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When all else fails, do the meltybrain technique

I wish I bought one of these when you made this video! They’re £140 now

Y know … I may do something similar Tho perhaps a different body shell perhaps

YT has just popped up your channel... great little halt layout👍🏻

The background music is not needed. It is distracting from the interesting narration.

Love this - I don’t you can get any smaller in this guage!

Add a bit of weight to the wagon and i reckon it'll be good

Love the hanging chain from the crane jig. Adds more movement to the layout. Great job. I would love a circle of track myself this small and running this well! Great job! Best wishes, Jules😁👍🌍🚂

What is the wagon running around at the end?

This is certainly my smallest layout- has anyone seen smaller?

Yes, the older stuff is fine after a few mods and a bit of weathering for me. I'd much rather have a long rake of older models compared to a few high detail new ones.

A 0-4-0 Ruston Hornsby DS165 in O gauge or the Sentinel diesel for me.

One was ticked off my list just this week! The T3!! I’m so happy Bachmann are doing that one!!

I'd like to see the LMS / British Railways / Italian State Railways Armstrong-Whitworth 0-6-0 "Jackshaft" diesel electric shunter. Triang did a version, from 1954 onwards, as the R.152 but they had the axle spacing totally wrong. Only the body shell was correct in detail. Also the GER / LNER Y4 0-4-0T shunter. Oddly enough, the only OO RTR model ever made was the clockwork Welso Brimtoy loco, produced between 1968 to 1975. The body shell can be made to fit the 1970's / 1980's Lima American Porter 0-4-0T loco chassis, to make a reasonable Y4 shunter, but a RTR version would be nice.

OO plastic bodied model railway wagons have come along since the first Trackmaster 7 plank open wagon and goods van appeared on the market, back in 1949. They made Trix and Hornby Dublo's lithographed tin plate wagons seem crap, by comparison.

If one wants detail, the old 1980's Peco "Wonderful Wagons" kits were the best. They had working suspension springs, as did the buffers. I have one on my layout, which I've had since the 1990's.

Its only if you are a P4 or EM modeller, are you bothered about superfine details, OO wagons just have a suggestion of the brakes under the model. Its of course made so that it can be Played With by kids, rather than handled very carefully. One problem that using any age or make of models & all mixed up is the coupling height can be miss matched or the couplings are missing! Personally I like the challenge of improving the coupling or fitting a NEM pocket. Weighting each wagon to 25g per axle really improves the ride, reduces derailing during points or shunting

What’s a real place that has inspired you?

I tend to appreciate stock (or locos) that are a bit older, paying a fraction of the price and if I spend a bit of time adding loads or weathering it’s virtually impossible to tell the difference over new stuff from a couple of feet away. Close up camera shots are a give away but at the end of the day it’s never going to be totally convincing, close enough is good enough for me 👍

*UPDATE* Bachmann did a 3mt Tank & the 43xx have been done by Dapol which means 6/10 have been made!

Just not 21 years different is it….. lol Point still stands!

Great vid, I’ve been avoiding buying older Hornby MGR wagons only because of the huge tension lock couplings… There’s nothing wrong with the older wagons once they’re weathered up, yes the newer stuff from Accurascale/Cavalex are impressive, but I honestly don’t get drawn to them in a long rake when running on the layout??? Can you change the older “D” tension locks be changed out for anything more up to date? Cheers John b

I think Airfix pioneered the slim line tension lock style coupling but this wasn't widely adopted and refined until the early 2000s (like the og bachmann 20s/08s etc) to give a more finescale look to the larger D locks. Would definitely recommend older tooling wagons though, like you say how much detail on new wagons is actually visible though EFE seems to have got the balance right with the bloater wagons.

Hi Oliver I hope you are For me they nothing wrong with older tooled rolling stock especially if you are on budget. I have grafar rolling stock from the 70s run just as great as rolling stock On today models they too much details which are bit costly in my opinion Half the details you are not going to see it. Wonderfully video well made. Keep safe ARP

I have always wanted the USATC S160 to come to OO and I’m thankful that Rapido has taken up that challenge! I would like to see more unusal locomotives and classes to come to OO like the Furness Railway A5 (N° 20 is the sole survivor) as well as some extinct or ‘forgotten’ pre-grouping / grouping classes. In terms of 009, I would like to see the TR locomotives get made (I’m not including Bachmann USA’s Talyllyn) as well as the WHR Garratts and “Russell” If we got anything else from the Caledonian Railway, LNWR or MR, I’ll be very happy

Very good concept for a small layout. You captured the spirit of the location. The 'fur' forest could be improved using some of the sea-foam or individual trees and bushes with Heki scatter. Have you thought about running the diverging line through the backdrop to offsite staging?

