ERIC ALLTORQUE

These two model loco,s that the lads have produced will take some beating in the awards next year,the 56 has few detractors and im sure this will be just as high a bar model,nice chat with Alex at the Ally Pally show yesterday,rightly proud of their masterpieces,and grounded with it.Im sure they have our thanks and support with these.

6 minutes ago, brushman47544 said:

Looking very good, although I hope the air horns in the headcode panel aren’t painted over like that in the production versions.

They will be fine,keep the faith,the futures bright with these guys on the case.

Ally Pally

Ally Pally today...

23 hours ago, The Johnster said:

I am much entertained by the way that the elongated muskrat’s rocket fails catastrophically each time it is launched but gets a little further than the last disaster, yet each disaster is hailed as a brilliant success as if it it is what was intended.  This thing is a serial failure and clearly has deep and institutional problems, and will no doubt continue to be a spectacular spectator sport until somebody gets killed, at which point it will be a lot less fun.  

Starship and the superheavy booster are all prototype,in early development for the huge step forward it will give,as mentioned above the falcon has revolutionised space reusability,it will develope and be sucessfull.

Well London bound tomorrow,whos off to Alley Pally,only a six o clock start..................

1 hour ago, Krieghoff said:

Well, less then 24 hours after ordering from Model Railways Direct ive received the first mk2 coach. 
 

this is SERIOUSLY good service and credit to MRD and the Royal Mail (cant believe im saying this about RM).

 

You have gained a loyal customer here for repeat business. 

Did the postie not knock you up, hand you the coach and say lets play trains........:)

1 hour ago, Ben B said:

We were watching telly last weekend, and when we paused it, an advert for the RAF came up, boasting about how one could join up to 'help protect space'.  Whilst I appreciate the thought, and it appeals to the SciFi part of me, it did make me wonder if we've secretly spent the defence budget on a Battlestar :)

 

My eldest glanced at the advert it and said "Oh good, UNIT's recruiting" :) 

The US have a forth military now with there space force, joke if Britain does anything toward that,we dont have the Empire but no one at Westminster has noticed,we cannot make a reliable capital ship let alone experiment with space ships.

14 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

And the engines didn't fire while the altimeter was screaming toward zero.

 

Booster attitude looked "ok".  It wasn't sideways or upside down.

 

Yes the booster worked good until the landing burn what should have been 9 then down to three to hover.

the ship was intensionally put into a decaying just short of orbit trajectory and the raptor relight was skipped and only destined to by one to test the capability,great achievement to build on for next time.

How wonderful is this today,what an achivement.

4 hours ago, Moley48 said:

I tried asking AI to add some scenery to this picture I took on my embankment as I'm lacking in scenics at the moment. 

 

 

 

What the hell is that!!

 

Serves me right for trying to be clever. 

Its wheely good though,the 56 made by Foden trucks.

Its worked,all going to plan,

On 12/03/2024 at 07:23, Phil Bullock said:

That’s one expensive loco! Don’t go giving them ideas… 

On the plus side buy three and you would get platinum points total,got to be worth it.

The batsmen at Leadgate cricket club used to jest they could hit a ball to Tyne Dock when the railway for the steelworks ran by the ground.....some 15/20 miles away,by landing the ball in the empty train wagon if they timed it right The models on offer now are that far out the park,we have a lot to thank these guys for when you look at what was not so long back.Wonderful stuff from the modellers model makers.We all agree by the posts.

Off the Cavalex facebook page, the 60 on test with Pete Watermans Railnuts,the perks of knowing Kyle.

Perhaps not all doom and the name lives on

We are pleased to announce that we have now brought “Hattons Model Railways” into the Rails family!

It was a shock to the modelling world earlier this year, when stalwart of the industry, Hattons, announced that it was to close.

At Rails, we could not allow the legacy of this esteemed brand to disappear and we have sought a way to keep the spirit of Hattons alive.

Many customers reached out to us, dismayed, that the valuable resources on the Hattons website such as the product database and expansive “Directory” system may be lost forever. Rails will soon relaunch these services and will continue to update them with new information.

While the original Hattons store and business will remain closed, this iconic brand

I think its more popular now it has function on DC with the latest models,its where do you draw the line with some of the functions with DCC control.

11 hours ago, toolongtoremember said:

I hope to run my accurascale 66 at the wexford model railway show this May, will you guys be there?

We all hope you are running your 66 then as i means we will have had the production delivery, here you go @McC nice local show to go too.......play trains.