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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The son of Triangman

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Posted at 17:31:50 Mon 11 Nov 2013

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

Posted 17:31:50 Mon 11 Nov 2013

the ferret

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Posted at 20:19:44 Tue 12 Nov 2013

I wanted a 25 ton Southern "Pillbox" Goods Brake Van. The local model shop said "Sorry, sold out of those a long time ago."

Then I went with John Spratley to Stroud Model Railway Exhibition. And there was my brake van!!

I am also kitbuilding

a Mink 'A' GWR goods van and a Container on Flat Truck vehicle. You used to see whole trains of these in the 1950s.

Posted 20:19:44 Tue 12 Nov 2013

LC&DR

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Posted at 06:48:43 Wed 13 Nov 2013

Southampton was the principal port for South America, so a lot of Argentinian and Brazilian meat arrived there, and was loaded into containers and put on wagons to come up to London on the LSW main line. Some went to Smithfield but a lot was then sent

forward to other towns and cities. So your container wagons might have a lot of meat containers loaded on them. Sometimes they were the only wagon type on a train.
I had already built a lot of 'Pill Box' brakes (both 25 and 15 ton versions) from Cambrian

kits before the blue box company brought theirs out.

the ferret said:

I wanted a 25 ton Southern "Pillbox" Goods Brake Van. The local model shop said "Sorry, sold out of those a long time ago."

Then I went with John Spratley to

Stroud Model Railway Exhibition. And there was my brake van!!

I am also kitbuilding a Mink 'A' GWR goods van and a Container on Flat Truck vehicle. You used to see whole trains of these in the 1950s.

Posted 06:48:43 Wed 13 Nov 2013

LC&DR

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Posted at 11:58:09 Thu 14 Nov 2013

Strictly speaking this isn't a new acquisition because I have had the kits in my possession over ten years, but I have today finished making a set of four Phoenix Maunsell high window corridor carriages. The kit is for the Restriction 1 version which are

narrower than the ones Hornby make, which gives them a slab sided appearance with hardly any 'tumblehome' (that is the curve under at the bottom of the body.)

Next up probably will be a DC Kits 6S DEMU.

Posted 11:58:09 Thu 14 Nov 2013

2e0dtoeric

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Posted at 12:25:27 Sat 16 Nov 2013

I'll probably get banned for mentioning it, because I got a rival company's heavily discounted GBRf 66 so that I can swap the body-shell for their noisy Freightliner 66 shell, which doesn't look right in front of a rake of maroon (pretend West Coast) coaches!

I'd have preferred an EWS shell, but they seem to be like gold hen's teeth. I know there's one made as a special, due around Easter next year, from a shop near me.

Posted 12:25:27 Sat 16 Nov 2013

LC&DR

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Posted at 16:32:32 Sat 16 Nov 2013

Oh I forgot, I received the ACE trains Metropolitan 150th Anniversary set this week.

Posted 16:32:32 Sat 16 Nov 2013

Postman Prat

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Posted at 16:58:40 Sat 16 Nov 2013

65 years old? memory going? - Mmmmm..............!!!

LC&DR said:

Oh I forgot, I received the ACE trains Metropolitan 150th Anniversary set this week.

Posted 16:58:40 Sat 16 Nov 2013

LC&DR

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Posted at 12:55:20 Sun 17 Nov 2013

How did you know it was my 65th?

Posted 12:55:20 Sun 17 Nov 2013

Postman Prat

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Posted at 13:08:25 Sun 17 Nov 2013

There used to be a section, on the list to the left, where you could look up certain details of forum members. You showed your birth year as 1948. I remembered, only because it's the same as my birth year.

Posted 13:08:25 Sun 17 Nov 2013

Bulleidboy

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Posted at 13:47:15 Sun 17 Nov 2013

If you click on the persons name you get some information. PP - it say you come from Southampton - but I think we new that anyway - it doesn't give your year of birth, which for LC&DR it does.

If you dream it, you can do it.

Posted 13:47:15 Sun 17 Nov 2013

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