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[weirdotranny]

Hornby James review

I recently acquired a Hornby James from eBay so here is a review /overview of it

The Hornby James has been a holy Grail of sorts for me for a while ever since trainboy uploaded his video on the model a couple years ago and as such I've wanted it badly and so, now that I have it for and for an actually decent price I thought I'd post here, These things should not cost as much as they do but luckily I got it in a mostly passed over bid for only 80$ which is steal a lot for a tooling from the 80s though, it is an admittedly great runner despite being tender powered.

The model is, on top of it being an excellent performer a great looker, though it is based upon the triang Johnson 3F it captures what James is perfectly that being; a medium sized tender engine one could realistically see pulling an express train such as the wild nor western. This model's face is also a perfectly cromulent recreation of the early model series face. With over all nice paint a perfectly acceptable likeness and being a perfectly good runner the hornby James is an over all good model for anyone who may want it (if you can get it for a good price) I'd give it a 9/10

[lomotunes2008]

So I was playing with a transparent background generator...

[trainmaniac]

Steam Engines and Gravity Power in a 1950s Colliery by Michael Alford

[maxbrick]

My thomas model running in the train show from last month, as well as some other pictures I took at the train show. Why is the camera quality so “bad?” I recorded everything on my 3DS, obviously.

[ironirma103]

[eltristanexplicitcontent]

00 gauge garden railway

[nwr-astrotrain]

Behold! OO/HO scale The Doctor!

[greateasternj69]

Banana coach! Banana coach!

[punalippulaiva]

Oooooooh this is cooool!

I considered using live plants for my indoors layout before I started the current project, as the idea of live plants instead of a fixed setting really appeals to me... but even bonsai'd plants look huge next to N scale (which is the only one I have space for). And I eventually came to the conclusion it's perhaps not the best idea to make something entirely left-field for my first layout.

But this is a great idea! A planter to make the layout a bit separate from the surrounding nature, and a scale smaller than what garden railways normally use is really interesting.

I'm probably going to build a micro garden reailway in the near future, but first let me explain to the non-railfans who follow me what a garden railway even is because I need to infodump about something.

What is a Garden Railway?

Put it simply, a garden railway is a blend of two otherwise seperate hobbies, railway modelling and gardenning.

Typically, railway modelling is about the persuit of historical and technical realism on a small scale with regards to anything involving steel-wheeled vehicles running on steel rails. That said there are those who simply run trains straight from the packaging on track placed straight on the floor and that's fine.

With a garden railway, the focus shifts away from an almost sterile realism towards a more impressionist's view of a railway running through a landscape, whith emphasis on the landscape being alive.

more than anything I think it's about embracing the joy of enjoying one's hobbies in the great outdoors

So how am I, a queer, unemployable person on benefits going to build a garden railway, especially when all the examples I've used are so grand and spacious?

let me tell you about a little something called scale and gauge

out of the diagram above, Gauge 1 (1:32 scale/45mm track) is the most popular size for garden railways, both historically and current. O scale (1:43 scale/32mm track) is probably the second most popular, being the smallest practical scale for live steam, that's real working steam engines on a sminiature scale.

OO scale (1:76 scale/16.5mm track) the most popular scale all around in the UK, has a fringe use in garden settings, but can create some spectacular scenes if sweeping views of main line cuttings and embankments are your thing.

I'm going with OO scale, but I'm not modelling standard gauge, instead I'm using a narrow gauge standard called OO9. that is to say 1:76 scale trains running on 9mm track, for a scale track gauge of about 2 foot 3 inches (686mm).

a 6 foot by 2 foot raised planter will be all I need for a sizable circuit of track with a branchline and two stations, there's also space to play with hight by having the branchline finish at a lower level than the main running line. the first image is the planter I have lined up, the second image is the rough track plan I've made so far, using the theoretical maximum inside dimensions of the planter as the space I've got to work with.

I already have one starter pack of OO9 track, which contains a full loop and a bunch of straight sections plus a couple of points, which is a decent portion of the costs taken care of. The planter itself is £100, which is also affordable for me.

