Show your models!

And now, I give you a video of two of the locomotives depicted in my last post with an image. :D

I think you'll find that they are good runners and are very quiet, considering their age (60 years or so).


Kieran.
 
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Say, Kieran. What would you say is the best brand for British stock? Just looking for a start for my collection (when / if i get one).

Definitely, for steam, you want to lay primarily with Hornby or Bachmann. However, for diesels, Dapol and Heljan are your friends. Bachmann/Hornby only tend to do the most notorious diesels, not the less-common classes. Rolling stock cn generally be found anywhere, I recommend Airfix and Parkside Dundas kits.
 
@Chris - Tread carefully- one loco as a childhood birthday present can easily lead to this:
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Not just trains, but planes, trams and buses too!

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Overhead shot.

As for the question of best British brand, Bachmann and Hornby are definitely your best bets, but if buying second hand, you may want to look at other manufactures too. Here are some detail shots of the collection below:
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Dapol SDJR 2P No.45 - A superb model, with fine detailing and excellent running qualities; and it's 20 years old now! You can get these fairly cheaply (Mine cost £35, roughly $45-50)

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Hornby D49 - Nice model, with good detailing. Running quality is fairly decent too. I got this for free (it was donated by a neighbour) along with a J94 and an N2.

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Mainline Stanier "Jubilee" - Bit of a geriatric in model terms, now getting on 40! Still runs and is an excellent model though, it hasn't really dated except for the bright silver detailing on the wheels and the odd-looking BR crest on the tender.

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New Hornby GWR "Castle" Class No.5028 "Llantilio Castle" - Brand new (I bought it on Friday!), this locos runs as well as it looks. Again, a superb model, and only cost me £61 (Around $80-85)

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Hornby GNR J13 - Lovely model of a lovely prototype. I've got two of these, one in GNR Green and one in BR Black. I prefer the green one, not least for the fact the real thing worked around 30 miles from me in York station and is today preserved in the city's National Railway Museum.

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And here's the resident diesel railcar, a Lima Class 121 converted in to a Class 122. Who else knows the difference between the two?
 
When we're bored....... we come up with stupid thing's to try out.


other than that, some more HO scale stuff...

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Cheers.
 
Everything you see here cost $80 all up and I bought it all in one lot from a collector's shop. I got more, too - all the other bits from the 1975 Hornby GWR Freight set minus half of the set's track, and some extra parts (brushes, insulated rail joiners, some extra scenery bits, a new controller/transformer, etc.)

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I also managed to sell the Victorian Railways brake van that's behind the Dock Shunter, for $10, to a member of my model train club who models VR. I planned to give it to them for free but they insisted on paying me.

In this lot (which filled a large show box), I also got the Hornby Battery Controller - which sits atop two 6V lamp batteries - and I intend to try it out soon!

Kieran.
 
Christmas is only a few weeks away so it is time to prepare the Model layout for the Great grandchildren to play with (with quick guidance of course) so must clean the track and service engines .
A couple of pics of part of the layout.

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NormP
 
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I may have dropped Trainz but I've replaced it with On30 models... reskinning has been replaced with bashing and rebuilding locos! Quiet proud of my modified Haskell models VR NA class, which I've modded to represent locomotive 9A in its final months prior to being repainted into the standard black livery adopted by the Victorian Railways in 1921 :)

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Cheers
Stevo
 
That looks really good Steve,

Hey all,

Slowly making progress of the backyard railway (One of the reasons why I rarely use trainz) it took me a several weeks to dig the trench, it's about 3-4in deep, 5-6in wide, the curve radius is 7ft, so far I have a mixture of scales, 1:32, 10mm to the foot (1:31/1:30 scale?), 1:29, 1:24 and 1:20.3, I'm mainly building to 1:20.3 (D&RG) 3 Foot Guage.

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screenshot is a USA Trains (1:29 scale :( ) NW2 in D&RGW which is incorrectly numbered (photos show it as #100, USA trains used #101).

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the two 1:20.3 locomotives I have,

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Does anyone know if there are kits for the bar coupler system? in 2013/2014 I saw videos of this type of coupler on youtube, as I want the locos and rollingstock to represent pre-auto couplers I'd like to have the bar coupler system fully working.

Cheers.
 
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