i set my alarm for 1am, winning them for 2800yen. i want to add a couple of things to the parcel, and then i should hopefully have them in time for blair to use the tomix layout at the september show.
after several years of occasional looking on jauce, i finally found a listing for the last tomix truck and stone load i needed to complete the collection.
i set my alarm for 1am, winning them for 2800yen. i want to add a couple of things to the parcel, and then i should hopefully have them in time for blair to use the tomix layout at the september show. mum and i finally had a chance to hit the shops today for the first time in a week or so.
as per usual there was nothing much at the sallies or gonville hospice. loads of toys at savemart though, which made up for it. scored a disney infinity "anger" from the bin of mcdonald type toys [anything of a similar size or smaller ends up in there] along with a few other odds and ends. i also grabbed a bag with a todder toy of harold in it. he has a trigger than makes his rotor spin, and is meant to have a light but i need to test the batteries. jackpot at eastside hospice though. a bag of stuffed toys with a boy my child doll buried inside for a whole $3. thankfully they left his feet poking out, which is what i saw first. that doll will be winging its way to chris eventually. mum found me a pack of napkins at that same shop, all printed like a canadian $100 bill. a really unusual piece and im glad to have it. On Saturday 12th of August, I travelled with Blair and LLoryian to the Masterton Model railway show, held at the YMCA hall.
Due to the Manawatu gorge still being closed, we went via the Pahiatua track, a road I had not travelled before. Its amazing road, very scenic, but due to the numerous twists and turns, I ended up a bit green around the gills. We had hoped to stop at the Pahiatua Railcar Society, but they weren’t open. Hopefully next time! After a very wet trip, we arrived at the show nice and early, eager to have a look around and see everything. One of the first was a low one with Thomas and Toby that children could control, which seemed very popular. Another early highlight was one built inside an old trunk, with viewing windows cut of the front for kids to see. There were also some familiar layouts, such as the one with cable cars and child operated magnetic crane. it was neat to see how they had changed or stayed the same since we last saw them. Fay and Alan Giles from the WMR&ES were there, showing their classic Tri-Ang, a collection of framed railway images, and a poster for our own club show in September. Thanks for the plug, you two! We also saw Paul Roxburgh, also from our club, and he and Blair had a good catch up. My favourite of the day was the large G scale set up, from the Wairarapa Garden Railway Group, I also appreciated one which had a nod to Dr. Who. LLoryian enjoyed the Meccano set up, featuring many tricks and traps the engine needed to navigate. After we finished at the show, we went for a walk up the main street before heading to Cwmglyn Farm and Middleton Model Railway, near Eketahuna. This layout is very large and changes decade every so often. This time it was based in the 1980s. While the main layout is HO scale, there are smaller displays showing N and even T! Many of these displays had switches that allowed the viewer to take control, running the engines backwards and forwards, or turning lights on. They also show different brands like Marklin. They have a well-stocked shop attached, and also sell craft cheeses, made with milk from the four cows who live in the front paddock. I was tempted by a few items, namely some 1:76 scale traction engines, but managed to resist. Once we left there, we headed towards home again, this time taking the Saddle road, stopping by the big wind turbines so I could take a few photos. I had a great day, and thank Blair and Lloryian for taking me along for the ride. It was a day full of firsts, as I had never been to any of these places before. stumbled on the wave 2 minis, at long last. the warehouse had 2 boxes at one of the checkouts, and the 10 or so boxes of 2016/3 and 4 have vanished from the aisles.
from the two boxes i managed to gather up one of each new release. i had a good buy at one of the hospice shops on monday, scoring an NZR jacket for $10. it will be passed along to blair, for his collection. as a result of this i have streamlined the memorabilia page a bit, grouping all the new zealand stuff together and keeping stuff from overseas in their own section. i went up to savemart after work yesterday, and scored big time. the toy area was overflowing, and i found a bag of vintage tomy pretty quickly. while looking it over, i noticed some lego track, some bulky bits and a number of bricks. i was already going to buy it, and the lego just clinched the deal for me.
i got it home,and unpacked it, skimming over the tomy quickly and going straight to the lego, which turned out to be an almost complete 7722 4.5v set. using a set of online instructions, i checked the builds over, corrected any mistakes, removed fake bricks and filled spaces where pieces were missing. there are some pieces i will need to bricklink, but they seem cheap enough, from what i can tell. |
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