A Small Toy for Big Boys

Posted by: Mike-B on 28 March 2015

https://www.youtube.com/embed/ACkmg3Y64_s?rel=o

 

 

Posted on: 28 March 2015 by MDS

Very impressive. I suspect that brings out the little boy in many of us. I'd like to see it.  I smiled at the model speed camera.  

Posted on: 28 March 2015 by Mike-B

More toys --------  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7-lUBm-Guw

 

 

Posted on: 28 March 2015 by Scooot
Hi Mike-B,
I often wonder how folk on this forum stumble across links like this.Have they nothing better to do than search the Internet or have plenty of time on their hands.
I must agree with MDS in saying I would love to see this in action up close.
Absolutely fantastic and right up my street.
Cheers Mike,keep them coming.

Scott
Posted on: 28 March 2015 by Mike-B
Originally Posted by Scooot:
Hi Mike-B,
I often wonder how folk on this forum stumble across links like this.Have they nothing better to do than search the Internet or have plenty of time on their hands.

I have a like minded buddy in USA who is a rail freak - he part owns a slice of a loco & has a house full of models & is planning a trip to Europe incl  trip to that railway.    

I found the air planes video - yes I have a sad life & my other excuse is that it was persisting rain at the time.

Posted on: 28 March 2015 by Stephen Tate

Just brilliant Mike, thanks for sharing.

 

I've always been into model railways (mainly Hornby/Lima) and still have some of it left in the attic.

 

Sadly when British rail stopped being British rail I kind of lost all interest but this is something else.

 

Posted on: 28 March 2015 by MDS
Originally Posted by Stephen Tate:

Just brilliant Mike, thanks for sharing.

 

I've always been into model railways (mainly Hornby/Lima) and still have some of it left in the attic.

 

Sadly when British rail stopped being British rail I kind of lost all interest but this is something else.

 

Me too.  One of my regrets is selling the Hornby (or as it was known in my day, Tri-ang) train set I had as a kid.  I sold it in early teens because I got into astronomy and wanted a telescope.  It was only when my son was growing up and I was eager to get him a train set (well, him and me) that I discovered how things had regressed e.g. flimsy rails and fish guards; locomotives with rubber bands on their wheels drive wheels rather than magnets; motors in the tenders pushing locomotives, rather than in the locomotives themselves; and worst of all, no real smoke coming out of the locomotive's chimney, courtesy of adding few drops of that lovely smelling chemical that used to come in that plastic lozenge-shaped capsule.  Oh dear!        

Posted on: 28 March 2015 by Scooot
Hi Mike-B,
Certainly not a criticism toward you.I just never seem to stumble across really interesting and fun stuff unless I'm searching for something specific.
I can't remember who posted but the steam engine link also grabbed me.

Cheers scott
Posted on: 28 March 2015 by DrMark

I have a couple of boxes of old HO scale stuff; when I was a teen I had a layout in our basement, which my mother just hated.  When I went away to college she insisted it must come down, and the rolling stock has been in boxes ever since.  I've thought about selling it all because I can't foresee a circumstance where I will ever be able to engage that hobby ever again.

 

But seeing that video makes me yearn to do so!

Posted on: 28 March 2015 by TomK

Amazing!!

Thanks for sharing.