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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WilliamDavid

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Posted at 20:35:11 Sun 27 Mar 2016

Worked alright for me, yesterday

But does it now?

Posted 20:35:11 Sun 27 Mar 2016

choralc

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Posted at 21:28:52 Sun 27 Mar 2016

Thank you Bulver. Should be home today. Got me a new train pack out of it

FNQ, Australia

Posted 21:28:52 Sun 27 Mar 2016

VESPA

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Posted at 08:18:44 Mon 28 Mar 2016

PANIC, PANIC!! I rooted out quite a few more photos of Rising Star on the net, to find out that my donor loco may nat be suitable after all without modification, more than number and name change. It was unique by having the battery box under the drivers side of the cab and having the sand fillers surrounded by a small metal box style arragement. The donor loco has a battery but on the running plate and the sand fillers are standard. So gloom set in for about two hours until I found a photo of the loco ex Doncaster works. That will be when you saw it PP. The extra sand filler attachments had been removed and it looks like the battery was relocated as in later photos I cannot see the battery under the cab. There is a big BUT here, neither can I find a photo of the fireman's side after the Doncaster visit, to see if the battery was relocated to the running plate as per most Brits. Can anyone help here?

VESPA

Posted 08:18:44 Mon 28 Mar 2016

VESPA

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Posted at 08:19:56 Mon 28 Mar 2016

Edit facility has disappeared as reported.

VESPA

Posted 08:19:56 Mon 28 Mar 2016

Postman Prat

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Posted at 17:04:07 Mon 28 Mar 2016

Hi Vespa

Rising Star seems to have been a very 'camera shy' loco. I've just been through 4 photoalbum type books and I found only 1 photo of it. Afraid that was the drivers side so I've admitted defeat. There are a few other books which I haven't looked at simply because they are so general that any Brits would be a minority type.

Sorry I can'thelp further.

Posted 17:04:07 Mon 28 Mar 2016

Postman Prat

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Posted at 11:13:15 Tue 29 Mar 2016

Hi Vespa

The first B/W shot --Bank Quay before the wires arrived?

Posted 11:13:15 Tue 29 Mar 2016

VESPA

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Posted at 12:20:12 Tue 29 Mar 2016

Hi PP yes, Bank Quay x4, home, Madeley and Dallam.

VESPA

Posted 12:20:12 Tue 29 Mar 2016

GreenGiraffe22

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Posted at 17:23:36 Tue 29 Mar 2016

Latest additions are Bachmann's SR PLV & some other wagons (have a couple more in the post too), I've decided recently to purchase a few from the other Big Four companies and other bits and pieces that might have made their way down south now that I seem to have collected nearly every SR wagon ever made... the layout is set during wartime so I guess almost anything could have ended up anywhere if it was needed? Plus it makes the goods trains a little more interestesting than comprising of nearly all various SR vent vans, aside from the military bits and pieces.