I'm a modelling and transport enthusiast based in North Eastern Italy, but with a Scottish background. This channel is dedicated to vintage model trains, model cars and model kits, as well as occasional footage of full-size vehicles.
Well, another thrilling video! 😰 I mean, the cleaning work it's on normal parameters, well done and well explained, but the search for that cat.... suspenseful, especially when the doggy has barked. In fact, I suspect you ended the video sooner to join the searching party... Two days ago, a friend complained on Facebook that his inferior floor neighbor (a single lady) has exceed the number of twenty cats in her apartment. In no time, another lady vituperated him, accusing the guy of being insentient, hater, bad person etc. She also stated - against someone else's opinion, that you can grow an unlimited number of animals, and it is not illegal (which of course it's not true, except maybe the fleas and lice). I don't know if we descend from some monkeys (or apes), but I think we certainly go that way - and at full speed. 😁
@@Cristake1974 😂 I didn't join the search party, I'm no longer in speaking terms with those neighbours. Some people are the living proof that something didn't work 100% in mankind's evolution.
I have never had a Kleinbahn loco, I almost bought one but it looked like something was deeply wrong with how the shell sat on the chassis, no matter how much the ebay seller begged me to buy it by lowering the price. It looked as if it had been dropped. I did not buy it.
Hi Patrick these types of pickups are very easy to clean compared to the pickups contacting the inner flanges on most Locos. The only drawback is they can collect dirt and fluff as you pointed out. A good clean of your Loco has really improved the running, mine also rans slightly better in reverse before servicing. Cheers, Paul.👍👍🙏
Bravo Patrick,dopo questa accurata pulizia la loco sarà arzilla come in gioventù.....io sono un pochino triste ho comperato su ebay una loco di seconda mano,purtroppo una volta arrivata non si muoveva.L'ho rispedita al venditore e aspetto sue notizie o il rimborso...giornata storta 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
@@patricksmodels Ciao Patrick,no un filo era scollegato ma ripristinato il cavetto si accendevano solo le luci,il motore ronzava ma non trasmetteva il moto alle ruote..il modello è una vecchia Mehano CC 70000,spero che il venditore riesca a farla andare......😒😒🥹😢😢
Nice work, the improvement is clear and nice. It's good to have such little bottles with magic potions...Good day, Patrick! PS. Can't help myself... "I pressed "play" to dance Lambada But the boombox played cicada... So I took my hammer quick To conduct a little bit!" 🥸🎶🎵🔨
@@Cristake1974 it's much improved, I've since filmed another two episodes, no.3 will be coming up this evening. These small bottles originally contained Acqua di Sirmione spa water for nasal cleansing, in Sirmione del Garda there is sulphuric water, similar in smell to the spa water in Banat around Szeged in Hungary. The cicadas are in full swing and send their regards!
@@railway187 another episode is coming up tomorrow evening. I've just filmed another three. The layout is coming out soon and I want to give this locomotive a full test.
Its very freely based on a kkStB class 229, the later ÖBB 75. Some hobbyists used them as a starting point to build a more accurate 2-6-2 class 229. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/KkStB_229 For this model Kleinbahn simply re-used the chassis of their German class 80 0-6-0.
Very nice locomotive, I like the Kleinbahn loks quite much, yet I do not have one so far. Looking forward to see how it will work after servicing it. PS . It seems the FS also had this D120, as the Gr. 876 in its service. Very nice!
@@Cristake1974 I can anticipate that after servicing it's a super smooth runner. This Taiwanese can motor is excellent and I think it's a 5-pole. This locomotive has the most modern motor in my collection!
Hi Patrick, Kleinbahn made some very good Steam Locos and are simple to prepare for a service as you have shown. I am surprised to see a modern Can type motor instead of the ringfield type, this should be a smooth runner. I have a number of Kleinbahn Steamers with the older motors that run superbly. Good to see a video on these Locos instead of just Hornby,Lima etc. Cheers, Paul.👍👍🙏
It is amazing the little lorry is preserved - pretty well, I would say, until today. And the same about having memories from 3 y.o, which is fantastic. I got a lot of toys at my 7th birthday, I remember many of them, but 6 years later, as the authorities decided to "modernize" that city area, the house (in fact, the whole neighborhood) was demolished, to make place for the apartment blocks of the socialist era. Almost all of my toys remained there and I suppose were buried by bulldozers. Now I have a collection of virtual photos of those toys in my laptop, as I find them gradually on the internet (some guys naming them "communist toys", lol). Thanks for sharing a little piece of your childhood, have a nice week!
