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 02:47:51 Tue 22 Oct 2019
This year I had quite a special birthday... A trip back home to the UK resulted in 3 OO gauge models.
ViTrains InterCity Class 47 844 "Derby & Derbyshire Chamber of Commerce & Industry"
Hornby Virgin Trains Class 87 019 "Sir Winston Churchill
Hornby Virgin Trains Class 86 236 "Josiah Wedgewood"
A couple of bonus pictures...
I'm absolutely thrilled with the latest additions. The Class 87 was a birthday gift from dad, the Class 86 was a gift from Tim (a client of mine) and the Class 47 was a treat for myself!
The absolute wealth of detailing parts for the ViTrains Class 47 is just staggering, it takes a somewhat plain base locomotive, to a highly detailed one.
The Hornby Class 87 is equally stunning and is now my favourite OO gauge model.
The Hornby Class 86, desipite is age is still so good, I wish Hornby produced a few more. They updated the tooling in 2012 and released a Freightliner Powerhaul Class 86, but since then it's been dormant. I plan to detail my model and bring it upto today's standards with profiled wheels, detailed underframe, detailed roof, flush glazing and a scale pantograph.
Posted 02:47:51 Tue 22 Oct 2019
Posted at 09:53:37 Tue 22 Oct 2019
Just got a new 'DoG'.
It's the TTS version I'll disable, but is ready if/as/when I go DCC, and seems to be in the 'as preserved' livery, or close enough for me.
Al.
Last Edited 10:03:07 Tue 22 Oct 2019
Posted 09:53:37 Tue 22 Oct 2019