Madasasteamfish
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« Reply #25 on: January 11, 2020, 05:25:23 pm » |
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Well, the first of my aforementioned ideas has formally taken shape. Details here if anyone else wants to get involved with it; http://brassgoggles.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,50777.0.html |
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I made a note in my diary on the way over here. Simply says; "Bugger!"
"DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH."
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chironex
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« Reply #26 on: January 12, 2020, 05:54:16 am » |
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I am not aware of wizards riding the railways in Victorian towns - have I missed something there?
Only half a library full of literature! Remember, this is a work of fiction, so you just imagine a wizard there and it shall be. I've seen layouts populated by anthropomorphic teddy bears, and one with an ironworks powered by the breath of a dragon. Usually wizards are a little more discrete when travelling on public transport - after all, spells have been know to go awry at times! Sometimes. Magic classes in Deadlands or The Sixth Gun may dress like other travellers due to magic, which you can't get away from in either setting, not being officially recognised. In Kaisers Gate, it's because mages are an asset and there's a war on. Not that there's a particular way wizards dress in those settings. Though in Deadlands: Noir a houngan will look rather like a stereotype of the dandy, richer vodoun practitioner from New Orleans. In Raising Steam, however, wizards ride the train looking like wizards, because everyone knows they're wizards already.[/quote] Railway layouts populated by anthropomorphic teddy bears - poor, misplaced ursines!
Right. Because dollhouses are their natural habitat, obviously. |
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Orkses is never beaten in battle. If we wins we wins and if we dies we dies fightin' so it don't count as beat. Even if we runs away it means we can always come back for anuvver go, see!
QUEENSLAND RAIL NOT FOR SALE!!!!!!
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« Reply #28 on: January 13, 2020, 05:40:21 pm » |
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I cannot imagine in my wildest dreams (or nightmares) that anyone would shell out good, or even not so good, money for that, or the other pieces I saw on the website. Except for the gear package...now that was super-dee-duper, neato-torpedo!  |
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Here is a test to find out if your mission in life is complete:
If you're alive, it isn't. -- Lauren Bacall
"You can tell a man's vices by his friends, his virtues by his enemies."
"Only the paranoid survive."
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James Harrison
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« Reply #29 on: January 13, 2020, 06:40:05 pm » |
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Wow. So that's what happens when you put a Hornby engine in a scalextric track. It melts...
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Persons intending to travel by open carriage should select a seat with their backs to the engine, by which means they will avoid the ashes emitted therefrom, that in travelling generally, but particularly through the tunnels, prove a great annoyance; the carriage farthest from the engine will in consequence be found the most desirable.
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Rockula
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Nothing beats a good hat.
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« Reply #30 on: January 13, 2020, 08:02:42 pm » |
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The ‘Rogue’ Lady Triphenia Lovelace’s Diesel Dames Engine looks like they had a spare engine for a Grumman 'Bearcat' and just glued it on top.
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The legs have fallen off my Victorian Lady...
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The Bullet
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« Reply #31 on: January 14, 2020, 10:15:13 am » |
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Nothing for me. Absolutely.
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If brute force does not work....you´re not using enough of it.
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Madasasteamfish
A clanger waiting to be dropped......
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« Reply #32 on: January 14, 2020, 01:19:42 pm » |
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Oh it's all truly hideous. I'm more and more convinced of my original impressions. By the photos it looks like they're trying to mass produce the models this Laurie Calvert person has created and are working from their interpretation of Steampunk. Personally I think they'd have been better off producing a set of basic chassises and body shells with interchangeable parts so that people can create their own models. |
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« Reply #33 on: January 14, 2020, 08:27:10 pm » |
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Hornby now have clear pictures on their website, I'm astonished at the quality: That is terrible. It seems to me, they could have taken a normal steam locomotive, painted it copper and highlighted the rivets and called it good. |
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Lord Pentecost
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« Reply #34 on: January 19, 2020, 09:49:57 pm » |
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"Any machine is a smoke-machine if you screw up badly enough"
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Lord Pentecost
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« Reply #35 on: January 19, 2020, 10:00:00 pm » |
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Another few things to bare in mind: 1 - The Hornby 0-4-0 chassis is terrible, it is utterly incapable of slow speed running. 2 - The track layout for sale on the Hornby website doesn't actually work. As the Hornby points also switch the power (insulfrog) there is a part of this setup you cannot run the locos to unless you have a second controller or add additional track feeds https://www.hornby.com/uk-en/shop/bassett-lowke-steam-punk/shunting-starter-pack.html |
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Lord Pentecost
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« Reply #36 on: January 19, 2020, 10:31:29 pm » |
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The ‘Rogue’ Lady Triphenia Lovelace’s Diesel Dames Engine looks like they had a spare engine for a Grumman 'Bearcat' and just glued it on top.
Well Hornby do also happen to own Airfix! |
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James Harrison
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« Reply #37 on: January 20, 2020, 08:00:56 pm » |
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 When the trade stand looks more appealing than the product. |
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Madasasteamfish
A clanger waiting to be dropped......
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« Reply #38 on: January 20, 2020, 08:18:20 pm » |
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When the trade stand looks more appealing than the product. That it does, and it certainly looks more Steampunk IMHO. |
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Lord Pentecost
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« Reply #39 on: January 20, 2020, 09:50:56 pm » |
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When the trade stand looks more appealing than the product. That it does, and it certainly looks more Steampunk IMHO. When you spend all the budget on marketing and have nothing left for product development! |
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Herr Döktor
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Herr Döktor, and friend.
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« Reply #40 on: January 25, 2021, 12:59:57 pm » |
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Well, I'm told this range has disappeared from the annual printed Hornby catalogue, and I've been trying to find out if it's been officially canned, but as the official Hornby forum is currently being migrated to a new server, and that's where Google tells me the list of cancelled items is, I'm not 100% on this...
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James Harrison
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« Reply #41 on: January 25, 2021, 02:27:33 pm » |
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Nothing on RMWeb about when, or even if, they ever got released. Looks like they got canned before hitting the market.
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Madasasteamfish
A clanger waiting to be dropped......
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« Reply #42 on: January 25, 2021, 04:45:45 pm » |
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Well that seems strange. There was a review of the range in this month's BRM, and I'm sure I saw at least one of the paint sets on my last trip to a model shop (sometime last year).
A quick poke around Hornby's "new" website seems to show them available for order so I'm tempted to say that they're still in production, but quite probably the launch is being/has been kept slightly low key, and since this damnable plague has prevented any model shows/trade fairs from happening that's no surprise.
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James Harrison
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« Reply #43 on: January 25, 2021, 06:39:10 pm » |
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I think I'd give house room to their display stand. The actual product? Not so much.
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E.J.MonCrieff
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« Reply #44 on: January 25, 2021, 09:47:49 pm » |
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Nothing on RMWeb about when, or even if, they ever got released. Looks like they got canned before hitting the market.
Perhaps they are being socially distanced? |
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chironex
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« Reply #45 on: January 26, 2021, 06:37:27 am » |
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Railway layouts populated by anthropomorphic teddy bears - poor, misplaced ursines!
Where else would they be? A battlefield? The old West? Perhaps the high seas? |
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