It's a pity you lost most of your childhood toys, due to grandiose city redevelopment plans. My wife's family lived in a nationalised house at first, until she was 5 years old. It was an old single storey house, shared with other three families, the original owner, an old lady from Basarabia, lived in one of the rooms. In 1982 they moved to a new flat, not far away, and the old house was demolished to make way for a monumental terraced space overlooking the statue of Basarab I and the Curtea Domneasca complex in Curtea de Arges. In the 1990s the land where the house stood was given back to the legitimate heirs, who probably sold it and a low rise building with a shop and a cafe was erected. If you look at statue of Basarb I in Curtea de Arges on street view, you'll see the current building Terasa Mara, in the background.
@@patricksmodels I see Terasa Mara and the surroundings, I like the area. Probably in older times it had an interesting panorama, as you say. Low profile buildings, no more then 4 floors, give me the impression of a peaceful town, not very noisy, and I like it much. My city, Iași, though, is not very silent. This is it.
@@Cristake1974 Curtea de Argeș is a quiet town, just a bit chaotic on Wednesday and Thursday, the market days. Lately the council has planted lots of signposts and railings in the old town and along Bulevardul Basarabilor.
@@patricksmodels Hi Patrick, when I watched the video I thought could you use Mig welding wire as the overhead supply. It will be interesting to see if you make a circuit for the Tram to run on.
@@paulvozman842 the tram belongs to a friend of mine, he got it for a super bargain price at a market. I offered to get it going, also to finally get to work on a Rivarossi, after all that daydreaming while reading the Rivarossi catalogue when I was a kid. I'll suggest making a small layout at his place to run the tram, he doesn't lack space. Thanks for the tip on Mig welding wire!
Well, Patrick, after so many episodes about this Rivarossi tram, I think you can be entitled as serial cleaner... So if I were your neighbor, I would take very much care when - and especially what - am I cooking. Now seriously, I guess your friend Nicola would be pleased with the work you have done. Cheers! 🚊
@@Imieitrenimodello alla fine un tratto di rotaia è la soluzione più semplice per un collaudo. Il tram è veramente ben fatto, Rivarossi era a tutti gli effetti la nostra Märklin.
@@Imieitrenimodello ieri notte (complice una "gamba matta" ho fatto le ore piccole!) ho fatto il montaggio di altri due video sui tram di Bucarest, girati nel 2013, di cui uno percorrendo la linea 1 che attraversa tutta la città.
Hmm, there must be an occult and dark connection between the unwanted zoom and the uninvited garlic smell... Somehow it triggered some camera sensor. Otherwise, pretty ingenious solution to supply the role of a catenary, thumbs up! And the little tram runs excellent!
@@Imieitrenimodello Sì, è la cabina unificata MAN, Saviem, Berliet, che veniva montata anche sugli ÖAF austriaci, i Raba ungheresi (che usavano anche quella DAF) e sui Roman e DAC rumeni. I Roman e DAC (DAC era la divisione veicoli speciali) medio-leggeri montavano meccanica Saviem ed erano soprannominati Saviem, mentre i pesanti Raba, dalla meccanica Raba-MAN su licenza ungherese.
Tatra trams: one of the many reasons (Smetana, Hašek/Švejk, Prague with its defenestration and Navratilova, Karel Gott, Barrandov studios etc) we love the Czech people. I consider T4 and T3 the most beautiful trams, despite their modern design (usually, I would go for more retro style), probably it is the sentimental attachment, too, as I have grown with these beautiful machines.
@@Cristake1974 the Czechs are the true engineers of Central Europe, when they see out to design and manufacture something they seem to just get it right, cars, trucks, trams, trolleybuses, weapons from the famous ZB 24 rifle employed by the Romanian army in WW2 (my wife's grandfather always spoke wonders about it), to the Skoda mortars of WW1, the best piece of artillery in the Austro-Hungarian arsenal. I forgot Jawa motorcycles....there are just so many engineering marvels coming from one place.
@@alexsmart9576 I would say the T3 and T4 trams have an aero-dynamic design that is not to be found on old trams, like this model Patrick presented or, I don't know, Ringhoffer or even horse carried trams. Its bullet shape reminds me a bit (and here's only a personal perception) somehow on retro-futurism art. Compared to design of vehicles of today, indeed it is retro, but compared to its "ancestors"...
@@Cristake1974 the Tatra T3 and T4 were futuristic for their era, but at the same time they still looked like trams, unlike the streamlined contemporary trams that are produced nowadays, with a styling that ranges between a home appliance and a toilet seat, the latter represented by the Ansaldo Breda, now Hitachi Rail Sirio tram range.
