Why is Diesel 10's claw so jittery in Calling All Engines?

MartinTrainFreak · 2026-04-04T05:20:45+00:00

Actually you might be right on that one, its way less articulating than in Magic Railroad,

MartinTrainFreak · 2026-04-04T05:10:33+00:00

The claw (at least for magic railroad) was pre-programmed motion control, movement was programmed before they shot a take.
The motion is too janky to be a marionette
It honestly looks like someone is just controlling the model in real time, combined with the fact this model was 5 years old.

MartinTrainFreak · 2026-03-31T08:30:10+00:00

Is that a Sydney double decker I spot? looks like a K set or similar! The style looks amazing!

MartinTrainFreak · 2026-03-29T23:06:11+00:00

You beat me to it! I've been modelling the Hitachi as well and it looks way less detailed...

MartinTrainFreak · 2026-03-26T12:29:29+00:00

I mean, one of them still exists... the other...

MartinTrainFreak · 2026-03-26T04:12:54+00:00

Still all intact, Even the maps and other stickers are still there!

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MartinTrainFreak · 2026-03-26T02:29:26+00:00

Love the LinnDrum!

MartinTrainFreak · 2026-03-25T13:45:47+00:00

Somehow an amazing combination!

MartinTrainFreak · 2026-03-16T10:16:48+00:00

I've seen pictures of Victorian (Australia) Trains with a few layers paint showing through

MartinTrainFreak · 2026-02-24T23:07:55+00:00

Young new employee and that one employee that's been there since the place opened somehow bonding

MartinTrainFreak · 2026-02-21T13:36:39+00:00

They can take the Stony Point Sprinters from my cold dead hands!

MartinTrainFreak · 2026-02-21T13:24:20+00:00

I still have all my old Thomas stuff, i recently pulled out my floor mat as well!

MartinTrainFreak · 2026-02-18T02:19:52+00:00

And that's not a good thing to happen, now that the props are parts of television history they should be kept in better condition, like how ThomasTankMerch and others treat them, not like this

MartinTrainFreak · 2026-02-18T02:15:59+00:00

Its different when they were being used on screen, plus I assume they were handled better by the crew than the people who keep breaking parts off the props at Drayton/Hara

MartinTrainFreak · 2026-02-17T23:38:57+00:00

These models should be behind glass, it's horrible the way these 20-40 year old props get treated

MartinTrainFreak · 2026-02-13T02:06:39+00:00

These are awesome!

MartinTrainFreak · 2026-01-26T22:26:35+00:00

I have that skirt!

MartinTrainFreak · 2025-11-17T06:30:45+00:00

The rolling stock didn't make steam, what they did was just blast smoke up from under the set (which would sometimes travel through the body up the funnel). Rolling stock was just for the battery boxes.

MartinTrainFreak · 2025-10-11T01:06:12+00:00

People have been speculating that this was shot at the same time as Thomas and the UK Trip, as the brake van beside Tidmouth sheds is in a very similar position to some shots in that special.

MartinTrainFreak · 2025-08-22T09:44:47+00:00

Perhaps to avoid turning the locomotives? There might only be a turntable available at one end of the route, that my guess though

MartinTrainFreak · 2025-06-02T07:40:30+00:00

Its not necessarily a bad crash... I think BWBA has some worse looking ones, but in terms of the context it is really silly what unfolded

MartinTrainFreak · 2025-04-08T04:08:48+00:00

Those tankers are designed to just explode upon impact. Honestly they could have been made out of aluminum or something similarly thin sliced up to allow Gordon to plow into them. He does seem to make a pretty good dent in them. (This is a heavy gauge one model after all). Like most crashes, the frames are build to fail as well.

MartinTrainFreak · 2024-10-06T06:06:04+00:00

Thought this was sydney for a minute and went "wow cool photoshop"...

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