Hobbies - Collections

[rovermadman4825]

MENTAL

[beef]

heres just a small part of my model railway collection

[Din]

Liking that Beef

[harkins77]

heres just a small part of my model railway collection

Loving the set beef.

I've got my end to end N gauge set on top of my wardrobe that I was creating a year ago.

[volf]

Forgot about this topic

[beef]

cheers guys il take some more pics of the rest of them iv got im always adding to my collection and harkins im still collecting the track up to build my layout and im still trying to work out the bord size need for it

[Din]

@ Volf

[beef]

another pic of more of my model railway collection

[1994 BRG Coupe]

Is it all RTR stuff or do you kit build too?

[beef]

its all hornby lima Bachmann and one or two airfix models. iv built some airfix kits in the past but never any scratch built locos

[volf]

Bet you thought I'd forgotten about this...

[Marty]

Haha classic my kids would love your toys

[Dave_ZS]

Bet you thought I'd forgotten about this...

Yaaay

[puddlejumper]

1. What do you collect?
2. Why did you start?
3. How big is your collection?
4. Any photos?

Currently
1 Cars
2 Slot cars got too expensive
3 Way too big
4 Loads

Used to collect, but still have
1 Transformers (toys from the 80's)
2 loved them as a child, but could never afford them. I discovered Ebay and voila
3 Full set plus reissues
4 No

1 Slot cars
2 Had them as a child, discovered ebay
3 About 2500'ish new boxed, plus about 700 used
4 Sad, but yes (needed for insurance purposes)

[leon540]

1- Coin collecting
2- Thought it would be something to do and being a bus driver helped
3- Around £50 worth of £2 coins and a load of 50p
4- No pictures

[Markwinstanley]

May be this will be most weird and bizarre for people to collect Yakurt antibiotic drink bottles
1 I have huge collection of Yakurt antibiotic drink bottles
2 I started it 6 month ago
3 My entire room is full of them i have not count yet
4 No pictures

[Vard66]

Bump.

Firstly, because This has been dead for too long.

Secondly, because I just re-read the whole thing and go to the final post and went 'What the bother? That was this guy's only post on the forum?"

[1994 BRG Coupe]

That is pretty epic for a first and only post.

[Marty]

Probably watching all the Yakurt adverts and to busy to post it's a funny thing to collect though.

[turbo200]

Lol very strange indeed. O well everyone's different...like collecting my rovers!

Got my l series td zr
Mg zr 1.4 pre facelift
Mg zr 1.4 facelift
Mg zr 1.4 now 2.1 turbo in progress!
Mg zs 2.5 v6 facelift
Mg zt 2.5 v6 pre facelift

And the ex press mg zt 4.6 v8 mustang engine

O and a TF that about sums it up for the collection will get some pics up other than that my hobbies pritty much tinkering with the motor and trying my best to making a good job out of a bad un.

[Marty]

I just have my fish tank to keep me busy I no longer do carp angling I achieved what inset out to with that so now looking at going back to racing RC cars

[David-Ti]

Wow Matt! Didn't realise you had so many Mgr's!

I started collecting vinyl a while back, not that its much of a collection (maybe 200 album/singles combined). I plan to get back into it at some point though. Inherited my dads collection of 70's records kinks, strawbs, beetles and a few other bits and pieces.

[Marty]

My dad has a stash of picture records and ones that are funny shapes ect and certain ones on certain labels as he puts it they must be worth something or he would of not kept hold of them.

[turbo200]

Haha! Rc racing cars sounds good Marty, I say mine there the old man's! But like to think they will be passed along the way. Pics to follow!

[Marty]

I use to race at club meetings as well as national events here was my main car







Crazy to think there was over £1000 sitting there

[turbo200]

Sounds good. I bet it was great fun. 1000 sheets jeez Marty I payed 950 for my l series zr! You'll have to get back into it. Is there a big audience for this kind of thing? Where and when do they hold events?

[Marty]

If you want to be competitive then it does cost money I use to have tyre warmers and everything that digitally set the temp and they warmed the tyres.

We roughly totaled my complete setup up which was 2 cars and complete spares package for both in excess of £3000

Club meetings are held weekly I have a choice of two indoor tracks one in Norwich the other in Lowestoft so not to far to either.

National events are on all the time but involves travelling and you just book into them online and pay and just turn up.

Same as fishing for insurance purposes my setup was insured for over £10000 you get what you pay for

[turbo200]

My word! Interesting stuff, would be good to get into just don't have the funds at the min, Tyre warmers! Bet not many had them! And insured for 10000 pound! That must have cost you! Still bet it's good fun.

For now ill stick to the road but in future it'll be something to consider.

What were the circuits like? Gravel/tarmac? Off road!?

[Marty]

It's indoor carpet racing google it.

It can also be run on tarmac no gravel though it would trash the drive chain.

This is worth a watch the best RC race I have ever seen watch it all the way through the manoeuvre near the end is something else

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VaXLtPGrTGQ

My car was as quick but there skill level is something else.

[skintoss]

HOLY crap they're nuts!!

They must have the reactions of a fly, I'd stack it on the first corner!

[Marty]

You do have to have quick reactions mine are quick but they are world class drivers. My car was quicker with turbo function i had to slow down more for corners that advances motor up for turbo. That is all programmed via the speed controller using a box. They would of been running blinky in that vid. Practice makes perfect though been about 2 years since I last raced so will be rusty if I start up again.

Cars have to be setup castor,camber,shock fluids,shock rebound ,corner weighting it's just the same as a real race car but a smaller scale.

[turbo200]

Insane! That looks fantastic. You need to be on top form!
I'd have a go but my funds don't allow me too at the moment! + don't think I'd be anywhere near there level ever! Suppose they are the world best!

Off subject a few pics as promised of the old girls...

[Jason36]

Race cars, lol

Started about 2003 with a Tomcat

Then bought a MG TF cup car, sold that and got a MG ZR190

Currently have,

1 Tomcat
2 MG ZR190's
2 MG ZR160's
1 MG ZR Castle combe car
1 MG ZR T16 Turbo

[Marty]

You got enough cars you just greedy

If just starting out racing RC cars you can do it for a couple of hundred quid as you will be graded according so you will race with people at your level.

Have a look here

http://www.rcmap.co.uk/

Pop your postcode in and will show tracks in your area I looked and this one looks the closest to you

Garforth Touring Car Club

Garforth Squash Club
Ninelands Ln
Garforth
West Yorkshire
Type1:10 Electric Indoor


Go down have a look they always friendly but like I say you can start for a couple of hundred quid easy.

[turbo200]

Lol Marty! It's in my blood! Look forward to the day to get the v8 out
That's just Down the bottom of the road from me. Will pop by and find out when it's next on. Thanks Marty for looking into it for me.
Don't laugh Jason it looks great as for your motors seems to me that you have the rover bug too!