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by markh
Sun Nov 07, 2010 2:38 pm
Forum: Hornby - including Lima, Rivarossi, Jouef, Electrotren
Topic: What Item of rolling stock would like to see return ?
Replies: 54
Views: 12434

Re: What Item of rolling stock would like to see return ?

i agree withevery for the horsebox there were out sometimes ago but they stop making them & there soo becomes a demand for them & a but to date modern verson no onethinks that products that were produced many moons ago are now in demand i.e. the blue pullman made over 40-50 years ago & h...
by markh
Sat Nov 06, 2010 2:12 pm
Forum: Scenery
Topic: Road Surfaces
Replies: 32
Views: 10760

Re: Road Surfaces

on my layout i just sprayed the board black as its topped in hardboard & rubbed some polyfila dust ( which was small dryed clumpd from a filled in goods yard ) in to it & this toned it down & added some metcalf pavemet & this did the trick :lol:
by markh
Sat Nov 06, 2010 1:56 pm
Forum: Bachmann
Topic: BLUE PULLMAN
Replies: 18
Views: 4439

Re: BLUE PULLMAN

so basicly it is race to see who makes a model & then compear them to see which would look better but i will defently not pay £300 pound for it i only pay £40-50 on a loco
by markh
Tue Oct 19, 2010 3:55 pm
Forum: Bachmann
Topic: BLUE PULLMAN
Replies: 18
Views: 4439

Re: BLUE PULLMAN

Well in stead of doing up the old moulds they should check them then try to cast one, scan it then make make preproduction models & could sell the old model in the railroad range :) as this would be like the javalin the have made a high detailed model & a cheap alternative model in a trainse...
by markh
Tue Oct 19, 2010 3:27 pm
Forum: Scratch and Kit building
Topic: Scalescenes narrowboat ..anyone here built it yet?
Replies: 17
Views: 5438

Re: Scalescenes narrowboat ..anyone here built it yet?

I to got the canal boat free with hornby magazine & will build it & make a small base for it, but as with the other kit i got with the magazine they have failed or in other words have got so far & i found something eles to do & lost intrest ( which in a nut shell that is all i do) bu...
by markh
Tue Sep 28, 2010 4:21 pm
Forum: New discoveries???
Topic: OO/HO trucks and supermarket stuff
Replies: 10
Views: 6891

Re: OO/HO trucks and supermarket stuff

thank you for that web site :lol: i didnt know about it. me being intrested in trucks alnong with railways some of the trucks on there were amazing also with a father being a hgv drive & collector of model trucks he would like that site :lol:
by markh
Tue Sep 28, 2010 3:54 pm
Forum: Personal Layouts - Planning
Topic: Shelf Layout Design Ideas
Replies: 6
Views: 2955

Re: Shelf Layout Design Ideas

here is a quick & simple tip i was short of space & had a cuboard full of '00' stock, track, building's & roaling stock & after convising my mother ( aka miss beeching as she told me to pull up my old train sets ) allowed me to build a small well not small but micro layout on a shelf...
by markh
Tue Sep 28, 2010 3:46 pm
Forum: Scenery
Topic: ballaster..is it worth it?
Replies: 29
Views: 7064

Re: ballaster..is it worth it?

I must have tried f our times at trying to ballast my layout & it always turns out a mess :? ( i will try & upload a picture when i know how to :lol: & you can choses for your self ) I've tried the easy way & the hard way even an artical out of model rail & that didnt work or sho...
by markh
Tue Sep 28, 2010 3:38 pm
Forum: Personal Layouts - Under Construction
Topic: salterbeck-upon-sea
Replies: 25
Views: 6281

Re: salterbeck-upon-sea

i have tryed to add pictures but it dosnt seem to work :cry: so could you any one else help me :P
by markh
Tue Sep 28, 2010 3:03 pm
Forum: Bachmann
Topic: BLUE PULLMAN
Replies: 18
Views: 4439

BLUE PULLMAN

Who agrees that Bachmann should let go of the lead & let Hornby make the new bluepullman as they have the old casting moulds from the old TRI-ANG model all they need is to update them for todays standard who agrees with me :P
by markh
Tue Sep 21, 2010 4:46 pm
Forum: Hornby - including Lima, Rivarossi, Jouef, Electrotren
Topic: What Item of rolling stock would like to see return ?
Replies: 54
Views: 12434

Re: What Item of rolling stock would like to see return ?

I know they were only out last year but i would like to see the car flats with some ford cortinas this time round back ing the range as the were good wagons also from th 80's rang the operational coal hoppers in which a hopper truck is pussed up the incline the over a bridge the a lever is caught &a...
by markh
Wed Sep 15, 2010 4:29 pm
Forum: Personal Layouts - Under Construction
Topic: salterbeck-upon-sea
Replies: 25
Views: 6281

salterbeck-upon-sea

this is my model railway salterbeck-upon-sea which has slowly being built for the past 9 months it is a two track oval with combined goods yard & engine shed with a tunnle at one end with a small town it i also have a run of track with a habour
by markh
Wed Sep 15, 2010 3:30 pm
Forum: Scenery
Topic: Turntable and shed
Replies: 44
Views: 20058

Re: Turntable and shed

on the turn table subject have you read modelrail no148 which includes a supertest on turntables & includes a step by step on how to fit the turntable & has made me think of adding on my layout which is not that big

the shed could be kit bashed from a HO kit