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The Dublo Deltic looks like it's got Triang Transcontinental diesel bogies. It's a Bo-Bo rather than a Co-Co and the couplings don't even extend beyond the ends of the body!

 

There's one on correct bogies for less:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-DUBLO-2234-2-RAIL-CO-CO-DELTIC-DIESEL-CLASS-55-D9012-CREPELLO/390783728068?rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D286%26meid%3D5110621735839845786%26pid%3D100005%26prg%3D1048%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D5%26sd%3D300911128112%26

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The Dublo Deltic looks like it's got Triang Transcontinental diesel bogies. It's a Bo-Bo rather than a Co-Co and the couplings don't even extend beyond the ends of the body!

 

There's one on correct bogies for less:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-DUBLO-2234-2-RAIL-CO-CO-DELTIC-DIESEL-CLASS-55-D9012-CREPELLO/390783728068?rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D286%26meid%3D5110621735839845786%26pid%3D100005%26prg%3D1048%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D5%26sd%3D300911128112%26

So that's what he means by 'Code 3'.

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Thanks to Giz - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-DUBLO-MODEL-No-2234-CO-CO-CREPELLO-DIESEL-CODE-3-/300911128112?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item460fb36e30

 suddenly looks more like his usual offerings. :O

 

The Dublo Deltic looks like it's got Triang Transcontinental diesel bogies. It's a Bo-Bo rather than a Co-Co and the couplings don't even extend beyond the ends of the body!

 

There's one on correct bogies for less:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-DUBLO-2234-2-RAIL-CO-CO-DELTIC-DIESEL-CLASS-55-D9012-CREPELLO/390783728068?rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D286%26meid%3D5110621735839845786%26pid%3D100005%26prg%3D1048%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D5%26sd%3D300911128112%26

 

But I'm still not tempted!!  :no:

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Il Grifone

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That unfortunate Deltic has been on sale for ages! I can't imagine why no-one has bought her.

 

(The only redeeming feature of this ill advised** Dublo offering is the ability to pull almost anything attached to it*. Fitted with Tri-ang bogies it's lost even that - above all if they have the awful knurled wheels.

 

*Like small boys on trolleys!

 

**I think most of its target customers would have preferred Dublo's A4 (then twenty years old) and a far better model IMHO.

 

I wonder want he wants for the Rivarossi track.

 

'Code 3' is intended to mean a model in a livery not supplied by its manufacturer's (ie a repaint), but tends to mean 'bu##ered up!

 

Lastly form an orderly queue to snap up this bargain:

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VINTAGE-GRAHAM-FARRISH-OO-MODEL-No-LMS-SURBURBAN-COACH-/400669556435?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item5d49c43ed3

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Il Grifone

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Or these (scroll down -sixth item) - I'm not sure of shipping to Canada, but....

 

http://www.gaugemaster.com/search_results.asp?searchstring=preiser%20scale~~%ACho%AC~~scale%20%ACagricultural%AC&style=&andor=&method=kws&strType=&currentpage=1#5

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Didn't they call them Bananas.

Nothing to do with Flying Bananas which were GWR thingies.

But because they usually warped so they looked like a banana!

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No where the merry heck did I put mine?  I'd happily let him have it for 40 quid and he could still turn a healthy profit and save me the aggro of listing it and paying all the twiddly bits such as Ebay fees.  But on second thoughts as mine is MIB perhaps he'd pay twice as much for it? :jester:

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Il Grifone

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Didn't they call them Bananas.

Nothing to do with Flying Bananas which were GWR thingies.

But because they usually warped so they looked like a banana!

 

This is one of the later reissues in polystyrene. It's true the earlier ones are always warped to a greater or lesser degree. (The Pullmans are even worse.)

 

None of them are worth much, though the later Pullmans and the C.I.W.L. version usually command rather higher prices.

 

For the hate list,

 

add 'Horby', 'Horny' and 'Duplo' (unless it really is 'Lego') and anything listed under the wrong make or, even worse, muliple makes, and last, but certainly not least, 'professionally weathered'

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Here's something a bit out of the ordinary for Blue Pullman fans. Now I should mention that the seller is a mate of mine and when I saw this I was intrigued why anyone would take the trouble to do this; might it be the remains after a Triang cut and shut to get a genuine BP car not produced at the time? As you can probably tell, I'm no expert on the posh dmu.

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Il Grifone

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Here's something a bit out of the ordinary for Blue Pullman fans. Now I should mention that the seller is a mate of mine and when I saw this I was intrigued why anyone would take the trouble to do this; might it be the remains after a Triang cut and shut to get a genuine BP car not produced at the time? As you can probably tell, I'm no expert on the posh dmu.

 

My first thought was that it was an attempt to produce a kitchen car, but obviously not.

 

http://rastall.com/railway/mr-pullman.html

 

Scrolling down there is another one of these made from two power cars (much more common than the centre cars)

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And in an early livery too!* This one is a must for 'straight to bin' (and he still hasn't learnt how to spell 'scrapped' or does he really mean 'scraped' (as in scraping the bottom of the barrel?)

 

*At least 3 liveries since this one? (I'm not completely au fait with the history of 253 001)

 

What is this one supposed to be? :O

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/scrapyard-00-GAUGE-GWR-0-6-0-tank-loco-heavily-rusted-and-weathered-/291087914510?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item43c631160e

 

He must have run out of unfortunate  Tri-ang WELTROLs to vandalise, (though not their bogies) he's now started on Dublo double bolster wagons

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Abandoned-00-GAUGE-mobile-crane-heavily-rusted-and-weathered-/291087965765?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item43c631de45

 

I suppose we'll see a spate of "scraped or abandoned" Mallards shortly, seeing the source of cheap raw material.

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Pretty sure we've seen the HST before.

 

As to the Blue Pullman oddity, I see it as another of those tributes to the ingenuity of past modellers who, instead of publicly bellyaching that the manufacturers weren't producing what they wanted, sat down at the kitchen table with a modest skillset, a modelling knife and a tube of glue and used what they could get to build a representation of what they couldn't. It probably took a fair bit more bottle than I've got to take the junior hacksaw to a pair of BP power cars, dummy or not :D.

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