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On 09/02/2024 at 23:09, JimRead said:
I'd always made wagons from card but never thought about locos until I met a guy from Nottingham who had made lots. We had Cardboard Corner at the Nottingham show and had a great laugh about it. He makes coaches and huge 0 Gauge express locos.
Hello Jim,
Was this Peter Dobson? I was looking at his locos from card in March 2005 RM recently if so. Very impressive.
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20 hours ago, HSB said:
Comparing it with photos of the real thing it looks pretty good to me! The hand grabs on the front are a bit thick but would probably be too fragile on a RTR model if made to scale thickness and will be less obvious in the flesh anyway.
Yes the grab rails and the wipers are too thick. I really wanted a 50 but the pictures have put me off. Weathered up and in the flesh it may look the part so I'll wait and see.
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On 22/05/2023 at 10:08, andrewshimmin said:
The Merchant Navy looks great on the SR train but can't really haul more than two carriages comfortably at the moment, it seems to lack adhesion. It just about got round with three.
I've had the same problem with my MN and also Castle, whereas my Jinty can pull almost anything. Does anybody know of a way around this? I was hoping my MN would pull a decent rake. One of the reasons I wanted a smaller scale.
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When did large Model Railway Exhibitions start? I presume they were started by MRC's and grew from there but were there many pre-war?
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As mentioned above just use a credit/debit card for buses and tube and is capped at a daily amount.
Depending on when in september there is the Transport Museum Depot open day (21st - 24th) in Acton - https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/depot-open-days
Again depending on the date; Kirkaldy Testing Museum is a bit niche https://www.testingworks.org.uk/about but an interesting story following the Tay Bridge collapse. Also near Tate Modern which is free.
Hamleys does have model railway but just Hornby I seem to remember and yes overpriced. The shop isn't what it once was. Tooting Model Shop is still there.
Santander bikes are another way to get about. Also other bike hire available such as Human Forest and Tier.
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10 minutes ago, Chris M said:
There aren't many buildings on this layout but of course they are all scratchbuilt. Finding how things were back in the 1960s isn't easy, even at a holiday destination. Nowadays we just shoot as many photos as we like but back then each photo had a cost (the film and the developing) so far less photos were taken. I have had to glean what information I can from going through all the books I could find with photos. I spent a happy afternoon at Newton Abbot library going through all the books they had. Newton Abbot library does have a very good collection of railway books.
Anyhow a few photos of the buildings. In one book I found a photo of a Western which was from 1966 or thereabouts - the Western was maroon but the paint was worn and the coaches were all maroon. In the corner of this photo there is a little bit of useful information for my buildings which I blew up to see more clearly.
From this I built The Warren Store.
I did notice the little white hut in the photo but didn't know anything about it so left it out of the layout. When on display at the Exeter exhibition a number of people asked me where the banana fritter stand was. Despite a lot of research and requests on Facebook I still have not found a photo of the banana fritter stand. Looking back at the little white hut in the photo I could see it had some gas bottles attached so it therefore sold something that was cooked in some way. I also knew the banana fritter stand was somewhere in that area. So I decided to build my version of the banana fritter stand based on very limited information. This stand is not to be confused with the later banana fritter stand that was a completely different shape and on the opposite corner.
I've always thought it was a shame there is no national archive for images of landscape and architecture. All depends on how good the local archive is.
As you said Newton Abbot has a good library collection. I think it would be good for a national diary archive like Italy has. - http://archiviodiari.org/
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9 hours ago, 33C said:
Been in the charity shop yet?
Not in my local charity shops or boot sales 😒
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1 hour ago, PhilH said:
That goes back to my point….how do you know that only one trader makes an XYZ without being lucky enough to hear it on the grapevine? That’s why for me an internet presence is almost necessary, to let me know that Johnny One Trader actually makes and markets XYZees (or Zeds)
Agreed. I have no local model shops or model railway club as a grapevine. I do belong to a national society and so the only way to ask a question is online! My Dad however still prefers to speak to people via a phone even if he can use a computer.
