Your latest acquisition

[Mountain Goat]

I have two 3D printed kits on their way which are designed to convert Hornby 0-4-0's into little 7mm narrow gauge diesels.

Ammended. They have arrived and are interesting. I am planning on doing some slight modifications to the design, but it does look very good. It is more like a plastic kit of parts then casted resin parts that I am more used to as this is my first 3D kit, but I will say that as a kit of parts ready to assemble and glue it does look promising. More on this as I start to build them. They do have printing lines which will need a little sanding along with small bits of excess and one little place on one part which was not quite printed which looks like where if one had a resin part and a slight bit of resin liquid did not quite fill the mould which is relitively simple to correct, but overall I am impressed and they are reasonably priced too! So all in all they look impressive. (I bought two).
They are made by "Budget Model Railways" and I bought their 7mm narrow gauge diesel shunter kit. I have yet to assemble them so watch this space... (Or rather the space on my usual thread).

[Kevin]

My latest purchase, Hornby Ruston ' Jim '

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[cheshire lines]

A Wrenn Merchant Navy 'Clan Line' - a bequest from an elderly neighbor who sadly passed away earlier this year.




Although obviously not native to the Northwest of England, I did photograph this actual loco in 1980 when she was stabled at Northwich for a few days prior to the Rocket 150 celebrations at Rainhill.

When I tried to run her, Clan Line would only move very slowly.
I recently managed to get her serviced by someone who does work for a local model shop and now she runs well.
This gave me an excuse to buy a green MK1 Brake / 2nd coach to run as a support coach with her.





I bought this as "pre-owned" from Hattons.

[bulleidboy]

Nice pictures - great loco. Once you have got one Merchant Navy Class loco there is no turning back.

[Walkingthedog]

Another wagon.

[cadman]

Nice model Brian.........HB

[Walkingthedog]

Thanks Howard. Getting the hang of making them now.

[brian1951]

Buffers look odd.

[Walkingthedog]

You are correct. As my layout has 2nd rad curves the wagons get buffer lock when being pushed so I have fitted larger heads at one end of each wagon, problem solved. Not noticeable on the layout, just on the pictures.

[brian1951]

Thanks Brian it makes sense now.