Model Railway - What's your latest acquisition?

just got my model of Woodcock,very pleased after the disapointment of abergaveny castle,its a lovely model,runs well,looks great in the apple green livery,i have close coupled it and fitted tts,these are the only faults with the model,the coupling is useless for close coupling,its just the old pick up type without the contacts fitted,needs an upgrade along with the a3 which is the same,and to fit tts the speaker fitting needs to be cut and shortened in places to fit the tts,again same as a3 , most hornby models accept the tts without any mess,i am not a bad modeller and managed it okay,but for some it could be a problem fitting tts,come on hornby it would be easy for you to make things better and encourage more modellers to go tts,i have fitted over twenty locos its a smashing item,sound for about double the price of a standard decoder,its great, one of the best things hornby have ever introduced,anyway my faith has been restored,got to go woodcocks,due out on the queen of scots,apple green,cream and umber,brilliant

kernow models GWR Sleeper coach pack

DCC Concepts 14.5 mm gauging tool.

I already go through most coaches and both 'centre' and 'gap' to an approximate amount - this has slightly better-defined the same - excellent.

Al.

Bargain.

Looks great.

In my recent little 'play' I also got out an old 3-car Hornby Class 110 DMU - I'd just set it off going at a slow-moderate pace, then make a cuppa, prepare a sandwich ... and leave it another 30 minutes!!

Al.

Just received the R4816 Southern and R4817 SR dining cars from a certain retailer in Sheffield. Excellent models, thank-you Hornby. For some reason I'd expected the table lamps to be illuminated, but it would not have been possible to capture their graceful shape if they were. The only minor irritant is the mis-spelling of 'dining' as 'dinning' on the box ends. Shoot the proof reader!

From one extreme to another ...

I mentioned my fun using the Class 110 DMU and great fun it was too - didn't need to be a 4,500 bhp superbeast ... but, OK, I've got just that arriving tomorrow - Virgin Class 43 8WD 'latest-type' model - can't wait!!

I'll post photos 'though it's nothing you've not seen before anyway!!

Al.

Hi Bulliedboy,Managed to sort out my Merchant Navy locos so will start a new thread to show differences of body mouldings.Will upload photos of the ones I have in my collection.

Last week I managed to acquire smokey joe, a low mec, 21 tonne truck and 25 tonne break van. All in excellent condition. Though joe runs a bit juddery which is surprising as he looks pretty new and not had a lot of running by the looks of him.

Bought this off ebay for £10 plus postage.

From one extreme to another ...

I mentioned my fun using the Class 110 DMU and great fun it was too - didn't need to be a 4,500 bhp superbeast ... but, OK, I've got just that arriving tomorrow - Virgin Class 43 8WD 'latest-type' model - can't wait!!

 

I'll post photos 'though it's nothing you've not seen before anyway!!

 

Al.

Photos as promised - nothing most of you have seen before.

I've been having fun with the Hornby school of logic relating to coach dimensions - now resolved!!

I've 'gone long' for all coaches.

Al.