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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doglane

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Posted at 16:29:08 Sun 15 Dec 2013

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Posted 16:29:08 Sun 15 Dec 2013

doglane

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Posted at 16:39:04 Sun 15 Dec 2013

The son of Triangman said:

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

Posted 16:39:04 Sun 15 Dec 2013

RDS

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Posted at 22:22:47 Sun 15 Dec 2013

LC&DR said:

Latest acquisitions - yet another R156 ...............

I have an R156 but it is larger, both in height and length than my Bluebox Class 08.
Could you confirm please that this model is 00 scale. It doesn't look

right!

Posted 22:22:47 Sun 15 Dec 2013

cooped

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Posted at 23:04:19 Sun 15 Dec 2013

I turned 40 today, officially a member of the old you know what's club now. There just happened to be a train show on locally so took the little boy along, had nice time and, in keeping with the theme of the thread treated make to a nice five coach New

York Central 21st Century Limited set to go behind the Dreyfus Hudson I bought a few weeks ago. Happy birthday to me!

Posted 23:04:19 Sun 15 Dec 2013

rustonhornsby

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Posted at 18:03:44 Tue 17 Dec 2013

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Posted 18:03:44 Tue 17 Dec 2013

rustonhornsby

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Posted at 18:10:24 Tue 17 Dec 2013

Hello one and all,on sunday just gone,i ordered the Southern Railway version of the 2 bil from the Hornby on line shop.Well it arrived today and what a top rate model it is.Well done to all at Hornby for designing and producing a work of art.Thankyou.

Posted 18:10:24 Tue 17 Dec 2013

walkingthedog

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Posted at 18:10:31 Tue 17 Dec 2013

RDS said:

I have an R156 but it is larger, both in height and length than my Bluebox Class 08.
Could you confirm please that this model is 00 scale. It doesn't look right!

The old 08's are wrong. They use a general 0-6-0 chassis

not a scale one for a start.

Posted 18:10:31 Tue 17 Dec 2013

Fishmanoz

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Posted at 19:55:36 Tue 17 Dec 2013

But still supposed to be OO. Take a look at http://www.hornbyguide.com/item_year_details.asp?itemyearid=38

And thanks for all the fish …

Posted 19:55:36 Tue 17 Dec 2013

LC&DR

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Posted at 19:59:21 Tue 17 Dec 2013

Old Tri-ang stuff had a number of dimensional inaccuracies when compared to contemporary models from other manufacturers and with modern day models. The most significant was that the buffers were at least 2mm (= 6") too high. And to accommodate a standard

mechanism the bodies were stretched in all directions. As toys this didn't matter too much, but as people began to demand closer to scale models this did become an issue. I noticed this first a long time ago when I built my first Kitmaster diesel shunter and

then compared it to the Triang one.

Recent Hornby models are much closer to scale, but even fairly modern models have had liberties taken. I have fitted a Kitmaster / Airfix Schools body with a Hornby tender drive Schools chassis, and I had to adapt

the body significantly to get the it to fit. When checking against a scale drawing the Hornby version was not dimensionally correct. I guess this has been done so that the chassis fits both the Schools and the D49.

Posted 19:59:21 Tue 17 Dec 2013

Postman Prat

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Posted at 20:45:44 Tue 17 Dec 2013

Hi LC&DR

Old habits die hard!!

Posted 20:45:44 Tue 17 Dec 2013

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