5" gauge Stanier Duchess steam loco
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Dawg, it looks like there are several of us on here who are, either bulding a loco ( 5in B17 in my case), want to start, or just interested in live steam.
Whlst i am not in the same league as your dad, i too spend more time with a pen and pad, then even more time in the shed, making a scrap box. I swear i have thrown away 2 engines already!!
For the mods, how can we get our own dedicated 'forum'
Whlst i am not in the same league as your dad, i too spend more time with a pen and pad, then even more time in the shed, making a scrap box. I swear i have thrown away 2 engines already!!
For the mods, how can we get our own dedicated 'forum'
silverfoxcc said:
Dawg, it looks like there are several of us on here who are, either bulding a loco ( 5in B17 in my case), want to start, or just interested in live steam.
Whlst i am not in the same league as your dad, i too spend more time with a pen and pad, then even more time in the shed, making a scrap box. I swear i have thrown away 2 engines already!!
For the mods, how can we get our own dedicated 'forum'
Could we if possible in the proposed "Forum" include all classes of model train gauges please ?Whlst i am not in the same league as your dad, i too spend more time with a pen and pad, then even more time in the shed, making a scrap box. I swear i have thrown away 2 engines already!!
For the mods, how can we get our own dedicated 'forum'
Kneetrembler,
good idea.
Certainly live steam from 2.5 ( very rare nowadays) up to 7.25 gauge.
I would not discard the smaller sizes, my lad is into 00 and 0 gauge,and with the emergence of DCC there is some wonderful stuff out there. He has a HO Big Boy and a Pennsy GG-1 both with DCC excellent to play with.
Plus some of the layouts are really worth looking at. Model Railway Journal has some stunning pics, and if you are ever near Didcot, pay a visit to Pendon Museum, you wont be dissappointed
Also, it would give the lad with a traction engine somewhere to log onto, instead of being mixed in with all the 1/24 static stuff, not the i poopoo them, the details of some of the models are superb, but it isn't hands on from scratch.
good idea.
Certainly live steam from 2.5 ( very rare nowadays) up to 7.25 gauge.
I would not discard the smaller sizes, my lad is into 00 and 0 gauge,and with the emergence of DCC there is some wonderful stuff out there. He has a HO Big Boy and a Pennsy GG-1 both with DCC excellent to play with.
Plus some of the layouts are really worth looking at. Model Railway Journal has some stunning pics, and if you are ever near Didcot, pay a visit to Pendon Museum, you wont be dissappointed
Also, it would give the lad with a traction engine somewhere to log onto, instead of being mixed in with all the 1/24 static stuff, not the i poopoo them, the details of some of the models are superb, but it isn't hands on from scratch.
Brilliant look forward to this happening, as we all have such a varied class interest.
The other good thing to come out of all of this is that we will be able to have a thread or threads on where the various exhibitions are throughout the year so as to be able to plan our visits.
"Pistonheads Railways"
The other good thing to come out of all of this is that we will be able to have a thread or threads on where the various exhibitions are throughout the year so as to be able to plan our visits.
"Pistonheads Railways"
Only locomotives with pistons permitted though? Actually, would it not be better to leave this proper Scale Models stuff where it is – because I think there is alot of useful cross-over skill-related info between the different modelling disciplines – and instead create another sub-forum for all the Lego and Radio controlled car type stuff which is not to any particular scale and is IMO more properly described as "toys".
Flame me all you like with your radio-controlled lego flame-throwers...
Flame me all you like with your radio-controlled lego flame-throwers...
Yertis, i can see where you are coming from, and can see some sub forums being, quite correctly championed.BUT can you honestly compare, the Duchess and other miniature locomotives, and model railways where the owner has spent several thousand hours making the scenery,track,buildings, and in some instances the rolling stock, to a ready made car straight out of the box, ok they might have added decals to it, but all it does it sit there!!!!
As i have said earlier i will not dis such things nor the people who collect them, i have a dozen or so 00 gauge models of LT buses etc, in their own class they are works worth collecting, but to have the buzz of actually getting a piece of metal and crafting it, lathe, mill, weld,silver solder etc to a smaller working version of the full size thing and the end result being the driver and fireman is something you just cant get (IMHO) from opening a box and putting it on the shelf, as my lad does with his humugous collection of 00/H0 models, some with DCC.esp his UP big Boy and the Pennsy GG-1
Still it rests with th wiser counsels of the Moderators!!
As i have said earlier i will not dis such things nor the people who collect them, i have a dozen or so 00 gauge models of LT buses etc, in their own class they are works worth collecting, but to have the buzz of actually getting a piece of metal and crafting it, lathe, mill, weld,silver solder etc to a smaller working version of the full size thing and the end result being the driver and fireman is something you just cant get (IMHO) from opening a box and putting it on the shelf, as my lad does with his humugous collection of 00/H0 models, some with DCC.esp his UP big Boy and the Pennsy GG-1
Still it rests with th wiser counsels of the Moderators!!
and Red
possibly not exactly a flood of interest, but there have been times i have hit th scale model thread to see 1/24 in the majority. There may well have been gms like this and the 3in Traction engine,but if it were compartmentised!!! otherso a like interest may get into it.
There are several threads on here that have a slow input why not this? Besides there couldalso be a sort of self help topic ( so to speak)
possibly not exactly a flood of interest, but there have been times i have hit th scale model thread to see 1/24 in the majority. There may well have been gms like this and the 3in Traction engine,but if it were compartmentised!!! otherso a like interest may get into it.
There are several threads on here that have a slow input why not this? Besides there couldalso be a sort of self help topic ( so to speak)
silverfoxcc said:
and Red
possibly not exactly a flood of interest, but there have been times i have hit th scale model thread to see 1/24 in the majority. There may well have been gms like this and the 3in Traction engine,but if it were compartmentised!!! otherso a like interest may get into it.
There are several threads on here that have a slow input why not this? Besides there couldalso be a sort of self help topic ( so to speak)
I too often used to look in on the Scale Model threads to see if there are any trains or train projects starting, there have been but they soon disappear, but why not start a sub forum off, after all we have Caravanning and Camping as a separate in another section, and I remember when that was a dubious subject when it was brought up.possibly not exactly a flood of interest, but there have been times i have hit th scale model thread to see 1/24 in the majority. There may well have been gms like this and the 3in Traction engine,but if it were compartmentised!!! otherso a like interest may get into it.
There are several threads on here that have a slow input why not this? Besides there couldalso be a sort of self help topic ( so to speak)
I'm just trying to be a voice of reason/devil's advocate, take your pick.
There have been many requests for sub fora many times on PH and the position has always been that there needs to be a weight of content to support that fora from the word go. I hate to say it, but I've looked back through the existing threads and there just isn't. I do have to admit to having a foot and a past in both model engineering and sticking bits of plastic together from a box, so I'm not against the idea, I just think it's never going to happen.
Maybe a suggestion if it doesn't occur is to use a common header in any thread titles, such as [Steam] or [Railway], which I've seen work on other more specific forums.
I'll get back under my box now, apologies Dawg for de-railing the thread (no pun etc).
There have been many requests for sub fora many times on PH and the position has always been that there needs to be a weight of content to support that fora from the word go. I hate to say it, but I've looked back through the existing threads and there just isn't. I do have to admit to having a foot and a past in both model engineering and sticking bits of plastic together from a box, so I'm not against the idea, I just think it's never going to happen.
Maybe a suggestion if it doesn't occur is to use a common header in any thread titles, such as [Steam] or [Railway], which I've seen work on other more specific forums.
I'll get back under my box now, apologies Dawg for de-railing the thread (no pun etc).
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