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8 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:
Kentish Men?
I’m going with the more commonly accepted definition of being born to the east of the Medway. The best of the best.
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On 17/06/2021 at 17:31, CF MRC said:
We’ll soon be debating how many angels can you balance on a pin…
Pah! Balancing them’s nothing, it’s getting the little b*****s to dance that’s the trick!
19 hours ago, Les1952 said:Or was Ashford that much better than Doncaster and Horwich?
Men of Kent. So better’s a given!
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17 hours ago, BR Blue said:
My experience buying from UK retailers is that they deduct UK VAT. I check this before I buy. I then pay local VAT. The only issue is sometimes the delivery companies charge a handling charge which adds to the cost and this will prevent me for purchasing. I dont mind paying VAT but I do mind paying it twice.
I’m not sure of the specifics of your case, but importing into Switzerland, I only pay a handling charge if tax is levied. And that kicks in only above a certain threshold (which is low enough to catch any locomotive).
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11 hours ago, APOLLO said:
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery”
― Charles Dickens, David CopperfieldBrit15
He says nothing of the millions in carry-over debt though.
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13 hours ago, Wickham Green too said:
Are they set to EM gauge, please ?
The presence of traction tyres evidently rules that out.
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3 hours ago, brushman47544 said:
Not really a gripe at Bachmann per se, plenty of retailers use the off the shelf search fields and categories which aren't necessarily useful in a model railway context.
Why not gripe at Bachmann over their site. What “plenty of other retailers” do is irrelevant. B’s site is their own, and their shop window to their customers. It’s in their best interest to get it right, and rise above the competition.
Their site has a lot of usability problems, as noted elsewhere on RMweb. It’s a pity that they choose to do nothing about improving it.
The previous site was better in some respects. It’s a pity that they used a designer to take them two steps forward, and one back.
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They scanned the competition’s announcements, and then measured the length of time they had to beat them to market.
I could keep this up all day!
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38 minutes ago, HonestTom said:
I hear Hornby had to build an entire P2 from scratch, scan it, modify it, scan it, rebuild it, scan it, rebuild it again, scan it again and then dismantle it.
Obviously no other company had made an announcement, so Hornby didn’t have to rush to market.
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Not my era ect...
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On 01/05/2021 at 02:07, Michael Hodgson said:
I infer the first one was "limited edition".
Another run of the same thing surely invalidates that ?
The original was a NRM exclusive with booklet and gubbins. This one isn’t. So, no, it doesn’t invalidate the exclusivity of the original. If you’re into that (like you, I’m not, but I’m not into this either).
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@rapidoandy, thank you for the clarification. From a personal POV, which I'm quite sure not all will share, the cost seems just about right. The detail is fantastic!
But, and there has to be a 'but', right? Given the level of detail, why are the buffers not sprung? I realise that they can be changed, for others in the user-fitted parts, although there's no indication that that they're sprung either.
Also, it's not quite clear from the photos, but it looks like adding three-link couplings shouldn't require major surgery. Have I got that right?
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On 24/05/2021 at 14:07, cctransuk said:
Either error would be enough for me to cancel an order!
I’m rather glad that I did. For different reasons, but it’s all been rather fortuitous in hindsight.
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At last! Rapido have an announcement worthy of my money.
I’m still going to complete my Cambrian kits though…some day.-
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1 hour ago, F-UnitMad said:
For one nasty moment I thought this might be about that legendary Flying Scotsman Clock
Still not sure if this is much better, to be honest....
As it's the wrong scale, Era, and even the wrong Country for my modelling it would be very far from 'the perfect gift' for me anyway.
Fortunately, neither of my daughters have a clue. So I needn’t fear receiving this. Dodged a bullet there!
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15 hours ago, Bulleidboy100 said:
As I've told members on the Hornby Forum many times "it will arrive when it arrives" - some get quite paranoid if it's a day late.
To be fair, that’s not a characteristic that’s unique to the Hornby forum!
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On 22/05/2021 at 00:59, adb968008 said:
its certainly a more budget conscious motor, also used in their railroad range.
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3 minutes ago, 97406 said:
Which stood for....
Epsom Mad Funkers, if you believe wackypeedeeyah. But I think I edited as you posted.
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On 22/05/2021 at 17:00, Roy Langridge said:
They stated that it caused confusion with their business, explained that they had used AIS for their business since 1992,
I work in the chemical industry. And when I lived in the UK it was somewhat embarrassing to refer to the national trade association, the Chemical Industries Association, by its acronym.
50 minutes ago, 97406 said:Then there’s always KLF.... https://youtu.be/-gLs6YNnqZY
Also EMF. Whatever it really stands for, Ecstasy Mother F*****s always sticks in my mind.
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On 19/05/2021 at 22:21, Joseph_Pestell said:
It does when it has accepted an order.
Not only that but it’s not an issue of one retailer. Several seem to have been affected. Including the little local ones. Yet H has plenty in its store.
Whether or not it’s illegal doesn’t matter, it still smells rotten.
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1 hour ago, D9001 said:
Well, there’s a rarity.....
Unnecessary. John may not suffer fools lightly, and he makes his point with “conviction”, but deliberately derogatory?
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6 hours ago, atom3624 said:
You know what?
I'm losing interest in this model, probably for now, after Hornby's fathing around with the suppliers.
My guess is they're going to lose sales, even if it may 'stabilise pricing and margins'.
I have one on preorder with an, until now, reliable retailer. If they, and my preorder, get shafted by Hornby I'll not be buying from Hornby direct.
I've long desired a W1, but not at any cost*. This is not only a discretional spend for me, but an 'oooh-unusual' rule #1. I will get by without it, if that comes to pass.
Like you, the recent revelations of Hornby's practices with retailers have rather soured my view of them (Hornby, that is, not the retailers!).
* the cost in this case being an apparent lack of business ethics
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12 hours ago, Accurascale Fran said:
(please refer any questions about the role to the email address provided via the above link, and not on this thread. Thanks!)
I suspect that you might want to make that fine print more prominent!
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The difference between a red stop sign and red cab light (other than intensity and direction) being that one is moving and the other isn’t.
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Irrespective of how many people search on what term and their demographic, if it sells Hornby will continue to crank the handle. If it doesn’t, they won’t.
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Locomotion & Rails of Sheffield announce SE&CR D Class
in Rails of Sheffield
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@GreenGiraffe22 FWIW I have no idea whether the path of that white lining is prototypical or not, but it looked weird to me even at the decorated sample stage. That’s when I started to have misgivings.