Added to my wishlistWe’ll take 10!
Rails also have some VERY good prices on OO gauge freight wagons atm! Just picked up 2 x unpainted gunpowder vans for £15!
Added to my wishlistWe’ll take 10!
If there was a RR one available at that price, I'd be finding it hard to resist...We’ll take 10!
Gives me an excuse to post this picture of the real thing at Cas Vegas, back in 1997...Cheap bubble cars
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The footbridge (and the fact that you're stood on platform 2) certainly dates that photo! Anyway, the LoadHaul bubble is a bit more interesting than the Manchester bin liner train in my opinion. Though I suppose in 1997 the binliners would have had something other than a shed on the front at least.Gives me an excuse to post this picture of the real thing at Cas Vegas, back in 1997...
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I remember spending quite a while festering there, hoping to phot some freight, and this was the only thing that turned up!
I must admit that I’d quite like a Regional Railways liveried one. I’ve got a dummy in blue and grey but a friend of mine has a nice NSE one fitted with a lighting bar:If there was a RR one available at that price, I'd be finding it hard to resist...
Excellent. Have you got much in the way track?Also finally got some baseboard kits on order, so I'll be able to start building an actual layout rather than just accumulating locos and units to sit on a shelf!
Ok if your railway has no curves and you can shuttle it up and down.Cheap bubble cars
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I've way more track than I'll need for the size of layout I'll be building, as my brother loaned/gifted me a load when I got back into the hobby- at the time he was busy renovating his house so wasn't going to be using it for a while. Most of it is full lengths of Peco flexi, some with concrete sleepers... though as I'm doing a branch line terminus I might stick with set-track for the jointed track effect.Excellent. Have you got much in the way track?
I've way more track than I'll need for the size of layout I'll be building, as my brother loaned/gifted me a load when I got back into the hobby- at the time he was busy renovating his house so wasn't going to be using it for a while. Most of it is full lengths of Peco flexi, some with concrete sleepers... though as I'm doing a branch line terminus I might stick with set-track for the jointed track effect.
I'm trying not to get too hung up on hyper-realism to be honest. Switching everything over to EM wheelsets and the like is probably beyond me. However cutting the concrete-sleepered track into shorter lengths doesn't sound like a bad idea. The fact that you do that with N-gauge blows my mind a little bit!Ah that’s good then. We’ve measured out where the rail joints should be and used a Dremel with a fine disc cutter to cut them into flexible track before now. You still get the noise that way.
I'm trying not to get too hung up on hyper-realism to be honest. Switching everything over to EM wheelsets and the like is probably beyond me. However cutting the concrete-sleepered track into shorter lengths doesn't sound like a bad idea. The fact that you do that with N-gauge blows my mind a little bit!
Ah, I get you now. Might give that a go once my boards arrive, cheers for the tip!You don’t have to cut the whole track. Just run the cutting disc across the tops of the rails to simulate a joint if you get what I mean?
Basically so that you get the nice clackety wheel noise.
Kernow have 3 versions of the Ruston 48DS at £69.99! Also Dapol Class 29s at £99.99.Kernow and Hattons bargains sections are particularly bountiful at the moment. TMC also have an extra 15% off their sale items.
It’s unusual to see such discounting in the run up to Christmas and so soon after payday. I think the products developed off the back of the Covid modelling boom are just reaching the market as demand contracts due to the current economic climate, resulting in some good deals as retailers look to discounting in order to shift what they can to get the cash in. I imagine that some big price ticket items are now going to be slow to sell, so these could be next in line for discounting. Rails have new Bachmann 47’s and 37’s with modest discounts already, which is a sign of the times.
Kernow and Hattons bargains sections are particularly bountiful at the moment. TMC also have an extra 15% off their sale items.
It’s unusual to see such discounting in the run up to Christmas and so soon after payday. I think the products developed off the back of the Covid modelling boom are just reaching the market as demand contracts due to the current economic climate, resulting in some good deals as retailers look to discounting in order to shift what they can to get the cash in. I imagine that some big price ticket items are now going to be slow to sell, so these could be next in line for discounting. Rails have new Bachmann 47’s and 37’s with modest discounts already, which is a sign of the times.
I know! All the 29’s are pre-TOPS Blue though, if they were post I might have considered it. Pre-TOPS diesel loco’s seem to be getting discounted a lot, so I’m guessing post-TOPS versions are much more popular models.Kernow have 3 versions of the Ruston 48DS at £69.99! Also Dapol Class 29s at £99.99.
A great time to be hinting at your Christmas wish list to Mrs C…I might have a look over the weekend. There’s nothing I specifically need but I have been considering building up a bit of 1969/1970 era stuff to run on Moors View in the changeover period.
I know! All the 29’s are pre-TOPS Blue though, if they were post I might have considered it. Pre-TOPS diesel loco’s seem to be getting discounted a lot, so I’m guessing post-TOPS versions are much more popular models.
A great time to be hinting at your Christmas wish list to Mrs C…
Green ones though. Blue/Grey seem to go for higher pricesBachmann class 411s are numerously available and offers below £200 are successful at the mo. Just bagged one for £185
mine was blue / grey for £185Green ones though. Blue/Grey seem to go for higher prices