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[marco neri]

Very niiice....
Kato EMU's (TGV, SHINKANSEN, EUROSTAR. RaBe SBB, EUROMED...)
the best in world!!
Many compliments!!

Cheers
Marco

[marco neri]

..and I 'm waiting a UK  EMU by Kato.....

[Railwaygun]

all you need now is a 4 car set and another 8 car set and you will have the whole train!!

be careful of the carriage connectors. there is a knack ( i hold the proximal  carriage firmly and gently bend the distal car vertically up and down a little and pull gently and they pop open. )

[Croxy]

The Eurostar looks a very nice unit.......

[Railwaygun]

The Eurostars are obsolescent after 2015!


http://www.steamlocomotive.info/vlocomotive.cfm?display=10536

The 20 car configuration is here (x2)

http://www.londonupclose.com/eurostar-seating-plan.pdf

I'm not sure how this works with the Kato carriage packs?

[Brooksy]

I'm not sure how this works with the Kato carriage packs?

I think you need two of the additional four packs but the only problem is they're rarer than hen's teeth and usually go for silly money when they appear on eBay. There are currently a couple for sale with a £100 starting price - I don't think they'll end at that price though.

I hope that they bring out the new Eurostar units pretty Tout Suite.

[jivebunny]

It's much easier to put together a 16-vehicle "North of London" set than it is a full 20-vehicle "Three Capitals" set.

The bar car comes in the four-trailer add-on packs, which means if you buy three of the packs you'll have the correct number of trailers for a full set, but it'll have three bars instead of two (the more the merrier etc!). You'd actually need to buy a fourth pack and swap the 1st class trailer in that one for your redundant bar car. The leftover pack, with an accurate description of the contents, would probably be quite easy to sell on as it would allow someone who doesn't have the room for 16/20 vehicles on their layout to extend the base pack to 12 vehicles whilst maintaining equal numbers of 1st/2nd/Bar trailers in each half-set. 12 vehicles is the same configuration as a TGV Atlantique so would be an acceptable compromise for most people I would think.

I would imagine 14/20 vehicles is a bit of a push for most layouts, but here's one I made earlier 

JB

[mk1gtstu]

I've bought a few secondhand locos at a reasonable price, another class 37 to add to my fleet which will be re-numbered & weathered, a weathered class 20 that I also plan to re-number & lastly a Dapol Pannier tank..





cheers, Stu.

[Newportnobby]

Hmmm - somehow I can't imagine any of those 3 staying in the same condition

[jivebunny]

Oh dear, what have I done?

[Newportnobby]

The answer can be found here.........


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR8LFNUr3vw

[talisman56]

Oh dear, what have I done?

The detail on 'T' scale models nowadays... I assume the large one is 'N'? 

[jivebunny]

Correct, it's that limited-edition Farish 4F in prototypical SNCF livery

[Dr Al]

Correct, it's that limited-edition Farish 4F in prototypical SNCF livery

Actually, (in all seriousness) your Farish 4F is pretty rare - very few were made with that number 44018 - the vast majority were 44370. Also looks like someone's had it apart some time and replaced the central wheelset in upside down, as the rods are the wrong way up.

HTH,
Alan

[jivebunny]

That's interesting, I didn't realise the running number was a rare one. I got it in a job lot with a pair of 3Fs and a 56xx about ten years ago and haven't had them out of their boxes other than for an initial inspection - didn't even notice the rods were upside down! Going to have to fix that! The wheels also seem to have been blackened with a marker pen so it'll be going onto my workbench at some point, once I've given the big 4F a repaint into a BR livery. As with most 80s Lima models, the wheels are terrible and the tender coupling bar is about six scale feet too long, although in contrast with their N and OO models of the same period this one's actually slightly underscale (1:45 rather than 1:43.5)

JB