Model Railway - What's your latest acquisition?

Group photo - 2 Brits, a DoG and a Duchess:

Al.

Final note on the DoG.

I noticed a couple of 'dark marks' on the 'wire handrails'.

Seems that the obvious would be to fit s/steel wire handrails - being bright and unlikely to tarnish much in it's lifetime.

Did they?

NO!!

Plastic 'wire' is used, which is silver painted!!

Weird!!

Al.

This was an unexpected find today and at a bargain price too! This is the best condition I have seen one of these locos in. A shame the spring and drive cog are missing but I have some Tri-ang versions with working mechanisms that can be swapped over. I won’t say what the make is.....just that Tri-ang bought the equipment to make them and I think it was the only metal bodied loco they ever made. Main difference looking at one of my later ones is the rear coupling. 

Nice Trackmaster model!

I wonder if it was a deliberate copy of the 1938 Hornby Dublo N2. Gaiety also did the N2 as a bodyline kit.

Just received a weathered Bachmann Class 25/2 yesterday.

Seller stated it was 21-pin and DCC was mentioned - not clear in the description whether it was or not, but was a late 'ice cube' box model.

I also received a bag of 21-pin blanking plates - idea is 'future proofing' for when 'the inevitable' happens and I go digital ...

Turns out, not only was it DCC, but it was DCC / Sound. Speaker had been mounted with blue-tak where the fan had been removed - fan and screws included.

Easily enough removed, blanking plate fitted, and ran nicely straight out of the box - little coaxing required, that's all.

Directional lighting works perfectly as well - so it is a late model.

Very pleased - precisely the type of locmotive I remember in 'my teenage years' growing up in the 70's.

Al.

LC&DR, the Trackmaster model is more or less scale length unlike the short Hornby Dublo one. The Gaiety version seems to have been a copy of the Dublo one and even used the Dublo LMS number with a 4 in front to represent a BR loco. The number was cast onto the body. I have posted some photos of a 3 rail Gaiety chassis on here in the past. I had only got rid of a body a short time before!

Interestingly the chap in the model shop I found it in had never heard of Trackmaster. 

My Class 25/2.

Weathered from the factory - reasonable job - only oversight is the 'wipe area' for the wipers - would have made it that bit beter, but good enough.

Al.

Final note on the DoG.

I noticed a couple of 'dark marks' on the 'wire handrails'.

Seems that the obvious would be to fit s/steel wire handrails - being bright and unlikely to tarnish much in it's lifetime.

Did they?

NO!!

 

Plastic 'wire' is used, which is silver painted!!

 

Weird!!

 

Al.

Well I have been thinking about it for quite a long time, and when Hattons were offering the Hornby model of  "Sir William A Stanier FRS"  at a discount my resistance collapsed, and I bought one! 

It has to be my favourite non-Southern locomotive, and I do rather like the Ivatt version so it now has joined my fleet. 

I might have also been tempted by Hornby's "Walter K Wigham", but it is currently offered in blue/purple and I can only remember this one in green, so it will have to wait.

This is my latest. It runs very smoothly, very quietly and doesn't stutter or stop anywhere.