Wickham Green Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 34 minutes ago, Andy Reichert said: The giraffe on the right is the fine scale one. It eats shoots and leaves. Andy Best not to ask what it leaves ......... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo675 Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 5 hours ago, Compound2632 said: All the giraffe cars I've seen are bogie vehicles, not 4- or 6-wheelers. BOGIES !!!!! OFF TOPIC !!!!! Quite like the Giraffes though, Gibbo. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted December 2, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 2, 2019 This must be the best thread drift ever. 3 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted December 2, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 2, 2019 12 minutes ago, Colin_McLeod said: This must be the best thread drift ever. It's like the Level Crossings topic - no-one's been run over lately which must be a good thing. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSpencer Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 The giraffe wagon might reappear yet: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=transport+giraffes+by+rail&&view=detail&mid=12CF6B66CAC44BB1C36D12CF6B66CAC44BB1C36D&&FORM=VRDGAR 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted December 3, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 3, 2019 I like the relief siding arrangement 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted December 3, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 3, 2019 Railway Inspectorate would have a thing or twelve to say about single line working practices there! 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 14 hours ago, JSpencer said: The giraffe wagon might reappear yet: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=transport+giraffes+by+rail&&view=detail&mid=12CF6B66CAC44BB1C36D12CF6B66CAC44BB1C36D&&FORM=VRDGAR A depressing insight into what utter b0ll0cks the Thomas franchise has descended. I thank God that as a child I read the original Railway Series and left it at that! Anyway, I look forward to seeing the livery charts for a Hattons giraffe; I don't see why the same generic giraffe tooling cannot be made to represent the West African, Rothschild's, reticulated, Masai, Angolan, and South African giraffes, among other sub-species. I'm sure that a zoologically literate model could be produced .... I shall build stabling for one in my station yard in anticipation .... (Image of Fine Scale Buildings kit, which I recommend) 5 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 15 minutes ago, Edwardian said: Anyway, I look forward to seeing the livery charts for a Hattons giraffe; I don't see why the same generic giraffe tooling cannot be made to represent the West African, Rothschild's, reticulated, Masai, Angolan, and South African giraffes, among other sub-species. I'm sure that a zoologically literate model could be produced .... I shall build stabling for one in my station yard in anticipation .... That should do for when the Generic Elephant Transporters come out too, the doors are probably wide enough! Just think, all those bright, jolly Circus liveries!!! 14 hours ago, Colin_McLeod said: I like the relief siding arrangement Most essential for when a "wash and brush up" is urgently required... 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted December 4, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 4, 2019 24 minutes ago, Edwardian said: A depressing insight into what utter b0ll0cks the Thomas franchise has descended. I thank God that as a child I read the original Railway Series and left it at that! Anyway, I look forward to seeing the livery charts for a Hattons giraffe; I don't see why the same generic giraffe tooling cannot be made to represent the West African, Rothschild's, reticulated, Masai, Angolan, and South African giraffes, among other sub-species. I'm sure that a zoologically literate model could be produced .... I shall build stabling for one in my station yard in anticipation .... (Image of Fine Scale Buildings kit, which I recommend) Clearly using some of the same design features as the London Zoo giraffe stables...... 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNR Dave Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 (edited) Keeping with the generic theme, they should put an elephant in instead and then paint it to look like a giraff or a tiger or a zebra etc etc etc...... Edited December 4, 2019 by GNR Dave spelling error 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo675 Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 5 minutes ago, GNR Dave said: Keeping with the generic theme, they should put an elephant in instead and then paint it to look like a giraff or a tiger or a zebra etc etc etc...... Hi Dave, I think the animals should be allowed to identify as they choose and not be painted to reflect any specific identity although, should an elephant wish to identify as a zebra then it ought to be respected for its wishes even if it is only made of plastic. Hang on, generic not genderic ?!?! My mistake. Gibbo. 1 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted December 4, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 4, 2019 I want a Great Northern giraff with its unique head profile! 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 3 hours ago, GNR Dave said: Keeping with the generic theme, they should put an elephant in instead and then paint it to look like a giraff or a tiger or a zebra etc etc etc...... We'll here's the etc.etc. livery - though not applied to an elephant, I'm afraid : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okapi#/media/File:Saint-Aignan_(Loir-et-Cher)._Okapi.jpg 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted December 4, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 4, 2019 Such a shame that Class B1, many of the earlier examples of which bore antelope names, and which graced GN metals until the end of steam there, albeit after the 4- and 6-wheel coaches were gone, failed to have a loco called Okapi. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Reichert Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 Real question: What's the min. radius to avoid buffer lock on the 4 and 6 wheelers going to be? I doing some experimenting with tension only couplers. Andy 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted December 4, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 4, 2019 If you’re on small radius curves, it’s better to stop the buffers from ever touching, and stick with tension lock type couplers. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted December 4, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 4, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, Andy Reichert said: Real question: What's the min. radius to avoid buffer lock on the 4 and 6 wheelers going to be? I doing some experimenting with tension only couplers. Andy Same as for any four wheel vans of similar length you already have. The spec announced implies outer axles fixed and plenty of side-play on the middle set. I'm expecting to do my usual thing and fit Keen or Symoba CCUs plus Roco or Hornby NEM heads so the buffers can be touching on straight track. John Edited December 4, 2019 by Dunsignalling 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted December 4, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 4, 2019 Oh dear, we are back on track. It was all going so well down the animal crackers route! Mind you if we had carried on we would have been exiled to Castle Aching. 1 2 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravenser Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 9 hours ago, Hroth said: That should do for when the Generic Elephant Transporters come out too, the doors are probably wide enough! Just think, all those bright, jolly Circus liveries!!! Most essential for when a "wash and brush up" is urgently required... And then we can have a thread full of complaints that they are inaccurate for the GC's Barnum & Bailey train ...... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 What about Bertram Mills though? Stewart 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted December 4, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 4, 2019 12 minutes ago, stewartingram said: What about Bertram Mills though? Stewart Fred Karno, more like. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Budgie Posted December 4, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 4, 2019 3 hours ago, Northroader said: If you’re on small radius curves, it’s better to stop the buffers from ever touching, and stick with tension lock type couplers. No way. I'm going to do my usual thing of ditching the tension locks and using Kadees. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted December 4, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 4, 2019 Fair enough, kadees will do the job very well. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted December 5, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 5, 2019 On 04/12/2019 at 13:10, Oldddudders said: Such a shame that Class B1, many of the earlier examples of which bore antelope names, and which graced GN metals until the end of steam there, albeit after the 4- and 6-wheel coaches were gone, failed to have a loco called Okapi. Okapi is a member of the same family as a Giraffe 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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