@@alexsmart9576 they were very modern when introduced, while still looking like trams. Some of the contemporary designs look like all sorts of things, but I'm just old fashioned 😅
Well, now the lamp is back on the little car, we can close the successful case of... FIAT LUX! Actually, I was just going to bring up a new solution - which would have been avoided the super glue (although there is a reason it is called ”super” and not ”poor” or ”bloody” or ”darn” glue...) - just break off the other lamp, too, lol! 😁 Anyway, this solution was thought before seeing the video which contains a lot of... aaa... bonding stuff, so dislodging something would be against the spirit of the video... Otherwise, I also have to thank you for the tip of keeping the super glue in the fridge (didn-t know it, I have wasted quite a lot of half full super glue tubes). Now this is a happy situation, like the fridge is the poison and also it has the antidote, lol! Have a fine evening, Patrick, cheers!
Ciao caro Patrick, sei stato bravissimo la bellissima FIAT 8HP è tornata al suo splendore.Rio è una grande marca di modellini auto.Da bambino ne ho avuti solo due che non ho più ,la Rolls Royce 1931 e la Lincoln del 1941,erano veramente belle.Un caro saluto e un super like alberto 🥇🥇👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
There were also trolleybus variants of this vehicles, Rocar 212E, but those were not quite a big success... (as any other trolleybus - in Romania, at least - I dare to say). I remember when they were in Iași, in winter time especially, it was a nightmare - because of the not very large street and of cars parked near the sidewalk, the trolleybus had to outflank them getting out of its designated trajectory and this way many times pantographs fell off the wire. Add some ice on the street or on the air wires in the winter and you will have a ”gorgeous” view and 15 minutes trip that became a 35-45 one... But the buses were more ok, I think.
@@Cristake1974 I've seen the trolleybus versions in Bucharest, Cluj and Târgu Jiu (where I filmed them in 2019). I remember some Rocar trolleybuses even in Sibiu, but before Klaus closed down the system in 2010 they were mostly operating ex Swiss vehicles.
Wow Patrick, that’s a lot of incessant noise! Genuinely my hears hurt with just this video so I can imagine how it is for you! But an interesting video nonetheless. We have cricket sounds but that is nothing compared to this. Very hot and humid here in Lorraine too. 32° at the highest for a few days but ‘only’ 26° with a lot of welcome rain today. Thank you for the video! I’m still very busy at the moment but looking forward to to catching up soon! Ian
@@bugler75 we have crickets too at night, that's a pleasant sound. The song of the cicadas is fine if you're on holiday, sitting in the shade with a fresh drink and a slice of watermelon. Less pleasant when they're your neighbours and you're still working. Another month and the temperature should start going down.
@@patricksmodels I can imagine. From the first video I thought they were just bigger crickets but that certainly not the case!!! Very disruptive. Courage Patrick!
Hi, Patrick. An uncool moment, I thought Tamiya cement would do the job (but I never had or work with this product...). Anyway, in this case I would try a tiny drop of super-glue. I'd put a drop on the glossy cardboard then I would grab the lamp and barely touch the drop of super-glue with the flaw part, then quickly put it on its former place and keep it fixed there with my greasy fingers for, lets say, 30 seconds. As you said, some types of plastic do not perform well with super-glue, but if it does, it would spare the car for extra materials added (and if its own plastic sticks so difficult there, I wonder how it will work styrene of copper wire...). It's just an opinion, do not take it as an advice. The little Fiat has a great sentimental value so it is not my place to determine you to do or do not this or that. I hope you will fix it, no matter what method you'll chose.
I'll try a tiny spot of superglue. The Glue 'n Glaze PVA glue would work, but the surfaces involved are so small that there's no support. I would also prefer not to add extra bits and pieces to the model.
@@Imieitrenimodello sì, il finire delle cicale è anche piacevole, ma è la canicola associata che è una tortura. Qui a Padova le notti sono accettabili al momento, infatti le cicale hanno iniziato a cantare alle 7.30. Settimana scorsa attaccavano alle 5.30.
@@Imieitrenimodello qui siamo fortunati, perché fa solo caldissimo, oggi massima 36 e minima 22, col 52% di umidità relativa. C'è un po' di venticello, sempre torrido, ma c'è. Domani è il primo agosto, speriamo sia l'ultimo mese di caldana.
un grande like per i Tram Rivarossi e per le cicale mi hai dato un'ottima idea,da oggi aggiungo al mio sito web anche le AUTOMOBILINE un caro saluto e like alberto 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
Sì, ho visto questa tua novità. Saranno sicuramente video interessanti. Ne farò anch'io di nuovi... proprio ieri mi è caduto un modellino e si è staccato un fanale, faremo la riparazione in video.
