really pleased to have won. now i just need to find the merry-go copter for a reasonable price to have completed the sets.
i will post photos when it arrives.
just won a merry-go train set off ebay aussie for $5AUD. its got the box and instructions, plus all the parts. only fault is one of the tracks is damaged, but thats not a major. its got the engine with the pink sticker. theres another design out there to track down.
really pleased to have won. now i just need to find the merry-go copter for a reasonable price to have completed the sets. i will post photos when it arrives. my thomas easter set arrived today. i got him off ebay for $30. hes a target exclusive. photos are on the f-p engines page.
mum found me an annie at savemart, and i found a roadway tunnel up there on saturday. thursday is getting ever closer! really looking forward to it. i decided to clean them both at home as i want to focus on building the layout this week, and also trying to reglue the crane and another piece that got broken last week.
i havent put up photos of the jeremy layout as i dont have room to set it up fully, and weve had the kids here all weekend. looking forward to setting up the stepping stones dummy layout and making sure it all works. i will finally get a chance to use the flexi track i bought off trademe a while back. i put together part of the top layer and found the dual switch track i bought wouldnt match up to the double curve without help. the blue flexi is just what was needed. so, it seems like it will work but thursday will tell for sure. got home from town to a box in front of my door. its the pooh set from jarrod! its brilliant, though the engine needs a jolly good clean and two couplings are broken and will need to be replaced. i will take it on thursday, but dont know if i will get to it or not, due to having to build the stepping stones layout for the dummy run. photos are on the new novelty/licensed page, and a novelty repair guide page has been made as well, though no photos yet.
i am also going to make a page to show my layouts, mainly so i can see what i used and can recreate them without too much trouble. the set i won on trademe arrived yesterday. its better than i expected it would be. i love jeremys design. no photos yet, hopefully next week.
i will take both thomas and jeremy along to the train club to clean. i will also take the rest of the tracks and girders for the stepping stones layout and set up for a dummy run to make sure its going to run ok. im hoping the pooh bear set shows up in time as i would like to use the tracks on one of the bottom loops. got the neice and nephews here for the weekend, so i might not update for a little while. a few weeks back, i got a pile of toy story zaini figures from altan in turkey. i was missing bullseye and jessie, so i turned to google. that led me to the disleelandia blog. i emailed the author, lee, asking if he had a spare jessie and bullseye i could buy. he just emailed today and said he has a bullseye that he will gift me, which is great! so im giving him a plug here http://disneyatdisleelandiablog.blogspot.com/ his blog is very impressive. please check out his site, its worth a visit.
as promised, i took my hornby thomas out to the train club. blair managed to wind thomas up and he goes ok, though not with annie and clarbel attached. i decided the club can have the track and have left thomas and co. there as they will only get damaged here.
in the ceiling i found a few things i didnt know i had and took them along last week to clean. ended up spending most of the night cleaning neil's james... he was really badly bound up with hair and fluff. i have bought several things over the last few days, biggest being a tomy thomas and jeremy set for $60NZD. they should be here soon. i also got a dual switcher off glen8888/cooltoys [on trademe] for my stepping stones layout. and just a few mins ago i bought a trackmaster thomas egg express off ebay for roughly $32NZD. the pooh set i got jarrod to bid on will be shipped from him to me this week. looking forward to that arriving. if it gets here in time, i will use the colorful track for the stepping stones layout. |
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