It's railway modelling, not playing trains!!

Just a few things from two of my other hobbies, taking pics and model trains. They are N gauge, which means a scale of 1:148, or approximately 2mm = 1foot, the pics are about twice as long as the models. Some are almost as bought ready to run, some ore built from kits, some from brass. They all run, or will when I finish the layout!!


Almost as it came out of the box, just the number has been changed


Made from parts of 2 kits and the chassis of a German model.


Only 1 kit here on another German chassis


As it came out of the box, waiting for me to put a number on it


Hacked from 2 other locos and some brass sheet


Kit I built about 30 years ago


Latest acquisition, will be "modified" and then painted.


Bits of brass and some chassis parts

Keeps me off the streets!!

 

Lovely pass time Mike and great models. For the real thing we have Toddington Station a couple of miles away..
http://www.gwsr.com/

 

I could never understand the attraction of sims, a mate of mine spends hours and loadsa cash on Flight sims, he has 3 monitors hooked up so he gets a panoramic view from the "cockpit" and has the necessary graphics or just about every airport in Europe plus some elsewhere, also graphics for planes from airliners to military planes from the 1940s to present day, to store all the graphics and other data he needs a bank of external hard drives. He gets a feed from some met site so he can simulate the current weather on the route he is "flying"; also sometimes plays on line with others having mock dog fights.

I reckon he could just about have bought, insured and fuelled a plane of his own with the amount he spends. (He's an estate agent)

 

There's a lot of difference between toy trains and scale models; also a lot of difference between a circle of track on the floor and a model of a specific location; the amount of research sometimes necessary to get the details correct for a particular period can be quite rewarding too, do you know for example what your local railway station looked like say 50 or 75 years ago. Nostalgia comes into it quite a lot for me, and many others, and it doesn't need to have bucket loads of money to achieve either.

 

Ask my hubby about that-he watches car racing

 

Everybody to their own, thats what I say. Thats what makes the world go round.:thumb: 02

 

Personally I cant understand why people pay to watch 22 blokes playing with a ball for 90 mins.

 

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@ Pip, it wasn't quite so bad in the olde days when it was a game, but now that its a media entertainment it's lost any attraction it may have had. Same with most "sports" as soon as the media get interested, the big money boys get in on the act after which it gets mucked about to provide a better spectacle; darts for example, drop starting on a double to speed up the game a bit so they get to the high scoring bit straight away and the commentator can scream a bit. Cricket, cut down the length of the game so they can get a whole match on the TV in one go.

Don't get me started :rolleyes:

 

Aaaa the old days, when goalmouths were muddy

 

How about this then http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....m=230286393188&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=013

ive allways fancyed a garden railway myself bit pricy to do though :rolleyes: