stewartingram Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 I got mine in - of all places - Tesco yesterday. Stewart Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
warbonnetuk Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 A very informative read. Picked mine up late last week on my local McColl's (Horley, Surrey) and they had another half dozen copies Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahame Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 I've got a copy and can add that it's a well researched, interesting and informative reference work that is nicely laid out and a pleasure to own. Recommended. Bring on more similar bookazines. 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted December 12, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 12, 2020 Just ordered hard copy off Key publishing web site... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kier Hardy Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 15 minutes ago, Phil Bullock said: Just ordered hard soft back copy off Key publishing web site... FTFY An excellent book.... still thumbing through my copy and getting a few ideas for future projects to boost my departmental wagon fleet. Thanks Simon for posting the Dace pic on this thread - I've screen captured / printed, and put it in the book. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BR Blue Posted December 12, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 12, 2020 Really excellent publication. Got it in Easons in Dublin, 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 Key Publishing are certainly good at getting them out into retail outlets. Both my local Tesco and Smiths have lots of them. Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted December 13, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 13, 2020 9 hours ago, hmrspaul said: Key Publishing are certainly good at getting them out into retail outlets. Both my local Tesco and Smiths have lots of them. Paul I shudder to think how much Tesco et al will be screwing Key Publishing on price to get them into their stores, but at least it's nice to know that those of us who buy them from the publishers will be subsidising Tesco's shareholders! Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 5 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said: I shudder to think how much Tesco et al will be screwing Key Publishing on price to get them into their stores, but at least it's nice to know that those of us who buy them from the publishers will be subsidising Tesco's shareholders! Mike. Publishing is more about turnover than most other things - printing is relatively cheap so the more that are printed and sold the more the profit for publisher and authors. Although I acknowledge there is some paid advertising content it has 132 pages many of which have several colour photos - I'm a very minor contributor and have 19 photos in it. I would guess this will be like some of those M&S railway modeller books of old a Xmas purchase by, and for, people whom would rarely, if ever, buy such a bookazine. Paul 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Nickey Line Posted December 13, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 13, 2020 On 12/12/2020 at 10:23, Phil Bullock said: Just ordered hard copy off Key publishing web site... On 12/12/2020 at 10:41, Kier Hardy said: FTFY An excellent book.... still thumbing through my copy and getting a few ideas for future projects to boost my departmental wagon fleet. Thanks Simon for posting the Dace pic on this thread - I've screen captured / printed, and put it in the book. Ditto and ditto! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdseyecircus Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 Even though I have only read the first few pages iam enjoying this read. Most of the monthly mags I seem to get through in an evening whilst the boss is watching junk on the TV, but this seems to hold my interest along more. Hope there's more editions to come. Paul 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cravensdmufan Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Collected my copy from my local independent newsagents this morning. Only had a quick flick through as yet, but it looks brilliant (I had to look twice at the photo on Page 5 of the pair of 33s - can't believe that's a model, it looks so real!). This publication will give me good reading over the next few days - moreover it will be a very useful work of reference for the future. Thanks, and well done Simon. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahame Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 3 hours ago, cravensdmufan said: Only had a quick flick through as yet, but it looks brilliant (I had to look twice at the photo on Page 5 of the pair of 33s - can't believe that's a model, it looks so real!). And the pic on page 71 also requires a double take. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grampus Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Really enjoying my copy too, thank you. I have learnt lots of interesting stuff about some of my favourite wagons and why they were built the way they were. For example, why lampreys and crabs had shrouds over their buffers - to protect them from being damaged whenever the drop down ends were lowered. Obvious once somebody tells you, I guess, but until now, I had no idea. A really well thought out volume with loads of inspiration: who knows, maybe enough to get me to break into my kit stash over the Christmas period and actually build something? Good job! Best wishes, Paul 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob D2 Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 I’m still wading through it . It’s got more meat than the ASDAs butcher counter ... Well done ! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Foden Posted January 11, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 11, 2021 This is right up my street! Working my way through my digital copy now, what a wealth of information, fantastic read so far, really hoping for a follow up, hope the sales have gone well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Phil Mc Posted January 11, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 11, 2021 No spoilers please, I’m only about 20 pages in........ cheers, Phil. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stuart A Posted January 11, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11, 2021 On 05/01/2021 at 18:57, rob D2 said: I’m still wading through it . It’s got more meat than the ASDAs butcher counter ... Well done ! Should be fish, surely? 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium alexross42 Posted January 16, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 16, 2021 Has anyone else had issues ordering from the Key Publishing website? I ordered this magazine and a few days later it arrived.....except it wasn't this, it was the latest Hornby magazine and the 2021 catalogue....so I sent an email, received an apology and was told a copy of the magazine I ordered had been posted that day....then this morning it arrived - great! Except....it hasn't....I now have a copy of "Britain's Railways in the 1960s"! So another email has been sent. I don't mind amassing a collection of magazines that I haven't paid for but will enjoy reading however it would be nice to receive the actual one I ordered! 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andythebud Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 There has always been something about engineers' wagons that I've liked with all the different varieties and uses and especially those painted in the departmental yellow and grey livery that I mostly remember, so this was a must on my Christmas list. Currently making my way through it and a very enjoyable read (especially when my Flangeway Salmon arrived whilst reading it) and a good source of reference for the future. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butler Henderson Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Spotted, hopefully the only one, an error in the section on modelling "Special Wagons" in that an implication arises that there have been three RTR lowmacs; the Hornby-Dublo one (p 102), the Airfix one (p 103) and a "Tri-ang now Hornby" one (p 101); the latter is the Airfix one and Tri-ang never produced a lowmac. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium finelines Posted February 17, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 17, 2021 I think I heard about this book on Facebook and honestly I bought it to look at the the prototype information in it and I wasn’t disappointed. Then I suddenly said that’s one of mine! I have to thank you for the book about building my ballast wagon kits! My sudden departure from kit manufacture can be put down to a mixture of things, but mostly depression. When you cock up 5 dies in a row..... One prototype in the book I had spent quite a long time looking at (other people call it researching) was the Plaice. I had hoped to use the underframe for other wagons, but l seem to remember they had been quite seriously modified. I like the Pilchard, but I don’t think my machine could squirt something that long. Roger 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windjabbers Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 Having now looked at my copy properly would absolutely agree with the comments here. Excellent magazine, my only hope is that this is the first in a series! Best Wishes David 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butler Henderson Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 Hopefully copies are resident at the likes of Margate and Barwell, 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hippel Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 I hope Dapol have a copy too. 'O' gauge Shark, hint, hint! Paul. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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