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gilarion

Member Since: 05 Dec 2013
Location: Wales
Posts: 5110

2007 Defender 90 Other CSW Trident Green

A few more pics showing the layout nearly finished. Still, quite a long way to go yet need to fix more scenery, figures and yard paraphernalia such as crates pit props etc. And cables for the lift head wheels.

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Click image to enlarge For those who like Welsh Mountains and narrow boats have a look at my videos and photos at..

http://www.youtube.com/user/conwy1

15th Feb 2019 12:42pm

lohr500

Member Since: 14 Sep 2014
Location: Skipton
Posts: 1316

2013 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Santorini Black

That looks magnificent gilarion. Incredible detail and realism.
Please post some more photos as you add the extra detailed bits & pieces.

18th Feb 2019 7:51am

Joe the Plumber

Member Since: 18 Dec 2013
Location: Midlands
Posts: 907

2014 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 HT Fuji White

Ah, private owner wagons, a subject dear to my heart. Lovely model there.

To the OP, Hattons of Widnes buy some used model railway stuff, and there's plenty of 'Wanted' ads in the back of Railway Modeller magazine, out each month:

https://www.hattons.co.uk/

18th Feb 2019 7:48pm

Pickles

Member Since: 26 May 2013
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 3784

2013 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 CSW Keswick Green

blackwolf wrote:
There's a few specialised model railway shops around still, but I think that in just the same way as happened with good bookshops, the Internet has largely killed them off. You can now conduct a solid retail business without any retail premises.

The young folk of today will never really understand the deep joy of visiting a really good model shop and gazing in awe at all the things your pocket money wouldn't run to!

"Gazing in awe at all the things your pocket wouldn't run to"?!....You have nailed it. I can vividly remember looking into the shop front & entrance, & all the locos & rolling stock would be displayed, & I'd be thinking "I wish",...I can still feel the feeling now!..They were good days.
Pickles.

18th Feb 2019 9:07pm

L110CDL

Member Since: 31 Oct 2015
Location: Devon
Posts: 10751

lohr500 wrote:
That looks magnificent gilarion. Incredible detail and realism.
Please post some more photos as you add the extra detailed bits & pieces.

1996 Golf Blue 300Tdi 110 Pick up.

Keeper.

Clayton.

22nd Feb 2019 9:04pm

discomog

Member Since: 09 May 2015
Location: Notts/Lincs Border
Posts: 2526

2015 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Santorini Black

I'm not into model railways but Gilarion's layout of a pit top looks absolutely stunning.

Defender 90XS SW
Mini Countryman Cooper S
Morgan Plus 8

22nd Feb 2019 9:08pm

williamthedog

Member Since: 29 Dec 2012
Location: south wales
Posts: 3441

Epic scenery and buildings, I was more into loop type model railways, so I could leave them run. I think I had eight engines going at once. I'll try and find the pictures as it's been took up for space

22nd Feb 2019 9:45pm

spudfan

Member Since: 10 Sep 2007
Location: Co Donegal
Posts: 4660

This current set up has entered it's second decade

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Click image to enlarge 1982 88" 2.25 diesel
1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali
2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu
2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai

11th Mar 2019 10:09pm

williamthedog

Member Since: 29 Dec 2012
Location: south wales
Posts: 3441

^^^ I can only see 2 landrovers in the layout, should be more

12th Mar 2019 7:28am

Stacey007

Member Since: 25 Sep 2015
Location: Cheshire
Posts: 3750

If you have any items you want to pass on let me know. As a fellow member could use them

We have just inherited this but don't have any nice long trains for it with carriages, just a small one with coal wagons etc.

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12th Mar 2019 9:33am

Pickles

Member Since: 26 May 2013
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 3784

spudfan wrote:
This current set up has entered it's second decade

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That looks VERY VERY impressive indeed,....well done.
However, it wouldn't "survive" in a similar Aussie roof space, in the summer, it would simply "melt", as would the operator!
Regards from Aussie, Pickles.

12th Mar 2019 9:41pm

legin

Member Since: 22 Jul 2017
Location: Chelmsford Essex
Posts: 1004

2012 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 HT Santorini Black

Never had a model railway but love looking at them ,piston heads has a nice model section which you can while away a hour or two.

12th Mar 2019 11:13pm

spudfan

Member Since: 10 Sep 2007
Location: Co Donegal
Posts: 4660

Have not been able to get much use out of it these last couple of weeks owing to the cold weather! 1982 88" 2.25 diesel
1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali
2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu
2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai

13th Mar 2019 2:40pm

spudfan

Member Since: 10 Sep 2007
Location: Co Donegal
Posts: 4660

I used it to help my youngest daughter, who has special needs, to develop her hand to eye coordination.
If she raised a cup to her mouth it sometimes went elsewhere.
She used to come up to my trains. I showed her how to use the transformer to move the locomotive. I used to ask her to move the locomotive to the buffer stop. She found this hard to do and usually crashed to loco into the buffer stop. The problem was because she had to keep looking from the loco to the controller in order to use it. To cut a long story short one day she managed it. She could watch the loco WITHOUT having to watch what she was doing with her hand on the controller. It sounds innocuous enough but it was a big breakthrough.
This was one step in working to develop things that other parents take for granted. Simple things like walking in a straight line, her balance, even her eye muscles. All these were tackled in the same way with just time and patience.
The one she did not like was getting the fluid in her inner ear to swish one way for a minute then settle, then swish the other way for a minute. This was done to aid her balance by getting the fluid to move over the tiny hairs in the inner ear. When she was born she was premature and very small. I had to put a tube down her throat to feed her. Would n't fancy doing it now but at the time it seemed natural enough.
Anyway she is 23 now, still comes up to the trains and still remembers "her" locomotive 1982 88" 2.25 diesel
1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali
2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu
2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai

13th Mar 2019 4:46pm

gilarion

Member Since: 05 Dec 2013
Location: Wales
Posts: 5110

The second part of James may Big Trouble in Model Britain tonight (Wednesday 13/03) on BBC4 in which we are promised a fight between one of Hornby's team against either Hatton's or Bachman at a railway show. And who said Modeling was boring.

Some dick head at Hornby a few years ago scraped nine and a half thousand tooling dies worth circa 60 grand each you just have to love the sense of some people exhibit. For those who like Welsh Mountains and narrow boats have a look at my videos and photos at..

http://www.youtube.com/user/conwy1

13th Mar 2019 5:28pm

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