Scrap Loco Bodies etc - ALL GONE!

[plasticbasher]

Hi All,

 

I have a box of battered, smashed, warped, broken and scavenged loco bodies I am too embarrassed to dare attempting to sell, but offer to anyone who wants them (painting practice? scavenge bits like chimneys or backheads? scrap scene?)

 

Here is what is there:

• A very early Triang Princess: plastic driving wheels, chassis is literally the frames, the driving wheels and the (?) X-03 motor, loco body is battered but mostly there, tender rolls but has been glued together
• Six Triang Jinties - expect broken steps, warped footplates, tar-brush repaints and one attempt (I think) to backdate to a Midland 1F.  I'd say two could be called "okayish" condition though if repainted.
• Two Hornby 1970's "non-descript" 0-4-0 bodies (the clockwork one is actually quite useable, the other one has had "a rich and varied life").
• A poorly assembled Airfix GWR Prairie kit (just the loco body), which has some separately fitted handrails.
• A Triang BR Standard 3 Tank - comprehensively battered and bruised.
• A Triang "Continental" Tank, warped, cracked and missing buffer beams etc.
• Triang Hornby A3 - much of the cab sides and roof have been smashed off, no smokebox door.
• Hornby GWR King - no smokebox door and the cab backhead and floor were sawn out (I assume to fit onto a Hornby Dublo Castle chassis or something similar).
• Triang 3F / 2P tender with bits chopped out of it.
• Two GBL LNER 8-wheel tender frames.
• The partial remnants of two Hornby Thomas bodyshells.

 

I may come across some other "valuable collectors pieces" of a similar quality and throw those in too.

 

To set expectations to the floor, I don't consider any of this lot to be worth anything,...they have accumulated through job lots I've purchased and are offered as a single bundle for free on the assumption they may useful for scavenging.  Otherwise they go in plastic recycling in a week or two...

 

I reckon postage would be £3.50ish....you'd pay exactly what it costs me and not a penny more!

 

plasticbasher

Edited January 4, 2021 by plasticbasher

[Paul H Vigor]

4 minutes ago, plasticbasher said:

Hi All,

 

I have a box of battered, smashed, warped, broken and scavenged loco bodies I am too embarrassed to dare attempting to sell, but offer to anyone who wants them (painting practice? scavenge bits like chimneys or backheads? scrap scene?)

 

Here is what is there:

• A very early Triang Princess: plastic driving wheels, chassis is literally the frames, the driving wheels and the (?) X-03 motor, loco body is battered but mostly there, tender rolls but has been glued together
• Six Triang Jinties - expect broken steps, warped footplates, tar-brush repaints and one attempt (I think) to backdate to a Midland 1F.  I'd say two could be called "okayish" condition though if repainted.
• Two Hornby 1970's "non-descript" 0-4-0 bodies (the clockwork one is actually quite useable, the other one has had "a rich and varied life").
• A poorly assembled Airfix GWR Prairie kit (just the loco body), which has some separately fitted handrails.
• A Triang BR Standard 3 Tank - comprehensively battered and bruised.
• A Triang "Continental" Tank, warped, cracked and missing buffer beams etc.
• Triang Hornby A3 - much of the cab sides and roof have been smashed off, no smokebox door.
• Hornby GWR King - no smokebox door and the cab backhead and floor were sawn out (I assume to fit onto a Hornby Dublo Castle chassis or something similar).
• Triang 3F / 2P tender with bits chopped out of it.
• Two GBL LNER 8-wheel tender frames.
• The partial remnants of two Hornby Thomas bodyshells.

 

I may come across some other "valuable collectors pieces" of a similar quality and throw those in too.

 

To set expectations to the floor, I don't consider any of this lot to be worth anything,...they have accumulated through job lots I've purchased and are offered as a single bundle for free on the assumption they may useful for scavenging.  Otherwise they go in plastic recycling in a week or two...

 

I reckon postage would be £3.50ish....you'd pay exactly what it costs me and not a penny more!

 

plasticbasher

Great starting points for potential “representatations” (see discussion on the eBay Madness thread!)

[WayneKennerley]

If no one else comes forward needing these, I will gladly take them to save from the bin (don't think they can go in recycling but I may be wrong). They may indeed provide useful detail bits for other projects

 

Regards Wayne

[plasticbasher]

Hi Wayne - you're first out the gate and so they are yours.

 

I'll PM you "off-line" to get an address!

 

Cheers,

plasticbasher

[plasticbasher]

Thanks everyone....these are now en route to their new guardian.

 

plasticbasher

[DCB]

I've sold worse than that on eBay for about fifteen quid.    One mans junk is another man's wife's idea of junk. With eBay the world's your lobster.

[Enterprisingwestern]

6 hours ago, DavidCBroad said:

With eBay the world's your lobster.

 

The great thing about eBay it would seem, is, that like buses, there will be another mug along in a minute!

 

Mike.