On the other side I miss the presence of shops/businesses for a bargain. I do shop online for groceries but I still go to supermarkets for the discounted items at the end of day/week. I remember when small businesses or shops, on occasion, would chuck in something extra for free.
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5 hours ago, jjb1970 said:
cranking out Japanese outline models in numbers model producers in other countries must dream of. Certainly if it was only about money and profit I suspect they'd do what Tomix do and stick to their core Japanese market. It's our gain that they have a proprietor who likes to do different things.
How big a company financially are Kato?
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2 hours ago, Farang said:
In the intro to the video didn't SDK say it was aimed at people who were outside the hobby? But it seems sales are to existing modellers. SDK mentioned advertising it in newspapers. has anyone seen an advert in a newspaper?
I presume as it has been taken up so readily by current modellers that their costs are being covered and they will advertise in the lead up to Christmas as planned last year.
Newspaper advertising does seem a little strange though if trying to attract a younger market.
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On 27/01/2023 at 20:54, DenysW said:
It is said that whenever people are asked how much they drink/smoke/etc. they lie - on the low side. I personally have gone over to "too much" when the answer isn't "not at all".
I suspect the same is true for spending on modelling. The number in the £100-500/year band when a single tender-loco new (not DCC) is above £200, and European outline is even more, and O-gauge yet more still makes me highly suspicious.
But if you are buying secondhand that can get you a lot of locos and rolling stock for a year.
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On 03/01/2023 at 23:10, TomE said:
Looks like Colin is retiring, and Union Mills will cease production:
Tom.
I've just heard. Good luck in his retirement and yet again my prevarication has left me empty handed. 😫
I presume 2nd hand prices will increase too although I'm told they last forever
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On 13/01/2023 at 11:10, hayfield said:
Glad you are finding items to buy. The last Railway item I bought was on the 16th of October. Nearly bought a loco which I would have regretted but thankfully someone came to the rescue
But the few things that have attracted me have gone for more than I was willing to pay
I don't think I've ever found a bargain on Ebay. I've seen a couple of items that i'm gutted missed but everything else still seems to go for silly money.
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There is definitely less variety but I would say the same if I went on a car journey now. I have a colleague at work who goes trainspotting and I don't see the attraction compared to when I was his age over 30 years ago although I can see why people who saw steam think lesser of the time I spotted. (I still find it strange I was born eight years after steam and 4 years before the Class 43).
Last year I went up to York by train and saw how different things were from 20 years ago when I probably last travelled regularly by rail but there were still things to see. On one side it may be duller but it is far safer and more comfortable, if the train isn't overcrowded.
I enjoy train travel in Italy because they still have locomotives and large goods yards but less comfortable.
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2 hours ago, rogerzilla said:
Well I never, Bradford Park Avenue were in the First Division for 1913-14. Looks as if they folded after a bad run of relegations, rather than merging as the Hartlepools did.
Still going. Currently in National League North. ( Apologies - Folded in 1970 after losing their league status and reformed as a Sunday League team)
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I think that the date you give is key. Prior to 1933 the world was coming out of a recession and with the advent of Hitler rearmament started in earnest which enabled money to be spent on new designs.
You mention the FIAT but the Gloster Gladiator trumped the original Spitfire for approval from the RAF in 1937 ,but Mitchell refined the design to what we recognise today, and the Gladiator was still in service at the begining of the war.
Poland was one of the largest spenders militarily in Europe and had some modern designed aircraft but by 1939 their frontline fighters were obselete being designed in the late 20's and produced in 1931. The P11 was a monoplane while RAF were still using biplanes.
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On 10/01/2023 at 07:21, Pmorgancym said:
You just get the sense that development has pretty much run its course beyond reliveries. There's no new stuff beyond what has been previously announced. An attempt at a steam loco perhaps?
