Rather amusing, especially the eBay madness bit.
https://esngblog.com/2018/03/18/a-new-facet-to-the-hobby/
To be fair, 10-year-old me would have loved the A-team train set!!!
Cheers, NeMo
Quote from: NeMo on March 18, 2018, 12:09:48 PM
Rather amusing, especially the eBay madness bit.
https://esngblog.com/2018/03/18/a-new-facet-to-the-hobby/
To be fair, 10-year-old me would have loved the A-team train set!!!
Cheers, NeMo
Oh man! A 49yr old me still wants the A-Team set.
;D
Not forgetting Traing's "Battle Space" stuff in the 60s!
(http://www.brightontoymuseum.co.uk/w/images/Battle_Space_range,_Triang_Hornby_(THCat_1969).jpg)
I think I've seen a Hornby army-themed set in the not so distant past?
Almost forgot: I have one of these G scale sets!
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1260/4747/products/k17_001_6c35bbcf-c8cd-447b-b9b1-fc994be999c5.jpg?v=1489322112)
Got it very cheap (£50 I think). The loco's not brilliant but the wagons are perfectly compatible with my other American G scale stuff.
Hornby do at least one similar type set - although nowhere near as cool or varied.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dino-Safari-Junior-Train-Set/dp/B0000AFQ3N (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dino-Safari-Junior-Train-Set/dp/B0000AFQ3N)
The Transformers or M*A*S*H* set would have done for me (probably still would!).
Minor correction; the ESNG lot are the East Surrey group.
Oh to be young (er) again!
Never let a minor issue like age stand in the way of having fun with one of these sets.
Great thread!!
I still have this awesome set, which still runs like a top. Tell me again, why am I in N Gauge?!
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/cJgAAMXQuTNTPHeC/s-l1600.jpg)
Sadly, the modern train sets aren't anywhere near as exciting.
For example
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlaMFk4CQAAQXvO.png:large (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlaMFk4CQAAQXvO.png:large)
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aS2syFKmllw/VtHNu_I1BnI/AAAAAAAAAB4/Kskx48_6-7Q/s1600/10406745_1692544524345865_5144727756574877011_n.png (https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aS2syFKmllw/VtHNu_I1BnI/AAAAAAAAAB4/Kskx48_6-7Q/s1600/10406745_1692544524345865_5144727756574877011_n.png)
Sadly, I suspect this one is only good for single use...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8gddGmXgAAvLkj.jpg (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8gddGmXgAAvLkj.jpg)
Quote from: Claude Dreyfus on March 18, 2018, 02:48:42 PM
Sadly, the modern train sets aren't anywhere near as exciting.
For example
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlaMFk4CQAAQXvO.png:large (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlaMFk4CQAAQXvO.png:large)
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aS2syFKmllw/VtHNu_I1BnI/AAAAAAAAAB4/Kskx48_6-7Q/s1600/10406745_1692544524345865_5144727756574877011_n.png (https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aS2syFKmllw/VtHNu_I1BnI/AAAAAAAAAB4/Kskx48_6-7Q/s1600/10406745_1692544524345865_5144727756574877011_n.png)
Sadly, I suspect this one is only good for single use...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8gddGmXgAAvLkj.jpg (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8gddGmXgAAvLkj.jpg)
:laughabovepost:
But at least with the last one you get more bang for your bucks. :D
N.B. This is not an excuse for someone to tell me that a nuclear flask and a nuclear bomb have intrinsic and important differences . :no:
This is the original MRH thread:
http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/32905 (http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/32905)
Jon
I must admit I've never had an interest in any of those type toys, only in modelling the real thing.
As for the A team the sight of a group of actors mostly too old for the military, running around, behind bullet proof flowers was just to ridiculous to watch.
Mind you at 25 years old in the RAF, I don't think I was the target audience...
Quote from: The Q on March 18, 2018, 03:53:31 PM
As for the A team the sight of a group of actors mostly too old for the military, running around, behind bullet proof flowers was just to ridiculous to watch.
I think you're overthinking the show.
To quote the inestimable G'Kar, "No moral ambiguity, no hopeless battle against ancient and overwhelming forces. They were the bad guys, as you say, we were the good guys. And they made a very satisfying thump when they hit the floor."
That was the point of The A-Team!
Quote from: The Q on March 18, 2018, 03:53:31 PM
Mind you at 25 years old in the RAF, I don't think I was the target audience...
Indeed.
Cheers, NeMo
@NeMo (http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=945) Anyone who quotes G'Kar gets my vote every time! One of my favourite characters of all time.
Quote from: NeMo on March 18, 2018, 04:23:34 PM
Quote from: The Q on March 18, 2018, 03:53:31 PM
As for the A team the sight of a group of actors mostly too old for the military, running around, behind bullet proof flowers was just to ridiculous to watch.
I think you're overthinking the show.
To quote the inestimable G'Kar, "No moral ambiguity, no hopeless battle against ancient and overwhelming forces. They were the bad guys, as you say, we were the good guys. And they made a very satisfying thump when they hit the floor."
That was the point of The A team.
Cheers, NeMo
I don't think there was any thinking in the show...
Quote from: ntpntpntp on March 18, 2018, 05:36:49 PM
@NeMo (http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=945) Anyone who quotes G'Kar gets my vote every time! One of my favourite characters of all time.
I'm busy rewatching it on TV, supported by a complete DVD set & digital copy ! I used to get the episodes shipped over on a VHS video ( it was passed around a group of SBs on a mailing list , so that we could keep ahead of the broadcast series.
The best SF series ever written in my opinion.( apart from DS9 and Farscape)
Bah! No one remembers Blakes 7!
I do! :worried:
Quote from: Railwaygun on March 18, 2018, 10:57:16 PM
The best SF series ever written in my opinion.( apart from DS9 and Farscape)
Yep, got the full shoebox set and The Lost Tales. Watch it all through at least twice a year, probably 3 times. Plus the telly on weeknights at the moment just to support that a channel is bothering to air it.
Love the characters in DS9. Farscape I've never really got into. Firefly was god.
Firefly! Yeah! Someone brought the full series on to a ship I was working on in the middle east. One episode a night. End of series? Start again - for two months continuous... We had a multinational crew, some didn't even speak English, but everyone watched it.
Blakes 7 must deserve a re-run. Servalan was bad but she could have led me astray any day.
Quote from: Chris Morris on March 19, 2018, 11:33:47 AM
Blakes 7 must deserve a re-run. Servalan was bad but she could have led me astray any day.
Servelat - Intergalactic hot sausage!
Quote from: Zogbert Splod on March 18, 2018, 11:39:41 PM
Bah! No one remembers Blakes 7!
I do and as part of my other hobby I'm the one at the back. I again met 4 of the cast members this weekend who were busy signing photos in Birmingham :)
(https://i.imgur.com/1HfUmPU.jpg)