Hornby Class 110

The Hornby Class 110 is not a great model and upgrading it almost falls into the category of turd-polishing but it is a green era ready to run DMU so a useful thing to have, and there's not exactly an abundance of choice, certainly at rational prices.

The start of the project was the realisation that while the ringfield motor is perfectly capable the traction tyres cause no end of grief. Additionally, the wheels were horribly out of gauge. The only real way to fix this was to change the motor for a Black beetle - and of course then things got slightly out of hand. In the end, though, I have ended up with a model which looks somewhat better, has more play value and runs massively better. I might yet add more pickups on the second and third units for even better running.