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

Last Edited 13:51:29 Sat 21 Aug 2021

mjb1961

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Posted at 19:16:39 Tue 13 Sep 2022

Most important purchase of the year ,The Queens Platinum Jubilee Train .

Posted 19:16:39 Tue 13 Sep 2022

atom3624

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Posted at 22:05:03 Tue 13 Sep 2022

Tell you what, that Bachmann G2A is an absolutely superb little locomotive - great traction and looks absolutely great.

I added weight to the tender as normal, to get the relative weights more realistic. Yes, I know it may decrease a little the hauling capacity, but if it has, it's not obvious.

Fantastic little - relatively, it is an 0-8-0 - locomotive.

Al.

Posted 22:05:03 Tue 13 Sep 2022

atom3624

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Posted at 12:15:27 Wed 14 Sep 2022

68 027 that Splendid addition has arrived ... and it is Splendid indeed!!

Al.

Posted 12:15:27 Wed 14 Sep 2022

atom3624

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Posted at 07:05:16 Thu 15 Sep 2022

Here's the rub.

That Dapol 68 is a superb locomotive - runs brilliantly.

It's my 2nd, as I've a rake of TPE coaches from A/Scale coming soon.

Brutus is my 1st. It RAN well, but as Sam reliably advised, it has huge traction, but cannot spin its wheels.

It is well known their couplings are not level, and un-Supervised, it uncoupled, lapped the loop, made contact, derailed and burnt out the 1st motor, which also required a motor mount cradle as it had melted.

Amazingly the PCB was fine.

Motor #2 has been good, but has suddenly started to play up - perhaps its the brushes worn down as it has run for perhaps 40-50 hours' time ...

Motor #3 will soon arrive. I'll give the whole power train a full once over, in case there are pinch points.

Al.

Posted 07:05:16 Thu 15 Sep 2022

DarkRedCape

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Posted at 10:19:53 Thu 15 Sep 2022

Seems as if Hornby have indeed started to cushion their locos and wrap them far better these days.

I have been super excited to get this loco, can't wait to get it running. I'm curious to see how it handles 2nd radius curves, or if it's strictly a 3rd radius loco.

The picture of the 21-Pin decoder install guide. Anyone know what the smaller yellow piece is? The speaker?

My name is long, so just call me Lee.

Posted 10:19:53 Thu 15 Sep 2022

Bulleidboy

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Posted at 16:41:30 Thu 15 Sep 2022

My 9F Evening Star has just arrived - I'm not complaining, but talk about pass the parcel, as DarkRedCape commented, the packaging was superb - I didn't think I was ever going to get to the loco. It looks superb. I will probably add etched brass nameplates at some stage. The crew are painted.

If you dream it, you can do it.

Last Edited 09:03:35 Sat 17 Sep 2022
Posted 16:41:30 Thu 15 Sep 2022

81F

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Posted at 18:55:49 Sat 17 Sep 2022

My Hattons Genesis GWR 4 and 6 wheeled coaches have just arrived. Very nice models which look particularly nice alongside my Hornby GWR 4 wheelers which are just that little bit different to represent the variety that were so typical of the time they were in service.

Modelling a combined 00 and 009 gauge Layout (GWR/GVT) mostly

Posted 18:55:49 Sat 17 Sep 2022