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YesTor

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  1. I dunno if it's just me, but one thing that kind of niggles a bit on the original Hattons model is the fact that the cabside handrails always appear a tad overscale (0.4mm - see photo) and might have benefited from being slightly finer - I generally find that 0.3mm looks better? Best Al
  2. Hi @Revolution Mike B @Revolution Ben I have a defect on some of the ECOFRET wagons that I received back in February. I have made contact via email on March 19th and again on March 30th - I have received no response to either email. I have also tried to contact via RMWeb direct message, firstly on April 5th and again on May 4th - I can see that both messages have been read, however no acknowledgement or response to either. As two full months have now passed with no response or attempt to deal with the issues reported, I feel I am sadly running out of options at this point... I would appreciate some kind of response or attempt to resolve the issues reported. Please kindly advise. thanks Alan
  3. A question regarding 66001 in EWS livery... and is there a possibility that cabside mirrors could be included, so that this loco could be modelled in later condition? thanks Al
  4. Hopefully at some point in the future 66623 in its original Bardon Aggregates guise may be a consideration... 😊 Best Al
  5. 66779 - I don't own the Bachmann version - it's nowhere near accurate to begin with, but I'd buy the AS/Hattons version in a heartbeat - and I'd guess that many others would too... and 66721 for that matter. Al
  6. Remember that RevolutioN are essentially a two-man band and from what I can gather they seem to have been tied-up for some time with sending out Cartic carriers to customers. We obviously know that the Ecofrets are here (and have been for a while, so I believe). I doubt that they are being held up on purpose, so I'd guess that patience might be key. 🙂 Best Al
  7. So that competing manufacturers can potentially copy said information...? 🙄
  8. Agreed. As suspected, Dapol's version of InterCity is closer to InterCity 'Swallow' livery. It's difficult to tell from the photo, but has the Executive Dark Grey improved from the previous 'virtual' black, I wonder? It looks as though it may have done so? Al
  9. InterCity livery is basically Executive Dark Grey and Executive Light Grey, whereas the first batch of Dapol 73s were closer to black and white. 😖
  10. I always liked 37516 minus its Loadhaul logos... LoadHaul Class 37/5 37516 - Milford Junction. by Martyn Hilbert, on Flickr
  11. Those silver-highlighted windscreens really emphasise the incorrect body shape.
  12. Naturally. You're forgetting though that it also depends on what the buyer is starting with - he may have an early (EWS/Freightliner/DRS) chassis already sitting on the workbench, therefore further expenditure required = zero, in order to acquire (in this example) a complete EWS machine. Or he may have a complete early Freightliner example, whereby the body and bufferbeams might simply require swapping over. The possibilities are endless. Either way, the argument is quickly descending into a long, dark tunnel at this point - my hypothetical 'project' was simply to highlight the general uses for such models as donors... 😉
  13. To me? At this moment in time? No. But I'm not sure that you are looking at it in the same way that I might be. Perhaps stop viewing it as a fully-working model and instead see it as a spares donor? eg. There may well be someone out there for example, that craves an EWS liveried 66, who can simply flip that bodyshell onto a working chassis that they might already own. They will then be left with a 'spare' bodyshell, that I'm sure they'd have no trouble moving on for £70+ and thus recouping some of their initial outlay. You then also have a set of spares (bogies, fuel tank etc), that could easily be utilised on other projects - there are numerous 66s that haven't been covered that require different bodyshells paired with different fuel tanks etc. It's not always about the model as a a whole. I would agree that the description of some, eg... https://www.hattons.co.uk/977697/hattons_originals_h4_66_002_s_po03_class_66_66079_in_ews_livery_james_nightall_g_c__sound_fitted_pre_owned_decod/stockdetail as "Sound Fitted - Pre-owned - Decoder and speaker removed" is more than a little ambiguous, so if I were seriously interested I'd likely give Hattons a call and ask someone to clarify exactly what it is they are selling and decide from thereon if I wanted to make the purchase. Either way, it beats squabbling on forums over pricing. If something seems overpriced, get on the phone and make an offer, at worst they can only say "No"? 🤩 Al
  14. @PieGuyRob With all due respect, my response was to the point that @The Black Prince was making regarding the reductions on the main range some months ago, nothing to do with the current offerings. I appreciate what you might be saying regarding these latter examples appearing broken, overpriced etc, and to many that will be true. However, the fact remains that they are now the only examples on sale and will command whatever price the market dictates, be that below or above the original retail price. Pure economics. I'm pretty sure that if Hattons have the pricing 'wrong' and the models are still there in a few months time then the prices will come down to reflect this. But still, bearing in mind that there were something in excess of 110 models available a week or so ago, and now there are just 50 remaining kind of suggests that they perhaps aren't too far wrong in their judgement?
