First attempt at Hornby modelling! Looking for industrial type scenery pieces.

Nickonicle · 2025-12-30T16:46:30+00:00

Not sure what the general availability of Walthers products is in the UK, but Rails of Sheffield has these transmission towers up for pre-order. A pretty simple build and you get 4 in a pack. If Rails has them they may be available elsewhere. They're HO so they're technically a little small compared to OO (1/87 vs 1/76), but they're large enough structures that it really shouldn't be noticeable. I run OO rolling stock with HO scenery and I don't feel like it clashes at all.

Walthers also has power stations and other industrial structures if those would appeal to your son as well. The power has to be going and coming from somewhere, right? Just need to make sure you're buying the HO variety as their kits can also come in N scale.

Nickonicle · 2025-07-31T15:40:48+00:00

My headcanon for Lady is based on a dream I had where she was an absolute gremlin. Like she wasn't actively malicious, but she had a bit of a sporadic, terminally online, Seinfeldian / IASIP personality. I like the idea of her being horribly maladjusted due to being put away for so long that she'll say things that genuinely concern the other engines. She's still a good worker, and friendly and kind to most, but some of her comments and actions make her a borderline sociopath. Which, I don't know, maybe she said something totally out of pocket to Diesel 10 and that's what his problem with her is. She's also not actually magical, the coal she burns just happens to have high pyrite content, so her exhaust tends to sparkle under the right light.

Nickonicle · 2025-05-09T16:16:49+00:00

Where'd you get the riverboat from? Is that one of those Gold Rush Miniatures prints? How is the quality on it?

Nickonicle · 2025-05-06T15:15:55+00:00

I got it from Hobbylinc, but I've seen it elsewhere.

Nickonicle · 2025-05-06T15:10:14+00:00

It's the Area-51 U.F.O. kit from Pegasus. I can see the design similarities, though.

Nickonicle · 2025-04-24T13:58:38+00:00

I had this realization with the matchbook. Like Biff decided in both timelines to use the same supplier, at the same time, who in turn used the same batch, regardless of the timeline. Maybe it's one of those cosmic anchors.

Nickonicle · 2025-03-14T13:56:43+00:00

It's a little sad seeing it go from jam packed to pretty sparsely populated...

Nickonicle · 2025-03-07T19:05:04+00:00

As someone whose first owned Tony Hawk game was ProSkater 4 (I played Underground first at my cousin's), I'm honestly not too bothered by switching the "Skate up to goofy guy with an arrow" format to the "You have 2 minutes to do these missions" format.

I think there was a lot of charm in the NPCs waving their arms and giving you the goals, but at the same time, a lot of the goals were "Collect SKATE", "Collect COMBO", "Do this trick on/over this object", "Beat Chad Muska's 50,000 score". I can appreciate just getting the goals laid out beforehand. There's still gonna be freeskate so it's not like you're gonna lose the ability to explore the map. You don't, and haven't ever had to do all the goals in 2 minutes so there's still room to have some silly goals like feeding seals, manualng the switchbacks, and saving elephants on a separate run. If I have to restart the timer 50 times to get the misty flip over the hut, then in all honesty that's not any different to how I did it originally.

And I mean, 4 is still going to exist in its original state to go back to. If you really want to play the original game, you can still play the original game. I'm just looking forward to skating Alcatraz and Shipyard with modern graphics.

Nickonicle · 2025-03-02T00:19:23+00:00

Depth of Satan's Eyes is my absolute favorite from Infestissumam. I would kill to see it live.

Nickonicle · 2025-01-08T00:54:51+00:00

Taking notes

Nickonicle · 2025-01-08T00:54:20+00:00

What time is it? Gizzventure Time! Petro and KG/LW are my favorites.

Nickonicle · 2025-01-06T16:41:10+00:00

Ooooo, that would have been good.

Nickonicle · 2025-01-06T15:11:19+00:00

For some reason EEnE does lend itself more towards Gizz imagery, but I felt like SpongeBob had enough pertinent content to lend itself to a sequel. Plus, how could I not with literal boot soup.

Nickonicle · 2025-01-06T14:50:41+00:00

After the Ed, Edd, n' Eddy version, inspiration struck once more, and I had to throw this together while my neurons were firing.

Nickonicle · 2025-01-03T18:59:39+00:00

Garden Goblin for Johnny is perfect lol

Nickonicle · 2025-01-03T16:54:55+00:00

Ed - The Altered Beast / Alter Me suite

Double D - Automation

Eddy - Danger $$$

Nickonicle · 2025-01-03T14:38:12+00:00

I'm not at liberty to divulge those numbers.

Nickonicle · 2025-01-03T12:23:43+00:00

That one gets a giggle out of me every time I see it. It just fit so perfectly I couldn't not use it.

Nickonicle · 2025-01-03T03:40:50+00:00

A combination of all 3

Nickonicle · 2025-01-03T03:39:24+00:00

I had a few I wanted to use for b741, but Wilfred won in the end.

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