Independence Day Layout

@Brian Liesberg

Thanks for sharing the great video an thanks to your friends with the wonderful layout.

are you piloting the aircraft in the center of the ovals?😆

take care!

@Seth Thomas posted:

@Brian Liesberg

Thanks for sharing the great video an thanks to your friends with the wonderful layout.

are you piloting the aircraft in the center of the ovals?😆

take care!

Most of the layout is mine, my friend made the video.

And yes, that's me flying the plane in the video, as well as in my profile picture

Fantastic! The 'boater' hats are a nice touch too - well done!

Nice, I didn’t know the plane could do loop the loops.

Great video Brian,

Rare to see someone run the trains so fast!  :-0

Just got into Tinplate, and I am fascinated by the fact that my $5.00, beat-up,  1950s  Marx tinplate cars virtually never derail, while my much more expensive traditional or scale cars want to jump the track at any little high or low spot  on a switch or curve.

Mannyrock

@Mannyrock posted:

Great video Brian,

Rare to see someone run the trains so fast!  :-0

Just got into Tinplate, and I am fascinated by the fact that my $5.00, beat-up,  1950s  Marx tinplate cars virtually never derail, while my much more expensive traditional or scale cars want to jump the track at any little high or low spot  on a switch or curve.

Mannyrock

Tinplate trains were made specifically to be a toy, toys are a lot more fun when they go fast

Wait till you get some Lionel! All of the operating accessories and automatic mechanisms are a blast and can really make it feel like you're running a real railroad. I used to do the scale stuff, but I dumped it all for tinplate about a decade ago and have never looked back.

@Craignor posted:

Nice, I didn’t know the plane could do loop the loops.

A lot of people that see it think it just flies in circles, but that's not the case. It does loops, snap rolls, flies upside-down, etc...

It can fly a lot better than it did in the video as well, we were having issues with the power grid that day so everything was running about half what it could normally do.

Enjoying and appreciating tinplate more and more.  Though the plane pylon appears slightly more complex, I wonder if the plane pylon was the inspiration for Mattel's VertiBird helicopter toy in the early 1970's?  Thanks for posting the pics & vid.

@Keystone posted:

Enjoying and appreciating tinplate more and more.  Though the plane pylon appears slightly more complex, I wonder if the plane pylon was the inspiration for Mattel's VertiBird helicopter toy in the early 1970's?  Thanks for posting the pics & vid.

The airplane is actually fairly simple, it uses 1 motor to drive the propeller, and 2 clutches to rotate the plane operated by the stick.

I think in practice it's very similar to the Vertibird, but I'm not sure, I never played with one.