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  1. That looks really nice - as said above, almost cheap enough to tempt one into O gauge! Having said that, I've got a very similar-looking loco in HO which hasn't seen the light of day on a layout yet, so maybe that ought to be my priority...
  2. I'd have thought that, since Olivia's are a known retailer, they can sell stock as "new" without any problems. Yes, technically, the buyer will receive the items, not direct from Heljan, but via Olivia's, but I don't really see that as misleading. On the second point, they've probably got a similar advert for the class 47 chassis, with the same photo, and someone is looking at that one, and asking "why is there a class 26/27 on show?"...
  3. Might try and pop along later - it's so local, it'd possibly be rude not to. By the way Hammy, too late for this year, but your signature, while a good advert in theory, still refers to last year! Get the 2018 date in there ASAP!
  4. A visit to a local garden centre provided a pleasant surprise recently. Not often that I can say that - more often, all it offers is a couple of hours of my life that I'll never see again! Anyhow, maybe I shouldn't have been too surprised. The days when garden centres only sold stuff relevant to gardening are long gone. This one - the Wyevale garden centre in Shenstone, Staffs (just off the A5 and the M6 toll!) - has everything from a branch of The Works and an Edinburgh Woollen Mill to a pet store. To get to the point, this shop (and no doubt other Wyevale centres) has a toy area, which has recently started stocking a large range of Siku die-cast. There's a lot of non-scale stuff, like an upmarket version of Matchbox, from £3 to £7.50-ish, some of which would doubtless be of some interest, but there's also quite a range of more interesting kit: I'm quite a fan of Siku's large construction stuff - mostly models of Liebherr and Volvo equipment - and any HO modellers out there would hopefully feel the same. I don't know just how much of a bargain any of this is, but it's the largest range of such stuff outside of a dedicated model shop that I've seen for some time, so I hope you'll forgive me sharing it here.
  5. Indeed - at £420 a pop, you'd hope that the model wouldn't be too terrible...!
  6. The model looks superb, and the exterior of the carriage is amazing (yes, you could quibble about the "pixellated" passengers, but I wouldn't!). Overall, an enormous amount of work has gone into that, and the costs of the bricks alone must be in the high 4 figures of value. However, and not wishing to be a party pooper, there comes a point when anything can be made accurately from Lego if you make the model big enough. To me, though, the most impressive Lego models are those that are built to the standard minifigure scale, which amounts to (very roughly) 1 brick per foot, or about 8mm/ft scale, slightly bigger than 'O'. At that scale, a huge amount can still be achieved, and the ingenuity required is no less than that employed in the models in this thread.
  7. Nice site at that link, with some interesting stuff. When I was about to click the link, though, I thought "that won't work, he's copied it wrong - look at the spelling!", but no, the site really is called "small layout insperations". Too late to tell the site owner, I suppose...
  8. I'm sure you're right, but as you say, that's still quite a range. given that the locos you mention did run on the continent, it's perhaps surprising that no continental model manufacturer has produced, for instance, an HO class 20 in the white livery that it carried in France. Other than Mehano with their 66, this maybe shows that non-UK European modellers aren't much interested in stuff that originated in the UK.
  9. I agree that these Warships aren't quite spot on, though I don't think that particular photo accurately shows the relative heights of the locos and carriages. Taking what you say, though, it's probably just as much the case of the carriages being a touch low as it is the locomotives being high. And, as another has already mentioned, if the Warships could be made to sit a little lower on the bogies, then the match would be quite reasonable. As it is, I only have the green Warship now (which, in the plastic, is quite a handsome thing), and I sold the Bulleid stock with the blue & yellow one, so my only real problem is whether the remaining loco and my various cl.33s look right with Lima MkIIs!
  10. Thanks, Bernard - I'll keep an eye out for that tipper. Mind you, after 8 years, I still don't have a layout as such. Must... get... started...
  11. Always nice to see Douglas Adams quoted on a thread...
  12. That Bat-Train looks ominous, but raises questions! Not least of which are where does Batman hide it when not in use, and how can he chase down any criminals in it?
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