  15. The entire range (except one example, GBRf 66756) was slashed in price from £150 to circa £119 (that's a hefty 20% reduction in price - I highly doubt that Hattons envisaged that they would be doing this at the beginning of the project), and some examples had several hundred remaining in stock at that time - I remember having purchased a fair few myself. Either way, its virtually a moot point as to whether these were sold at a loss, or close to cost, or with a small profit margin - the real point is that there was clearly a far lesser chunk of profit made than what would have been anticipated, which by itself would have been a significant factor in assessing as to whether the project would be deemed a 'success', or otherwise... Best Al
  16. Then don't buy them, no one is twisting your arm...
  17. Simple demand and supply economics: It seems reasonable to estimate that these are likely the last of the bunch. Secondly, there is only one unit of each unique item. Lastly, the last time I looked, auction site prices showed that some are willing to pay circa £200 for a single 66. Hatton's have clearly offloaded the bulk of the production run at highly-reduced prices (close to cost price perhaps?), so no one can say they haven't had chance to snap up a bargain. So why shouldn't Hattons try and recoup a little on the last lot? And if they don't sell at those prices it's hardly excruciating at this stage to 'reduce to clear', if and when necessary... Al
  18. For sure... now we can choose between one very dated model and one fundamentally inaccurate one. 🙈 Fair enough re the Bachmann 45, a model of its vintage will naturally appear dated. Heljan's 45 however, is a model produced in 2022, when there is more technology and opportunity to research available to mankind than in any previous age. And to effectively 'reward' a manufacturer with £160+ of my hard-earned dollar for a model that has clearly been poorly researched/executed, well, I'm afraid that simply ain't how I roll. But of course, with full respect, to each his own... 😃 Al
  19. And that is exactly the problem. If Heljan were to tackle the Class 40 in OO, they'd be highly likely to simply shrink the O gauge version from their range - including its inherent flaws - as has happened with the 45. There are indeed moments when you sit back and pray that Heljan would leave some of the more popular diesel types well alone; after all, how many years did we wait for an OO gauge Class 33 with a correct-shaped roof; the 47 wasn't anywhere near correct first time around, and I'm not convinced that the second offering is substantially improved either; and now we have the 45. On the O gauge front, the Class 40 and 37 look distinctly 'wrong' from the front end view - Heljan really do not seem to be able to capture the windscreen areas of these 'bonnet' designs convincingly. The 56 and 60 again look distinctly 'off' at first glance - odd angles around the windscreen areas on the latter, a general look of 'quirkiness' etc etc. Virtually the whole range appears to be a mish-mash of errors that could have been avoided. On a positive note and sure, there are some extremely impressive diesel shunters that have been produced, and the Class 26 is good (albeit not without errors), so too the Class 128. The thing I like about many of Heljan's models is that they do have presence and always appear visually 'weighty', something that some of the other manufacturers fall down on slightly. It's just a shame that the R&D dept is somewhat lacking in ability/willingness to get things right from the offset and certainly explains why I sadly seem to have so few Heljan models in my collection. Al
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