A daily updated blog typed by someone with painty hands, oil under his fingernails and the smell of solder in his nostrils who likes making all sort of models and miniatures. And fixing things.
Saturday, August 19, 2023
Saturday Film Club: Apollo Toys Micro Train Set
This is all Ben Buki's fault. He pointed out that one of these is up for sale on eBay, and I wanted to know more. A quick search brought up this video, and I'll admit, it looks great fun.
A friend of mine back in the 80's was one of the designers of this toy. I bought one and years later I customized the entire layout by painting the scenery and the trains and added trees and "z" scale people. I built a base for it to sit on which insulates the sound a bit. Then I built a plexiglass cover to keep the dust out. Beware there are sets for sale on eBay but at least a couple have no trains included! That ruins the set.
I never knew about these!
ReplyDeleteBut Phil, just imagine what you could do with this... Fully sceniced with IoM narrow gauge stock?!?
Luke
A friend of mine back in the 80's was one of the designers of this toy. I bought one and years later I customized the entire layout by painting the scenery and the trains and added trees and "z" scale people. I built a base for it to sit on which insulates the sound a bit. Then I built a plexiglass cover to keep the dust out. Beware there are sets for sale on eBay but at least a couple have no trains included! That ruins the set.
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