Zerogee
Clencher's Bogleman
It's like Christmas.... or buses, or something..... two lovely things turned up today, one by Special Delivery and the other by FedEx!
One was a second-hand Heidi via evilBay, absolutely gorgeous condition including expertly-done replacements for the horrid bendy plastic handrails with nice brass ones - which makes an already pretty loco look SO much better. Buying this was the reason I sold my 100 Jahre Lehmann train at the start of the week, I don't get so much Domestic Stress if I sell something to buy something else!
The other thing, which was kind of a late Birthday pressie to myself (and why else did God make credit cards?) is the Wurttemburg Ts3 0-6-0 in the original green livery, posing next to Heidi in the pics! Getting one of these to go with my DR black version of the same loco was bit of an extravagance, I know, but when I found that the supplier had one of the green ones up for grabs I just couldn't resist it, and if I'd turned it down I'd have regretted it a lot.
The Heidi is factory-MTS already but I've got an S unit on order from Mark (GRO) to make her sound as good as she looks, and an LS with Frank S sound files is also on order for the Ts3. I've learned a couple of important lessons from chipping the DR black one a few weeks ago (such as the fact that the ****ing bulbs are only 3 volt...!!
) so the decoder install in the green one should be a lot easier and probably neater too.
I think the two locos look really nice posed together in the pics, the liveries are SLIGHTLY different greens (though closer to the naked eye than they look in the photos) but they will make two excellent additions to the loco stable, so I'm quite chuffed today!
Jon.
One was a second-hand Heidi via evilBay, absolutely gorgeous condition including expertly-done replacements for the horrid bendy plastic handrails with nice brass ones - which makes an already pretty loco look SO much better. Buying this was the reason I sold my 100 Jahre Lehmann train at the start of the week, I don't get so much Domestic Stress if I sell something to buy something else!
The other thing, which was kind of a late Birthday pressie to myself (and why else did God make credit cards?) is the Wurttemburg Ts3 0-6-0 in the original green livery, posing next to Heidi in the pics! Getting one of these to go with my DR black version of the same loco was bit of an extravagance, I know, but when I found that the supplier had one of the green ones up for grabs I just couldn't resist it, and if I'd turned it down I'd have regretted it a lot.
The Heidi is factory-MTS already but I've got an S unit on order from Mark (GRO) to make her sound as good as she looks, and an LS with Frank S sound files is also on order for the Ts3. I've learned a couple of important lessons from chipping the DR black one a few weeks ago (such as the fact that the ****ing bulbs are only 3 volt...!!
) so the decoder install in the green one should be a lot easier and probably neater too.
I think the two locos look really nice posed together in the pics, the liveries are SLIGHTLY different greens (though closer to the naked eye than they look in the photos) but they will make two excellent additions to the loco stable, so I'm quite chuffed today!
Jon.
