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J class at Muckleford in Victoria Woodhead electrics anyone?? Edit just saw the mainline request so opps, definatley not mainline action.

Close enough? It is clockwork and a tank loco How about something kitbashed/modified RTR

Mazak rot has been around along time but seems to me problems appearing much sooner than before. The issue I encounted was with car parts made of cast mazak like door handles, usually chromed, and turning to a white mess and impossible to fix when brittle. Of course said items would usually be 50 years old and subject to all sorts of outdoor conditions. New old stock would also be a problem but sometimes usable. This as good old British mazak so a life of 40 years plus before a bit of rot was OK. However, things crumbling to dust and deforming...very very rare.

I don't think the grain wagon is that rare or at least not worth that sort of money. I found one nastily over painted that cleaned up very nicely in a box of junk. The blue-grey coach was actually overpainted in choc and cream, talk about ruining a collectable but ok for a couple of pounds. I do wonder if I should enter the ebay madness spirit, I feel like early retirement with those sorts of prices..

Kevin, 3mm and TT is a great deal of fun, it can be as DIY intensive as you like. The level of commercial support is great with the exception of no RTR. However even that is not a problem if you buy from the 3mm Society secondhand. The trouble with TT is the it is almost unknown to most people, I was at a small model railway display at a local tractor pull and somone had a display showing relative scales Z, N H0, 0 and so on, good idea but not when I asked where the TT was, "oh forgot about that one didnt think anyone did it", decided not to ask about some S scale, gauge 1 or anything else provocative...

SR Q from BEC 4F and other bits on trusty Triang chassis of course

It just shows what you can do to increase the range of locos for a pretty low cost. Those GEM/Wills Nu Cast Langley and other manufacturers made some great kits for RTR chassis when we were perfectly happy to have a J39 with a jinty chassis. Often thought about collecting sone of the 00 versions on triang chassis. The layout is my current project Pylle, just trying to find some good pictures of buildings to replace the card kits.

The 4F is an unknown scratchbuild in brass, bought it off ebay and was most impressed as looks right. Track is peco pointwork with 3mm society track bases for the flexible, all code 75 and surprisingly the triang runs on it very well. Just had to widen the checkrails as some were a little tight and set all the back to backs. Comparison with BEC 4F, proper handrails and good detail, fits the standard chassis well enough Different tender, unknown model but very nicely made Most obvious from the front, has a great NER look to the boiler, but given the difference between this model and the standard 4F I have decided that the BEC kits can be 3Fs with the narrow boiler. Next project, convert a BEC 4F into a SR Q class, just need a different cab, same trick as done with vintage Lima 0 gauge models and should look passable enough.

It is alot better than drinking it thats for sure and can be used a couple of times. Layout is the slow in progress shillingstone Kit built G6 and scratchbuilt "Big Boiler" 4F on jinty mechanism Can't get too far away from the triang though

Well looks like my Tri-ang track is no worse than yours when started. I have a good mix of Type A and B but it corrodes in the boxes so even unused track come out poor. Have started a different method to clean, using a bath of coke. Will post some results but already have lovely shiny rail joiners. Peco wonderful wagons are indeed wonderful, had to get over that 'collectable' feeling of opening int wagon kits and building them but they sure make good wagons given that some of mine are over 50 years old. Modern wheels/bearing in tri-ang wagons and coach bogies work very well too but loose the originality and then they pretend to be scale but still, nice to have a free rolling train on modern trackwork. Peco wonderful wagons in action, weathered and generally reduced in collectabilty..

I am impressed that you get the old Triang track to work. I have boxes and boxes of the stuff all NOS and the level or corrosion makes it difficult to determine what to do with it. The deliberately old fashioned look works so well I have a strong desire to use some of my old trackwork. What is the width of the baseboard? Also found your loco bodies, have the remains of a ks tender drive somewhere and plenty of wheels, triang and otherwise to send you. Love the look of the 9F, now that is just what is needed.

I think the Fell would make a fine RTR product or, even better an excellent 'new build' project for main line running... Oh sorry, thought this was the "how to get lynched on RMweb" topic

Early version of the R51, tri-ang couplers, disc wheels with original trackmaster wagons. Note the finer wheel treads, spoked wheels, closed axle boxes.

Just going through some things here, GWR mogul bashed from a castle

Resin bodied diesels for 3mm are good fun to try here is my current works in progress, the class 24 also obtained from ebay for very little money a few years ago. Not a triang mechanism but vintage BTTB extended to the correct wheelbase. Given the sophistication of central motor, all wheel pickup and drive it is a little surprising these came out of East Germany in the 60s. Even runs well after being extended and lubed with WD40.

Only have a little bit of trix, but it is nice stuff, the standard 5 is a pure nostalgia loco from my friends father's layout of 30 years ago. Always liked the trix western for some unknown reason given the compromises

Looks great with the AIA bogies, proper Triang just like the 00 version of the 37.

Great topic, love the finish on the kits, very good work indeed. If you need some Triang bits just ask me before going to ebay as I have boxes and boes of spares and other parts, e.g. homemade A3 body, brit chassis, umpteen driving wheels, loads of body shells and other things. Just by coincidence i was working on a 14xx kit today. Some of mine from a while ago Hall from a castle Almost a 56XX from unknown starting point

This layout is far too inspiring for someone with way too much vintage TT and whose only 4mm stock is either triang or dublo. I know what I have to do, get it out of boxes and go deliberately old fashioned, I have resisted the temptation and tried to do 'proper' modelling but course scale will never be right and needs to be in the right context. And yes reminds me alot of the 'Sherwood Section' and much better unballasted or just with cork as it keeps that old fashioned feel so perfectly.

Well it was a big fall, I split my drink and fell in the blackberries so was a bit shaken up, had to drag it out the next day with the Peugeot 504 and after untying the rope watched as it rolled off down the drive into the fence,

It isn't only cars that have a problem staying upright, just don't jump when you are on the mower Now I am famous not just for having an car accident in my own driveway but also finding the small ditch while mowing...

Or rust too much either, I know what I would have...