Model Railway - What's your latest acquisition?
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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!
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Last Edited 13:51:29 Sat 21 Aug 2021
Posted at 18:00:13 Mon 3 Apr 2017
Bargains! Bought this lot for just £8.99 from a charity shop. Doesn't look much, but there are two intact track cleaning cars with good felts that will clean up like new and a rare "Salmon" bogie bolster for which I have a spare box in my box pile.
Posted 18:00:13 Mon 3 Apr 2017
Posted at 07:48:07 Thu 6 Apr 2017
Bargains! Bought this lot for just £8.99 from a charity shop. Doesn't look much, but there are two intact track cleaning cars with good felts that will clean up like new and a rare "Salmon" bogie bolster for which I have a spare box in my box pile.
Well done SoT. How come I never see anything like this in charity shops?
Last Edited 10:14:31 Thu 6 Apr 2017
Posted 07:48:07 Thu 6 Apr 2017
Posted at 11:23:45 Fri 7 Apr 2017
I have recently bought 4 more china clay wagons. The row of wheels in front of the wagons have been painted and wait weathering before fitting. The wagons have had the original hook and bar coupings and mounts removed. I will be fitting a simplified Alex Jackson type coupling for more realistic appearance. Uncoupling is not a problem as I will be running them in fixed rakes.
Last Edited 11:31:36 Fri 7 Apr 2017
Posted 11:23:45 Fri 7 Apr 2017