an 8ft board and track pack add on’s haha.

I just want to say thank you to everyone who helped me make a decision on the set for my Dad. As you can see from the pictures, he loves it! Can’t wait to see it up and running. Merry Christmas everyone!

Thank you everyone for your feedback. I feel I may shatter some visions when I confess I am actually a daughter rather than son. But I’d rather have a motorbike or digger than make up and manicures any day. So maybe I am the Son he always wanted joy. I take all comments onboard - even the ones from the old boys 😉. Thank you. The Royal Scot seems to be hitting all the right nails. If it’s “too big”, he’s just have to fight with my Mum for more space / built something too high for her to reach. In terms of Gaugemaster (and I understand the rules), is there a “best bet” here? And sorry for the delay in response Mod note - as you didn’t take notice of the previous moderators advice not to use an extra carriage return, I have edited out the extra white space in your reply.

Thank you everyone for the feedback. And i’ll take on board the forum wording feedback.thumbsup He’ll likely be popping this on a large MDF board and make a purpose built area for it (he’s a retired builder so happy to make something). I believe steam would be his preference. Thank you for the detail around Controller options. I may just go economy to get him started - otherwise i’ll be needed a mortgage for all these bits 😂. Is there a good TT:120 set anyone would recommend which is comparable to the Royal Scot one at all? Something with a bit of nostalgia. Thanks again (and sorry about double line breaks - not sure how best remove and keep paragraphs)

Hi all, I was hoping for some advice please. My 73 year old Dad confessed a few weeks back he has always wanted a train set but never had one. Naturally I would like to make his dream come true for Christmas. I’d like to get him the R1283M BR ‘The Royal Scot” set. But I see it mentions their is no controller or wall transformer. https://uk.hornby.com/products/br-royal-scot-train-set-era-3-r1283m Please could someone let me know what we’d need to buy as well. He won’t want to be all fan dangaled and use an iPad etc, just some good ol’ buttons etc. thank you grinning RDS Mod Note: Welcome to the Forum. I have amended the title of you post to better identify your question. I have also removed all the extra line spaces. This forum automatically adds a line space each time you press ENTER.