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 19:36:14 Mon 5 Jun 2023
Apologies if this posts up twice but I got a 505 error earlier….
Just got this loco, I’d been after one of a decent build quality and a decent price for quite some time. When I eventually get round to it it’ll receive an industrial livery, possible NCB but I might go for something a bit more extravagant. I have only been able to find one colour picture of one of the locos just before preservation so would have to go off that.
Come to think of it, Hornby could make an RTR model of this loco, available in Taff Vale, GWR, Great Western and Industrial livieries, they were also used over the ‘main lines’ when in Private ownership.
The actual model is a Will kit on a Dublo R1 chassis with Romford wheels fitted. One of the wheels was wonky but all fixed now, a great runner.
Posted 19:36:14 Mon 5 Jun 2023
Posted at 13:23:43 Sun 18 Jun 2023
Picked this West Coast Railways class 37 up on Ebay, it is the exact engine that took up the rear on my recent trip from Cleethorpes to Morpeth. The intention is to recreate the train, I expected to need to renumber/rename everything so it was a nice surprise to find this one with the correct number.
Posted 13:23:43 Sun 18 Jun 2023