Your Model Railway Village - Almond P6??

JVY

JVY

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A couple of nights ago I was watching TV. I saw an ad for a build your own model railway magazine, I thought that I spotted a model of a P6 - Almond with Huntsman roof. Had a quick Google today and found the website for the publication. The pic on the website shows three cars parked outside a thatched pub(?). Is the one in the middle a P6?

You can zoom in on the pic by holding Ctrl key on your keyboard and scrolling your mouse wheel. However, definition on my PC isn't too great, so I'm not sure if it's a P6. You can also play the TV ad the bottom of the page.

The ad says you get some bits each week with the magazine. Wonder how many weeks it is before (if?) you get the P6?

http://www.modelrailwayvillage.com/...rm=+Model +railway +magazine&atlassearch=paid
 
My brother is quite interested in model railways, and I understand that Oxford diecast are the firm that manufacture the P6, to a very high standard. I've got an avocado one, and a police one in the tiny scale.
 
I can't possibly say how sad is that. Cos I used to be into model railways big time, doing finescale scratch build coaches etc - GWR of course. GWR and Rover seem to fit together - they both exude an air of quiet unflashy competence. This is born out by the RSR official logo, which during the course of preparations for Coughton Court, we discovered is in a typeface known as "Swindon Egyption".

Now who can tell us why those two words fit so well together and what the connection is to the GWR?

Chris
 
For gods sake, don't start buying those magazines! They are a bit of a scam. They start with an introductory price for the first issue (say $5.99) then the subsequent issues are $24.99 but they don't like to tell you that to complete the set there are 100+ magazines and before you know it you've spent $2500 on a model railway that you could've built yourself for $400. I've seen quite a few of their ilk come and go.
 
Agree regarding the cost of these weekly magazines. Very expensive. Just pop along to any decent model shop and buy your own stuff as you want it.

Anyway, I have three of the 1:76 P6's: the almond one, a rozzer one and Mark Gray's avocado V8. The avocado one is blu-tacked to my desk phone at work, which is nice.
 
:LOL: Don't worry guys, I wasn't planning on buying the magazine. Although, I have thought that if I ever won the lottery, I could quite happily subscribe to all these kinds of magazines - spend the rest of my days building model railways, ships, collecting models of Star Trek space craft, miniature flags of the world etc. Something like that, along with a few classic cars of course, would keep me out of mischief without putting too much effort in.

"Swindon Egyption". Now who can tell us why those two words fit so well together and what the connection is to the GWR?
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No takers on Chris's challenge? Maybe will do some homework to see what it means.
 
chrisyork said:
I can't possibly say how sad is that. Cos I used to be into model railways big time, doing finescale scratch build coaches etc - GWR of course. GWR and Rover seem to fit together - they both exude an air of quiet unflashy competence. This is born out by the RSR official logo, which during the course of preparations for Coughton Court, we discovered is in a typeface known as "Swindon Egyption".

Now who can tell us why those two words fit so well together and what the connection is to the GWR?

Chris
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Chris, all I have been able to come up with is that Swindon Egyptian was the type of slab serif font used by GWR on their loco name plates. From 1871-92 GWR produced a class of engines known as the Rover Class. The GWR works were in Swindon which was later home to the Pressed Steel Fisher works which made steel panels for BL (including Rover I assume?). The Pressed Steel plant had it's own railway which was originally part of the old GWR Highworth Branch Line.
 
Nearly there! Swindon Egyption is indeed the script used on the old fashioned GWR locomotive nameplates. So the Swindon bit is obvious. But the egyption bit is from a little further west and refers to another of the works of The Great Engineer. See if you can figure out which one.

Chris

PS Steve, did you get my email?
 
chrisyork said:
I can't possibly say how sad is that. Cos I used to be into model railways big time, doing finescale scratch build coaches etc - GWR of course. GWR and Rover seem to fit together - they both exude an air of quiet unflashy competence. This is born out by the RSR official logo, which during the course of preparations for Coughton Court, we discovered is in a typeface known as "Swindon Egyption".

Now who can tell us why those two words fit so well together and what the connection is to the GWR?

Chris
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Hi

Just leaping in, I am building an 00 model railway (for my daughters of course!!) so it will have a P6 to go with the Police Moggy Minor with blue flashing light!!!!

And for local (to me ) interest - what was going down at Coughton Court, I will be cycling past there on Sunday - also had an interview for Estate Manager there many moons ago, didnt come to anything but hey ho!

Ian
 
CV35Ian said:
chrisyork said:
I can't possibly say how sad is that. Cos I used to be into model railways big time, doing finescale scratch build coaches etc - GWR of course. GWR and Rover seem to fit together - they both exude an air of quiet unflashy competence. This is born out by the RSR official logo, which during the course of preparations for Coughton Court, we discovered is in a typeface known as "Swindon Egyption".

Now who can tell us why those two words fit so well together and what the connection is to the GWR?

Chris
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Hi

Just leaping in, I am building an 00 model railway (for my daughters of course!!) so it will have a P6 to go with the Police Moggy Minor with blue flashing light!!!!

And for local (to me ) interest - what was going down at Coughton Court, I will be cycling past there on Sunday - also had an interview for Estate Manager there many moons ago, didnt come to anything but hey ho!

Ian
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Hi Ian, please feel free to leap in :D and please keep us updated on the model railway you're building for your daughters (ahem!). Any pic's would be welcome. If you go for the Oxford P6 which one will you choose? Could always go for all three of course :wink: .
 
chrisyork said:
Nearly there! Swindon Egyption is indeed the script used on the old fashioned GWR locomotive nameplates. So the Swindon bit is obvious. But the egyption bit is from a little further west and refers to another of the works of The Great Engineer. See if you can figure out which one.

Chris

PS Steve, did you get my email?
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Now I fear it is too easy :?: The Great Engineer can only be Brunel. As well as being the Engineer who did so much work for GWR, some way west of Swindon he designed the Clifton Suspension Bridge which was to feature Egyptian style towers and sphinxes but they were never constructed as per his original design.

Sorry, I haven't received any e-mails. Will drop you a PM and make sure you have right address (I had to change my e-mail address recently).
 
Hi Ian, please feel free to leap in :D and please keep us updated on the model railway you're building for your daughters (ahem!). Any pic's would be welcome. If you go for the Oxford P6 which one will you choose? Could always go for all three of course :wink: .[/quote]


OK Piccies when it progresses a bit more.................. winter?

And cant choose, maybe all 3.

Ian
 
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