LNER Sentinal Railcar

HS4000 Kestrel would be nice (in 00 and N) class 88 in N (I think they already make it in 00 class 85 in N gauge as well

Manning Wardle H class and others please!

Right up my street, would be good to see more running on your micros👍 Darren

I'd love to see Bulleid shunter 11001 produced RTR

My list. For UK, Class 325 Royal Mail set. Any Midland railway loco built by MR before grouping of which a least 25 built . Any loco with sales to the maximum number independent railways pre grouping be they from independent builders or existing rail company workshops, For Swiss, Ee992 yard switcher, Eem 923 hybrid yard switcher, Aem 940 hump yard switcher, Am 6/6 hump yard switcher, SOB RABe 526 FLIRT set. The Ee and Eem where both in a catalogue but the company failed before production.

What is 009? How does that compare to 00 gauge?

Hiya,,,I only really have 2 1) NER Fletcher 901 class. The most unbelievable victorian loco no one has heard of and gets zero recognition. Rapido could build it, they did a good job on the Stirling Single,, but that only gets you to York, NER 901 class did the heavy lifting to Edinburgh. When in museum condition at York O. S. Nock described it as making 'Gladstone', City of Truro, and the Stirling Single look plain in comparison!!. The only loco present at the 50th, 100th, 150th, and potentially 200th anniversary celebrations of the 1825 Stockton and Darlington opening run.

Hi Oliver I hope you are well Yes everyone got a wishlist One for me would be bass loco in Burton-upon-Trent as for the garrett in narrow gauge quite a lot of people would like it

My grandson(12) has just enjoyed watching this video. He's recently started building his first model railway a 009-layout and has said that he wants to weather some of his wagons at some point, so he has found this interesting. He's documenting his build journey on his Dylington Model Railway channel. He's also watched your 009 videos as well. They are great videos and have certainly inspired him... Cheers James 🙂👍

Nice recce, one of my favourite parts of the process. Excellent choice of industrial locos too - PI squad represent (or something)

Great stuff!

Good stuff, thank you

mine will be a static model. Did not work. Very erratic runner on DC. Non-runner on DCC. Changed decoder (different make) no different. Kerno replaced it with another, and gave some configure tips (good service). It is still very eratic, got it to go about 4 meters without stopping once, rest of the time only goes a meter or two then stops, needs another prod. Poor pickups? Loose connection inside? Mechanical jamming? Can't open it to check. Roof also does not come off. Two out of two with the same issue.

Hello oliver I hope you are well Yes for me flicking firebox sprung buffers pre fitted speakers are pointless to me buffers yes metal. I feel we are having detail for the sake of detail on locos and rolling. You know my feelings on the subject Keep safe ARP

couldnt agree more about sprung buffers, its completely pointless, the forces involved in 00 are so small that they will NEVER compress unless its someones finger pushing it, same goes for firebox glow and opening smokebox door

Love the case study approach

Good video 👍 I agree with a lot of the points, manufacturers that give us a canvas for modifying/personalising will always do well One huge bug bear for me is when you get 3d printed bodies that have a specific loco nameplate printed as part of the body…they’re not as good as the plates from LRS

Tried something a bit different this week! Did you enjoy it or prefer my modelling videos?

Amazing work. Bernie

Very impressive rust effect!

Just received mine! Same livery as yours. Love what you have done to your loco!

Balls, this is really clever. It may be lacking in "operations" in terms of shunting cars around, but it's awesome for displaying things, or if you added an extra module or two, you could simulate a larger operation. In a micro layout, I find that less is more when it comes to trackwork, or it gets overly crowded. Over here, there was the "Tandy Center Subway" which ran all of 1.1 KM and had two single-track termini, and a passing area in the middle with stops. It could easily be adapted to something like this, especially as a seaside tramway.

Looks great! I think the two different ballasts look pretty good, like the track has been relaid at some point.