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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LC&DR

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Posted at 10:54:02 Sun 6 Oct 2013

Thank you. Coming on nicely!

Posted 10:54:02 Sun 6 Oct 2013

The son of Triangman

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Posted at 11:06:31 Sun 6 Oct 2013

Yes indeedy, top coat spraying the other side deflector this afternoon, then touching in paint areas. Going to be a nice examplpe of it's kind. I love these projects, next job is a boxed Hornby 1973 margate made R.450 fowler 2P(former Tri-ang L1 moudling).

Posted 11:06:31 Sun 6 Oct 2013

The son of Triangman

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Posted at 11:14:13 Sun 6 Oct 2013

Will keep you all posted as restoration continiues

Posted 11:14:13 Sun 6 Oct 2013

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Posted at 14:29:26 Sun 6 Oct 2013

According to the post office tracking system my blue box company pannier was delivered and signed for by GK at 12:45 yesterday, I even got an email to confirm this. However, despite being in all day and signing for another package I haven't got the pannier

and no one here has the initials GK!

This is also the second parcel to go missing, the first was around this time last month (a red Hornby LT pannier body), when I took the card to the local delivery office 24 hours later they had already given it to

another customer! Fortunately the seller sent me another.

As this is also the third package to go missing this year do people think this is odd (note I am lodging a complaint) but I am now worried about my pre-ordered star and other items.

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

Posted 14:29:26 Sun 6 Oct 2013

poliss

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Posted at 14:52:22 Sun 6 Oct 2013

Check with your neighbours. RM do not have to deliver to your door ant more, although you should have been left a card.

Posted 14:52:22 Sun 6 Oct 2013

The son of Triangman

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Posted at 15:10:41 Sun 6 Oct 2013

The Postal service is getting worse since the government decided to privatise it. They have lost 4 of my customers parcels in the last six months. One parcel was returned to us as the customer was on holiday, they didn't put a card thorugh my door or my

customers but sent it back to my local post office. It sat there for a month before I went into the post office up the road and then the postmaster mentioned he was holding a returned parcek for me. Both myself and the customer were totally mystified as to

where it had gone.

Posted 15:10:41 Sun 6 Oct 2013

LC&DR

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Posted at 19:59:19 Sun 6 Oct 2013

All this adds to my preference to deal with the local shop rather than by mail order.

The son of Triangman said:

The Postal service is getting worse since the government decided to privatise it. They have lost 4 of my customers parcels

in the last six months. One parcel was returned to us as the customer was on holiday, they didn't put a card thorugh my door or my customers but sent it back to my local post office. It sat there for a month before I went into the post office up the road and

then the postmaster mentioned he was holding a returned parcek for me. Both myself and the customer were totally mystified as to where it had gone.

Posted 19:59:19 Sun 6 Oct 2013

VESPA

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Posted at 11:03:51 Mon 7 Oct 2013

LC&DR said:

Yes there are still some boxes to be had. However I did invest in a load of Triang Society repro boxes for rolling stock, well worth helping to keep my stuff from getting dirty again once I have taken the trouble to clean them

up! The little cardboard tubes to protect the couplings were harder to find, but the centres from rolls of cling film and cooking foil etc. cut into slices do service.

By the way there is another 'Triangman' doing the shows round the North East, well

I am presuming he isn't you. Were you aware? He gets a nice selection of collectables.

No I meant I bought them NEW but never really did anything with them. I have had a look at them out of the box and put them away again. Both are very nice

models. Hornby Magazine states the 16 has no moulded drivers steps on the bogies but they are there just not pronounced enough.

VESPA

Posted 11:03:51 Mon 7 Oct 2013

LC&DR

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Posted at 11:25:55 Mon 7 Oct 2013

Sorry Vespa, I realise your acquisitions were new. And very nice models they are too

In the above post about the boxes I was in fact replying to SoT.

Vespa said:

No I meant I bought them NEW but never really did anything with

them. I have had a look at them out of the box and put them away again. Both are very nice models. Hornby Magazine states the 16 has no moulded drivers steps on the bogies but they are there just not pronounced enough.

Posted 11:25:55 Mon 7 Oct 2013

VESPA

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Posted at 14:03:57 Mon 7 Oct 2013

LC&DR said:

Sorry Vespa, I realise your acquisitions were new. And very nice models they are too

In the above post about the boxes I was in fact replying to SoT.

Vespa said:

No I meant I bought them NEW but never really

did anything with them. I have had a look at them out of the box and put them away again. Both are very nice models. Hornby Magazine states the 16 has no moulded drivers steps on the bogies but they are there just not pronounced enough.

Wasn't

quite sure.

VESPA

Posted 14:03:57 Mon 7 Oct 2013

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