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    Hornby 2023 Speculation?

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    Loads of stuff for collectors that will never leave the box .

     

    Glossy Wembley exhibition Scotsman with short tender

    Wallpapered ‘Black’ 5

    Furness red ‘black’ 5

    King class mocked up as 6030 ‘King Charles III’

    Ivatt Duchess mocked up as 46258 ‘King Charles III’

    Class 50 mocked up as 50051 ‘King Charles III’

    Class 87 mocked up as 87036 ‘King Charles III’

     

    New tool:

    Raven pacific

    Class 01 or 06

    Gladstone

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    Hornby announce TT:120

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    Huge gamble by Hornby. 


    i get the gist that this is aimed at people who want to run trains rather than be the concerned with the finescale aspects of modelling.  It also railway modelling from a clean slate with commercially available correct gauging and compatability with overseas products.
     

    So lets hope that:

    • products are detailed, but not overly-detailed so that things break off easily when you are doing simple things such as getting them out the box for the first time.
    • relative cheap alternative to OO.  Less detail, less raw material, smaller size means cheaper freight from China?
    • mechanisms are simple and accessible so you can service them. Loads of my more recent 00 stuff just sits there as they are either dreadful runners through rubbish design or malfunctioned and I don’t have the ability to see what is wrong to repair them (even removing the body is a faff on lots of them). Older 70s and 80s stuff is bulletproof and even a cack handed clown like me can repair 
    • no mazak rot.

    I’ve got shedloads of 00 stuff, so I’m probably too far gone to make a complete switch, but might try a perspective layout with a 00 branch or industrial line in the foreground where I can do my ‘serious’ modelling, with the running express trains in the background at TT scale,

     

    Also, wonder if this is the start of the gradual phasing out of Railroad, as Hornby pushes towards TT for newbies?  Leaving OO for finescale modellers.

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    EBay madness

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    On 06/04/2021 at 21:18, newbryford said:

     

    Just don't worry yourself looking for Murdoch

    Also try looking on ebay for ‘Ertl Thomas’ and see how much Jock, Emily, D7101, Spencer etc go for.

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    Olivia's Trains BOC VBA and Cryogenics TEA

    in Smaller Suppliers

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    2 hours ago, Carl BR said:

    Well out of my order of eight with Hatton's my package landed today with just three and no stock left in the warehouse. Apparently the problem was their computer system thinking there was more than what was really in stock.

    I'm going to have to research what I can do with just the three I have received. I'm open to ideas in the form of photo's with these tankers thrown in to other wagon rakes.

     

    Cheers people. 

    That doesn’t bode well for my order of 3 yellow lined examples then.

    Hornby Saint - how bad was it?

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    Posted · Edited by Billystanier
    Typo

    16 minutes ago, DavidCBroad said:

    4900 was non standard as it used Saint cylinders which put the boiler centre line a coupe of inches lower than the other Halls, the smokebox and boiler rested on the cylinders on these locos.  Churchward designed the Saints cylinders so they incorporated the smokebox saddle and both right and left hand were identical reducing the number of patterns and parts required, but it meant the cylinders had to be horizontal.   Why they lowered the running plate on the Stars compared to the Saints I cannot fathom, 4000 retained ts higher running plate when it became a Castle and was in my opinion the best looking Castle because of it.

    You know, I’ve never noticed that about the 4000 rebuild before. Learn something new every day on here.

     

     

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    32-217A LT Pannier Tank L92

    in Bachmann

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    On 07/07/2020 at 08:05, gwrrob said:

     

    I'll be interested to know how well this version sells compared to say the wartime black GWR example. Not long to wait now.

    At thr moment, anything in a colourful, unusual or pre grouping livery sells. I think the market has been saturated with good quality BR black and green models over the last 15 to 20 years and demand is not there anymore. At the moment, I reckon even a Hornby Black 5 in Floral Wallpaper livery would sell.

     

    GMRC Series 2 - Episode 7 - Semi-final 2 - 'Blockbusters' - 6.15pm

    in Great Model Railway Challenge 2019 - Channel 5 series 2

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    2 hours ago, noiseboy72 said:

    Ok, bonus point time. 

     

    Can anybody identify the loco pulling our circus train and what we did to alter its appearance?

    Did you use a WD 2-8-0 (LNER version) with some home made german-style smoke deflectors?

     

    Out of interest, there was a James Bond themed exhibition layout that was knocking around the North West a few years ago. They had the circus train, the Goldeneye train, the Orient Express (from Russia with Love) and all sorts of industry such as Drax Shuttles and Goldfinger Smelting Works. For the Mercedes, they used a scale car fitted with rail wheels and towed it behind a train using a small piece of thread.

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