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Nah - humourous more like

And maybe I’ll get an angle grinder and fix the shape at the same time ?

These look way too far out to me

The lad did well . Verstappen won’t give up a winning drive on a tiff over staff . It’s BS

Time will tell what they come up with .

Semantics. Ok not London but a hell of a lot of NSE territory . ” have sold well enough “ - have they ? I remember the Bachmann ones discounted to 79 quid to get rid of them , and there’s loads around from this run . Without facts , it’s purely conjecture as to how well they did

In your opinion of course , How many times do we hear “ they’d sell” which roughly translated means “ It’s what I want “. I hear electrostar a lot - is this purely a london area unit ?( besides the rainbow colours with each franchise change ), if so how many people model the contemporary third rail railway ? A fraction of a fraction I’d guess at . As a model manufacturer surely you go after the most popular stuff , financial gambles not really needed ?

There’s lots of units to go at, but can they be produced at a price point that sells ? Bachmann eye watering EMU prices are a case in hand . If I was Accura I’d watch and see how the revolution 321 goes first

If you make an accusation which is proved to be incorrect or a lie , doesn’t that open you up to sacking on the basis of gross misconduct ? I can’t believe in this day and age , he actually wrote something in a text - screenshots have taken down many people . I never write, like or insinuate anything that can be used as a weapon against me .

In an ideal world “ Halfords announce rattle can range of contemporary railway colours “..we can but dream

I’m intrigued to know more about what it is you do and where you live ?

I remember my dad taking me to london stations just the once . Must have been 82-83 . I was brought up on a western region diet of 50s/HSTs and 117s. St Pancras - like a medieval gothic cave full of strange short nosed diesels . Euston - numbers I’d never seen that existed only in my spotting ABC . 86xxx, 87xxx, making a strange sci fi humming , going to places that only existed in my head as Football teams . Some fairly sensible names - “ City of Milton Keynes “ etc ( was it a city then ??) . Hoped to see an APT - didn’t . Kings cross. HSTs like a comfort blanket - 254 set numbers though . Underline em ! ( I used to draw a line through the number - what a numb nut , hadn’t read the Haynes guide to spotting ). The phrase - out my comfort zone summed up that day

Mainline wasted alot of their blue paint ! How long did 37109 last in blue before going EWS ? Months I think

No, I meant aircraft that whine that don’t have propellers

I’m led to believe verstappen senior is a nasty piece of work

It would seem the economics of Ejets doesn’t always work . Flybe got some awful lease terms and it was part of their issues … airlines suddenly get over excited about pure jets

Rivet counter ;)

I think it’s called not taking yourself too seriously. The hobby grows out of trainsets - trainsets like I got when I was 5 .. then grew out of it . The public perception often is of Peter Pan individuals who never grew up - I’m not in the business of educating them , I’m confident enough to persue my own interests oblivious to their opinions … let’s face it , a large percentage of the population find thinking difficult . However , we are in danger of over analysing a pastime that we enjoy . So just enjoy it in whatever version it takes - whether you are running a Lego train set round the dining room table or waist deep in white metal parts to make a narrow gauge engine from Outer Mongolia in P4

The problem is what % of the population is either into drinking and/ or football ? Way way more than model trains….that makes us the odd one …the odd one out . Thats just life . I’m tolerant of other interests , as long as they repay the courtesy

Coco pops ?

They’ll always be a section of society that finds grown men playing with “ toy “ trains amusing . You won’t fix that regardless

Thank god for the Ferraris having a scrap. At least something interesting

I get your point , but you’ve been as patronising about other interests - IE football and drinking . To validate your opinion you’d have to be as accepting of other people’s choices ( no I don’t follow football , but a truckload of people do , that’s up to them …one man’s meat is another man’s something else )

Relax mate, take it easy . It’s not a competition it’s a hobby . If you struggle with the pipes - we all do at times . By design they have to be scale which is small ! As long as you are enjoying yourself everything is good

Forget the announcements . For the modern ones , you could have Francis Bourgeois laughing manically at the 56 ….like he did at the Colas log one