Model Railway - What's your latest acquisition?

 An unboxed Lima Mk1 BSK in BR Chocolate & Cream@  £11 (I think)

Two boxed Mainline SK, one BR maroon with the other blood and custard @ £12 each

A Boxed Mainline Stanier 57' Brake in BR Maroon also @ again £12

I had only intended to buy Coaches but could not pass an unboxed Lima Class 121 in BR Green for £28 and then I got a slight discount for cash.

The only defecys I have found so far is a missing buffer on one of the SKs and it's bogies were held on by self tappers but I knew I has a spare chassis (from a green Southern Region one I had spoiled trying to to repaint years ago (just hope I can find the body to provide the missing buffer!)

I couldn't test the railcar but I thought I'd take the risk as I have at least 3 working Lima motors which have had little use I can rob parts from.

All from an "antiques" cabinet rather than a model shop. Even with the defects they seemed like reasonable value when compared to on-line sales especially as I have most of the spares which SWMBO says I must clear out to make room!

hornby R 3748 class 66789 and four dapol jna wagons

A Hornby Peckett B2 arrived this morning - lovely little loco, companion for the W4. Already renamed - thanks Modelmaster for the plates - now how do I lose the APC roundels without wrecking the Hornby matt paint?

That lovely but old Canadian Pacific click seemed to go, was running well, then ... stopped!

I ended up replacing the gears, and a spare motor in case a 'few thou' had worn off the worm - original gear was metal as well ...

Then I had all manner of problems reassembling - the rear parts of the connected (some are separate like the Coronations) connecting rods ... they seemed too long!!

Eventually I figured out that the 'floating' sprung axle mount for the rear axle has more one side than the other, and I'd managed to reverse it ... 

Duly reversed to correct way around, and all is well - running OK ... for now.

I managed to replace the idler gear - in-between initial and final drive gears as well.

Al.

Hi Al.

I had the same problem with that rear axle on the old rebuilt MN...

It really gets the little grey cells working!

Hi Sarah,

Certainly had me for a while.

I though I'd 'stretched' the conrods or something equally bizarre.

Needless to say they showed their 'flexible tendencies' a couple of times, so I'll tread carefully with this one ...

Now onto the Black 5 that's shorting out ...

Al.

Last weeks has got to be the best. I bought a Bachmann A4 off that popular auction site, for a very reasonable price . It said it was DCC fitted and it was the new type of Bachmann (no split chassis). It arrived this morning. To my surprise it had lights and a smoke generator fitted. I had to glue a few bits back on, but that was a real result.

Nice find.

Al.

Oh Dear!

I popped into my local model railway shop today to see if they had the new Ransome & Rapier 45 ton breakdown crane, which they hadn't, but I came out with a rail mounted gun and a Dean Goods in ROD livery! 

Will I never learn!?

I do love Oxford's reference numbers for the rail mounted gun models!

A long while ago, we had a plastic kit version of the German gun "Leopold"....now long gone....