Warspite
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Hello everyone
Nice to see so many familiar names on here. I've joined following a recommendation by David Siddall after Martyn (3 Link) started his thread on building Slaters 6 wheel milk tankers, so you can blame these two that I’m here!
I'm currently building a 7mm/foot layout (9' 4" x 1’ 8”) based on 'somewhere in BR(WR)' and 'sometime in the early 60s to early 70s'.
I started modelling in the late 60s with Triang OO although I suppose I really started with a Hornby O Gauge tinplate 'layout' which was actually a circle of track, a couple of points, a station and a bright green tunnel, all on the carpet! Triang OO progressed to Hornby and Lima OO in the 1970/80/90s (all BR blue) and then to North American HO in the 1990s. North American O gauge (1:48 scale two rail) followed in the 2000s although my small switching layout didn’t get very far.
I had built an O gauge Peco 16 ton mineral wagon about 15 years but didn't do very much until Heljan brought out their Hymek. However it was Lionheart's 74xx pannier which gave me the impetus to build a ‘proper’ layout, albeit in a comparatively small space. Some of you may have seen my efforts on RM Web. Apart from my Hornby tinplate and a Triang Jinty, I've never really modelled steam before but the pannier's package of looks, sound and running abilities proved too much to resist. However, if Dapol do produce a D63xx (class 22) in O gauge and with a Heljan 'Western' on the horizon, I will have to alternate between 1960s steam and 1970s BR blue!
My railway interest has been predominantly BR(WR), starting with Westerns in Devon and Cornwall, Westbury stone trains over the years and china clay and class 50s in the 1980s/90s. Plus a continuing fascination with Canadian trains, but that, as they say, is another story!
Nice to see so many familiar names on here. I've joined following a recommendation by David Siddall after Martyn (3 Link) started his thread on building Slaters 6 wheel milk tankers, so you can blame these two that I’m here!
I'm currently building a 7mm/foot layout (9' 4" x 1’ 8”) based on 'somewhere in BR(WR)' and 'sometime in the early 60s to early 70s'.
I started modelling in the late 60s with Triang OO although I suppose I really started with a Hornby O Gauge tinplate 'layout' which was actually a circle of track, a couple of points, a station and a bright green tunnel, all on the carpet! Triang OO progressed to Hornby and Lima OO in the 1970/80/90s (all BR blue) and then to North American HO in the 1990s. North American O gauge (1:48 scale two rail) followed in the 2000s although my small switching layout didn’t get very far.
I had built an O gauge Peco 16 ton mineral wagon about 15 years but didn't do very much until Heljan brought out their Hymek. However it was Lionheart's 74xx pannier which gave me the impetus to build a ‘proper’ layout, albeit in a comparatively small space. Some of you may have seen my efforts on RM Web. Apart from my Hornby tinplate and a Triang Jinty, I've never really modelled steam before but the pannier's package of looks, sound and running abilities proved too much to resist. However, if Dapol do produce a D63xx (class 22) in O gauge and with a Heljan 'Western' on the horizon, I will have to alternate between 1960s steam and 1970s BR blue!
My railway interest has been predominantly BR(WR), starting with Westerns in Devon and Cornwall, Westbury stone trains over the years and china clay and class 50s in the 1980s/90s. Plus a continuing fascination with Canadian trains, but that, as they say, is another story!
, you are just in time for another episode on my milk tanker thread 
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