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Re: The Shankly and Gdynia Railway

Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2020 6:44 pm
by IanAlan
Thanks Chops, your kind words are much appreciated. Here are a few more scenic views from Friday's photo session. I hope you like them.

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The miller is a 1970s Airfix 'wild West' figure and the Scottish Highlanders are also Airfix (Battle of Waterloo). Even the cows are AIrfix survivors from the 70s. I wonder if anyone bought the moulds when the company went bust in the 1980s. The quality of the modelling is superb.

Re: The Shankly and Gdynia Railway

Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2020 10:36 pm
by IanS
Mainly WW I and WW II figures, but can be still had. Airfix are part of Hornby now. (I thought I remembered that from the TV mini-series about Hornby).

The figures are a little oversized at 1:72 but some are 1:76

https://www.airfix.com/uk-en/shop/figures.html

Re: The Shankly and Gdynia Railway

Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2020 11:04 pm
by Walkingthedog
Hornby took over Airfix 14 years ago.

Re: The Shankly and Gdynia Railway

Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2020 10:47 pm
by IanAlan
I know that Dapol bought the moulds for the railway buildings and figures. I've got some of the originals and the Dapol ones on the layout. I've also seen the WW1 and WW2 kits on the Hattons website still using the Airfix label (as IanS mentions), but Airfix's range of figures (and animals) was so vast I'm wondering what happened to all those.

And Some Photos
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Re: The Shankly and Gdynia Railway

Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2020 11:13 pm
by Walkingthedog
This is the present range.


https://www.airfix.com/uk-en/shop/figures.html


I have boxes of the old ones somewhere.


They have changed the base, it’s not a thick square block any more.

Re: The Shankly and Gdynia Railway

Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2020 2:57 am
by Chops
Just gets better and better. The bag piper and colors on the tower is brilliant; one of a kind.

Re: The Shankly and Gdynia Railway

Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2020 10:34 pm
by IanAlan
Like I said, WTD, only twelve products. Perhaps the other moulds were scrapped or Hornby own them but don't produce from them. Or maybe they were worn out.

I'm glad you like that photo, Chops, I think it came out well. To get the sky-coloured background, I draped a light blue sheet over the back of a chair. As the camera was focused on the foreground, I got an atmospherically unfocused sky.

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Re: The Shankly and Gdynia Railway

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 1:32 pm
by glencairn
Lovely photographs, IanAlan. You like four wheeled coaches as I do. :)

Glencairn

Re: The Shankly and Gdynia Railway

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2020 2:37 pm
by IanAlan
Hi Glencairn, yes, the four-wheel coaches are cute. They work well on my quite small roundy-roundy layout, which only has very short straight stretches of track, and includes first and second radius curves. I remember commenting in an earlier post about the over-hang that the longer eight-wheel coaches have. Obviously, the eight-wheelers look great on a layout with more straight or gently curved track. Having said that, I'm happy to run the long ones on my two third radius circuits, especially when the Flying Scotsman is doing the pulling. :D

Especially For Glencairn
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The first photo is very similar to one in Post 110, but as it's got the coach as well (and a more interesting angle), I'll upload it anyway.

Re: The Shankly and Gdynia Railway

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2020 7:06 pm
by IanAlan
Here and There on the Railway
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These may be the last photos that I upload from my photographic session from the Friday before last. I took several more that almost came out well, so I'll have a go at retaking those with a few adjustments, hopefully, in a few days.