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Published: 2015-09-17 12:10:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 665; Favourites: 27; Downloads: 7
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Piko 5/6315 - Steam locomotive Type 81 no. 81.340 (modified)With its tender well filled up with coal and wood bricks, 81.340 is ready for a new day's work...
... I still need to scratch-build a new oil lantern (or two), but most of the modification work on this one has been done now.
Quite a bit of work that's gone into this one so far. >.>
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I have a G8 in Deutsche Bundesbahn black and red
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I guess that's the most common version of her...
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Yep, mine is a Fleischmann model
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Fleischmann did quite a number of variants of the T8.1 - including an all-black blank one that came with decals for the Belgian SNCB, the French SNCF, the Dutch NS, and the German DB...
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Lovely work! I still need to buy one (working) steam locomotive for me. I only have a static one from Revell...
P.S. I am still trying, after all these years, to figure out why they all insist on using black coloured plastic instead of brownish to represent the wooden beams beneath the tracks.
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Thank you!!
I've meanwhile changed the oil lanterns to the right type, so she's more or less ready... and now the only thing left is to find a second one! XD
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Nice locomotive.And nice weathering+details
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Anytime.
How many locomotives you got?I have two locomotives, both electric.
thefarcaspaul.deviantart.com/aβ¦
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I'm actually beginning to get quite a little collection.
Right now, I have Β locomotives, including:
- 5 steam engines (all Belgian ones of German origins)
- 4 diesel engines (one Dutch shunter and three Belgian mainline diesels)
- 2 electric locomotives (both Belgian ones, one based on a French model, and one pure Belgian)
- and 1 electric multiple unit (a Dutch one)
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Wow.I guess they costed a lot.But worth it
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I get mine on the cheap, at modelling fairs and so. Β XD
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I got mine quite expensive and new.I am getting one soon on my birthday, it costs 200 euros
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There's one model I would so want to have... but it costs β¬595... T_T
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It is the Type 29 locomotive of the Belgian Railways, of which the originals were built by the Montreal Locomotive Works, the Canadian Locomotive Company, and the American Locomotive Company between 1945 and 1947. Β Unfortunately it is a locomotive specifically built for the Belgian Railways, with no counterpart elsewhere in the world.
traintamarre.tassignon.be/inve⦠29
It used to be built by Jocadis, unfortunately that marque folded after the man behind it died two years ago. Β DJH also used to build the model, but that hasn't been available for years now - and DJH locomotives usually came in kit form only.
The only model that does come close in terms of overal shape and size is the USATC S160 (or SNCF 140U) which is newly announced by Roco, unfortunately that costs almost as much as the model of the Type 29 does!
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If you want to get it, good luck and I hope you will save money soon.
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Anytime.Also wish me luck in getting some money for my model, as my dad bought me some traincars on these money:Romanian AVA 200.
By the way, what traincars you got?
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Ah - my 'park' is beginning to become quite extensive.
Most of my freight cars are Belgian; the only exception are two Swedish freight cars, two German freight cars, one German tanker car, and one Dutch coal wagon.
Of my passenger cars, all are Belgian ones so far, though of mixed origins. Β They include several different types, such as cars of Prussian and Bavarian origins that were taken over by the Belgians after World War I (and in some rare cases, ones left behind by the Germans during World War II)
But I also have "real" Belgian cars in my collection, such as the L and M1 cars of 1935; and the M2 cars of 1958.
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Also: Good luck!
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I like the liveries.Mostly green.Mines will be an AVA 200 sleeping car www.hgd.ro/AF/AF20092.jpg and three of these www.trains-addicted.ro/Resourc⦠[a 1st class one, and 2nd class others]
Thank you.How big is your layout?
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Currently I haven't have one - I'm still planning on one, but haven't had the time to build it yet. Β Ever so now and then I take the usual oval out of the box and run some of my trains, but that's it so far...
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Well, it's a beginning.Here, you order each piece of track.Maybe you should start planning it on a drawing software/a layout software.
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It's the same here - I usually go and get it at my local shop, just down the road. :3
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I get them from an online shop.I live in a small town and we don't have such shops.
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I live close to the city, and have the choice of three shops...
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Thank you! ^_^
I happened to notice something funny on this one, by the way - for some reason or another, her the opposite of my other locomotives - so if I put her on a closed circuit, she runs in the opposite way to any of my other locomotives.
A bit funny, but I've got a good mind to build a little lay-out with parallel tracks now. :3
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Just swap the wires going to the motor! ( I'm assuming you are not using DCC)
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I'm actually planning on keeping her this way, it kinda sets her out from the other engines I have right now - and it's always fun to see traffic going both ways on a set-up. :3
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That coal load looks great, I also like the additional detail of the shovel, and a little on the water tank. The stack cap looks great too!
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Thank you!
I always feel it's this kind of details that can make or break a model.
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It's little things like that which the manufacturers don't put on, but make the model look more real.
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I'm actually glad the manufacturers don't do it, since it's not really 'part of' the loco, and it makes it more realistic having it slightly different per loco.
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True! Β Next time I get myself one of these Piko 81, I'm going to outfit it a bit differently - I'm even thinking about retro-fitting one back to her Second World War configuration if I manage to get my hands on a third one...
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Should be interesting!
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It should be indeed! - Knorr pre-heater albeit on the opposite side of that on the Piko kit; singular oil lamp with black-out cover; the old four-numbered system; number plaque instead of painted-on numbers on the side; painted frames on the sides of the tender and cab; depot markings on the chimney; and a good number of other changes...
But as I said, I'll probably first do a second "Era III" 81 before I work on an "Era II" one...
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