M.I.B

I have seen mine briefly and returned to sandy places.

How do I remove the DCC chip?  I will be running this "old school" DC

Cleaning out the stock after elephants were carried was reportedly a highly prized job according to those who managed to get it - elephant poo is reputedly even better than horse poo as a fertiliser for the growing of roses. 

It's no better nor worse - both and most others still needa month or two to calm down before application - only llama/alpaca manure can go straight on.

That'll be November 2015 if the Star and 72XXs are anything to go by.............

What a fantastic layout.  Many thanks for sharing.  It has taken me nearly all night to read (pages take a while to load out here).  Well worth the frustration.

So nearly 2 years since I started this post, the title really was correct after all.

I look forward to seeing it in the flesh when I get Home in March.  50 months since I ordered it!

(Then I'll be asking how to take the DCC chip out, and asking who wants to buy it!!)

And which one might that be?

4003

I ordered early and it arrived yesterday apparently.

I will get to see it in 18 days time 

Mine still has not arrived by post as a pre order so I would be miffed to find out that they were on general sale before pre-orders were completed.

Please don't rush this and get it wrong like the Hornby Stars.

I would far rather wait and get this one right.

But the models are not faulty, they are has Hornby designed and produced and as such are not faulty what they are is a incorrect model of a star loco. so can responsibility rest retailers .

If the front frames resemble a banana, they are faulty.

If Hornby designed them like that they should shut up shop now.

woof woof woof.png3 Dukedogs on display at the NRM.

 I take it that the GWR one is backing onto it's tender........................

Looks good though.

Thank you for the photos from Down Under ( and across a bit.....)

I personally can live with the moulded handrails and lining faults - I agree with OldDudders in this respect- Having had to put up with a Ks Star

But a warped front frame and the wrong wheels is unacceptable for £150.

Please Geoff from Steam, show yourself...............(and Lode Star)

If the wheels on Lode Star are replaced I will be satisfied at £150 a pop.

If the frames are bowing up, it will be going back, and I don't care if Steam or any one else loses out.  Sale of faulty goods.

Steam should not accept anyof these models from Hornby if they are faulty.  There is no excuse for not knowing that they are faulty having seen the posts on this thread.

Let's hope all is well.

MIB I should think anything interesting from 'home' must be brilliant in youre 'location'.

ATB mate, P @ 36E

  Many thanks.  We have just had the cessation of our BFPO services announced so nothing more from Home for us until we go Home. 

Greetings from the world of beige - and i'm not talking about the contents of most over-50s' wardrobes......

I tend to miss things from time to time, out here in the far flung corners of the US Empire....  is there and issue with the Steam Stars?  I too have one on order but probably won't be at Home when it arrives.

I think that Toad might have something to do with the Snow Hill Tunnel inspection train; perhaps they took the glass out so they could inspect more easily?

 but ahead of it are two 4-plankers and what looks to be a 9 cylinder CORDON........

Gilbert,

You have brought so much enjoyment and inspiration to so many by sharing your layout.  Don't get wrapped around the axles now that you have found out an error or two.  Most people strive to get 10% of what you have achieved, so be exceptionally proud with what you have.

My fear would be that to get obsessive has a danger of you coming to hate PN and drive yourself up the wall striving to achieve a level of perfection bordering on the manic obsessive.

Make the compromise between what you have, what you want, what you can afford, and most of all, what you enjoy.

(I hear 4772 has some sort of GN/NE LNER significance? or is that 4472?)

I just realised that I know of a photo of Truro taken in 1957 at Snow Hill.I need to polish my buffers.

 

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Copyright Andrew Smith.

The windows in that TOAD on the right look odd - no glass???????

The horseboxes are empty as the Kingsbridge farmer who bought the new Fordson tractor earlier in the year has bought a couple of yearlings from a stud farm near Lambourn,Oxfordshire.Perhaps.

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More than a couple - 3 yearlings to a box like this - or 2 large hunters per box.

Please stop mentioning 47XXs - having bought one completed I don't need someone to look at what's going on here and Didcot and thinking that they are onto something.........

What liveries are those then ?

National Benzole x 4.

Fina one is silver, but too young to be with my lot.  Would fit your period though.

I had a rethink of milk tanks while I was home too.  2 LMS chassied 6wheelers will also head to pastures new.

7 wagons for sale easily justifies buying a few more grey vans and perhaps some of the larger GMR/Airfix black Shell/BP tanks.

I have rooted out 4 beige ones and a Fina that don't belong in my "end of GWR" period, so I'll Ebay those and replace with some Mobils if I can find some.

Thanks for the informtive links and debate.

I've had a BG buying frenzy too.  Kits and RTR.  There is something quite pleasing about BGs: clerestory, to Hawksworth. 

I even have 4 teak ones in 2 types to make up a visiting pigeon special, as well as 3 different LMS ones to add some alternative colour to the sea of chocolate and cream.

As always, thanks for sharing and inspiring Rob.

The Hornby Gresley looks great to me.

Hi MIB,

 

Good to hear from you again as always! The chains and securing bits come from Ambis Engineering. They have a website but I must confess to buying from them at a show:

 

http://www.ambisengineering.co.uk/

 

I hope this helps! I look forward to seeing your POLLENs on RMWEB - any idea as to what era you are going to set yours in as of yet?

 

All the best,

 

Castle

 Thanks once again.  Everything I have centres around 1945-49, but there is a rake of early clerestories and a couple of engines that sit 20 years earlier than that because I couldn't resist (a County, a Saint and Lode Star when it arrives).