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 06:06:52 Fri 4 Sep 2020
Latest is a 1963 Caledonian single. Complete with instructions, service dealer booklet, small information strip that goes under the model and it's crew in it's original packet.
Posted 06:06:52 Fri 4 Sep 2020
Posted at 14:13:05 Fri 4 Sep 2020
Lovely model, M-R. Looks brand new ! I have just received my Lima Crab 13000 in Crimson. Rather puzzled by the strangely shaped weights in the tender, whose cover was loose and not possible to fit over the weights, of a greyish material which I assume is the dreaded MAZAK ! (I had a Jaguar XK120 with chromed mazak rear-light plinths which eventually showed pit marks. Also on my XK150 S. Luckily gunmetal
repros were available, so that fixed the problem, after chroming).
Anyway, back to the Crab. It runs very strongly, tender drive. So the weights consigned to the Spares Box. Well pleased now.
Posted 14:13:05 Fri 4 Sep 2020
Posted at 05:43:52 Sat 5 Sep 2020
Another vintage stunner has arrived.
Posted 05:43:52 Sat 5 Sep 2020
Posted at 05:47:32 Sat 5 Sep 2020
This also arrived the same day as the R.100 Lancashire Coke wagon.
Posted 05:47:32 Sat 5 Sep 2020
Posted at 06:04:25 Sat 5 Sep 2020
A China made Hornby K Type Pullman arrived via the trade the other day. The box inner had disappeared whilst on the shop shelf, so I bought it uo cheap and some other modern items.
Posted 06:04:25 Sat 5 Sep 2020