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  1. DJH have 25% off selected OO, O & HO kits.
  2. Currently on a flash sale for £21.91 with at the time of posting a little under 4.5 hours to go. Don't know how that compares to the price before, but I thought it was worth a punt as it looks like it'll be better than what I have and I don't do enough airbrushing to justify the cost of an Iwata etc. And it seems to have gone off sale again in the space of five minutes
  3. What are you doing? This isn't a thread about bargains, this is a thread about the vagaries of Hereford Model Centre's stock control system. Did you know that if you order something from them, the stock level goes down by one? There's a wonderful cosmic balance that on the day Stephen Hawking dies, this whole new era of discovery dawns.
  4. Can we have a running commentary on the stock level of those, too? Please? Pretty please?
  5. Best hope they get in there before a mythical bird and its exacting enamels...
  6. Given his recent editorial in MRJ, I wouldn't hold your breath...
  7. The main reason I returned to this hobby is I dug out all my old Hornby/Lima/Mainline stuff from 30 years ago with the intention of sticking it on Ebay. After five or ten minutes' browsing it soon became apparent that even the boxed special edition stuff was worth both halves of sweet FA, so I figured I may as well do something with it and spent an evening coaxing those poor, misbegotten models of my youth back into life. Nostalgia - it's a dangerous thing
  8. Cleefy

    EBay madness

    "A good paint finish" - buffer beams the colour of his wife's lipstick while the rest of the loco is the colour of his dog's. What horrors must await the unwary on the side of the loco he daren't show, I wonder?
  9. Maybe it's something as simple as the placing of the thread in this part of the forum? RMWeb has separate sections for kit building, layout building and - if I dare mention the P word - photography et al that people can read/ignore as they wish. I'm wondering if having this thread here has lead to some thinking it's being promoted as some sort of gold-plated standard, although I realise that's absolutely not the intention. I'm also not suggesting that after more than two years and 160 pages the mods split it out into separate threads. What I like about this thread is that it features all of the interests and projects (well, the train set related ones at least) of an individual and as such forms a coherent whole. You may not be its owner, Tony, but you are definitely its glue! Aside from that, I'm as baffled as you are as to where the accusations of elitism come from. Your content, like the majority on this forum, comes across not as "look at what I've done" but as "look at what it's possible to do". Finally, as I'm aware of your aversion to forum aliases, I'll sign off with my real name although I suspect it might prompt a response of "Oh gawd, not another one!" Phil
  10. You can always tell a dodgy kit on ebay because the seller will have thrown in a set of wheels or a Portescap motor to divert your attention away from its appalling quality. If anyone sees such a kit for sale, run like the proverbial and do not, under any circumstances, be tempted to bid on it!
  11. Now I'm no expert as far as the catering trade goes, but...
  12. Ummed and ahhed about getting the Caley, but having seen Sarahagain's informative post about motorising it, I went to get one today. Just one left in Lincoln WH Smiths now and it has a small but nonetheless noticeable mark on the footplate below the cab entrance. What the mark is I'm afraid I couldn't tell in the Stygian gloom! For the first time since the A4 and Coronation, my example appears to be free from QA issues, which is a relief because it's far too pretty to repaint. Although that can be said of pretty much anything that isn't in dreary old Brunswick green
  13. There was only the one in Lincoln WH Smiths when I did a bit of late night shopping last night. Unless you're planning on repainting it, I would look elsewhere - the boiler lining looked like it had been applied by hand in the middle of an earthquake.
  14. Cleefy

    EBay madness

    I'll help him and his poor daughter out just as soon as this Somalian prince transfers my inheritance from a distantly-related oil magnate...
  15. Know how you feel, it's a minefield out there. I took a leap of faith with a Judith Edge kit and fortunately it paid off. An aged and somewhat warped K's Q1 kit, perhaps not so much - at least it was cheap and it's all part of life's rich tapestry, or so I keep telling myself If you're really risk averse, maybe try a simple Comet chassis kit? They're relatively inexpensive compared to full kits, and if it all goes breasts heavenwards you should at least be able to sell on the wheels and motor for something close to what you paid for them. A cheapo loco body off Ebay and the job's done - saves on all that painting malarky, too! Be warned though - the first time you get a chassis you've made moving under its own steam, er electricity, there's no going back
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