Unknown Warrior Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 Agreed, but post #58 above sums it up well. Cheers, Mick Which brings us back to the Stirling Single! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Tilt Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 Slight off topic, did either the APT-E or HST prototype ever run alongside the Blue Pullmans? I know the BPs were withdrawn in 1973 but I don't know when the HST prototype and the APT arrived on Western metals for testing. I'm pretty certain that E-Train didn't,, I'd have surely noticed. The 252 set overlapped with the Pullmans so it's possible they could have been at Paddington together, but the Pullmans tended to operate on the Birmingham route IIRC. The E-train's three weeks on the Western Region started on the 21st July '75 and ended on 10th August. The 252 set entered service on the WR on 5th May '75 so there was ample opportunity for it to have been seen alongside the Pullmans I'd have thought. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold stovepipe Posted April 2, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 2, 2015 Methinks you are talking about Rapido's 3rd planned release, which has been scanned already, back in January. This was the one that has been all over the country. The 4th scan next week is for something at Shildon, very probably from the National Collection. I reckon the prototype HST is as good a shout as any....... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold stovepipe Posted April 2, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 2, 2015 A different shot of the two prototypes together at Old Oak Common https://flic.kr/p/a34oUX and another 252001 by chippy1920, on Flickr Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaneofFife Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 i dont have money on anything. I'll just wait till the 8th.......looking forward to the news. Saves all that told you so rubbish lol. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublecee Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 Kit is prepped and ready to go. Looking forward to meeting forum members that are swinging by on the day. And no, I am NOT at liberty to discuss what's being scanned (before you ask). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted April 2, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 2, 2015 Kit is prepped and ready to go. Looking forward to meeting forum members that are swinging by on the day. And no, I am NOT at liberty to discuss what's being scanned (before you ask). Are you going to scan Kit, aka Mr Tilt, so we can have a scale model of him at his desk? Cheers, Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
modelpara Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 Hopefully whatever it is is already there seeing as West Coast Railways cannot move anything after tonight! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernman46 Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 Hopefully whatever it is is already there seeing as West Coast Railways cannot move anything after tonight! Well if they were, it probably wouldn't stop in the right place anyway................ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Tilt Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 A different shot of the two prototypes together at Old Oak Common https://flic.kr/p/a34oUX and another 252001 by chippy1920, on Flickr Excellent couple of pics there, I've never seen them before, thanks for posting. And no, there aren't any plans to scan me for an add-on to your APT models................yet! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium BR60103 Posted April 3, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 3, 2015 Are you going to scan Kit, aka Mr Tilt, so we can have a scale model of him at his desk? Cheers, Mick Only if he can be rebuilt back to 1975 condition. Cosmetically at least. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spet0114 Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Kit is prepped and ready to go. So it's a model of a black 1982 Pontiac Trans-Am. Sweet! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Tilt Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Only if he can be rebuilt back to 1975 condition. Cosmetically at least. Yeah, right....... That'd mean losing a stone or three and multiplying the amount if hair I have now by TEN! Mind you, I still have the kipper tie I wore back then, or one of them at least. Not sure if the flares are still in the wardrobe though...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatofludham Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 I seem to recall that if you went into C&A in Walsall in the 1970s and asked for a "kipper tie" you were told to go to the café down the street. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sp1 Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 I seem to recall that if you went into C&A in Walsall in the 1970s and asked for a "kipper tie" you were told to go to the café down the street. That's a Brummie pronunciation - it's really a cuppa 'tay Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha230 Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 I hope they will do the apt-p at some point in the near future. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Tilt Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 We didn't have to buy our ties in the APD. One of the girls there, Joan, made them and gave them out for free! I had at least 6-7 at any one time, but they tended to get soaked in hydraulic oil quite often, not sure why........... You can just see one of them in the pic, from the side. Note the trendy chequer pattern flares and the expansive gesture as I'm explaining where the hydraulic contamination has gone to Trevor Easton..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Vistisen Posted April 3, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 3, 2015 Yeah, right....... That'd mean losing a stone or three and multiplying the amount if hair I have now by TEN! Mind you, I still have the kipper tie I wore back then, or one of them at least. Not sure if the flares are still in the wardrobe though...... A long time ago when the project first started I suggested the use of static grass as beards and hair for all the boffins Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted April 3, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 3, 2015 Yeah, right....... That'd mean losing a stone or three and multiplying the amount if hair I have now by TEN! Is there a version of Photoshop that can work with a laser scan...........? Cheers, Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OOgaugeJaf Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 What is currently at the front of the museam? J21? S160 would be a good shout. I do hope it is an S160 and one that run in on the LNER is selected. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spet0114 Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 What is currently at the front of the museam? J21? S160 would be a good shout. I do hope it is an S160 and one that run in on the LNER is selected. Remember, it has to be in the National Collection..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
43078shildoncountydurham Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Hi all I called in on Sunday, green arrow or mgr wagon? Regards Craig Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OOgaugeJaf Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Sterling is the obvious choice considering the new tender recently restored. If it does have to be National Collection owned there is not much left in there not currently available RTR so that or Hardwick? If it does not have to be National Collection owned my money would be S160. Something that would also appeal to many international modellers as well as domestic and I'm sure the NRM would benefit finanacially through significant sales worldwide. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Henriksen Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Sterling is the obvious choice considering the new tender recently restored. If it does have to be National Collection owned there is not much left in there not currently available RTR so that or Hardwick? If it does not have to be National Collection owned my money would be S160. Something that would also appeal to many international modellers as well as domestic and I'm sure the NRM would benefit finanacially through significant sales worldwide. Collectors worldwide, maybe. But International modellers aren't likely to be interested in an OO model, so I don't thing worldwide sales would help at all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ColinK Posted April 7, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 7, 2015 Maybe they are scanning sandwiches and mugs of tea to go inside rthe APT! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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