Model railways?

[lb99]

any train nuts on here? am a confirmed slotcar addict, but I am considering building up a model railway......

[Curious_AJ]

I'm surprised Indy hasn't posted here yet!

[Indiana_Jones]

I'm a model railway fan

Not enough room at my current place for my set up, so it lives with my folks.

Just a simple 6' x 4' board.

What slot cars do you use? Scalextric?

If you go for model railways, be sure to get Hornby, great brand in the nice '00' gauge

-Indy

[Pussy]

Chooky on here has got a lot of cool model railway stuff

[Curious_AJ]

I'm a model railway fan

Not enough room at my current place for my set up, so it lives with my folks.

Just a simple 6' x 4' board.

What slot cars do you use? Scalextric?

If you go for model railways, be sure to get Hornby, great brand in the nice '00' gauge

-Indy

oh there he is...

[lb99]

I'm a model railway fan

Not enough room at my current place for my set up, so it lives with my folks.

Just a simple 6' x 4' board.

What slot cars do you use? Scalextric?

If you go for model railways, be sure to get Hornby, great brand in the nice '00' gauge

-Indy

Probably going to go for N scale, cause of space restrictions, It seems pricey though....

I have HO scale slot cars, a massive mixture of Tyco, Lifelike, and AFX sets, over 100m of track all up, heaps of cars, includng som really old ones, I wold be willing to swap a decent AFX setup (20m) for some bits to get set up with trains

[Indiana_Jones]

yea N gauge is quite pricey.

What sort of space do you have? also what sort of track size are you after (i.e. like 6 engines going at once or maybe 2 doing the track and one shunting?)

-Indy

[Disco Dan]

I have a Thomas the Tank set.

[xwhatsit]

N scale is cool, looks more realistic somehow, probably because of tighter detail. I'd love to make a setup, but for now I just stick with OpenTTD because I'm poor.

[R6_kid:Me]

N scale is cool, looks more realistic somehow, probably because of tighter detail. I'd love to make a setup, but for now I just stick with OpenTTD because I'm poor.

LOL, i used to love transport tycoon... thought it got a bit boring once you could just buy out your opposition!

[McDuck]

LOL, i used to love transport tycoon... thought it got a bit boring once you could just buy out your opposition!

the trick is you set the oposition to extra smart and hard, start the game and leave it for 30 min, then you have to catch up to them to buy them out

[sunhuntin]

I have a Thomas the Tank set.

ditto. ive got suitcases full of the tomy thomas sets. 3 suitcases of track, and one of engines and misc like people etc, and then ive got sets still in their boxes that are too big for a case. started out with an 80s tomy set [dark blue] when i was 5-ish, and built it up ever since. no room to display it though.

[xwhatsit]

the trick is you set the oposition to extra smart and hard, start the game and leave it for 30 min, then you have to catch up to them to buy them out

Nah -- don't play with AI -- it's rubbish. One of the cool things about OpenTTD w.r.t. original TTD is that they've added internet multiplayer to it. Much smarter opposition

What everybody is doing these days is forgetting about the competition aspect of it and just treating the game as a giant model railroad; with the NewGRF addons there's some really detailed graphics and realistic copies of real-life trains etc., you can even go right back to horse-drawn trams and play through to the very latest TGVs if you want.

[Magua]

I used to have a pretty extensive kit, yards, tunnels and bridges with several locomotives. Similar scale to 00, but I think it was American. In my opinion, Hornby's over priced.

[lb99]

yea N gauge is quite pricey.

What sort of space do you have? also what sort of track size are you after (i.e. like 6 engines going at once or maybe 2 doing the track and one shunting?)

-Indy

I'd like to have the works, tunnels though walls the lot.
but realistically a single level circuit, with yards is probably a good start, it would have to be stored under a bed.....