Oh dear, it was all going so well. The first instalment of Trainset Tuesday was a proper layout, and now... this.
This must honestly be one of the oddest interpretations of the term 'train set' I've ever come across.
Let's not beat about the bush, this is tat. Kitsch tat. Cheaply made, poor quality, kitsch tat. And I really like it. See, I've had a thing about wolves and huskies since one of my primary school teachers used to regale me with tales of her sled-racing dogs. And of course from reading "Call of the Wild" when I was about 10.
I bought this weird little set a little while ago, for no other reason than it appealed to the part of me that likes cheap tat (to my wife's despair). And wanting a bit of a silly little project to keep me occupied this winter, I dug it back out of storage.
The track- it makes up an oval about 30cm by 50cm, and is rather flexible and poor... that said, it clips together nicely and when it's attached, it sits pretty flat.
The, for want of a better word, locomotive. MamaWolf here, battery operated and with articulated legs.
Quite the superchonk! This time, with something for scale. I could be a hand-model, honestly.
Power is via a single AA battery, in a rather poor battery compartment.
Surgery time! The switch was a bit intermittent, so I needed to give it a bit of work. The rather poor quality of the wolf meant dismantling and rebuilding needed to be done with a lot of care.
The 'train', two puppies, with their sinister black eyes.
Not the nicest view for the poor thing! The coupling bar is sturdy bit a bit obtrusive.
And there's the train. Non-reversing, and just fast enough to whizz around without flipping itself off the tracks. Though to be fair, considering it's cheap roots, it actually works fairly well.
I better do a proper train set next time, as any hope I had of becoming a 'proper' model railway blogger may have just taken a knock with this one! That said, I really like this set, and had a project in mind for it... more on which in Part Two...
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