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#41
N Gauge Discussion / Re: Minimal wish-listing
Last post by EtchedPixels - February 23, 2026, 12:56:36 PM
Quote from: Newportnobby on February 22, 2026, 12:12:53 PMElectric
Class 74
EM1/2*
AM10 EMU*

Diesel
Any of DP2/Lion/Falcon/Kestrel (horribly niche, I know)
Class 15

*Would involve new layouts I'd also never finish :-[

Seem to have all of these from kits except the AM10 8)

A proper 15 would be nice as the Parkwood one while trivial to build (clean, paint, and insert buffers) is stretched a bit for the old Farish 20 chassis.

There are good chassis matches for the other one off locos so whilst the Britannia Pacific ones seem to have vanished alas it's certainly a good candidate for 3D printing and probably less so for mass produced plastic.

An AM10 would be nice (as someone who grew up near Birmingham) but the EMU world seems to be surprisingly badly covered in RTR until you get to modern image where we've got a huge selection (but still need a FLIRT)
#42
General Discussion / Re: what are you listening to ...
Last post by Newportnobby - February 23, 2026, 12:32:45 PM
More Nightwish (or in Martin's case another racket @port perran ) ;)

#43
N Gauge Discussion / Re: Minimal wish-listing
Last post by PLD - February 23, 2026, 12:17:43 PM
Quote from: Roy L S on February 23, 2026, 09:01:51 AM
Quote from: Dancess on February 22, 2026, 10:19:54 PMPorthole coaches as they were my favourite.
They do look nice, but are they sufficiently different to Series 3 Staniers to justify the tooling cost and could they sell enough?
The main difference that Porthole stock offers is that they lasted around 5 years longer and there were a fair number of them carried BR Blue & Grey livery (mostly 62ft brake 3rds and 60ft Composites)
However... given that Farish have previously said they couldn't justify tooling for alternative frame lengths to expand the existing Period 3 range (almost every train should include a 60ft Corridor Composite!) sadly, I don't think Porthole stock would come from that direction...
#44
General Discussion / Re: what are you listening to ...
Last post by EtchedPixels - February 23, 2026, 11:45:45 AM
Accept:Metal Heart

Always loved this mix of classical minor harmonic scales and tunes woven into metal.

#45
General Discussion / Re: what are you listening to ...
Last post by joe cassidy - February 23, 2026, 11:11:25 AM
The album "Deltics" by Chris Rea.

The 'soundtrack of my life' as a working class youth  in an industrial town in the UK Midlands in the 1970s.
#46
N Gauge Discussion / Re: Minimal wish-listing
Last post by joe cassidy - February 23, 2026, 11:07:00 AM
Parallel boiler LMS Royal Scot ?
#47
N Gauge Discussion / Re: Minimal wish-listing
Last post by Roy L S - February 23, 2026, 09:01:51 AM
Quote from: Dancess on February 22, 2026, 10:19:54 PMPorthole coaches as they were my favourite.

They do look nice, but are they sufficiently different to Series 3 Staniers to justify the tooling cost and could they sell enough?
#48
General Discussion / Re: what are you listening to ...
Last post by kusojiji - February 23, 2026, 04:55:43 AM
Hey man, psychadelic!
#49
General Discussion / Re: what are you listening to ...
Last post by Newportnobby - February 22, 2026, 10:29:34 PM
A very old Kraftwerk track from the 1970s Vertigo sampler album 'Suck it and see'

#50
N Gauge Discussion / Re: Minimal wish-listing
Last post by Dancess - February 22, 2026, 10:19:54 PM
Porthole coaches as they were my favourite.
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