There was an OO scale Metcalfe kit given away free with the latest issue of RM.

I checked in one of my "bits boxes" and, thanks to RM, over the years I have accumulated the following free OO scales kits :

Metcalfe low relief shop front
Metcalfe signal box
Metcalfe platform shelter
Ratio lineside hut

I'd be interested to know what do you guys do with these kits ?

Best regards,


Joe

I saw that here in Australia two days ago. Yep, we do get express delivery into my local newsagents!

All I can say is, about time the partnership think about some N freebies in the New Year.

From my recent UK trip I have the RM and BRM OO freebie "kits", have vague plans to put them aside until I get round to making a static shelf display for my remaining 'Orribly Oversized stock, probably one day around the time my shares in Porcine Aviation start paying dividends.

run it through a colour copier and reduce it to N scale??

Pass them on to an 00 user at a show

I'm thinking not so much about the freebie as a nod of the hat to N gauge modellers.

Quote from: newportnobby on December 20, 2015, 11:39:40 AM
Pass them on to an 00 user at a show

That only encourages them ... 

Quote from: railsquid on December 20, 2015, 11:46:13 AM

Quote from: newportnobby on December 20, 2015, 11:39:40 AM
Pass them on to an 00 user at a show

That only encourages them ... 

but at least giving them away would remove temptation ? I note that you are already entertaining dark thoughts brought on by a swine-ish fever     

Thanks for the ideas guys.

I live in France so I don't know anyone here to whom I can give them.

I wouldn't be able to use the photocopies on my layout.

Would it be a sin if a built a tiny OO layout diorama to accommodate these items ?

Best regards,


Joe

Yes. Absolutely.   



Why not just make 'em up anyway, and see how they look? Your diorama idea isn't so bad and you'd be honing your kit building skills. 

George

Just do a mini diorama in 009 -- means you can use  N gauge track and not be totally sinful

Quote from: Bealman on December 20, 2015, 01:25:24 PM
Why not just make 'em up anyway, and see how they look? Your diorama idea isn't so bad and you'd be honing your kit building skills.

I would then have an excuse to buy those Ratio LMS coach kits I've always hankered after !

Best regards,


Joe

Yes! And as Oldman says, you could do a 009 layout, which I didn't even think of.

I've always had a soft spot for 009 (I built a rabbit warren 009 a long time ago), and it sounds like a great idea. There's some really cool 009 stuff available these days. 

Look at Parkside Dundas for rolling stock ideas

You could build them up in a diorama and then have a building fire scene with real flames