New Railway Modellers Forums

From what I can see the extra cost is down to the demand from OO RTR modellers for more and more detail, which costs the manufacturer, and, more importantly, it's labour intensive to assemble That. What he said. Bachmann's new Thompsons are around the £50 mark but that's still more cost effective* ...

These I think. http://www.dartcastings.co.uk/mjt/2943.php

The key to selective compression is identifying the bits you can't compress, and basically fudging everything else fit. You can compress at different rates across the model, and you can miss out non-signature features without a lot of people noticing (you've already knocked out some sidings and loop...

I believe their reputation as 'a bad thing' came about from their indiscriminate use in cars, especially by teenagers who might or might not have bothered to check whether the circuit would take the additional amperage of whatever bolt-on-goody they had just bought from Halfords. Properly used they ...

The 91 is traction tyred is it not ? It should manage in theory if it's heavy enough. Try adding some weight inside before you try anything more drastic.

Ah sorry, appears I'm looking through the wrong telescope, never mind the wrong end ! I forgot Caley Coaches do locos, I thought you were looking for something to pull coach kits ! Serves me right for skim reading. As mentioned there's only the Single and Pug, or butchering Hornby M7s and T9s. Ben A...

Looking through the other end of the telescope so to speak, some of the CR coaches lasted well into BR days and strayed a long way from home. I believe one of the preserved ones finished up in Southern Region stock before being rescued. Point being that if you paint them LMS maroon or BR crimson / c...

Depends whether you mean RTR or kit built too. Most (all ?) mainstream RTR locos will cope with 2nd radius (438mm / 17" or thereabouts) because Bachmann, Hornby, Dapol and Heljan need them to run on set track. Some of the older ones (Hornby Railroad for example) will manage first radius at the ...

I'd love to see it updated, the bogie sideframes were the most accurate DMU side frames available until the current crop of modern Bachmann 1st Gen DMUs, even if the innards were a bit ropey sometimes. Apart from fettling the motor they benefit from sanding the tumblehome down to a curve rather than...

You don't need to get the whole loop on the scenic bit, have two lines running offstage and use the fiddle yard as the other end of the run-round. That gets you a bit more space. My first layout was 6' plus removable fiddle yard - could you extend if the fiddle yard was only up for running sessions ...

Separate detailing packs might be a way forward but they add to the cost which many are already baulking at. I guarantee that if the detailing pack sells for a fiver the loco won't be a fiver less than it was going to be as you now have two production, packing, distribution and retail streams to man...

I love it, saves me having to add it. More please. My stuff works for its living too, it doesn't sit in cabinets.

The unpowered bogie on Lima Bo-Bos has a big flat sprung contact bearing on the axles, if the 47 is the same that won't be helping. I've replaced Lima wheels with plain 14mm coach wheels in the past, you may get away with a straight swap, you might have to file the pin points off to clear the bogie ...

Hornby eLink allows 8 smartphones or tablets to be connected according to the manufacturer's blurb.

Some of us quite like lagging behind in the technology though

I was 17 the first time I went to the old shop. "You want to borrow the car to go where ?"