LNWR18901910 Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 A busy day for me (again) Another 45xx 4570_lh.jpg 4570_rh.jpg A couple of Fruit D's fruitD2_rh.jpg fruitD1_lhran.jpg And Hornby's LNER Extra Long CCT CCT_lh.jpg That's a Bachmann 45xx and those vans are Dapol (I think). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted August 18, 2018 Author Share Posted August 18, 2018 That's a Bachmann 45xx and those vans are Dapol (I think). How did that Hornby one get in here? The thread might start to gain credibility! Here anyway is a model which is a interesting comparison to Hornby GWR green, complete with rather obvious lining. It makes a change from worrying about shades of green. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathan70000 Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 It's a lovely model overall but the lining and the enormous crest remind me of my circa 1981 Mainline Jubilee. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 We'll have to tell the people building the real 4709 to finish it like that so the model is authentic. Jason 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted August 18, 2018 Author Share Posted August 18, 2018 (edited) spot the difference picture edited, may not in fact resemble anything real. another angle on this lovely engine, can't put it in the Heljan 47XX thread because it is edited, it shows how these BR versions look with boiler and cylinder lining reduced, rather good I feel. back to Hornby someday soon. Cheers Edited August 19, 2018 by robmcg 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted August 19, 2018 Author Share Posted August 19, 2018 didn't I warn you? Not a lot of BR lined green here... built around 1937-8 as BR 45253 it lasted until 4/1968 Thread integrity restored. For the sake of appearances only. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railroadbill Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 (edited) Here's another Hornby black 5 just to keep the ball rolling. This is unlined, factory weathered and runs very smoothly. A very useful engine. Think there were 5 different versions made by Hornby, according to a spares catalogue (East Kent Models) I had, so a sophisticated series of models. Hornby had taken a lot of care with detail differences in such a large class of locos. (842 built). Definitely in "Hornby's Best models" category. Edited August 20, 2018 by railroadbill 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted August 21, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 21, 2018 Before things get boring and I start posting Hornby locos en-mass and building bloaters, I have another blog entry up: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/135/entry-21221-shack-attack-tnbb-part-5-return-of-the-shack-chapter-2/ 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted August 27, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 27, 2018 Something, a very different... (And yes it comes ifrom a red box and is 1/76th/OO Gauge ) Oh and I did promise Hornby Loco's didn't I.. A slightly enhanced Railroad GWR Hall for a client, that's currently on the workbench.. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted August 29, 2018 Author Share Posted August 29, 2018 (edited) Some Hornby models manufactured recently but not often talked about, the B12 and original Merchant Navy... photos edited. p.s. to above, Not many talk of the BR ex-GW King class either... somewhat edited Edited August 29, 2018 by robmcg 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieR4489 Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 Another vote here for the B12 apart from the ridiculously light bogie. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railroadbill Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 (edited) Something, a very different... IMG_5920.jpg (And yes it comes ifrom a red box and is 1/76th/OO Gauge ) It's an invasion! Edited August 31, 2018 by railroadbill 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railroadbill Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 Goodmoor Grange proceeds slowly, lining being applied, from Modelmaster 4081 sheet. The precision paints enamel sprayed on ok so think i got airbrush adjusted ok second time around. Agree about Hornby B12, a classic old model and now a new leading edge one. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted September 2, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 2, 2018 It's an invasion! And there's more... And before certain nay sayers insinuate that no real OO Gauge railway modelling ever gets done.. Oh and there's a 2800 Class on my Workbench (along with a 2884 Class - she needs some TLC) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 (edited) Some Hornby models manufactured recently but not often talked about, the B12 and original Merchant Navy... 8573_B12_Image1_4abc1_r1200.jpg 35028_MN_Bulleid_shed_3a_r1200a.jpg photos edited. p.s. to above, Not many talk of the BR ex-GW King class either... somewhat edited 6002_king_GWR_shed_4abcd_r1200.jpg My Rule 1 Railway sports both a B12 (Mk2) and a King (Mk2, TTS), plus the ludicrously Bright Red Olton Hall. I don't have an oversheeted Merchant Navy, though I do have the rebuilt Lamport and Holt Line MN in honour of my paternal grandfather who was a ships engineer in the Far East during WW1 and also served on the L&H SS Vestris, having the sense to come ashore and find a job as a tramway engineer before the ship sank off