I am sat here thinking I should post some progress on my steel yard, however I have nothing to report. Sub zero temperatures have rendered the garage absolutely bloody freezing. I did venture out there over the weekend to sort out some bits to enable me to try some kit building, and nearly froze.
I do have a winter plan, that is to build some kits - I think I have about 15 to build of various wagons, coaches and 2 class 400 EMU’s - I have everything I need for the wagons, paints, glue etc etc. I just need to find the motivation to do it.
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My Layout
Disappointingly there aren’t many affiliate marketing programs around for the modelling industry, however I am sure as more and more retailers look to the Internet to increase their sales, we shall see more programs for us to promote online.
Currently the only affiliate program I have found is run by OnTracks. The program is run in house and despite the low commission amount, which is 2% of sales value. The program does track effectively and also converts well.
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Hornby’s monthly competition prize has been annouced. This December they are giving you the chance to win one of their new High Speed Train models in the form of the R2702 BR InterCity livery HST.
Hornby R2702 HST
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Competitions Free Prize Draw, Hornby, Hornby Monthly Competition
Finally we have moved into the new house and I have moved enough of the boxes from the garage to start playing trains again. I plan to have a larger permanent layout in addition to the steel terminal, so my first job was to build part of the new frame work, which would allow me to rest ‘Flynn Steel’ on it while I work on it over the winter.
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My Layout
Every month Hornby have a free to enter prize draw where you can win one of their latest products. For November 2008 they are offering you the chance to win one of their new Grange Class locomotives, the R2548 BR Black ‘Frankton’.
R2548 BR Grange Class 'Frankton'
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Competitions Free Prize Draw, Hornby, Hornby Monthly Competition
I am a little late posting this one, however the Model Railways website is giving it’s visitors the chance to win a brand new Hornby R2752 BR Sub-Sector Class 56. It is a free prize draw and the only entry requirement is that you write a review of a model that you own.
Hornby BR Class 56
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Competitions Free Prize Draw, Hornby, Hornby Monthly Competition
Sex Sells! - That’s right, we all know it and so do the manufacturers but I didn’t really expect to find sex in model railways.
This morning I received my package from OnTracks, that contained a couple of bits I had ordered (2 weeks ago) a BR Railfreight Class 56 and some acrylic spray paint. In the box there was a Noch catalogue, so having 5 minutes spare I thought I would have a peruse and see what they had to offer.
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Model Trains
Having done a bit of research recently regarding entry level Hornby train sets, I thought I would put together a post detailing where there are bargains to be had on the high street.
There seems to be a real string of very similar entry levels train sets from Hornby at the moment, many are being released as exclusives for various mail order and high street stores and thanks to Woolworths for slashing the price of their Midland Flyer Train Set, it’s forced the other retailers to bring the sets in-line with Woolies.
You can currently pick up a new train set, complete with a little 0-4-0 steam locomotive, passenger carriage, lowmac and two other wagons for the timely sum of £39.99. You also get an oval of track with a siding, the power controller, loads of trackside accessories and a trakmat. The set also comes with a bunch of trackside bits and bobs such as buffers and signals etc.
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Model Trains
Following on from my first post detailing how I forgot to plan for the traverser, I have a couple of designs kindly drawn by Hugh again.
The first is the more labour intensive of the two and involves constructing a small spring mounted catch, which is used to lock the traverser which sits on draw runners.
Traverser Design 1
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My Layout
Here it is, my first ‘proper’ layout. Firstly I owe thanks to RMWeb member Hugh Flynn - whom I have named my layout after. The guy is a legend and spends his free time designing model railway layout plans for free to other forum members. Thanks Hugh.
Layout overview
The layout is going to be set in the 80’s - 90’s to allow me to run some of my ever growing fleet of diesels and associated wagons. However it was apparent that I was going to have to make a few essential purchases in order to have the ‘correct’ type of stock - what a shame. Read more…
My Layout