DJ Dangerous

Hatton's O Gauge steam loco sale - UTA Jinty's in there, too! https://www.hattons.co.uk/stocklist/siteresults?search/scales/O/product-types/Steam locos/bargain/true/stockstatus/InStock/sort/4

385mm outside to outside sounds close enough to 371mm centre to centre, so probably 1st radius fixed curves. Good stuff on getting that 190 from @WRENNEIRE, the man can't be beaten!

That's the old pepper!

A Friday night with no TJ update? Something is off with the universe today.

The puns are definitely not stale in this thread.

Cheap enough 1/43 scale trucks! Edicola brand, made in Bangladesh for a Spanish company. I'd say that they're somewhere between toy and model. Nice detail, mainly plastic construction with a diecast cab. The glazing is very very thick and there are fingerprints on the inside of the glazing. The cab is modelled inside but my camera can't focus through the glazing. Some of the tyres melted a bit in transit, and one of the wing mirrors snapped off, along with the fuel tank, so they had to be glued back on. Decal work on the trailer is not perfect, but I expect too much when it comes to decals - straight lines etc. There are some casting marks visible on some parts, and the trailer could do with extendable legs. Packaging is sufficient. Cardboard backing, transparent plastic cradle and a transparent bubble cover. Have only opened one of them, G1N0E006, the Dodge, but for €20 each I'm very happy. If I can trick somebody into coming down here for a weathering holiday, I'm sure they could make this look excellent.

From the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-65793257 Very sad.

What size is the new layout? I had one in the attic when I was younger, 14' x 6', consisting of 8 x baseboards each measuring 4' x 2'.

Upside down to get the photos the right way up?

They look like real photos!

Outstanding stuff, @Darius43! Those roof vents remind me of something tasty from decades ago. Lucozade tablets, maybe?

I wonder if @connollystn is interested or knows of anybody interested. Nearly sure that @randallator is an American buff, too.

Lovely jailhouse feel to those long bench tables.

Hope it's well protected from the doggie!

In fairness, he did say in one of the (six?) Kingsbridge threads that he was working on something big for Gort, so we'll probably have a savage update of how that's going, soon enough.

Would a screwdriver with a magnetic tip do the job?

And they're the only two readily available 12mm tracks? Over-ballasting would disguise the TT sleepers etc, so for an industrial or yard layout, I guess either would work.

What gauge track does OOn3 run on? 12mm? So HOm or TT track? I saw this thread on these lovely wagons and went digging through the forum to resurrect this one.

Yaaaaaaaayyyy, it's Friday!!!

You mean to say that YOU are Dr. Frankenmodeller...

You're blue, da ba dee da ba dieeeee... I doubt that planes have to operate in such density, with such frequency, in such close proximity to one another. Not to knock ATC nor pilots, they rock, but it's like apples and oranges.

Flagged it with them late last year or early this year and they said that it was to do with Google Ads or something.

So... Who's up for painting one or two of these green and adding some light green lining???

The only two bad ones that I can think of offhand are the 121 and 201 packaging. 121 packaging was a disaster, and if I recall correctly, wasn't even the packaging that Paddy had agreed upon. Still, that was easily resolved by wedging some cardboard between the cardboard and the foam, just above the loco's bonnet. Snug as a bug in a rug after that. The 201's were ripping through the white plastic and then bouncing around inside the cardboard box. Still, I would much rather have the original packaging than not, but missing packaging wouldn't be a deal breaker for something I really want.

Excellent stuff. The sooner they sell out, the sooner we'll get O Gauge CIE Ballast Hoppers!