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  1. Captain Slough
    Farnby-Dublish
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    Somewhere on RMWeb theres a pic of a Farish 5 running with a Dublo castle chassis (early type with "half-inch" motor rather than Ringfield, a ringfield would never fit), and Dublo 8F tender Which gets rid of all the metal fatigue and chassis problems, at least.
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    just an additional thing I could have put into my message convo with hacksworth' but which may be of broader interest & that I just remembered. Due to a decision to share parts (specifically the side-rods), Hornby-Dublo/Wrenn R1s have exactly the same wheelbase as the Hornby-Dublo N2 0-6-2T. Dublo N2s may also be useful for motorising Kitmaster/Airfix/Dapol GWR Prairies as a result.
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    Dublo 8F tender body might be a good replacement
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    frequently discussed in Vintage / Collectible rmweb subforum...
  6. Captain Slough
    ~its a Dublo deltic. There are limits to whats achievable in terms of accurate representation....
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    authentic livery from about 2002 when Porterbrook bought it out of preservation and put it into their active fleet
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    Kicking myself now as in 1996 I decided not to buy a roller pickup Princess from Hemel Hempstead antique market due to the deformed Cellulose acetate body It was marked as about £18 from memory and my logic was that i could get a more modern one for that much...
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    Hacksworth, I have a pair of seized-up Dublo R1s that last ran in the 1990-s and have gone solid during the subsequent 25 years in storage if you need some to play with...
  10. Captain Slough
    Nice Saab stuff.I have 2 of them - a '98 convertible and an '06 estate. they are worth the trouble
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    somewhere I've got one of those early plastic 0-4-0 chassis which I spliced a 3 volt motor into to make a battery powered loco. Was surprlsingly easy as the 12v can motor they used in that chassis run has the same external profile as a lot of 3v motors, just longer. I backfilled the space with milliput
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    You'd just need Nanking Blue and White paint, and a midland pullman transfer set, surely?
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    the Hornby-Dublo travelling mail coach in the background is looking pretty good for its 60 years, too
  14. Captain Slough
    lol.. Llamedos / Sod'em all. DT fan? There's a cottage called that in Llan Ffestiniog
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    Triang (Triang-Hornby actually as it came out in early 1966) model was actually class 82 bogies - badly proportioned, using the Hornby-Dublo Class 81 body on top. Their class 82 as pre-announced was never released and the issued model was numbered E3001, same as Dublo's
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    @Clive have a look in the "modelling BR Blue" subforum to see my attempted Cl 310 EMU done by similar methods to your models here
  17. Captain Slough
    28, 29 were both already RTR - the 28 in 1961 by Hornby-Dublo, the 29 by Hornby around 1979
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    I had a never-started plan to build one of these using 1960s Triang pullman cars as the body source for the driving cars - they have about the right body profile and if extended then the window toplights were filled in then the main window extended up a little, wouldnt have been far off - although I never decided how I'd handle the end doors at the non-driving end. I'd already made a 5-BEL out of pullman cars so knew I could build a driving cab easily enough.
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    ideally a paid of Cl.58 bogies as well as they are fairly close in frame design to the LMS 10000 design that was reused by both NBL for the Cl.41 Warship and Metro-Vickers for the Cl.77/EM2
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    I actually have an NBL D600 warship - built by my dad using 2 Hornby Class 29 bodies, a Triang 37 chassis, part of the nose of the Class 37 and some plastikard..... (The class 29 bodies and the 37 noses and chassis were left over from "Monty Wells" Baby Deltic conversions) I imagine an actual RTR one would have all the grills in the right places and nose-end detail but at speed this wasnt as obvious, and standards were a bit lower in the 1980s...
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    well the £31 bidder was outbid in the last seconds by someone who bid £36, and paid minutes later... Guess I'll find out in a few days when its delivered, if he actually had read the description or not (even the header said "not motorised.." and one pic showed it with the body removed and no motor ) To be fair it had immaculate lining and bodywork as well as a complete original box, I'm just not seeing the value being realistic. I filed it with a starting price of £9 expecting it to go for no more than £12
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    This is ridiculous, my "connie" (unpowered,clearly says in title and description and photo shows it has no motor) is currently at £31 on eBay is a good body and original box really worth that much? or do I have an idiot buyer who hasnt realised he or she isnt getting a running model?
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    When I list items I always set the minimum offer price at a fair market value so as to prevent these timewasters outright. I have had one angry Scottish guy message me twice to say my minimums are ridiculous, but I just blocked him as I'm perfectly capable of seeing what other items actually sold for...
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    the first one with the obviously GWR engine has MK1 coaches with 5 windows between each door set..... 75ft chassis version? AI is weird.
  25. Captain Slough
    Working 4mm scale London Trolleybus, built by me circa 1996 Body adapted from Tower Models RT kit, motor and gearbox from Tyco slot car, front axle from Corgi car, spring power pickups actually wired to the motor. This was set up to go in a straight line down a bit of road on my layout guided by 2 ridges in the road surface, actually takes power from the overhead wires
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