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Payment has been taken, as McC has confirmed above. My own personal frustration with this whole thing is that the agreement with partial.ly is that a deposit was paid, with the balance due when the loco was in transit to the UK. Fair enough, that is what I signed up to. Then, with no announcement or notification, I find that the balance payment has been taken. It is obvious that the loco is not even in production yet and is still due in Q3 2024 at the moment. I do not wish to pay for something that I need not pay for upfront (this isn't a crowdfunded product) and will have no use from or ownership of for several months. I did make a regular monthly payment into a savings account every month since ordering the loco and thus have enough saved to pay for it, without being left out of pocket. But let's put this simply: I don't need to pay for it yet and so I don't want to pay for it yet. I'm not massively impressed with Accurascale's comms on the matter on this thread. They've been opaque and a little dismissive (IE referring to only a small amount of customers being affected). Although I do note that I can opt to have the money refunded "immediately", which I shall most certainly be doing. As a result of this episode, I do feel slightly less valued as a potential future customer by Accurascale and I understand if it looks like I've ranted on rmweb, but I wouldn't have found out what had happened yet via other channel - which I have used.

Yes that's why I'm asking. Not feeling overjoyed about this right now.

Anyone else been billed today by partial.ly for the balance of their payment on the Class 89?

Excellent news! Expression made.

Have you seen the Heljan Decoder fitting instructions that cover how to take the bodyshell off? They are available online: https://www.gaugemasterretail.com/media/downloads/11017241-cl17_oo_isheet.pdf

It's TMC...

Not sure how relevant that is to this thread about Mk2bs

That looks really realistic, I like it!

What a great idea! Coffee and cake after some hard spending on essentials!

I note that you have placed the IR emitter and receiver on long leads. If you temporarily remove the long leads and connect the IR parts directly to the module does this work?

All of the Airfix 1/72 aircraft starter kits that I have seen and bought from Lidl/Aldi were all tooled in the second decade of the 21st century. And excellent kits they are. No huge panel gaps, no warped plastic and they literally fall together. Along with the excellent quality of the decal sheets I'd say they were excellent value for money. Suggest you Google when the Jet Provost T.3/4, Spitfire Mk1a, Hurricane Mk1, Messerschmitt Me109e and Focke Wulf Fw190A8 were released - you may get a surprise.

That's not really a fair comparison though is it? If potential customers are actually giving feedback here that they can't see the button, then they are going to assume Accurascale don't offer split payments either. Just giving some UI experience to save Accurascale having to explain where the button is......

But you then have to spend time on forums posting enlarged screenshots of the webpage where the button is to people who can't find it.......

Is it me or is it worth considering making the tiny "split payments" button of equal prominence to the huge "Checkout" button?

I don't think it's correct for you to quote me and imply that I said the company are dodgy. My post did not say that at all. I said it was strange that my account with them was credited with £1 for no reason. Still, don't let that stop you getting a plug in for your own products....