Bucoops

3 minutes ago, Barry Ten said:

As a follow-up to my post about the Princess bogie, I discovered a possible reason for the tendency to derail:

 

 

I don't know how obvious it is from this photo, but when I had the loco on the workbench again, I noticed that the front set of bogie wheels has a finer flange profile than the ones behind! How that's happened is a mystery because as far as I'm aware

they're just standard Gibson 3 foot diameter 9 spoke Stanier wheels. I had a second pair in my box (still in the pack) and these had a flange profile more like the trailing set. I swapped the front wheels and the loco became much more sure-footed.

 

Al

P4 vs OO profile perhaps?

1 hour ago, boxbrownie said:

EM, P4 and spare OO sets packed and ready……

And they look very swish…..each set of wheels has its own unique box 

Um, C4 is VERY different from P4...

51 minutes ago, Ncarter2 said:

I dropped him a message just to see if it was sound fitted and mentioned that Hattons still have them new for just over £100 for non sound. No response. 

I did similar - pointed out they are available new for £120. Equally no response.

1 hour ago, Accurascale Fran said:

 

Hi David,

 

All Deltics are coming together, so around the same time for sure.

 

Cheers!

 

Fran 

I dunno, you wait for ages then 2,500* come at once.

*Wild Guess of total in the container, bears no resemblance to how many i've ordered

12 minutes ago, Dan Griffin said:

erm. 

 

unless I'm mistaken, the trains on film range seems to have been removed from Hornby's website!

 

 

I wish I'd put money on it now,  i said this would happen a few pages back. 

 

what a stunt to pull.  I'm sorry but whoever's idea it was to launch that range should be shown the door. 

 

do Hornby really need that bad publicity? 

It's been like that for a few days - made me chuckle

An old "favourite" scam was people selling an "xbox box". I know people caught by that. I expressed sympathy, then laughed at them because I'm mean.

49 minutes ago, andyman7 said:

Besides which there are still folk out there who haven't considered anything to be proper Hornby since it stopped being made of tinplate in Liverpool and run on coarse-scale O gauge track....

*Waves*

1 hour ago, The Stationmaster said:

But strangely the sound appears to completely miss the most noticeable noise of all - described by a Davey Paxman engineer as 'hideous' when starting from a station.  i presume it isn't on the sound file because either nobody knew/bothered to research it or if they did they couldn't find anything suitable to record?

Just nick some Jeremy Vine soundbites - you can make it sound as hideous as you like then  And for when it breaks, you could use Vanessa Feltz for that kind of whining grinding noise.

Sorted

12 hours ago, Free At Last said:

Probably the cat has got back into the bag.

It's off to the vet to be neutered.

1 hour ago, Accurascale Fran said:

 

Hi Al,

 

That's not something present on this loco, but we will keep it in mind for future projects. Great suggestion!

 

Cheers!

 

Fran 

Now now, start nicking ideas and a Thunderbolt might come down on you

41 minutes ago, pete_mcfarlane said:

Does this mean that the original printing is now @@RARE@@ and will be listed for a small fortune by ebay chancers? 

To ebay, I bet someone will have listed one already!

9 hours ago, MrWolf said:

It's actually a good bit of publicity and shows customers that they are buying from a proper retailer. My late friend used to do the same thing with his antique business.

How old was his business? What did he sell?

Make of this what you will, but try clicking this link https://uk.Hornby.com/products/trains-film-seen-titfield-thunderbolt-train-pack-era-1-r30093

Lumps of bullhead rail for the coupling rods too - how very Jamieson!

1 hour ago, Compound2632 said:

 

The formation of the Coronation train (not Silver Jubilee - different coaches) was four articulated pairs: brake third + kitchen third / twin open first / open third + kitchen third / open third + brake third / observation car. So the prototypical train is made up of one each of the articulated pairs Hornby is producing, R40223-6, along with the observation car, R40227.

And they should be neatly labelled A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H and they were coupled in that order permanently (until WW2 anyway).

43 minutes ago, Michael Hodgson said:

I remember seeing a loco on ebay consisting of two cabs cut & shut back to back on a motor bogie, but I think it was a 37. 

 

 

... please don't do that to an Accurascale one !

I remember that. Emphasis on WAS.

23 hours ago, rloades said:

Not from me, Tornado has left the railway to go for its overhaul. Tornado was on a Photo Charter with the van train and at the East Coast Weekend. Photo here is from one of the railway's Official Photographers, Joe Connell.

 

 

Looks great  You guys should be proud of this event with your hard work on show behind a "celeb" loco

Has Tornado hauled freight before? I expect it has in its 10 years but can't be many times?

I want to offer £1.50 but I'm worried the reply may be in ALL CAPS TO SHOUT AT ME

No pictures of Tornado playing with the train?

On 30/01/2022 at 21:28, Jonboy said:

Ooops, nearly lost one…..

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10457643/Train-driver-avoids-derailment-leaving-cab-dangling-track-damaged-floodwater.html

Flirting with danger.

Sorry.

Not really.

There are various grades of threadlock, green being the strongest.

2 minutes ago, Michael Hodgson said:

 

Um, a bit difficult to paint the engine when it's all boxed up.  

Ok I asked for that I meant are the bodies all on their frames now, is the pictures of the boxed ones the samples?

Presumably there is also accessory packs, pages of reporting numbers, nameplates etc. all need to go in as well without risk of damage or damaging the model.

I'm not surprised there's a delay, it was very unlikely to get done by Chinese New Year. It is what it is

Are they going to have to open them all up to paint the engine?

44 minutes ago, The Ghost of IKB said:

Well if it means the deltics, 37s and slw25s all appear at the same time it means I will have to max out a dredit* card.  I'd rather they all came at different times, hence I'm hoping for deltics sooner rather than later, followed by 25s in summer and 37s in autumn.

 

*credit card bill you dread arriving.

I paid a couple of mine off at the time of ordering, but when I got sucked into another one, I am doing that in about 3 installments (against my usual rule) - but in theory by the time they are ready for dispatch, they are all fully paid for