More ammunition for British Railway Modelling

"MartinS" wrote

Ah yes - English and American English! ;-)

John.

PS - and yes I *know* you mean French.

I fully agree with Beowulf. Working for quite a few years in TOPS, a consist was the listing of a train, the train was still the train.

I don't mind you picking me up for using "consist". All my experience of railways has been got through modelling, rather than the real thing, and as I read every issue of Model Railroader it is no surprise that I use American terms (even wrongly!) without realising it. But would you mind not accusing me of trying to be "cool"? Anyone who knows me would know that that is the last thing I would want to be.

Martin

"Beowulf" wrote

Hi Peter,

Talking of archaic, and at the risk of being pedantic, your spelling of

*waggon* is extremely old-fashioned. Wagon has been the traditional spelling for as long as I can remember.

That's not a criticism, just a comment.

John.

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Well thats down to two things, 1) living abroad for 20+ years and I've just finished reading through R.J.Essery's two books on Midland wagons and I'm confused :D You are ofcourse correct, I just couldnt remember how to spell it....... learn another language and watch your own fly out through the window... (not MS's window!!)

beowulf

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Dear Martin, My abject appologies at accusing you of being cool :) perhaps the swedish "bal" would be better? :D sorry :D

Beowulf

The problem with the idea of putting details of the real items history on the box of the model, is that for some things the history is incredibly complex and can be taken to great detail. How far do you go? It may be ok to indicate on a production Deltic box that the loco was introduced in 1961, but what about yellow warning panels, naming, full yellow fronts, etc? I think the best idea is that if you care about this kind of detail, you research it yourself. After all it is not everyone who cares if a certain A3 only ever ran with a GN style tender.

"Jon"

Obviously, you didn't read my post.

In the case of a Deltic with yellow warning panels, the manufacturer simply puts "Suitable for 19xx to 19xx"

The info panels don't need a complete and detailed history of the class, just some simple help on when the modelled carried that livery.

If you want to buy the model, strip it, and repaint it into another colour scheme, then the onus is on you to do the research.

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Don't Hornby already do this, in their catalogue at least - sure I've seen it.

They do on the website too tight to buy the Catalogue

-- Regards From Gray The Madcaravanner from Chesterfield

You don't have to be mad but it helps

"Chris Wilson" wrote

Yes, but it's not always accurate, along with some other parts of their research.

John.

Such info is printed on the back of the Hornby Class 50 box - it covers when they were introduced (1966-67), where they initially worked (Anglo-Scottish WCML expresses, often double-heading), their original numbering, how they were transferred to the Western Region in the early 1970s, renumbered, where their names originate from. Then it goes on to describe the Class 50 refurb scheme in the early 1980s, then rounding up with their withdrawal between

1987 and 1994. Concisely worded, but containing all the necessary info. Hopefully Hornby will continue this with future rolling stock, and maybe Bachmann will pick up on it.

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Didn't Bachmann used to do something similar on the boxes of their models, i.e. when the boxes still had a pic of the loco on the front of a flap?

"James Christie" wrote Didn't Bachmann used to do something similar on the boxes of their models, i.e. when the boxes still had a pic of the loco on the front of a flap?

The recent Hornby Black 5 has a couple of sentences on the inside of the cardboard insert, so you have to open the box to get at it - and to see the actual model.