Loved it. Not seen Minic for years. I think I still have a large layout in boxes in my attic. It was a great childhood toy, with many hours of pleasure and fun.

Great stuff.. that's many years of collecting you have there, I am sure. A delight to the eye.😊 Thanks for sharing.

I have had my Ender3v2 for just over 12 months now and love it .. the things for the model railway and also tools for my workshop are fantastic and some items I designed for the house also... A great versatile tool for many uses.

I have just come across this video.. Great stuff..... Do you happen to have the .stl file for these containers at all I would love to print some for my wagons. Cheers from Melbourne Australia. Tim.

You have a superb layout there. The tech for the time was quite advanced. Although as kids we never had any of it... only Triang Railways. However we did have Scalextric which never seemed to work properly in all the time we had it. It was a mission to put the track together. It was a very early set whereby the sections were connected upside down and held in place with tiny spring clips and then the whole circuit had to be carefully flipped over without putting strain on the joints which took about 4 of us to do it (advantage of having a lot of brothers). The car pickups would snag on the joints too. I never dared to ask my parents for a Minic layout. But now I am "all grown up", I have managed to garner my own small setup which works very well considering how old it is. The scale isn't quite the same as Triang trains, but they still work nicely together so I forgive them that flaw. The only major draw back is that the operator can only have one vehicle per slot , and when there is such a great range of vehicles available it does seem a pity that something wasn't thought of so that multiple cars could be used at the same. I was thinking that maybe something like Hornby's Zero 1 system could be adapted to control individual vehicles...I am not tech savvy so I'd have to get help with that. Anyway love your models and layout.😊

👍 great.

They are amazing

Keyser’s did a body line kit for the 97xx condensing pannier.

Fantastic!! Does John plan to commercialise these bodies?

How?

Dcc and stayalive coild be the answer

I'm amazed! This just popped up in my feed and I had a massive feeling of nostalgia - havn't seen Minic since I was about 10! I had the mustard coloured Miura (or was it a GT40, my memory slips) and a white E-type. Marvellous! 🤓

Watneys party 9, when 7 will just not do🤤😵‍💫😵🥴🤣🤣👍👍

Is the Breakdown tender Minic too ?

Nice old diesel 🤩👍

Love it!! 🤩🤩🤩

I wonder if Triang ever made these in Nato green.

Your Getting Good At 3D Printing. I'd Just Weather Them 😊

Great layout. I wonder if running the Minic cars with the commercial rear ratio would make them more realistic?

😓 Promo sm

Three with his wild frontier 🙄

I need to go to Gaydon to see stuff like this

Ughhh amazing. I wish i can get this set up.

Happy Xmas 🎅

I love how they intergraded the Clementine gold mine into the set. I would love to see the build on the trailer.

Man, there are some pieces i need in this video, lol.

Great to see the old Minic Motorway running so well after all these years. We have a small Minic set running over here at Exeter Road Model Railway but without so many vehicles as we have lost a lot over the years.

BRILLIANT!!! Great video! have spent ages repeat playing it. We still use our Minic Motorway although now struggling to get parts etc. We have some video of our layout over on our youtube channel (Exeter Road Model Railway). Thank you for sharing your amazing layout. Also recognise some of the Minic buildings. Your road / rail also works really well after all these years too!

Excellent 👍

Nostalgic, think I still have mine somewhere.

Excellent fun Derek 👍 Catch up with you at TCS. Dave.

Very interesting. I have R242 (also marked S5919 which I suspect is the p/n for the body w/o the bogies). Is that the unit upon which the launcher sits? I never had a launcher but it looks like the kind of thing that would interest my younger audience.

Did You 3D Print Any Of The Loads ?

Excellent breakdown of the road/rail system. Shame it doesn't work as i've collected a few items for my new layout, missing the rare buffer, and was looking forward to getting it functioning.

What a great car. Where did the body come from? Is it fitted to a Minic car chassis?

I have four of these cars with a pair of boxes. Found in my father’s loft. Are you interested by any chance?

Great Stuff !

Great visitor ! Please post if there are others sometime

These independently made Battle Space items are Absolutely Fabulous. Hope you make many more new designs 🙂🙂🙂

Being primarily a railway enthusiast, in the early stages I thought of Minic as an add-on to a railway layout. As time has passed, though, have to admit it has a charm all of its own. Also note how very fully the excellent use of the space available has been made by both road and rail layout design. And the buildings fit great too. Good on You !

Had a trip on the Flying Scotsman ages back. They even gave a certificate to go with the trip. A treasured experience.

Absolutely Brilliant Mr Dogsbody 🎉

If you had some steady photos of the motor and the key dimensions then i could confirm the following : Looks like one of the versions Triang used of the Mabuchi FT16 motor. Think you misread as PT16. In the Scalextric race tuned cars first made in Hong Kong from 1966. Although cheap but fast and powefil , Triang sought out cheaper Hong Kong made clones of the Japanese sourced so there were also versions in Scalextric called the big Raymond motor and also the larger Johnson 222 was fitted. You may also see a Mabuchi FT16D motor but that is unlikely to fit the Turbo car. The 16D was an early upgrade with better bearings, higher performance winding of the armature, better commutator and heat sinks for the brushes. Drive shaft for these at the non brush end. From a time when slot cars running on large wood routed tracks was in a huge world wide boom so this was an attempt ftom Scalextric to keep up with the high end products. Before Scalextric went backwards and focused on the toy side of things when the boom went bust.

I am in the process of rebuilding/converting a second Pullman train now, namely a HST with Mark3 coaches. I have been able to obtain three of these coaches but they need the window inserts replacing. Do you make any widow inserts for these, that is, the standard window sets for mk3 coaches? Thanks a lot.

Great Train set!!!

What is the brand of the feedback controller that you use and The name the company would sell it under?

You've Built Up A Fabulous Collection Of Vehicles 💫💫💫💫💫

Looks great. Makes me think I should do more with my Minic.

That is so satisfying to watch

What scale is it and why did they choose to have the cowcatcher move back and forth?