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 Posted: Mon 06 Apr 2009 07:15 am Post subject: Airfix/Dapol '09 GB. Chat. |
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Ayup All...
Post ALL Chat for the Airfix/Dapol GB here please...
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Fea - what exactly is admissible for the build? Looking back through the discussion about whether to do it or not, at one point it was spoken of as a locomotive build. Are other bits and bobs of the Airfix/Dapol railway range OK too? Alone, or in conjunction with a loco perhaps?
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PS I don't suppose I'll be allowed to get away with a Kitmaster boxing of City of Truro... |
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| Posted: Mon 06 Apr 2009 20:38 pm Post subject: |
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Ayup Digs...
Unless the Rail Guru (Owen) Overrules me, as GB Leader, I would say that ANYTHING Airfix/ Dapol is allowed.
Whether it be a Loco, and/or 'Accessories'. for example, I intend to Build the 'Evening Star' Loco with a coupla wagons, as a Loco needs summink to pull, don't it ? 
As i'm not an expert on the Rail stuff, personally i would say it's ok to build anything produced for it including Buildings, if that's what you wanted to know.... I shall read my Arthur Ward (spit) book, and see what I can find...
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OK, good! I shall go and peruse the stash... 
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Ayup Digs...
Did I answer the right question? ?
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Looks like a clear and unambiguous answer to me Fea!
The Group Build leader has spoken; the words have come down the mountain graven in stone... 
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| Digs wrote: | Looks like a clear and unambiguous answer to me Fea!
The Group Build leader has spoken; the words have come down the mountain graven in stone...
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Ayup...
(Oh devil !)  does that mean i'm responsible...?
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I'd say go with anything - same as before
I've got a box of bits I picked up off Dave which I'd like to plough through and I'm planning on building half a dozen 16T Minerals too 
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Ayup All...
I've just been looking at the Dapol website, and as long as the Star and a wagon or two fits ok, i'm gonna build it on the Airfix Turntable. It should go on a nice round Base i have...
Whaddaya think? Or maybe an 'Industrial' vignette, running over one of the steel bridges?
I should make it pulling a Freight car or two, as that's what it was designed for, but the pull of a passenger car does it for me too... I'd like a 'Grimy' Industrial scene. maybe pulling into a station. And As the wheels aren't designed to turn, i'm gonna abandon the 'Moving Wheels' notion too...
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Just to confirm what has been stated; as with the previous Rail GB, any Airfix rail stock or accessories qualify whether they be in Airfix or Dapol packaging and further, in line with other GB's, any conversion must be based on 50%+ Airfix original 
Hope that's clear enough
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A greater god has spoken...
I knew I was pushing my luck .
An 0-4-0 Pug plus accessories it will be then.
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Ayup Paul...
No need to be embarrassed... no-one minds.
The stupidest question is the one you DON'T ask...
I may have earned my corn as GB Leader on this one already...
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| Digs wrote: |
PS I don't suppose I'll be allowed to get away with a Kitmaster boxing of City of Truro... |
I have a few "bagged" kits for which I don't know the providence. The way I see it, if the kit parts are the same, what does it matter?
I'd be in this with an Airfix Brake Van, but I don't have instructions for it. Can anyone help? Most of it looks straightforward but there are some small parts that I'm not sure about, and I'm not sure if it comes with scale AND working couplings. The working couplings, I'm sure it comes with. |
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Ayup Digs...
As with the Heller boxing of the de havilland Rapide, i think it needs an airfix box.
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No stretching the boundaries lads 
Bruce, I don't have any wagons, but IIRC they have the three-link scale couplings for static display and the 'Buckeye' type coupling to run on your model railway/railroad 
Ratio wagons also have these options
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Ayup Phil b...
Welcome to the Airfix/Dapol GB... have fun ! if you need a hand with any aspect of it, Let me know !
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yayy! i'm in!
i have all sorts of dapol stuff, built, half-built and yet to be built.
choo-choo! |
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I'm thinking of coming in with my Dapol J94.
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| TimJ wrote: | | I'm thinking of coming in with my Dapol J94. |
Now that's a rarity! I'd like to see that built
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| Owen wrote: | | Now that's a rarity! I'd like to see that built |
And so you shall. I've decided to join in as I should have my other GBs finished by the 15th June.
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