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  1. 49 minutes ago, robertcwp said:

    Comparison between Heljan D1960 and new Bachmann 47 435.

     

    53605728933_7e32340667_b.jpgIMG_0589am by Robert Carroll, on Flickr

     

    53605728938_b7475db8a6_b.jpgIMG_0590am by Robert Carroll, on Flickr

     

     

    Is it my imagination or is the bachy one way higher ?

    Heljan wins on the front footsteps , over those abominations attached to the body or chassis ( dependant on where they end up ) on bluebox version .

     

    It always seems Bachmann has a Friday afternoon moment with something . Footsteps on this , snowploughs on the 37

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  2. On 20/03/2024 at 21:29, RBE said:

    Ah apologies. It seems that I misread the question. Locos from 091 onwards (our series 4 cabs with the second man's vent) were not fitted with the bang grids. 090 the last series 3 was fitted with them.

    I always guessed it came from the big side grids on the loco…..or its importance to the …national grid ..

     

    well I live and learn 

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  3. Enjoy your model,

    but people, please stop making excuses for errors and mistakes .

    It’s 2024, you shouldn’t have to “ fettle “ a brand new model . 
     

    And what is that yellow bit by the buffer ?

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  4. 15 minutes ago, t-b-g said:

    A friend of mine built a layout based loosely on Paddington many years ago. He didn't call it Paddington as it was very much modified to fit the location. He sadly passed away before it was properly finished but I did take this snap of it in an "under construction" state.

     

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    Looks good , but very “ loosely “ I’d say 

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  5. 15 minutes ago, F-UnitMad said:

    Guilty as charged, M'lud, although my O Scale layout inspired by Shell Island looks nothing like it beyond the trackplan, more or less. But the simplicity of said plan, and the idea of exchanging trains between B.R. & a Private railway, were the real inspirations that I took from your classic layout, and acknowledged at the time.

    If I could've captured a similar sense of space, I would have, but that was never going to happen with O on a board just 12inches wide!!

    It’s flattery I think, which I don’t see any issue with . Shell island is on my “ legends “ list because it is so artistically well done and it was one of the first layouts that said to me - you don’t have to cram every inch with track to create a sense of place 

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  6. Not so much an eBay nightmare but maybe shows the perils of charging  full labour when making layouts professionally - makes even a simple layout horrifically expensive 

     

     

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  7. On 14/03/2024 at 17:16, Phil Parker said:

    A bizarre question - why wouldn't it be fine? There aren't model railway police for this sort of thing. If they were, then they would have arrested loads of people for building Ashburton.

    They are too busy nicking people building TMDs with 2000 LED lights featuring 1960 Bachmann diesel depots , and stuffed full of colas engines making a racket 

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  8. 2 hours ago, Ruston said:

    I can't be bothered to wade through 193 pages of this stuff, so I don't know whether or not it's already been suggested and I don't know if anyone from Accurascale even reads this , as it isn't a thread started by them, but please can we have a BR 21-ton hopper? There's nothing produced, except the Parkside kit. I'm no stranger to building kits but I can't get one of those damned things to stay square, run true, and stay on the tracks well.

    I'd buy a dozen of them and happily take a hammer to my Parkside ones!

    I’m almost certain it’s been mentioned , and it seems a popular idea 

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  9. 10 minutes ago, Mike_Walker said:

    Another useful shop is closing down.  Collectables R Us in High Wycombe citing the usual complaints of rising rent and service charges along with hassle from their landlord, reduced footfall and spend despite being in a prime location in the town's main shopping arcade, and a steady rise in shoplifting which the police seem completely unwilling to do anything about.

     

    They will continue on line and are actively looking for an alternative location within the town.  Fingers crossed they are successful - for one thing, they always had the best stock of Humbrol both acrylics and enamels of anywhere I know.

    Thats a shame, I don’t live in south bucks anymore but it seems with the loss of this, the one at Aston Clinton , the one at Twyford, it really is a desert of model shops. Cant even nip up the M40 to motor books or howes anymore ( excepting paints )

  10. 1 hour ago, Moley48 said:

    What makes it more scary. Is that what we have available to us on a consumer level will most  be waaaaay behind tech going on behind the scenes.

     

    Whatever way you look at it we are all doomed! .. and its not just the tech that's scary these days. 

     

    I'm staying in my own little world in the loft. 😂

    Fair enough , I’m off back in time to shoot bill gates in the head with an AR15..

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  11. 1 hour ago, MikeParkin65 said:

    Railway modelling is a very broad church with lots of competing priorities. There is a very popular thread on this forum where rtr models, whilst often lauded as being far more accurate than anything the majority could build from a kit or even scratch are held as being of less worth than something handbuilt. The majority of kit built loco's are lumpen and crude compared to the crisp moldings of modern day rtr but the priority for their builders and operators are different. They often use the term 'layout loco' and I think this is a useful concept describing something that looks the part doing what its designed to do.

     

    Some want to focus solely on the model and compare it with multiple images of the prototype - nothing wrong with that its a broad church. Happily purchase of any model is voluntary so if you dont like it you can simply move on, nothing lost. 

     

    enjoy models, I enjoy new versions of existing models and I'm happy for all sorts to co exist on my layout. The priority for me is running quality and long term reliability and the established manufacturers still in my experience retain the upper hand in this respect. 

    Very true .

    For me the locos are the stars and not evoking the feeling of the prototype is like…Ryan gosling fluffing his lines !

    I try to be humble though when I remember all those Lima I collected , great shapes but mechanisms not quite up to it for the 90s-2000s

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  12. 58 minutes ago, cctransuk said:

     

    This is the problem with ever more versions of the same subject - miniscule 'errors' are now deemed to be a "big problem".

     

    It would require one to inspect the model from a matter of a couple of inches / centimetres in order to detect the lack of taper of the inset of the headcode glazing.

     

    There will always be variations in interpretation by different model producers - I doubt that there will ever be the 'perfect' model.

     

    It may well be that the ultra-critical are professionally familiar with the prototype - but this type of criticism is in danger of unfairly denigrating an excellent model.

     

    CJI.

    I disagree.In these days of laser scanning , CAD design etc and the fact that numerous of the prototype still exists , there’s no interpretation required….just accuracy . It’s not unfair in this day and age to expect excellence , especially for the prices we now pay - “ good enough “ just isn’t good enough .

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  13. 3 hours ago, Rivercider said:

    I have a small handful of old TOPS printouts from my days in the Bristol Area Freight Centre. I can also remember several of the TOPS printouts, so might be able to interpret some of the information if a scan of a printout is posted.

     

    On a similar subject, being able to produce a realistic traffic flow for a particular yard or location is somewhere between a science and an art.

     

    cheers 

    Be easy these days … “ runs as required “

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