@@Cristake1974 I dimension with a constant temperature of 25 degrees summer and winter, with a very low relative humidity, would be very appreciated. 🙂
@@Cristake1974 some are going to be kept by Fondazione FS for historical trains. I'll try and photograph and film as many of Mercitalia's ones as I can.
I LOVE FIAT TOPOLINO 500 C,she is my fav.Great job and now i wait to see the dashboard where there is a great job to do,big superlike alberto 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
In the post 1990 times, in a hospital in Moscow, an old men, war veteran, and a younger one, a so-called "novyy Russki" - a citizen which got very rich, by various business and meanings, not necessarily very orthodox (the meanings, I mean), are both internee in the same hospital ward. At one point, as it is normal, they started to talk, to avoid getting bored etc. Both of them are plastered, injured and bruised. - Hey, grandpa, why are you here? Age related problems? - No, son, not really. You see, I have an old Zaporozhets car, I love it, and one day I thought it would be good to make some improvements. As I had in the garage a Messerschmitt engine, he,he - war trophy, I replaced the original motor with this German beast and then I got out on the highway, to see what it is capable. Of course, when I did accelerate, it got so fast that I only stopped with my car in a trunk of a tree... and here I am, in this hospital ward. What about you, why are you here? - Well, grandpa, I was driving my brand new Lamborghini on the highway, when all of a sudden, I was outrun, in an infernal speed, by a poor bloody Zaporozhets. Knowing that such a thing is not possible, I thought my car is out of gear, so I opened the door to get out and see what's the problem..
I'm recording on my phone, I always try to speak clearly and towards the microphone. I'll have to get an external mic with a jack. Does it sound muffled throughout the whole video or only in specific parts?
Hi Patrick, those are nice looking coaches. I picked up the BR coaches which came with the magazine offering a few years ago. It was issued every fortnight, had a relative in Glasgow get it for me. Got about 9 locos.
These collections are interesting, but on the long run they can become expensive. There are loads of first issues on the market, like that Romilly coach or my Corbellini Italian ones. What BR stock did you collect? I'll have a look through your channel tonight. Any dedicated videos? Cheers from Padova, Italy.
@@ArcadiaJunctionModelTrains I'll try and source some more O.E. coaches in future, they'd look well behind my Jouef 231C60 sausage motor locomotive or with my Lima FS E656.
These are two beautiful CIWL car, I hope you'll get a set of them at one moment. Two or three years ago, a Facebook friend (which works on CFR in Bucharest) posted some pictures with a CIWL set of wagons that stationed a little time on his work area. Regarding your idea to make a balsa chassis for the sleeping car (I pretend I never heard Roxette's "Sleeping In My Car" in order to avoid any childish joke), I only have one advice (which came in fact from The Jacksons): "Blame It on The Bogie"! 😁🥸 The Romilly wagon is also very good looking (I like the local trains wagons, don't know why, maybe for their simplicity..) PS - I love Peter Sellers, either as Clouseau or Hrundi V. Bakshi!
@@Cristake1974 I've seen the Simplon Orient Express close up on more than one occasion, but never managed to photograph or film it. I remember seeing it crossing the Ponte della Libertà bridge over to Venice, hauled by an E656, what a spectacle. But I was driving my car in the opposite direction leaving Venice. I also like Roxette, I've got a couple of audiocassettes, must remember to put them in the Panda, the only place I can enjoy cassettes at the moment.
@@MegaBreadvan the van body is in fibreglass. This pick-up has a particularly high ride, they probably fitted Aro 10 springs to improve ground clearance on broken country roads. The Aro 10 is a lightweight off-road car, in the same class as the Lada Niva, that uses Dacia R12 components.
@@patricksmodels Yes I've seen an ARO in France once. Can't say they are very common here. The pick up looks like it does the job. Not built for speed, but robust for carrying stuff around rural areas.
@@MegaBreadvan Ten years ago father in law had an Aro 10 for a couple of years as a second car for going to the country. He sold it on when they eventually surfaced their road in the village of Aref. I made a test drive video in 2014, I'll edit everything into a single video and publish it.
@@patricksmodels That'll be interesting viewing. Some of the roads around here get large pot holes during the Winter. If I were to hit one at speed in my crappy van, then it'd just smash a MacPherson strut.
Hi i was hoping you were a dealer of Scottish model buses. So can you put me touch with anyone that deals with such models as they are hard to come by .if was any models of English there are unlimited models. So please can you help
Ho intenzione di fare il telaio mancante del vagone letto in balsa, con carrelli Jouef di recupero. La cassa è completa di tutto. I dettagli sottocassa li farò in balsa e con pezzi di recupero da sprue di kit di montaggio.
