Model Railway - What's your latest acquisition?

The son of Triangman

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Posted at 07:59:15 Tue 19 Mar 2013

What's your latest aquisition?

Here's my latest purchase, a Tri-ang-Hornby R.754 M7 in BR Black livery.

The box was tatty, crew were missing and the BR totem transfers on the tank sides were part missing as per normal.

The model is slowly being restored, a fresh box mint was found on ebay with incorrect labels (the one on the right) and I have crew and original totem transfers a plenty in stock, I will post stages of the restoration at intervals for all my friends on here to see as they take place.

Here's the loco pre-restoration but with nice new original 40+ BR Totem transfers put on the side tanks, a packet of the original transfers is posed by the loco for reference.

Hope all at Hornby like what I am doing to their old locos.

Enjoy!

http://s157.photobucket.com/user/thetriangman/media/DSCF0063_zps3ff63c6a.jpg.html

http://s157.photobucket.com/user/thetriangman/media/DSCF0064_zps634965e3.jpg.html

http://s157.photobucket.com/user/thetriangman/media/DSCF0065_zpse2948e27.jpg.html

http://s157.photobucket.com/user/thetriangman/media/DSCF0066_zps04c86aff.jpg.html

http://s157.photobucket.com/user/thetriangman/media/DSCF0067-3_zpsdfd86c7c.jpg.html

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rayarpino

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Posted at 12:18:57 Sun 13 Oct 2013

Judith Edge models have a number of different pantographs available. Have you looked at the Sommerfeldt range?

Posted 12:18:57 Sun 13 Oct 2013

rayarpino

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Posted at 12:27:24 Sun 13 Oct 2013

Back to latest acquisitions. Mine go back a bit since they were the lovely Hornby Sandringham (top marks! The equivalent in quality from a German company would be at least double the price and more...(I pity German railways modellers in this respect, certainly

not for the quality of their models) and going back a little further in time, the other company's limited edition GCR Butler Henderson, that also gets top marks. The latter induces me to appeal, as others have done before, for more, more and more smaller mainline

engines. Pacifics can be marvellous and most of them are, but why do I feel there are enough of them. How many more A1/2/3 and A4 variations are we going to have to put up with? And they are generally too large for most layouts. So let's have more 4-4-0's

and Atlantics from the big four and in pre-grouping livery.

Posted 12:27:24 Sun 13 Oct 2013

LC&DR

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Posted at 13:26:47 Sun 13 Oct 2013

Thanks Ray,

I haven't tried either yet, but I will.

rayarpino said:

Judith Edge models have a number of different pantographs available. Have you looked at the Sommerfeldt range?

Posted 13:26:47 Sun 13 Oct 2013

LC&DR

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Posted at 13:42:13 Sun 13 Oct 2013

Actually today I went to the Harrogate toy fair, and got -

R355R No 9 'Polly' (Sorry WTD)
R54/R32 Class 23 Pacific in excellent condition
R38 Spare tender for 34051
Jouef 1-4-1R
Jouef 2-3-1K - I did threaten to start collecting French

stuff. The detail is very good, better than I expected.
M709 RMS Ivernia
M711 RMS Carinthia

There was a boxed original Rovex train - set (pre-Triang) for £180. The coaches were showing signs of Banana-ing, but the box itself looked OK. Didn't

buy it though. Already have the contents unboxed and in better condition.

Posted 13:42:13 Sun 13 Oct 2013

walkingthedog

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Posted at 13:51:54 Sun 13 Oct 2013

What condition were the Minic ships in LC?

I've stopped buying them now, got the one I didn't get when I was a boy SS France a few years ago. Sometimes get the odd Navis warship. Last one I got was a Navis LCI(L) and a Mercator Normandie.

I

forgive you for buying Polly.

Posted 13:51:54 Sun 13 Oct 2013

poliss

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Posted at 14:10:08 Sun 13 Oct 2013

Tri-ang Minic ships are still in production and the range is being expanded.

Posted 14:10:08 Sun 13 Oct 2013

Postman Prat

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Posted at 14:16:38 Sun 13 Oct 2013

Hi WTD

The France was a beautiful ship and internally she was streets ahead of anything else around at that time, even beating QEII (internally one of my favourites was 'New Amsterdam' but that's a different story.)

I got a good range

of photos on her first visit to Southampton as the 'Norway', including one showing a guy doing a painting of her in oils. I saw the finished original about 4-5 years ago and it was not a let-down.

Posted 14:16:38 Sun 13 Oct 2013

walkingthedog

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Posted at 14:20:58 Sun 13 Oct 2013

poliss said:

Tri-ang Minic ships are still in production and the range is being expanded.

I know poliss but they are not as good as the originals even less detail. The warships are very poor.

Navis ships are out of this

world for detail as are Mercator.

Posted 14:20:58 Sun 13 Oct 2013

walkingthedog

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Posted at 14:23:36 Sun 13 Oct 2013

Postman Prat said:

Hi WTD

The France was a beautiful ship and internally she was streets ahead of anything else around at that time, even beating QEII (internally one of my favourites was 'New Amsterdam' but that's a different

story.)

I got a good range of photos on her first visit to Southampton as the 'Norway', including one showing a guy doing a painting of her in oils. I saw the finished original about 4-5 years ago and it was not a let-down.

Hi PP

I

never saw the ship as Norway but did see France many times, what a beauty. Only trouble with the Minic version is that it doesn't have the wings on the funnels. Might make some and add them if I can find a good drawing of them.

Posted 14:23:36 Sun 13 Oct 2013

LC&DR

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Posted at 16:59:43 Sun 13 Oct 2013

Unboxed, fair condition, very few chips, but minus masts and derricks. I have just made out an order to Steve Flowers for replicas. Carinthia is a bit dusty but Ivernia is clean.

I restarted collecting them only recently but have done well in toyfairs

where some dealers really have no idea about what they are. They can sometimes turn up at the bottom of a box of die-cast cars.

I do buy the new ones, but agree that they are not as good as the old Triang ones.

walkingthedog said:

What

condition were the Minic ships in LC?

I've stopped buying them now, got the one I didn't get when I was a boy SS France a few years ago. Sometimes get the odd Navis warship. Last one I got was a Navis LCI(L) and a Mercator Normandie.

I forgive

you for buying Polly.

Posted 16:59:43 Sun 13 Oct 2013

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