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

Last Edited 13:51:29 Sat 21 Aug 2021

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Posted at 00:50:07 Wed 5 Jul 2017

The last loco I tried to chip was an electrotren 0-3-0. I took me about a month to do ioncluding waiting for the post and five chips, though three are still usable not including the very expensive ESU now fitted!

The loco was a six pin so I tried a bachmann chip, but this was too long to fit the body on. I then tried a Gaugemaster but the pins were too long so I shortened them but one snapped off. I then tried another gaugemaster but even with the pins shortened it was still too long to grt the body on. I then tried a bachmann direct fit at right angle chip. the body went on but the loco did not move until I rotated the chip by 180 degress, but then the chip prtruded beyond the smokebox so I still couldn't get the body on. Finally I located an ESU six pin chip with harness and only just got the body to fit after trying half a dozen wire routings. I then spent about an hour sticking various bits of detail back on that had broken off during the attempts!

now i Know what I am doing and what I need could probably do it in half an hour. If i ripped out all the circuit boards and hard wired it 15 minutes!

Modelling a combined 00 and 009 gauge Layout (GWR/GVT) mostly

Posted 00:50:07 Wed 5 Jul 2017