On 10/01/2023 at 07:25, Vanguard 5374 said:Hate to drag up Marklin again, but they've managed a steam loco in a similar range:
https://www.maerklin.de/en/products/details/article/29308
Not the prettiest model, but I imagine it's a delight to the intended audience.It does seem more of the same without an addition of a steam loco. Marklin's range does look good.
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6 minutes ago, jjb1970 said:
Kato Unitrack is a superb product. I use it for similar reasons for my Japanese N models, it's incredibly user friendly and a high quality product. Many serious models deride such track but I think it is suitable for much more than the 'trainset' market, in Japan Kato and the similar Tomix track system (also superb, but less readily available outside of Japan) are the choice of modellers and are used to splendid effect to make some wonderful layouts.
I think Hornby missed a trick here. If the idea is to make for people who don't have room for a permanent layout, such as myself, kato/tillig track is much easier to put together for an afternoon than Hornby track.
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1 hour ago, britishcolumbian said:
British 1:120 is here to stay. Even if only as a thing as niche as North American 1:120 is, it won't be going away anymore... and if Hornby do release just what they've already announced and nothing more, it will be rather less niche than NorAm TT is. This much is as certain as poison is toxic.
As for Heljan, who knows. That "TT:FN" sounded like the opposite of permanence... but with the way they handled this situation, even if they were to return I'd be sceptical of any announcement until it's actually available to buy. Let them leave, it's not like they're the only other model railway manufacturer in the world. If Hornby do well enough, I could even see Tillig jumping into the British market, on the basis of them seeing 1:120 as *their* domain.
If Hornby releases everything in their catalogue there will be more available than 3mm TT devotees have had to play with from the Triang range since the 60's so as you say it is here to stay in some capacity.
I think the market would proabably have been more favourable if they had managed to realease their sets before Covid hit ( In the way that my Dad has already bought his youngest grandchild a OO set and why would we now buy another set in a different scale).
And if it doesn't work for Hornby Tillig would still have a domain to enter to claim. One mistake I think Hornby have made is not produce the Kato style track for people who can't have permanent layouts which is where Tillig could use theirs to claim an entry.
Added to which if in the unlikely situation no other company gets involved in 1:120 somebody could do as Revolution did in N and crowdfund a pendolino in TT @Revolution Ben 😉
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2 hours ago, rob D2 said:
.. if their target market is “ new entrants “ and not of the “ had a trainset 35 years ago..” type,
On looking at Hornby's new TT catalogue my first thought was that it is not too disimilar to the Hornby catalogue I have from the '80's. The main difference being that they haven't issued an clockwork locos this time round.🚂
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5 hours ago, PaulRhB said:
I’m a little surprised they didn’t bring out a Harry Potter set to fire the markets up in this Christmas opening to the range.
I'm surprised too but they do already have the maroon Mk1's and a Hall in the pipeline . I guess the TT project was delayed due to Covid which also means that for those people such as myself, who got back into Railway Modelling during the crisis, have already invested in models. So time will tell how the project goes and I hope it is successful.
2 minutes ago, Hobby said:I don't see less fiddly detail putting off the majority of buyers.
The OO Hogwarts has what I consider fiddly bits that can come off with kids handling them and hopefully a TT version won't have those.
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17 minutes ago, MikeParkin65 said:
Think you've answered your own question there - Hornby can sell the entire package to a new customer base. No direct competition, they can sell you are complete trainset and you can build on that. Back to Hornby's core business model. Good news for existing modellers too both in keeping Hornby sustainable and allowing the newer manufacturers more space to flourish.
And it is a good size for people with less space and bigger than N for smaller fingers. I'm really surprised how much they have been are going for it; I for one am impressed. I hope they make some European models too. 🐢
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On 08/07/2022 at 12:05, Tony Wright said:
I walked past those cottages on a visit to York last month and remembered I'd seen them on RMWeb! Great modelling
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Mr Rhodri Barry's Light Industrial Premises
in Boxfiles, Micro layouts & Dioramas
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The article gives no mention of him other than he modelled LMS and Midland which made me presume the link with Nottingham.