The unknown for me at this time is what plants to use. It'll probably be figured out as I go but I'm drawn towards alpines because small trains should run through small plants, however I also want flowering plants to encourage pollonators in the city I live in.

I'm also drawn to the idea of a small pond situated by the end of the branchline with the main circuit running directly over the water via a trestle bridge. I'm tempted to look at aquatic plants to help take care of the water but I need to do more research on this front.

all going well I should be able to start work on this after september, and unlike other projects I intend to see this through to the end.

[misternibbs]

HI SORRY FOR NOT POSTING I'M NOT PICKING UP MY DIGITAL PEN FOR SOME REASON. loss of motivation unfortunately

anyways uhh wasn't going to post this on main but I kinda like them + we need more tiny man band content WHERE IS IT. I SEE ENCORE AND SCRAPYARD AND THEM BEING GAY AS BALLS ON TWITTER BUT WHERE'S MY TINY BAND. smh /lh

anyways this is going to be the most 2010s TV show cast ever cause I can't write for shit and community ruined me. probably the cringest I've ever been on main look away please

already posted some of this on the alt I know but FUCK YOU /silly

uhh meet The Tiny Man Band? under cut

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oh btw they're gonna have shit names just as a reminder sotryyyy womp womp I can't name for shit this entire thing is going to be paper doodles and absolutely bad just. eugh

first off

bass (left) and uke (right)!! they're pretty chill with each other, best friends! bass does annoy uke to hell n fuckin back though but yeah they're silly. you know the dynamic straight laced guy with sillier guy shawn and gus core. uke tries to keeps bass on track while bass makes sure uke ain't too serious yanno? they're my favourite btw

next !

keys! he looks like he could kill a man any second and he decimates his keyboard cause he keeps slamming his foot on it but yeah. he's pretty chill though! funny silly guy just a bit intimidating. try on a smile for once in your life, jesus mate

okay we got beat next!

he's kinda in his own world just jamming n stuff usually. he hangs around keys and is the most like. classically trained of them? i think that's the word but yeah he actually handles a lot of the writing n works with voice a lot

oh speaking of voice

bitch. also goes by CJ because it's a chonny jash au he's legally obligated to do as such. he's really close with uke, constantly checking up on him n shit. he usually handles more of the business side of things with uke and yeah I don't have too many thoughts on him unfortunately. he doesn't get much sleep

ANYWAYS here's some misc. stuff

voice is up late one night uke tries to get him to come to bed. shit dialogue i drew this cause I was really bored okay?

oh uke's eyes are different? yeah he's normally stylized like a cartoon character with the glasses moving like eyes/eyebrows, as shown below

only when he takes them off is when he gets actual human eyes YEP IT'S THAT TROPE I TOLD YOU THIS IS VERY 2010s TV SHOW

he's so silly. i lobe him

here's him and uke talkin about stuff I think he's talking about voice or something man idk they're just. yeah. chillin

damn this is the only other photo I can post son of a fuck anyways these are the hands for all of them. bass and voice are right handed, uke and keys are left handed, while beat is ambidextrous.

all of them have the same polish on both hands, except for keys who has inverse colours on each hand

also the lighter colour on bass and keys' nails is white, however the lighter colour on beat's nails just shows that it isn't painted he doesn't. he doesn't paint his nails except for his thumbs for some reason MAN IDK

but yeah this is the end you can stop reading now I don't gaf if you like or repost I just wanted to show silly tiny man band stuff :3

digital stuff soon maybe hopefully ehh don't count on it. thanks for reading all of this btw it does mean a lot to me :-)

[spaciebabie]

this is what unamed looks like btw. they're the character from that animation post i did awhile back

(he/they)

[maxbrick]

Work in progress… It got partially destroyed earlier, even after glueing and puttying it back together I had to “rebuild” some of it by making parts out of plasticard, especially on the cab. Now it mostly just needs the paint to be touched up, a few areas here and there filled, and some extra detailing.

[eltristanexplicitcontent]

In The Shed : Edition 3

[nwreric]

As a long time Sam's Trains viewer, I can safely say that I was not expecting this to ever happen.