 | | New British Class 50 'Hoover' in Large-Logo Blue Livery —Mark Bellis
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| | | Here's a new British loco in 8mm:1ft scale. It is 50033 "Glorious" in memory of the real engine of that name being shut up in Swindon (UK) STEAM museum, fully serviceable but unable to run - what a shame! Still, you can go and see it without finding (...) (20 years ago, 1-Dec-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.uk, FTX) !
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| | | | | Re: New British Class 50 'Hoover' in Large-Logo Blue Livery —John Neal
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| | | | | (...) <snip> Very nice, Mark. Big! :-d~~ I have a question about the scale. It appears to be 8 wide, which would imply to me to be more like 6.4mm:1ft. Are you going solely by track gauge for scaling, or width of the loco? I would guess that that (...) (20 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: New British Class 50 'Hoover' in Large-Logo Blue Livery —Mark Bellis
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| | | | | | (...) Big...and reliable! I go primarily by track gauge, which at 37.66mm is as near to 8mm:1ft or 1 stud:1ft as 16.5mm track is to the HO scale of 3.5mm:1ft. The British loading gauge is smaller than the US one. The maximum width (of the W6 gauge (...) (20 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: New British Class 50 'Hoover' in Large-Logo Blue Livery —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | (...) Very nice Mark! I remember having a HO model of that loco when I was a kid (probably Hornby), you've captured the colouring and details really well. And the logo is great - instantly recognisable! ROSCO (20 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: New British Class 50 'Hoover' in Large-Logo Blue Livery —Tim David
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| | | | | (...) For those that don't know what a real class 50 looks like (most of the world I should imagine!) is a pic of the real 50033 (URL) me!>> Pic from the site (URL) 50's> (interestingly a google.co.uk search for (URL) br class 50> brings up a Lego (...) (20 years ago, 3-Dec-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: New British Class 50 'Hoover' in Large-Logo Blue Livery —Samarth Moray
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| | | | SNIPPY (...) Hi Mark, This is really neat. It's really nice to see more train MOCs. I had also built a Class 50 (Valiant) about a year ago, with a flawed bogie design which I didn't even realise: (URL) I was thinking of doing a new version in the (...) (20 years ago, 3-Dec-04, to lugnet.trains)
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