Norfolk, Virginia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Vestris One assumes that the RAF Air/Sea Rescue launch illustrated above, had shrunk in the Channel. Its also nice to see job-creation skills in action, as the crew of the launch launch appear to be working on their next client.... Edited September 4, 2018 by Hroth Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted September 4, 2018 Author Share Posted September 4, 2018 My Rule 1 Railway sports both a B12 (Mk2) and a King (Mk2, TTS), plus the ludicrously Bright Red Olton Hall. I don't have an oversheeted Merchant Navy, though I do have the rebuilt Lamport and Holt Line MN in honour of my paternal grandfather who was a ships engineer in the Far East during WW1 and also served on the L&H SS Vestris, having the sense to come ashore and find a job as a tramway engineer before the ship sank off Norfolk, Virginia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Vestris One assumes that the RAF Air/Sea Rescue launch illustrated above, had shrunk in the Channel. Its also nice to see job-creation skills in action, as the crew of the launch launch appear to be working on their next client.... I do like models with a personal connection! How may people are descendants of service people who had lucky escapes! A good friend's father was a WW2 Bomber Command Flight Commander... he had influenza and missed a mission over Germany in late '43 or early '44 his entire crew were lost. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted September 4, 2018 Author Share Posted September 4, 2018 Speaking of wartime constraints, what better example than the Thomson B1... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 Another vote here for the B12 apart from the ridiculously light bogie. A couple of turns of the once typical Bachmann bogie spring (removed from their locos when they were in the habit of greatly overspringing carrying wheels) does the trick. A real favourite on my layout, and quite possibly Hornby's best to date, especially when the near all metal loco construction is factored in. I did like Rob's comparison pictures up thread, the B12 an unencumbered and lithe David, vs the Goliath Z70 Roadroller, windfall fruit of the ugly tree, hit every branch on the way down, landed on a rock... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieR4489 Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 For the bogie on mine I used an old Hornby brush spring (I think) and now it has no problems on my rather dodgy trackwork. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNWR18901910 Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 Speaking of wartime constraints, what better example than the Thomson B1... 1040_B1_LNER_portrait15a_2abcd_r1200.jpg Hornby or Bachmann? There is a difference. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 Properly for this thread, that's the Hornby if the picture is of the model 'as is'. The cabside wind deflector in clear plastic for a start. While the Hornby model is very good it doesn't pound the older tooling used for the Bachmann loco body into the dust. It's when the tenders are compared that the Hornby is streets ahead. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted September 6, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 6, 2018 Properly for this thread, that's the Hornby if the picture is of the model 'as is'. The cabside wind deflector in clear plastic for a start. While the Hornby model is very good it doesn't pound the older tooling used for the Bachmann loco body into the dust. It's when the tenders are compared that the Hornby is streets ahead. The Hornby B1 body would fall apart*, before it could pound the Bachy B1's Body into the dust Even the Railroad tenders are better than Bachmann's and that's coming from someone whose spent the last 6 months working with GWR tenders from both camps - on a regular basis. * That being said, as long as the small parts don't get swallowed up by the Carpet Monster, the Hornby Body can be repaired more easily Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted September 6, 2018 Author Share Posted September 6, 2018 Hornby or Bachmann? There is a difference. Hornby like this... Bachmann like this Middlesbrough-Whitby-Scarborough both pics edited. The Hornby model really is truly outstanding in my opinion. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted September 6, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 6, 2018 (edited) I had the know how to rebuild her... (the parts that were missing needed some creative thinking) And a reworked Railroad Hall (one of two) Edited September 6, 2018 by toboldlygo 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 Hornby like this... Bachmann like this... The Hornby model really is truly outstanding in my opinion. I have mine the other way around: Bachmann in very workaday condition needing cleaner's attention, disguising its limitations; Hornby only lightly soiled having been recently cleaned, to display its refinement. That pic of a Hornby nicely showing one of several of the Hornby model's advantages, their tooling suite includes the option of reinforcements to the running plate quadrant angles, applied to many B1s that worked in Scotland. One can only wish that Hornby had got around to the cast metal boiler when they tooled the B1 (and B17 for that matter) as the more recent B12/3 easily outpulls the B1 thanks to greater and better placed weight. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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