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  1. "Please message me with any queries or questions about the item!" And they never reply... It's not model related but I'm currently looking at an engine component that could be from one of two engines, I need one measurement from the seller that can confirm if it's useful to me or not. But nope, no response and an inadequate description.
  2. I had the 'UK seller that was actually Chinese' issue myself over Christmas, although not for a model railway issue. Nephew wanted a particular Pokemon plush that is seeminly hard to find new now. Searching ebay and disregarding a bunch of Chinese sellers with long delivery times I finally found what looked like a UK seller of one that should arrive before Christmas. The plush never showed up resulting in me panic buying a replacement gift and I got a refund from the seller. Anyway the plush just turned up this morning in a box covered in Chinese labels. Sellers account has an address that when looked up on google maps appears to be a random council house in Folkestone and their ebay inventory appears to be a ton of random items so I suspect they are just ordering things direct and posing as a UK seller.
  3. Unfortunately I doubt they will just give me another wagon, it's pretty clear when you order that the only guaranteed thing is a loco and the rest is at random.
  4. I got the Q6 one, since it was below the RRP for the loco I thought why not try it. Contained the following: Hornby Q6 (Obviously) NE plank wagon Two LNER Scammel Mechanical horses, one with a flat trailer, one with a tank trailer. Two identical unboxed LNER mechanical horse box trailers. An LNER liveried bedford OY with flat trailer. An LNER commer van. An SS Jaguar. A Morris Eight. All in all, not bad but a bit disappointing as I would have expected more than one wagon, especially as it was advertised as 'wagons' and those are more useful to me than a load of Scammells. In actual fact, I got exactly the models they used in their advertising image except a second scammell trailer instead of the cattle wagon. Not really a fair swap tbh.
  5. Has anyone got a good source on what liveries WW2 WD narrow gauge diesel locos would have carried? Specifically numbers and markings and their location. I'm currently restoring a 2ft gauge 1941 Ruston 20DL and am struggling to work out what it's original 1941 livery would have been beyond probably overall deep bronze green. I have a WD number on a plate LOD/758173 as well of an image of it carrying the number AD22 at Lydd Ranges in the 70's. But I've seen many different variations on military loco numbering, some carry the lettering ARMY and a short number for example, others have the WD arrow and a generally longer number. Anyone know of any good literature or places to research this?
  6. Not something I'll buy and maybe a bit of bandwaggon jumping from Hornby here but whatever, if it makes Hornby money then why not. On another note, I reckon than van has to be a strong contender for the 'most unprototypical liveries applied to a model' award. That's if you could even consider the van prototypical in the first place.
  7. So I'm looking at various 009 bodyshells on shapeways and ebay and most need a Tomytec HM-01 chassis. But I can't find them anywhere, anyone got any ideas or alternatives? I'm looking at Simplex sized locos so the Kato 109 chassis is too big. And I don't fancy destroying an expensive Portram either.
  8. Anyone got any idea if these can still be bought new and where from? I'm looking at Simplex and Ruston bodies on shapeways and they all need these chassis, yet I can't find them anywhere.
  9. This guy must be making a killing selling car wheel balance weights as "Wagon and Coach Weights for Hornby, Lima, Bachman in Adhesive Strips": https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/402641955396? Think £3.40 for three strips isn't bad? Well here is a box of 50 identical strips £8.95: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/294054011834?hash=item4476fc23ba:g:bUQAAOSwt8NfX2Wj Granted it's not the worst rip off on ebay by a long shot but these strips are, based on that box of 50 I linked, worth just under 18p each so he's making a decent profit on them by advertising them as if they are a specialist model railway product.
  10. I'm reminded of a conversation I had a few years ago with the owner of a small, now closed, model shop. Moaning about manufacturers (Not just Hornby) forcing him to take stuff he didn't want in order to secure the stuff he did want and taking up valuable space in his small shop. Scalextric in particular being an annoyance as apparently to secure some Hornby stock he had to take some large Scalextric sets which took up a ton of space and didn't sell in his model railway focussed shop. It may well have been the ramblings of a disorganised old man though, I was just a customer asking if he had a certain loco as finding stuff in that shop could be a nightmare XD.
  11. Anyone got their preorder of 21C7 from Kernow yet? I can see it's been in stock there for a few days but I've had no notification that mine has been dispatched.
  12. That is true, however the idea of a fantasy setting featuring trains is a fairly common concept too. Most people just don't know the term 'steampunk' as a way of describing it. In a way Hornby steampunk as an idea isn't too different from some of the old Triang Battle Space sets. It's adding additional play value and fantasy elements to model trains. That said, Horny seem to be marketing this at 'serious' steampunk fans and not so much as something exciting for kids.
  13. I know of at least two people who bought the pullman livery van on the basis that "it's in pullman livery to go with my pullmans". I have a feeling that might explain it's popularity despite being a one off thing in real life. People either not realising that, or no caring about that and just thinking it looks nice.
  14. Got a Southern one from Gaugemaster today. Looks great but can someone please explain where the grey oval board things go? Hornby give no instructions and there are no locating holes or anything. No idea why they aren't factory fitted unless some vans lacked them? I'd be willing to bet 90% of customers won't know what they are or where to put them and just leave them off.
  15. You know what they could have done that would have been neat and fit in well with the previous Basset-Lowke releases? Offer basic motorised 00 locomotive chassis and wagon chassis, with lego nubs on top. So you can essentially build your own locomotives and wagons with lego bricks on top. They could have made some bespoke lego style locomotive parts to mix and match, plus kids could add real lego parts into the mix to expand it. They could even take the range beyond steampunk, offering it as an extension to Hornby 00 with 'build your own' locomotives and wagons for kids that run on standard 00 track. Now that would be a way of combining Lego and Hornby's existing brands in a fun and complementary manner, I know I would have loved that as a kid.
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