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  1. Tony, your how-to videos are great: they've got me doing a lot I would never have dared to even attempt.
  2. Anyone done anything good with a Dublo/Wrenn SECR/SR R1 0-6-0T?
  3. I think there's room for a new thread on late-1980s and early-1990s RTR and what to do with it. But I'm too lazy to set one up.
  4. It's a bit late for the time frame, but the Hornby J52 can also be turned into a very decent model with a little body modification, a new chassis and a Mainly Trains body details kit. Another Iain Rice inspiration:
  5. You could be right! I realise I got my last big sheet six years ago...
  6. Have you tried B&Q? They did single sheets of polystyrene insulation board not that long ago.
  7. I'd never heard of Sayer Chaplin until yesterday - and it was based five minutes' walk from where I live in Ipswich, opposite my local post office. Can anyone direct me to a history? I'm intrigued!
  8. D & S did dozens of cast kits back in the day (and I've still a few to make from 30 years ago). They were/are excellent! I don't remember them being cheap in the first place, but they go upwards of £40 unmade on ebay now, when you can find them.
  9. And some of us don't have space to run double Quard-Art sets ... just saying.
  10. If two last-second automatic sniping bids are received the winner is resolved by eBay.
  11. I'm late to the latest eBay conversation, but I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the best way to pick up bargains on eBay -- which is to use a sniping app such as Gixen, which essentially makes your bid automatically for you (unseen by anyone else and undeclared on eBay) seconds before an auction ends. Some people say it's cheating, but it's a very easy way to avoid bidding wars. You put what you are prepared to pay into the sniping app well before the eBay auction ends and leave it. If you win, you win at a price you can afford; if someone else has sniped a bigger bid or lodged one directly, you lose. Rule of thumb: never bid more on a sniping app than Honest Tone would sell for to raise money for CRUK!
  12. A propos of nothing much apart from maybe the power of Wright as model railway influencer. I've just noticed that a K's J3 on eBay has sold for £117.96 -- looks quite nicely built but *no motor* and with original useless plain-brass-bar chassis and equally useless wheels. So much for getting the (unbuilt) kit for £25 and making a usable layout loco on the cheap ... as Tony describes so well in the latest BRM.
  13. I'm sorry to break the consensus on shutting up about this, but Hornby's marketing decisions are relevant to us as modellers. Hornby remains the biggest player in our game. We might wish it luck or think it hopelessly deluded (or both). And TT might be for another thread. But its business model is an issue worthy of informed discussion. Sorry if it's it's boring, but it has got everything wrong rather often as the market-leader.
  14. I think Hornby's TT adventure is bonkers. The models might be good -- I've not seen one yet -- but it will take a miracle for the range to take off. People who are already committed to other scales are not going to change on a whim; and it's hardly a game changer for newbies or returners. I'd love to be proved wrong, but it looks to me like a classic bad market-research-led innovation. A focus group says that something smaller than OO but bigger than N would be great; some larger-group opinion-polling (still on very small samples) reinforces the focus group line; then the Big Decision is made and five years are put into developing the product, which is launched amid much hype ... to universal lack of interest. It has New Coke written all over it. But that has been Hornby for some time.
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