Model Railway - What's your latest acquisition?

Just bought a Ticket to ride the trains being hauled by Tornado and the Flying Scotsman at the Severn Valley Railway ,this Thursday 22nd sept ,,and a flying Scotsman NRM version r2441 ,,both from eBay ,,,,,,

Hi,

My favourite engine has always been the Stirling single and, after unsatisfactory attempts at modifying the blue box Emily that has too many out of scale elements but can be turned into a good 'impression' of the real thing, for want of anything else, were it only because the drive train is really good mechanically though the driving and cab wheels are not to scale, I turned my attention to an old unbuilt Kitmaster kit. This is much closer to scale but the problem is motorizing it. There is very little room in the boiler and powering the driving wheels only would not be satisfactory. I was still tinkering with it when I came upon such an adaptation on fleabay. I purchased it on the spot because the ad had lots of photographs indicating it was an unbelievably professional build, highly detailed and extremely well painted and lined. If the unknown builder reads this, my congratulations. This model has a top grade power unit in the tender driving the the two end axles and it works beautifully, I must admit, though I generally don't like tender drive. If anyone out there can tell me how to post pictures on this forum, I'll glady do it. I am eager to see what will come out of the Shildon shop Thanks. 

A HORNBY r6777 2016 Christmas wagon and a new electric kettle ,,,,

Today I was given by my wife an R3284tts flying Scotsman. Wow brilliant model and stunning sound files.

She is destined to head a rake of Pullman coaches on my new garden railway (the loco that is not my wife)

Dave

 Ray

re attaching picture of your Stirling single, "If anyone out there can tell me how to post pictures on this forum, I'll glady do it. I am eager to see what will come out of the Shildon shop Thanks". 

When you create the post, look at the line along the top of the bit where you type your message and click on the little black square with tiny mountain picture in it. (it is just next to the smiley face).

That should open a new little box which asks you to browse. and clicking on that should then take you to your file explorer, where you can select your picture. You have to have already taken a digital photo first of course and saved it there as a .jpg file.

You will have to wait it to be moderated which usually happens on a weekday, so it will be Monday morning at least before we all get to see it.

I have a couple of Kitmaster models of this loco, one made up, the other with parts missing, and I do think these are handsome locos. I have not motorised mine.

Stirling single:

Thanks LCDR, here are the pictures. I hope the modeller who built it sees this and provides us with commentary about his work. I will be changing the driving wheels with Gibson's since the model strangely retains the Kitmaster plastic parts.

Bought another rebuilt pat body tender and box! With a rebuilt scot body. Add a working Chassis, mix and cook for 30mins. = British Legion.  Oh and a black 5. 

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R3327, the S15 in SR Green. Couldn't resist.