Model Railway - What's your latest acquisition?

The son of Triangman

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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!

http://s157.photobucket.com/user/thetriangman/media/DSCF0063_zps3ff63c6a.jpg.html

http://s157.photobucket.com/user/thetriangman/media/DSCF0064_zps634965e3.jpg.html

http://s157.photobucket.com/user/thetriangman/media/DSCF0065_zpse2948e27.jpg.html

http://s157.photobucket.com/user/thetriangman/media/DSCF0066_zps04c86aff.jpg.html

http://s157.photobucket.com/user/thetriangman/media/DSCF0067-3_zpsdfd86c7c.jpg.html

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atom3624

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Posted at 15:26:17 Mon 18 Oct 2021

Just purchased a load of new Bachmann hopper wagon bogie frames - hoping to make good from really pretty poor runners - we'll see.

Al.

Posted 15:26:17 Mon 18 Oct 2021

Bulleidboy

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Posted at 16:42:28 Tue 19 Oct 2021

The latest arrival at Wykeham shed.

If you dream it, you can do it.

Posted 16:42:28 Tue 19 Oct 2021

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Posted at 16:46:59 Tue 19 Oct 2021

Very nice Bulleidboy

Posted 16:46:59 Tue 19 Oct 2021

Bulleidboy

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Posted at 16:59:19 Tue 19 Oct 2021

Very nice Bulleidboy

Thanks. It was an Ebay purchase - the loco is based on R3130XS Holland Afrika Line with sound. I need to add crew and the brake rods. The seller has a large collection of M/N for sale, all based on R3130XS - the down side is that some of the loco's using this format, have the wrong tender. I'm not a "rivet counter" but it does look better with the correct tender for the era - in my case 1960/61. There are also a number of West Country locos, based on Crewkerne and Wincanton both XS models. My wallet is locked for the time beingjoy

If you dream it, you can do it.

Last Edited 19:35:36 Tue 19 Oct 2021
Posted 16:59:19 Tue 19 Oct 2021

atom3624

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Posted at 18:45:23 Tue 19 Oct 2021

Have you got the full set yet?

Must be close!

Al.

Posted 18:45:23 Tue 19 Oct 2021

Bulleidboy

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Posted at 19:32:30 Tue 19 Oct 2021

Have you got the full set yet?

Must be close!

Al.

Hi Al.

I have twenty nine, but today's arrival means I now have both a blue and a green 35005 Canadian Pacific - so the collection is really at twenty eight - two to go! Hornby have never produced a M/N that was based at Salisbury (72B it became 70E in 1963) - so any loco with the correct tender will do, but it will require a new smokebox number.

I have a full list of M/N's and where they were shedded in 1960/61, so when a loco is obtained for renaming/numbering, I try to get a Hornby loco with the correct shed code on the smokebox door (it's one less thing to change). A number of loco's have had their tenders changed, but there were three different tenders and Hornby have only produced two. BB

If you dream it, you can do it.

Last Edited 21:44:32 Tue 19 Oct 2021
Posted 19:32:30 Tue 19 Oct 2021

atom3624

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Posted at 22:53:38 Tue 19 Oct 2021

A quick visit to Fox Transfers soon sorts that out!

Al.

Posted 22:53:38 Tue 19 Oct 2021

Bulleidboy

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Posted at 23:13:03 Tue 19 Oct 2021

I've always used Modelmaster Jackson-Evans - who are very good, with the cabside numbers on a green background and their etched nameplates are first class. The problem is the service recently has been a little erratic. My last order, just for a nameplate, never arrived despite an email saying dispatched. If you email you never get a reply and if you telephone the message box is always full. So some renaming may be put on hold for a while.

PS: The nameplate arrived today (20/10), after an email dated 3/9/2021 saying dispatched - may have been an automatic email.

If you dream it, you can do it.

Last Edited 18:50:59 Wed 20 Oct 2021
Posted 23:13:03 Tue 19 Oct 2021

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Posted at 13:28:36 Wed 20 Oct 2021

My latest acquisition is a Dapol 68

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Posted 13:28:36 Wed 20 Oct 2021

RDS

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Posted at 15:38:35 Wed 20 Oct 2021

@Blue, I have approved and rotated your image I have also deleted the duplicate. Images on this Forum need approval by Moderators before they are published.

Posted 15:38:35 Wed 20 Oct 2021

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