Iskra
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Great work and those are impressive formations you have!
I've managed to snap up another pair, pics next week when they arrive.Very nice, they are a good model, can be found at a decent price and are relevant to many potential layouts.
I picked up a couple of factory weathered silver ones with a bit of graffiti on them when they first come out and have always been very happy with them.
No rock so no need for 'blasting, just cutting ply! I will be adding some extra boards for the 3 extra through sidings already started and maybe a mini freight loco servicing point.Good stuff. Nearly ready for blasting.
No rock so no need for 'blasting, just cutting ply! I will be adding some extra boards for the 3 extra through sidings already started and maybe a mini freight loco servicing point.
Lay track, lay more track, move tracks & lay tracks.
More cargo waggons on the way, weathered too!!
Check your original #786Hmm. Not quite sure what happened there but I’m leaving it as ‘blasting’.
Check your original #786
I will be having a big clear out on eBay in the run up to Christmas further reducing my older fleets on Lima / Mainline.
I have a new loco arrival due imminently and more locos / stock on order. 2 wagons due to arrive tomorrow too!
I need a point and power connectors to continue with the rail yard.
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Next 2 wagons arrived, @Cowley will be happy about them, but I think they new a clean
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One arrived with a broken coupling, no spare online so needs to got at back or rake, 5 wagon rake now!
Accurascale DCC sound, heaviest loco in OO gauge apparently so powerful it will pull the couplings off rather than stop! It's not a one handed lift!That is a very nice Deltic. Have you run it yet?
Add to that their locos are just £160 DC or £250 with DCC sound (about the price of a basic Hornby / Bachmann loco) a bargain too!These Accurascale Deltics do seem to have knocked it out of the park with regards to their high quality, from what I've seen online. The sound was amazing on an example I heard!
-Peter
Most definitely - just goes to show what can be achieved when you get people who really know their stuff and want to make the best model possible!Add to that their locos are just £160 DC or £250 with DCC sound (about the price of a basic Hornby / Bachmann loco) a bargain too!
That’s so cool!
That's absolutely superb. I must look into getting one of their models - aren't they working on a GWR 'Manor'? I might see if I can get one of those at some point in the distant future, assuming they're any good...They have lights, cab lights, control panel lights, engine room lights, 30 functions, AWD, twin speakers, capacitor bank, minute details including a fully detailed cab interior, link chains from bogie to body, full underside detail too, metal handrails, detailed hand painted parts AND customer service that make Hornby look light a back street dodgy dealer!!
I need one of those memes - "shut up and take my money!"
Their new 37 has even more detail, the 92 DCC controlled pantos and a new announcement tomorrow.
Coaches have fully detailed interiors and lighting, not just a light strip.
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6th July
My class 450 is now an 8-car unit 450 073 + 127
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My FGW HST now has 7 FGW blue coaches, just coach C to get.
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3x GWR MK3s to sell, Coach D - TS 42005; Coach K TRUB 40755; coach L TF 41160 all boxed up and ready to be listed in the Autumn (or offers earlier)
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My Mainline Mark 1 rake being hauled by Mainline 56.084 to the departure sidings
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And being shunted by 09.010 for the crane to lift them off the tracks
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Like a scrap line awaiting caning into boxes for transport away
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The RBR will be staying as it's allocated to a new rake due in a few months
The Mainline 56 is very fast and as good in detail as the current model despite it's 1980's vintage!Oh it’s nice to see those older models actually. I must admit that I never had the 56 but they did look good.
£250 BNIBLoving the 450s in particular there @reddragon - shame they're so awfully expensive, else I might have one on Oldmoor! (we'll ignore the lack of a third rail on my layout: it doesn't stop the 4-VEP from working)
-Peter
Oh wow - so not as absolutely awful as I was expecting, but not amazingly cheap then either! Though I suppose with a four-car multiple unit nowadays you can't expect to spend tuppence on it...£250 BNIB
Now that is very nice, isn't it? Shame you had issues to begin with but really good that you sorted it.An unusual addition to my maroon rake is a Mk2 FK, a rare early Mk2. On its test run it demonstrated magic powers, the ability to bring any loco to a stand and weld itself to the track. Even I was unable to push it along & had to lift it off the tracks! Fiddled with the bogies, popped a slightly awry chassis back into the body & it was fine.
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I'm fairly sure I've said before how I love the scale of your layout. The size makes it so much more realistic for a modern image mainline: though that's definitely not to say that a smaller layout can't be realistic - quite the opposite, in fact! I'm sure I've asked before, so apologies, but when do you expect to start some of the scenic work?More on track work, nearly completing the exit of the yard. The RH section holds long freights up to 20 wagons, the LH section up to 7/8 coaches. The exit curve needs realigning as it's too tight & I have an access point for a loco stabling point there too!
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