Graham456

Just wondering as I browse this Early Risers topic at 11.38 am I to late !

Here we go ! So are you BRUSHing up you layout tips! SWEEPING down the river Ganges Whilst Having a REEDing good time building it. Of course the more expensive woodland scenics stuff is a natural product I see from the packet is your brush ? More Inportantly what are you going to do with the handle after the trimming, some sort of temple piller!

When I was a kid, (bleet !) my dad bought a black 0-6-0 off a work mate. Now being around ten or less I didn't care what make it was, but what was fantastic was its slow running ability, it's top speed was around half of the triang Nelly,s makeing it a brilliant shunter,to a enquisitive child ( you know got to pull it apart to see how it works ) it looked like it was three rail conversion with this big shiny plate on the underside but with no pickups for three rail, a normal magnet type motor a bit like a XO4 but defantly not one,lurked under the body, so I don't know if it was as made because as a perilous poster has said trix is not common at secondhand, at swap meets and I have never seen another. The funny thing despite haveing Thomas books did I notice it was was what Thomas was? Na only after I had sold it did I find that out! Edited to correct autocorrects.......gurrrr didn't noticed them

What your saying your going for a double track main line version then Stu! Yes I do know what the date is

Very Interesting to me as I bought a No1 from Ray Heard a few years ago and during the rebuild I came to the conclusion there was more likely a brass kit base rather than totally scratch built thing, so if it is a jaimison kit and now possibly a bit of light is shining on where it was born Sorry for interrupting the metro theme

I would go for a cheep American loco because no way is the track cleaner ever going to look like a English waggon or blend in a UK landscape / layout so as said in a earlier post a GP9 all week drive second hand loco can be picked up for £20 or less Go on have a bit of fun on your layout and build the Atlantic tunnel !

Well this is your own fault, for going to Devon, because if you had stayed in Somerset you would have been DRY, it was nice and SUNNY at crowcombe station yesterday Just thought you would like to know that Stu.

Sad to hear this because during my move the only thing I have had to read at night is the December 77 model rail constructer as it didn't get packed. this just happened to feature this layout, this chap sure knew how to squeeze a long run in to the space, Interesting couplings he used looks like some sort of sprat and winkle type, haveing a hoop with a under slung hook I wonder if anyone else used his method of fixing the track ( or not)

This may be a bit cheeky of me but I am a contributing member of R M Web, having just moved to Seven Ash near Combe Florey just up the same road as the show and taken over a B &B, if anyone needs a room for the night I do have rooms available that weekend,the only thing is you will have to not hang around in the morning as I to want to get to the show before the pasties are gone, sorry I can't give you a phone number yet BT haven't connected me ! Sorry moderators if I have broken any rules with this post!

I know but my favourite saying is I can resist every thing except temptation ,,,and boy I couldn't resist doing this PS no more chat about those dam peas Pies fine Gravy yes please But NO SQUASHED PEAS Or any ponsy London names for gravy

Your right about knowing nothing about the battle , I was just stirring things up ! Is your sense of humour warped ! because it sounds much like mine! I was also just trying to stop the boring chat about bland ucky squashed marrowfat peas but their back on about um again Edited to correct spellchecker not knowing English Sense=spence. Why?

Can you please send a copy to my wife so she will understand why I didn't come home!

Are you sure your not just a secret EM person and don't want the world to know that years ago tri-ang had it right about how far apart the outer faces of you wheels need to be, I still await some one to point how many point zero zero nano millimetres wrong I am You can if you want ,,,go on I am bateing you......because I don't care I have a old L1 which to upset you with , so long as you don't have any points PPS I need to stop here it's about getting lynched at shows not forums

But I thought that was the whole point of this thread !

How to get lynched at a expo EM rather than a normal show ,,,,,, 1,,, Get hold of a triang loco with the black sintered wheels 2... Connect up the X04 to the controller 3....Turn it up side down stick a file on flanges to reduce them a bit 4 ....take to a Expo EM and ask if you can run your loco on a layout 5.....when it runs because the steam roller wheels despite being to 00 size are so fat they reach the wider rails Best get out of there ! Tri-ang Your rails might be to close but the out side width is right !

Quote Whilst trying to reposition the axle-box mouldings to get some Alan Gibson wheels in, the body broke into several pieces. It was extremely brittle - like 1mm thick glass! I assume the plastic had degraded over time and lost any hint of flexibility. Definitely past recovery. Keith Worryingly I recently bought a still bagged but very old Ian Kirk kit of a N23 and like you the plastic had gone brittle shattering as I tried to cut it from the sprues even though I was using proper sprue cutters So i had to make the kit to make the kit, still I was going to replace the tie rods and the load now hides the reinforcing to the sides looks like there may be a problem after all these years

Well at least I understand the controversial part of your statement better now having only known the "ting a ling" since the early eighty's myself, I can't comment on pre that, have seen the light green in pics before Mike would have been young in the sixties to dictate the colour used and I think the land rover green came about more by it being there rather than policy. I just find it funny how picky people are over paint shades when one in five men have some degree of colour blindness and apparently the colour we see yellows as are eyes ages according experts none of which helps us modellers

Talyllyn green, Deep bronze green or British army No 2 green Quote (I know that painting the Talyllyn locos in "non-standard" colour schemes has long been controversial and for many years I sided with the purists. Then, a couple of years ago, I saw Tal-y-Llyn in BR lined black and it suited her so well my resolve began to waver.) Can you please explain why the painting of the locos is controversial , since the mid sixties until his retirement two years ago,one of the employees in the works, was and is a land rover enthusiast , so the colour used for nearly the last forty years has been Land Rover paint , not some historical colour of old , if the talyllyn haven't worried to much about the shade of green used why do modellers get in so much of a sweat

Your right about Aladdin's cave he had every thing and knew where it was, but as a school boy my trouble was that unless I knew what I wanted I could never find it , and as I didn't know what was available and who made what back them, I spent hours rummaging but never finding what I wanted as I didn't want to ask for a due fur to fit a thingy, and look dumb it was just information overload I know the shop was run by his daughter towards the end but I wonder just what happened to the literary tons of bits when it shut down

Yep I remember Bailies Dailies Models very well, because I workied there for two and a half years in 1979-81 great years with all the new Mainline and Airfix stuff coming out, we had a good stock of bits for kit builders and mow thirty years on I wish I had stocked up on a lot of things you can't get now MW 1001 motors,all the lost wax castings we had in stock Ks Kits, the Newcast Flower kit that I wanted but all ways was out of reach haveing all ready spent half my wages in the shop! Could co on and on , but I will Finnish in saying John Baggot the owner is still with us as I see him some times

Telling my now wife i was into model trains was very very,easy, in so much as we met at my local model railway club I didn't need to tell her she could see for here self !

Allied Marine yes this was inspirational to me back in ,was it 1978/9 I still have the mags with it in, salted away but it's a while since I last read it,but I can picture it in my mind clear enough. I still have the fleet of centre models kits I built as I tried to build my own version, but I never did get hold of a faller brewery kit to use as the basis of the industral grot for the scene setting