TheWeatheringMan

Hi, Another example of how these idiots fail to do their research. The loco is clearly in green livery. This sort of rubbish churned out by fools looking for profit is just what brings our hobby into disrepute. Regards

Hi All, Could this be an example of the same 'trader' having two accounts and bidding with one to raise the 'bids' on the other. Or perhaps is he getting a mate to put these bids in. Seems very odd that almost every item from this seller has attracted a 'bid' from the same 'buyer'. And what happens if the 'bidder' wins all of the auctions - he's going to need very deep pockets. Regards

Hi, Having recently been buying several dozen diecast buses from an auction site they have almost all been delivered by RM or MyHermes and the experiences have been interesting as below. Before going into these i'd just mention that some while ago on another thread I mentioned the day that I found a card through my door upon returning from a hospital trip informing me that a parcel had been left 'in the green box' - which delivery service it was I forget now as its some months ago, but its hardly relevent - as you can guess, the 'green box' was one of our weelie bins - know how you feel JennyEmily, although luckily for me it was not bin day. What words can describe such total stupidity. Now going back to more recent deliveries of buses: Royal Mail/Postman - 'signed for' parcels being left with no signature collected and being told 'dont have handheld with me as shortage at office'. ditto - parcels being handed to one of my sons who was walking dog some 300 yards from our house and postman signing handheld himself. I have always understood that it is illegal for a postman to hand over any item in the street but could be wrong. ditto - 'signed for' parcels being left on front doorstep when house was empty - no idea what was done about signature. MyHermes - signed for parcels delivered correctly with a knock on door and signature requested in a polite manner. ditto. - non signed for parcels - knock on door and parcel handed to one of us with a pleasent 'thankyou' from the young driver. ditto. - non signed for parcel when we were all out - parcel placed at side of front door step in fairly discrete and sheltered place and card put through lettterbox saying what had been done. These are the experiences over the last few weeks. We have seen Royal Mail acting in a somewhat less than expected manner and MyHermes agents providing a service that has been beyond all complaint. Incidently its important to say that both RM (in letterpost and ParcelForce forms) and MyHermes have delivered everything with no delays. As has so rightly been pointed out by other posters the final level of service is down to individual personalities. I think that the examples quoted above of MyHermes service do show that its not fair to judge all by the low standards of the few. Our local MyHermes driver is in his mid 30's, very pleasent and polite and does appear to make some effort to provide a good service. Such a shame that such efforts are spoiled by those who dont seem to care. Over the last year or so we have seen occasional threads that seem to show a situation the other way round to what we have seen - I feel its important to keep the balance and report that over the last few weeks we have seen MyHermes in a far better light than RM. Regards

Hi All May I just add that although i've not visited the shop (yet) i've had the pleasure of dealing with Leigh at the Newton Abbott toyfair (Ray Heard's) where Colletts Models regularly takes a stand. Prices to compete with anyone and a very nice person to deal with. Looking forward to visiting the shop and am very happy to reccommend his excelent service. Regards

Hi, I was under the impression that our railways had already been 'converted' to busways with the regretable involvement of stagecoach, go-ahead, arriva and first etc. Certainly our once proud railways are no longer run like a railway since busmen got involved. Regards

Hi, Notice he mentions that he beleives it to be made by a 'finescale' kit maker - then goes on to mention 'K's'. Stretching the definition of 'finescale' rather is it not !. Regards

Hi Bernard, Must agree with your point of view on the price, especially as has been pointed out the complex is by no means a simple fitting together of RTR items but required careful measuring and cutting. I do agree too that its hard to see 'why' it was done - its a bit difficult to see just how one might use such a complex within a layout. The seller's history does not suggest anything untowards but I cant help wondering if he would be better putting his obvious talents to better use by producing rather more usefull formations - i'm pretty sure he will find a ready market for those talents. Regards

Hi, Absolutely right and very well said. In fact to be pedantic and use real railway terminology the thing would not be a 'double slip' anyway, and neither are the other four - they are 'double compounds'. What 'Grifone' describes is a 'double slip' (or single of course) - where the 'slip roads' are completely outside the 'diamond' or 'K crossing'. Regards

Why ?. Putting a 'double slip' in the centre will not add anything at all in extra operating flexibility as all possible 'to - from' routes are already available as it is.

Hi, Because its vastly overpriced poorly done tat - just like pretty well everything from this seller. Regards

Hi, Cant see the justification for questioning that its suitable for a train - of course its perfectly suitable. As a ballast weight inside 'the train', preferably melted and recast!!!!. Sorry could'nr resist ! Coat on, gone. All the best.

Hi, This was a very popular conversion in the early 1960's when GWR locomotives were less freely available. It is of course very inaccurate overall and particularly the firebox. The conversion was most commonly completed with a tender from either a Kitmaster/Airfix 'City of Truro' or that from 'Lord of the Isles'. Not a scale model by any means but an interesting throwback from the old days when we had to accept such conversions. At a reasonable price it will make a nice display model for anyone remembering those days - and nice it is to see it. Regards

I will make this my last comment here as it hurts to keep banging my head on the wall. What I said was that damaging comments about a trader should not be made until there is more proof that something untoward is happening. Everything else you infer i've said is rubbish. As the saying goes 'there's none so blind as those who wont see'