Gary H
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On 23/03/2024 at 19:37, taliesin said:
Well that lasted all of 10 minutes before it sold lol,
What about the 12% final value fee you'll lose? Fair play though, that's a bargain for someone.
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On 22/03/2024 at 20:24, alastairb said:
Strong agree. I've returned to British Outline modelling after 20-odd years on the US Outline 'darkside'.
Snap!😃
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1 hour ago, zr2498 said:
Same with emails.
In my experience, many folk don't mind delays if they are kept informed of what the delays are. Ie, 'we have such and such problem' etc etc. Perfectly understandable, sometimes, things dont go to plan.Communication is important.
Still, I digress , each to their own.🙂
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The silence is deafening. 🤫
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25 minutes ago, richard_t said:
Me too - pre-ordered in March 2021 and updated my CC details in October last year via their website.
Seems a good few of us then!! Patience is the name of the game it seems.👍
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Just wondering, how many folk are still waiting on their 25's ?
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47 minutes ago, bradfordbuffer said:
Never has dull and monotone been in the same sentence as class 56!...
Once a loco gets to grips with a train unless a wheel slip occurs, input from driver or field divert kicks in the 'noise' should be constant...but never dull! ...that is until loco is throttled back that's when the tones change
That been said drivers do have a tendency to play to the crowd! 😃
Dull?.......go and have 5mins on naughty step😄
Agreed.
Flip me, reading some posts on here, it could be made of 24 carrat gold and some would still moan! 🤣
If someone doesn't like the way it's mapped, re mapping yourself is the answer.
To the guy above with the slewed bogies on the Colas example, its a non issue,, just remove the screws from the plinth, it'll be fine!!
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Whilst fitting some buffer beam pipes to both of mine, I noticed that glue is unnecessary as they are all a snug, push fit! Not often that happens,
no faffing about opening out the holes needed here, just excellent quality engineering.
This makes removal of the detail easy in the future should anyone wish.
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1 hour ago, robertcwp said:
Very, very nice!!!
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8 hours ago, bradfordbuffer said:
May be this isn't the place for quality control issues 🤔 try a personal message. Just my opinion your welcome to do what you wish.
Don't forget small suppliers like this do it almost as service to a limited fan base at a very reasonable cost and if they get pissed off we all lose!
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As I said in my original post, "it's not a problem"
More of an interest.
Having looked other examples of BH points out there, especially the RTR variety, I'm very grateful to Wayne for bringing these to the market and I very much doubt he'll be "pissed off" as you eloquently put it for my mentioning a very minor issue.
Thanks for the constructive input though.🙄
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Good evening Wayne, I've noticed a very small fault in the 00 kit. Although it's not a problem I thought it worth a mention.
It must be said that I've had this kit for a good few months now so I would suspect that it's been corrected since mine was despatched!
If you look at the track base and timber in the area of the pink highlighter arrow, the last check rail chair is missing and is only formed under the
stock rail.
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On 14/11/2023 at 00:20, rob D2 said:
i much prefer the Bachmann version TBH . I'd rather respray or modify one of those
Hat to be a party pooper but there's another aspect of these new 47's that I'm not impressed with.
Looking at the 'samples' of the 57's that are available for pre-order on Rails of sheff, I spied what looks very much like the 20 year old bogie side frames that were fitted to the original tubby duff!
I,e , brake blocks that don't line up with the wheels, no separately fitted brake rigging, pipe work etc etc.
This was acceptable back then, nowadays, on a £179 model, not so much!
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On 09/11/2023 at 17:35, Phil Bullock said:
Done headcodes on one end of D6702. Have to say this loco wins the prize for the easiest to change!
As suggested earlier finger nail leverage removes the outer frame of the headcode box. It is retained by two small pins which will either come away cleanly with the outer frame or snap off. You can see the remains of the snapped off ones above and below the 11 headcode in this photo… the pins came out cleanly on the other side.
Underneath is a piece of glazing which is an interference fit and under that are the self adhesive headcode digits on a lovely metal frame.
I peeled the old ones off with the help of a pin and replaced them with digits off the excellent included sheet. I then reassembled with a couple of tiny drops of glue n glaze either on the pins or on the frame if the pins had snapped off in their holes . And jobs a good un!
Scunthorpe to Newport ADJ bolster Es loaded with 4 inch bar going south… 8E63 in the opposite direction, 16 tonners Radyr to Scunthorpe 16 tonners loaded with coking coal.
A pretty convincing pair of workings for a Tinsley split boxer to appear on AbbotswoodHave to say, those air horn grilles look fantastic! Bodes well for the forthcoming 50.
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3 hours ago, adb968008 said:
Magnetic ?
Whilst I agree, it would complicate the tooling and raise production costs most likely.
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Well, it's not too often I post on this board these days but I feel the need to today.
I just took delivery of 37419 after not taking a pre-order, (slightly out of my modeling time period) I eventually buckled and found one from a retailer.
Wow!! Absolutely blown away by the fidelity of this model, the standard of fit and finish, everything is just perfect.
Accurascale continues knocking the competition out of the park and I'm still amazed at how they can do it for the money.
Just incredible, please keep doing what you're doing, Fran, MC and all the team Accurascale. Thank you.
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22 hours ago, 97406 said:
I take it the horn grilles are the same as on the production 37s
Dimensionally, they are exactly the same as 40's and 37's (37's only had them in the nose on split-box examples when built).
Class 50 horn grilles are distinguishable by a small flat machined on the side that was provided so as to miss the edge of the opening headcode panel.
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4 hours ago, brushman47544 said:
Those wipers look like they have stopped mid-swipe rather than being parked. This image shows what I remember parked as being parked in the central position.
They're definitely in the parked position, I have mine plumbed in and aired-up on my cab (50046) and they stop in that position when the operating knob is turned to park.
When built, they always seemed to park on the outer part of the screens, whether a result of a differing air switch or the plumbing arrangement, who knows!
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32 minutes ago, adb968008 said:
Interesting but wholly reasonable too.. I wonder why that never caught on ?
Agree. I think it looked quite good!!!
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3 hours ago, wombatofludham said:
I'm pretty sure the non MU fitted fifties had the jumpers fitted by the end of 1969 and early 1970, although D400 was delivered with them fitted, and I seem to recall Fran saying the jumpers were included in D423's detail bag if you wanted to fit them, as I'm tempted to get one and renumber it for a 1975 TOPS plus headcode version.
Agreed. 401 also had them from new. All of them were fitted for the start of the new May 1970 timetable.
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31135, an interesting BR blue livery odd ball variation!
http://www.hondawanderer.com/31135_Gloucester_1984.htm
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23 minutes ago, Chris56057 said:
I've emailed recently and was told either by the end of the year or early into the New Year.
Cheers Chris!
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To save me trawling back pages, what was latest ETA estimate for these please?
January or towards the spring?
Thanks.
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50 minutes ago, woodenhead said:
@Gary H as per my first video post yesterday, the Birmingham stuff was the second video.
Ah, missed that one, sorry.
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On 30/11/2022 at 16:18, woodenhead said:
Another one here at Birmingham - in this video there are also some refurbished 50s still in blue but with their headlights fitted.
Some more proper vac noise courtesy of 50024 at Paddington.
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Sutton's Locomotive Works *NEW* Class 25
in Smaller Suppliers
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A voice in the back of my head-
" resist all temptation of discounted Heljan 25's."😆