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| gilarion Member Since: 05 Dec 2013 Location: Wales Posts: 5084   
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A few more pics showing the layout nearly finished. Still, quite a long way to go yet need to fix more scenery, figures and yard paraphernalia such as crates pit props etc. And cables for the lift head wheels.
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15th Feb 2019 1:42pm |
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| Joe the Plumber Member Since: 18 Dec 2013 Location: Midlands Posts: 906 
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Ah, private owner wagons, a subject dear to my heart. Lovely model there.
To the OP, Hattons of Widnes buy some used model railway stuff, and there's plenty of 'Wanted' ads in the back of Railway Modeller magazine, out each month: https://www.hattons.co.uk/ |
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18th Feb 2019 8:48pm |
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| Pickles Member Since: 26 May 2013 Location: Melbourne Posts: 3751  
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"Gazing in awe at all the things your pocket wouldn't run to"?!....You have nailed it. I can vividly remember looking into the shop front & entrance, & all the locos & rolling stock would be displayed, & I'd be thinking "I wish",...I can still feel the feeling now!..They were good days. Pickles. |
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18th Feb 2019 10:07pm |
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| L110CDL Member Since: 31 Oct 2015 Location: Devon Posts: 10464 
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+1  1996 Golf Blue 300Tdi 110 Pick up. Keeper.
Clayton. |
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22nd Feb 2019 10:04pm |
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| discomog Member Since: 09 May 2015 Location: Notts/Lincs Border Posts: 2494  
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I'm not into model railways but Gilarion's layout of a pit top looks absolutely stunning.
Defender 90XS SW
Mini Countryman Cooper S Morgan Plus 8 |
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22nd Feb 2019 10:08pm |
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| williamthedog Member Since: 29 Dec 2012 Location: south wales Posts: 3441 
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Epic scenery and buildings, I was more into loop type model railways, so I could leave them run. I think I had eight engines going at once. I'll try and find the pictures as it's been took up for space
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22nd Feb 2019 10:45pm |
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| spudfan Member Since: 10 Sep 2007 Location: Co Donegal Posts: 4461 
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This current set up has entered it's second decade
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11th Mar 2019 11:09pm |
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| williamthedog Member Since: 29 Dec 2012 Location: south wales Posts: 3441
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^^^ I can only see 2 landrovers in the layout, should be more
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12th Mar 2019 8:28am |
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| Stacey007 Member Since: 25 Sep 2015 Location: Cheshire Posts: 3693
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If you have any items you want to pass on let me know. As a fellow member could use them
We have just inherited this but don't have any nice long trains for it with carriages, just a small one with coal wagons etc. Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge |
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12th Mar 2019 10:33am |
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| Pickles Member Since: 26 May 2013 Location: Melbourne Posts: 3751
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That looks VERY VERY impressive indeed,....well done. However, it wouldn't "survive" in a similar Aussie roof space, in the summer, it would simply "melt", as would the operator! Regards from Aussie, Pickles. |
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12th Mar 2019 10:41pm |
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| legin Member Since: 22 Jul 2017 Location: Chelmsford Essex Posts: 1004 
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Never had a model railway but love looking at them ,piston heads has a nice model section which you can while away a hour or two.
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13th Mar 2019 12:13am |
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| spudfan Member Since: 10 Sep 2007 Location: Co Donegal Posts: 4461
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That looks VERY VERY impressive indeed,....well done.
However, it wouldn't "survive" in a similar Aussie roof space, in the summer, it would simply "melt", as would the operator! Regards from Aussie, Pickles
Have not been able to get much use out of it these last couple of weeks owing to the cold weather! 1982 88" 2.25 diesel 1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali 2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu 2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai |
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13th Mar 2019 3:40pm |
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| spudfan Member Since: 10 Sep 2007 Location: Co Donegal Posts: 4461
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I used it to help my youngest daughter, who has special needs, to develop her hand to eye coordination.
If she raised a cup to her mouth it sometimes went elsewhere. She used to come up to my trains. I showed her how to use the transformer to move the locomotive. I used to ask her to move the locomotive to the buffer stop. She found this hard to do and usually crashed to loco into the buffer stop. The problem was because she had to keep looking from the loco to the controller in order to use it. To cut a long story short one day she managed it. She could watch the loco WITHOUT having to watch what she was doing with her hand on the controller. It sounds innocuous enough but it was a big breakthrough. This was one step in working to develop things that other parents take for granted. Simple things like walking in a straight line, her balance, even her eye muscles. All these were tackled in the same way with just time and patience. The one she did not like was getting the fluid in her inner ear to swish one way for a minute then settle, then swish the other way for a minute. This was done to aid her balance by getting the fluid to move over the tiny hairs in the inner ear. When she was born she was premature and very small. I had to put a tube down her throat to feed her. Would n't fancy doing it now but at the time it seemed natural enough. Anyway she is 23 now, still comes up to the trains and still remembers "her" locomotive 1982 88" 2.25 diesel 1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali 2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu 2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai |
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13th Mar 2019 5:46pm |
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| gilarion Member Since: 05 Dec 2013 Location: Wales Posts: 5084
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The second part of James may Big Trouble in Model Britain tonight (Wednesday 13/03) on BBC4 in which we are promised a fight between one of Hornby's team against either Hatton's or Bachman at a railway show. And who said Modeling was boring.
Some dick head at Hornby a few years ago scraped nine and a half thousand tooling dies worth circa 60 grand each you just have to love the sense of some people exhibit. For those who like Welsh Mountains and narrow boats have a look at my videos and photos at.. http://www.youtube.com/user/conwy1 |
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13th Mar 2019 6:28pm |
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