Railway modellers - come on, out of the woodwork

[yello]

What did you get with yours btw?

Nothing quite as exotic as a Guzzi, a Suzuki GS400. Part-ex'ed my GT185 and the cash from the trains and track made up the difference... or some of it anyway!

It was mounted on a 8' x 3' board in my bedroom. I had a iron bridge over an inlet where the track passed in front of a window... it looked quite cool looking in! My favourite was a Santa Fe loco... hurt to sell that, nearly didn't but sod all point keeping it!

Maybe I ought return to modelling in some form (and I ain't talking Page 3!). I have the time and it's something that suits my temperament.

 

[Paulus]

My 00 gauge is in the loft, I have had it since the mid 60's. Then I moved onto the real thing in 1974 and the train set went to the attic in about 1976.

 

[TVC]

I had an N gauge as a lad, but sold it when I worked out what beer and girls were for. I suspect when I retire I may build myself a narrow gauge mountain railway.

 

[Archie_tect]

This is how to do it -

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=PN_oDdGmKyA

Wow!

 

[2PedalsTez]

This is how to do it -

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN_oDdGmKyA

That is brilliant to watch (am I sad to admit I could spend a day there just watching everything?!)

I bet somewhere in amongst all of that, there is a six-way trailing power socket (with socket doublers in each of those sockets) glowing hot!

 

[classic33]

this thread is useless without photos!

Pictures in place of photo's

I get the chance to work! with ones like these
http://www.hornby.com/shop/locomotives/digital-locomotives-with-sound/

 

[Arch]

I've never made a layout, but I like doing the scenic bits.

I did the buildings for this:



and made this little country scene in N:



I've got the bits and pieces to make a little archaeological dig when I get round to it, and then I have a fancy to make a line of allotments.

One day, I'd like to go to Miniatur Wunderland too.

(sorry for big pictures, bigger than real thing!)

 

[Arch]

And how cool would it be, to have an OO layout, with a Z scale layout in it, as a garden railway....

 

[classic33]

And how cool would it be, to have an OO layout, with a Z scale layout in it, as a garden railway....

Forget Z scale, have alook at this scale
http://www.tgauge.co.uk/

 

[Arch]

Oh my! Look at the little!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Mine all went to finance a Guzzi V50

My dad had a Moto Guzzi at one time, it was once rather cruelly described by one of his Brit bike mates as half a Fiat.

 

[Hover Fly]

I have nearly finished my gauge 1 8F, and I am in the early stages of an Austerity tank, both meths fired, I have in mind a model of part of a Lancashire Colliery circa 1965 in the unused part of the veggie garden.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

My dad had a Moto Guzzi at one time, it was once rather cruelly described by one of his Brit bike mates as half a Fiat.

Which would make most Brit bikes of my era (late 70's onwards) one quarter of an austin (allegro)

 

[byegad]

My dad had a Moto Guzzi at one time, it was once rather cruelly described by one of his Brit bike mates as half a Fiat.

I've heard them called a quarter of a tractor too.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I've heard them called a quarter of a tractor too.

The V twin started out as a small agricultural vehicle engine so not a bad comment