MOdel trains

[Darth Wagtaros]

The other day I thought about the model train set I built as a kid. Now a friend is putting her father's trainsets up for sale.
Bachman HO, 4 train sets. 

[Barrister]

Some day I want to get into model trains.

It's a shame I don't have the room for them.

[Syt]

I never got into model trains, but as kids/young teens we loved the H0-scale (1/87) RoCo Minitanks which were rather nicely detailed.

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Unpainted:

[Syt]

Hm, seems that line is continued by Herpa, now:
http://www.herpa.de/collect/%28S%28keqa2dmb2bkksk55ahqgvd2o%29%29/hitlist.aspx?lang=de-DE&query=minitanks&thumb=1

[The Brain]

Model.

[CountDeMoney]

Model.

Guderian 

[Tonitrus]

Perhaps a mix of the hobbies is called for....do they make model railway guns?

[Ed Anger]

Germans playing with war toys. Hilarious.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Perhaps a mix of the hobbies is called for....do they make model railway guns?

Big Bertha?

[Siege]

I would prefer an Stardestroyer.

[Siege]

Perhaps a mix of the hobbies is called for....do they make model railway guns?

Big Bertha?

[Josquius]

When I was a kid I dreamed of having one of those proper full time model train set ups with all the scenery and the switches and those direction changer round about thingies and tracks running through holes in the walls into different rooms...
That was my childhood obsession really, trains. I still do see them as rather cool but...not to the extent you'll catch me buying model trains these days. Though digging out my old set and giving it a whir would be cool.

[DontSayBanana]

Big Bertha?

Bertha?  I'd rather have a date with Dora.

[Syt]

Perhaps a mix of the hobbies is called for....do they make model railway guns?

They used to. I know my ex-brother in law had one for his model trains.

[Syt]

Germans playing with war toys. Hilarious.

My father was a WW2 fanboi. He watched "A Bridge too Far" at least once a month, and he had a number of WW2 novels (e.g. Stuka, written by an ex-Stuka pilot), and a huge stash of the weekly pulp stories called "Der Landser".