I'll try mate, I'm not sure how you do that.....https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/38581510...e0iaRalSQ-&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
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Did it work?
Yep, sure does
Indeed!
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I liked the look of my Dapol Stephensons' Rocket, so I splashed out and bought another in the range.............
The Pug, just a tad bigger than the Rocket - an ebay auction - I ended up paying 50p less for this, than the Rocket! This one originally dating from 1961 by Kitmaster > Airfix > Dapol
Dave
The Pug, just a tad bigger than the Rocket - an ebay auction - I ended up paying 50p less for this, than the Rocket! This one originally dating from 1961 by Kitmaster > Airfix > Dapol
Dave
I gave a couple of those to Ron Spanner during lockdown I think. Lovely little kit except the buffers are wrong. Basically it shouldn’t have any. Pugs had big blocks of wood called dumb buffers…….
Ahh - when I look at photos of the real thing - theu have the wooden blocks - photos of models & they have buffers! - I assume that was because they were used for fly shunting, and never usually coupled up
Dave
Part of the reason was being built for working on quays, quarries and tramways Dave. Those sort of areas have very tight curves in the track and Dumb buffers don’t overlap and lock up when shunting on tight corners. That’s also why they had a really short wheelbase. It allow them to go around tight corners with less flange binding. These were designed and built in the Victorian age, ex Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, then absorbed by the LMS when the big four were formed, then absorbed by BR when the LMS was in turn folded into that. A lot of freight wagons in the Victorian age were also built with dumb buffers for the same reasons.
Models all seem to have buffers though, even the newer versions, and I think this model kit is to blame LOL…..I don’t think I’ve ever seen a photograph of a real one with buffers.
Models all seem to have buffers though, even the newer versions, and I think this model kit is to blame LOL…..I don’t think I’ve ever seen a photograph of a real one with buffers.
As you know I like a titanic so when I saw this I a charity shop at £75 I snapped it up.
It's the old build the titanic series from 2001 just missing its life boat's
It's the old build the titanic series from 2001 just missing its life boat's
Like....I think obsessed is closer to it! No offence intended of course.
Got these today The much needed clear red. As it happened there was just enough to do the bits I needed to do, but a great thing I bought this anyway as some shmuck put a ruddy great finger print in the still tacky surface..... Oh Bollllll........
The rest was just filler. lol
Heard only good things about the liquid chrome, so I thought I would give it a try.
Right now the next buy is a long way off. just got back from the service center with 4 new winter tyres on steel rims. £1165! damb. Still cheaper than the last cars though 4x4 tyres are even worse!
cheers.
The rest was just filler. lol
Heard only good things about the liquid chrome, so I thought I would give it a try.
Right now the next buy is a long way off. just got back from the service center with 4 new winter tyres on steel rims. £1165! damb. Still cheaper than the last cars though 4x4 tyres are even worse!
cheers.
Tell me about it , 4 x Jeep Cherokee tyres, fitted, no rims, and close to what you paid.
New battery was silly money too.
I'm in the wrong racket.
Absolutely.
Comes in around third in my cartoon universe. Perishers is number one (mostly because I thought the eyeballs in the sky was an inspired work of genius), followed by Charlie Brown, then Calvin and Hobbes.
Doonesbury, & Dilbert also, as I labored in a cube farm for some years and we would send in suggestions on occasion. Still remember fondly Calvin's amazing snow sculptures.
I should probably have called them comics Andy, short strip cartoons. Not animations like Wacky racesWhacky Races for me...
.. just gotta love Dick Dastardly and Mutley
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