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Well you get 4 pretty good magazines a year, a very nice Calendar at Christmas, a PO wagon on renewal and you get to go into Collectors booth at exhibitions where you are wined and dined . All this and the option to buy club only specials, which given the price, I've fortunately managed to avoid.

 

Overall I'd say it's not bad

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Plus the annual catalogue.

 

Whether it is worthwhile or not will depend a bit on your modelling interests, but they are pretty good at spreading the offering around from pre- grouping to up to date.

 

I don't get the benefits of the exhibition goodies since I live abroad, and I pay more for the membership (same reason) but I still think it good value - the more so if the next offering is spmething pre-1923.

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And if you don't want the 'free' wagon then sell it on and you will recoup some of your annual membership fee right there. I have kept those of interest and sold others on very easily.

 

The calendar is almost worth the membership alone! I just wish there was more N gauge collectors club models which tends to be lacking compared with the clubs OO scale offerings.

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And if you don't want the 'free' wagon then sell it on and you will recoup some of your annual membership fee right there. I have kept those of interest and sold others on very easily.

The calendar is almost worth the membership alone! I just wish there was more N gauge collectors club models which tends to be lacking compared with the clubs OO scale offerings.

 

Problem is, unless anything has changed, they estimated N to be 10 % the market of OO, so expect similar proportions .

 

I think the club is good value, " wined and dined " sounds good in the club booth too

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I would have thought 40106 would be popular enough to be in the main range, not a limited edition?

 

I confess I didn't renew my club membership this year, as I didn't want the wagon and the last couple of Bachmann catalogues have been a bit disappointing IMHO.

 

If a new collector's club model comes out that I really want I would reconsider.

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I haven't renewed membership for a while. Most of the club wagons were not really wanted (there was a Doncaster one I kept as it's my home town). The catalogues while nice I can find everything online. The magazines are great but again most of what I find of interest in them is available online, usually before I get the mag. The club models are great but I've not bought one since the Class 47 Doncaster Enterprise

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According to the trainmail email it looks like the next collectors model is yet another one for the modern image fans...

 

An outline of a 'duff' with radio aerials is the clue, could be any of many.

 

 

 

Duff = slang for class 47.

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According to the trainmail email it looks like the next collectors model is yet another one for the modern image fans...

An outline of a 'duff' with radio aerials is the clue, could be any of many.

Duff = slang for class 47.

Underframe water tanks removed too, so likely to be a 47/8. Assuming off course the outline isn't a red herring...

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According to the trainmail email it looks like the next collectors model is yet another one for the modern image fans...

 

An outline of a 'duff' with radio aerials is the clue, could be any of many.

 

 

 

Duff = slang for class 47.

 

oh please be a colas 47 in the new livery

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