Just another normal toy train

It's a great hobby , one I have been involved in for over 35 years. I don't see anything sad in being creative. Why should it be?

steve

Paper Plane posted:

It's a great hobby , one I have been involved in for over 35 years. I don't see anything sad in being creative. Why should it be?

steve

Please forgive my poor choice of words!

Hi Minh,

it's nice to see you back here. I needed three or four in-and-outs and some fine tuning before entering in the spirit of The Forum, and am basically still playing by ear.

Best

Max

Max_B posted:

Hi Minh,

it's nice to see you back here. I needed three or four in-and-outs and some fine tuning before entering in the spirit of The Forum, and am basically still playing by ear.

Best

Max

Hi Max

You have my kind regards. It has been several years and during that time I felt I had lost a part of me by leaving the company of like minded individuals. I hope to establish better relations this time around.

ATB Minh

Minh Nguyen posted:

Paper Plane posted:

It's a great hobby , one I have been involved in for over 35 years. I don't see anything sad in being creative. Why should it be?

steve

Please forgive my poor choice of words!

My apologies for over-reacting. 

steve

Creativity is great in all its forms.

never really been into model railways, but I used to love building model planes , the type made from balsa wood and tissue paper.

didnt even really fly them, just the pleasure of the build

Cbr600 posted:

Creativity is great in all its forms.

never really been into model railways, but I used to love building model planes , the type made from balsa wood and tissue paper.

didnt even really fly them, just the pleasure of the build

That reminds me of my childhood. I also have fond memories of starting with balsa wood kits and then advancing on to building model air planes. I'd paint them with a brush but it was always my dream to have an air compressor. Perhaps I'll rekindle the good old days and build myself a hobby room should funds permit. The lure of the ND555 is almost irresistible...

I think that's what we would get if J Clarkson ever became a train-driver.

Max_B posted:

Hi Minh,

it's nice to see you back here. I needed three or four in-and-outs and some fine tuning before entering in the spirit of The Forum, and am basically still playing by ear.

Best

Max

In the ocean there are many different species of fish. They sometimes don't get along but they must all learn to live with each other. It would be a boring place if there was only one species of fish. 

I really miss my Marklin train set...!

Toy trains are fantastic. Personally, in my list of The Greatest Christmas Presents I am torn between that and the next year's (1965) present, when my Dad found and bought for me a real, Revere 8mm projector which needed a huge transformer to work at 220V and that still works. I saved my pennies to buy three-minutes reels of Disney cartoons and had my room cinema.

I still have most of the pieces of my Rivarossi H0 toy train. The only thing irremediably gone is being 11.

Max

Hi Minh old bean, good to see you back on here, hope all's well with you.

I think train sets are so much more interesting than Scalextric and the like. My father used to be the toy buyer of a large department store, and one year I was given the large Tri-ang setup they'd built for a Christmas display. There was so much track it was great fun building up vast setups that ran all over the house. Alas, my younger brother got his grubby little mitts on it, and most of the pieces ended up broken or buried in the garden.

tonym posted:

Hi Minh old bean, good to see you back on here, hope all's well with you.

I think train sets are so much more interesting than Scalextric and the like. My father used to be the toy buyer of a large department store, and one year I was given the large Tri-ang setup they'd built for a Christmas display. There was so much track it was great fun building up vast setups that ran all over the house. Alas, my younger brother got his grubby little mitts on it, and most of the pieces ended up broken or buried in the garden.

Hi Tony, it has been too long. I'm good thank you. I hope that you, Mags and your two lovely dogs are well. It is with regret that I never had the opportunity to hear your system boogie with the intensity of a thunderstorm: I'm sure that those DBL's are more than capable of reaching mach 3.

It has been refreshing to hear of the nostalgia that childhood memories can so strongly evoke as though it was only yesterday.