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  1. darren01

    Just got myself an king Authur, no detail pack in with it,contacted Hornby over a week ago,ngot an email today,sorry do not have any!.

    1. Ian Hargrave

      Ian Hargrave

      Contact Peter's Spares.

  2. darren01

    Going to bed now,been a long night at work zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

  3. darren01
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    2. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      No - classifieds on here!

    3. muddys-blues

      muddys-blues

      Get away !!! are they delivering it personally ?

    4. muddys-blues

      muddys-blues

      I see it now, European delivery !! explains it.

  4. darren01

    Working on a small Holt for the layout.

    1. DonB

      DonB

      Having Otters in your canal / river bank would be a first in 4mm scale!

  5. darren01

    all most finished my PW train.

  6. darren01

    Having fun trying to run the layout to a time table....very interesting

  7. darren01

    Day off, working on detailing some wagons, nice!.

    1. steve22

      steve22

      Hope you enjoy it!

  8. darren01

    At last have got the layout up and running and the new boards are wired up,now i can run loco's round to the new bigger fiddle yard and it all works!

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    2. LNER4479

      LNER4479

      Great feeling, innit?

    3. RAY NORWOOD

      RAY NORWOOD

      Is that Torington extention.

    4. darren01

      darren01

      yes, all wired up,next job is to do/or not do scenic area or leave it?

  9. darren01

    Not buying new loco's anymore, Getting a lot more second hand,good thing is i can get three loco's for the price of one new one!

    1. gwrrob

      gwrrob

      My last two buys off ebay were ass good as new for half the price.Maybe I'm just lucky.

    2. Grafarman

      Grafarman

      Virtually all my stock is half price or heavily reduced; only thing I'm buying new will be the new N Pendelino...!

    3. TT-Pete

      TT-Pete

      I bought a Roco HO NS 1000 electric loco BNIB recently at an exhibition. "I could get twice what I'm asking on eBay" the bloke said. "Yes I know!" I thought to myself, "why do you think I'm buying it!?"

  10. darren01

    Not buying new loco's anymore, Getting a lot more second hand,good thing is i can get three loco's for the price of one new one!

    1. darren01

      darren01

      Last thing i got off ebay was two collett coaches for

  11. darren01

    Got a mole in my front garden,now looks like the some!

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    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      "I am a mole

      And I live in a hole...."

      etc.

    3. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Call in George Smiley

    4. The Bigbee Line

      The Bigbee Line

      I had a mole in Eastleigh. Had just turfed the lawn, must have been 'mole heaven' I would have killed the little B******d if I'd caught him. I moved to Norfolk instead.........

  12. darren01

    Sorting out the railway room,god what a lot of junk i have collected!.

  13. darren01

    Making a new building for Torrington.

  14. darren01

    taking down part of my old layout and binning it!

    1. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      You don't mean Torrington, do you?! :-O

    2. darren01

      darren01

      yes, but only the part that never go's out,18 feet of a curve and bridge,need the room for a new project.

       

  15. darren01

    Don't you just enjoy chasing shorts on point work after rewiring !

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    2. skipepsi

      skipepsi

      The sun always shines in the SouthWest.

    3. davefrk

      davefrk

      Don't do what one NE club did, connect a car battery and watch for the smoke from the errant wire....

    4. SHMD

      SHMD

      ^You must admit that it found the short quickly!

      How much "collateral" damage was caused and how long to put right?

  16. darren01

    OMG been rewiring Torrington, been chasing a short for four hours, got the little @@@ now!.

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      A long time to find a short.

    2. darren01

      darren01

      It was coursed by a wire bridging two points from when i had the layout wired up before,it was right in front of me all the time,cut it fault gone!

  17. darren01

    In the middle of rewiring Torrington,should run a lot better, glad i have some time off work too do it!

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    2. darren01

      darren01

      NO!!!! AHARRRRR!!!

       

    3. SHMD

      SHMD

      Why the re-wire, or should I ask at the show?

    4. darren01

      darren01

      The layout was damaged at an open day and a lot of the wiring had been pulled out!

      So a rewire.

  18. darren01

    rewiring a layout.....why did i start !......

  19. darren01

    Came back from Kent, after spending two weeks building a layout for someone and come home to build mine!.but enjoying it!.

  20. darren01

    been sitting under a layout all day on a wooden floor re wiring it.......my poor bottom!

  21. darren01

    Got a lord Nelson,with watercart tender for silly money,well happy!

  22. darren01

    Want to get on with the layout.....But this bathroom is taking a dog's age to finish !

    1. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Get a younger dog then!! ;-)

    2. Satan's Goldfish

      Satan's Goldfish

      My mum used my Bathroom once....her comment of 'i can't get the cold tap to stop dripping' resulted in new taps, sink, flooring, plastering, paint, and tiling. Bathroom's suck!

  23. darren01

    Guildford MPD the more i look at it the more i want to build it!

    1. Satan's Goldfish

      Satan's Goldfish

      Allow me to be the first enabler: do it, you have no excuse not to.

    2. darren01

      darren01

      Once i sell off Torrington,then yes i will do it! with hand built track,hmmmmmmmmmmm

  24. darren01

    I do like the look of the Nelson stock

  25. darren01

    Guildford MPD.....Mmmmmmm?

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