34theletterbetweenB&D Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 I am not much for bling, but my wife certainly is; as a result she watched the programme about the extravagant tastes of despots as catered for by Faberge. Realising that I would be intrigued by the model railway items she drew that element of the prog to my attention. Well I never knew that. I'd guess the scale at circa 1:300, and although the prog didn't say so it had a clockwork mechanism. (There doesn't appear to be any track with it, perhaps the Faberge Track-pack egg is one of the lost ones?) A little googling - Faberge Trans Siberian is a suitable search term - turns up useful images. Unless they really did have a gold plated exterior train ( and that's not wholly outwith the bounds of Imperial excess) that appears to be the only immediately unrealistic aspect of the model; although I cannot say I am familiar with the prototype. Anyone here know more? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classsix T Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Kinder probably do one, or more, for those on a budget. Plus you get to eat the packaging, yummy! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveB Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 http://climateerinvest.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/egg-decorating-faberge-trans-siberian.html Have a look at this link. I've seen the real thing in the Kremlin museum - fascinating. Dave Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 I rather liked this. "The craftsman placed a complex mechanism inside the locomotive so that the miniature train could be set in motion by winding the mechanism with a tiny gold key." or as we know it, clockwork. However, a working clockwork loco smaller than Z scale* is pretty good going and, though Fabergé does indeed seem to have omitted to supply any track, the train itself appears to be quite a detailed scale model though the loco and its tender appear to be a single object but I don't think too many of Hornby's 0 gauge clockwork locos were made of platinum and gold with diamonds for headlights. Meanwhile most of Russia's people, only a generation after serfdom, lived in poverty !! *Assuming the coaches were about 60 foot long and the loco of similar length the train modelled would have been about 360 ft long making the 16 inch long model about 1:270th scale. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allegheny1600 Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 When are they bringing out their next model!?! :jester: Seriously, fascinating stuff showing what was technically possible even at that date. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 When are they bringing out their next model!?! :jester: Seriously, fascinating stuff showing what was technically possible even at that date. There are reproductions of the egg on sale but if you look at the train it's incredibly crude in comparison- just a silver casting- Fabergé's looks like it might even have had working valve gear (though I don't suppose the Kremlin Museum would allow an RMWeb delegation to wind it up to find out!!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Many people here still associate the name Fabergé with "Brut 33" and other terrible '70s memories. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted October 8, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 8, 2014 I can't compete with faberge's craftsmanship, which is fabulous, but we did have a bridge on Long Preston that was called Faberge bridge. I'd made a master of the handrail stanchions on an underbridge and my jeweller cousin, suggested a firm to do lost wax xastings. They eventually arrived slightly bent and looking as if they were made of white metal. I rang them and asked what metal it was as I wanted to straighten them. The reply went like this. "There's no problem, we hadn't any brass in the workshop so we used stirling silver". I resisted the temptation to have the only hallmarked layout on the exhibition circuit , but from that day forward the bridge was always know to the team as faberge bridge. It's now on permanent display in the Long Preston village hall. Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Im sure Willard Wigan could make the luggage for the guards van- or rather the cutlery for the dining car http://www.willard-wigan.com/gallery/ In the meantime thousands of Wiganites were living on a diet of Chip Butties........... Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Pies, surely? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted October 8, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 8, 2014 Pies, surely? Only on Sundays. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted October 9, 2014 Author Share Posted October 9, 2014 ...my jeweller cousin, suggested a firm to do lost wax castings. They eventually arrived slightly bent and looking as if they were made of white metal. I rang them and asked what metal it was as I wanted to straighten them. The reply went like this. "There's no problem, we hadn't any brass in the workshop so we used sterling silver"... They sound highly recommendable. Do you suppose their prices are reasonable for the 'gold', platinum' and 'osmium' range of cast to shape ballast weights that would be really useful on occasions to get awkward prototypes well balanced? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted October 9, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 9, 2014 They sound highly recommendable. Do you suppose their prices are reasonable for the 'gold', platinum' and 'osmium' range of cast to shape ballast weights that would be really useful on occasions to get awkward prototypes well balanced? As a matter of interest the cost differential for the 24 stanchions between Silver and bras was only £1. So if you feel like having a hallmarked gold signal weight feel free to copy the idea. The shame about the stanchions is that they looked lovely in Silver but I had to dirty them and cover them in grey paint. Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted October 9, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 9, 2014 I remember that stuff, night clubs used to smell like rats p1ss once the evening wore on, I was an Old Spice user back then. Only lime though not the red stuff. Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold colin penfold Posted October 9, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 9, 2014 wow, that would be hard to beat Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 I remember that stuff, night clubs used to smell like rats p1ss once the evening wore on, I was an Old Spice user back then. Only lime though not the red stuff. Then there was the equally awful Hai Karate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackRat Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Many people here still associate the name Fabergé with "Brut 33" and other terrible '70s memories. I knew an old sweat Marine who when skin t, would drink it! Brasso as well, filtered through a slice of bread!!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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