Accurascale Goes Bananas! SR D1478 and D1479 Diagram Banana Vans in OO/4mm

[McC]

Unfortunately, like the Facebook shop, the offer is unable to take into account vat until you complete the order. It’s something we’ve asked Clearpay to look into as the website is smart enough to show vat where required on the relevant pages. 

[Tim Dubya]

6 hours ago, toby_tl10 said:

£17.7 * 4 * 1.2 = £84.96

 

I guess they forgot to put VAT in? I have no idea how VAT works with installments

 

Thanks, I really thought I'd lost my (already poor) ability to do simple maffs in the middle of the night... or anytime for that matter 👍

[Porcy Mane]

 

 

Does the retailer have to honour the "displayed price"?    🤨 

[Enterprisingwestern]

56 minutes ago, Porcy Mane said:

 

 

Does the retailer have to honour the "displayed price"?    🤨 

 

You must be bananas to think that!

 

Mike.

[Porcy Mane]

55 minutes ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

You must be bananas to think that!

 

I would never dream of quoting the Price Marking Order of 2004 which clearly states the retailer  (shop or web) is not obliged to honour the displayed retail price and yes, I have no bananas.

 

 

[Islesy]

2 hours ago, Porcy Mane said:

 

 

Does the retailer have to honour the "displayed price"?    🤨 

The quoted price is correct, but is subject to 'local taxes' in this instance which VAT constitutes. So nothing to see here.....

[Porcy Mane]

1 hour ago, Islesy said:

So nothing to see here.....

 

Wot! Not even any bananas?

[paul 27]

I am surprised they picked this version would have thought the BR Diagram 1/246

would have been a good choice as these lasted longer and i could replace those

out dated Dapol ones.

[Wickham Green too]

I am not in the least surprised that they picked this version which lasted ( almost  ?  * ) as long as Dia 1/246 but were built much earlier and carried a far greater range of liveries.

 

 

* no doubt dates are discussed somewhere towards the beginning of this thread

[Mallard60022]

On 12/10/2022 at 20:55, Dunsignalling said:

The only mention of Exeter I spotted in there involves 19 vans. Aaaargh.

 

John

Several KIts there John...not so arggghhhhhh then!

P

[Mallard60022]

56 minutes ago, paul 27 said:

I am surprised they picked this version would have thought the BR Diagram 1/246

would have been a good choice as these lasted longer and i could replace those

out dated Dapol ones.

Give it time......I also think there might be a Kit for the 1/246 either available or Dapol have been told about this on their 'wot do yer want folks' thread.

I'm drunk on Banana Rum so maybe imagining this?

Philth

[64F]

I'm happy they've gone for the SR banana because the BR Dia 1/242 and 1/246 can be fashioned from the Parkside kit and a Dapol body/Red Panda chassis respectively, whereas the SR vans were much harder to do.   However a better 1/246 than the Dapol version would be very welcome as well.

 

[Mallard60022]

Just now, 64F said:

I'm happy they've gone for the SR banana because the BR Dia 1/242 and 1/246 can be fashioned from the Parkside kit and a Dapol body/Red Panda chassis respectively, whereas the SR vans were much harder to do.   However a better 1/246 than the Dapol version would be very welcome as well.

 

Thanks for reminding me about that 64F. I knew I'd read that somewhere hence my stash of Red Panda UFs. Maybe Dapol will redo their 1/246 having asked for suggestions?

P

[Mallard60022]

On 12/10/2022 at 20:55, Dunsignalling said:

The only mention of Exeter I spotted in there involves 19 vans. Aaaargh.

John

Dapol Body about £10? Red panda UF about £10. Wheels...huh! Decent Van for less than £25.

Parkside KIt including wheels of course + Red Panda UF? Not a lot?

19 vans.....simples, even with Triple Lock destruction!

Phil

[Tim Dubya]

29 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

even with Triple Lock destruction!

 

Whadda ya mean, you got 3.1% dint ya?

We're on strike# for 10% and my union has evidence my employer can more than afford it*

You lot should go on Strike too!  

 

# Trouble is, in my case, I don't think anyone has noticed 🙄

 

* Only so I can buy some banana vans 😁

 

 

Edited October 19, 2022 by Tim Dubya
Humour, sarcasm too much coffee

[Porcy Mane]

16 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

I'm drunk on Banana Rum so maybe imagining this

 

With triple lock trepidation I'll have to make do with getting drunk on rum & raisin fudge.

These days I don't need to get drunk to start hallucinating.

 

 

[Tim Dubya]

3 minutes ago, Porcy Mane said:

These days I don't need to get drunk to start hallucinating

 

Yes, it is that time of year again 😜

[Porcy Mane]

20 minutes ago, Tim Dubya said:

Yes, it is that time of year again

 

Yep, my front lawn omelettes turns everybodies heads into a bananas.

[Mallard60022]

1 hour ago, Porcy Mane said:

 

Yep, my front lawn omelettes turns everybodies heads into a bananas.

Almost Lennon line there Porcy! Could make a fortune writing a bit more.

Phil

 

[Mallard60022]

Quick Question if I may? Dapol Body + Red Panda UF for a D 1/246 faff. How do/have people deal/t with the floor?

Red Pand UF + Floor will make the Dapol Body about 1mm too high; looks weird on dry run. 

I could use slightly smaller than 12mm Wheels; who would see that when they are running?

I could cut the 'part floor from the Dapol Body. 

I could just build the Under Frame onto the Dapol 'floor'. Latter seems easy?

Phil

Edited October 19, 2022 by Mallard60022
Speelin'

[Porcy Mane]

7 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

Quick Question if I may? Dapol Body + Red Panda UF for a D 1/246 faff. How do/have people deal/t with the floor?

Dear Duckie, 

 

In the Dapol (Dublo in my day) body floor, 45 degree cuts into each corner with a razor saw then cut out the remaining floor chunks with a said saw. Clean  up insides with file and a ratio u/f was a snug fit  (way before days of the Red Panda). You could always glue a step, 2 x 1 mm strip, to the inside of the remaining "box" for the floor to sit against. All this was way back in the early 1970's and it was probably  Gunpowder vans but method should still should hold true.

 

Just by coincidence a Rumney Models GPV has just dropped through the letterbox.

[Dunsignalling]

25 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

Quick Question if I may? Dapol Body + Red Panda UF for a D 1/246 faff. How do/have people deal/t with the floor?

Red Pand UF + Floor will make the Dapol Body about 1mm too high; looks weird on dry run. 

I could use slightly smaller than 12mm Wheels; who would see that when they are running?

I could cut the 'part floor from the Dapol Body. 

I could just build the Under Frame onto the Dapol 'floor'. Latter seems easy?

Phil

 

My Dapol 1/246 vans didn't come with a floor, though that was a while ago. Have they changed the moulding?

 

If the bottom is open, just trim the Red Panda floor floor to sit against a couple of strips attached inside the body.

 

John

[Cwmtwrch]

14 minutes ago, Dunsignalling said:

My Dapol 1/246 vans didn't come with a floor, though that was a while ago. Have they changed the moulding?

If the bottom is open, just trim the Red Panda floor floor to sit against a couple of strips attached inside the body.

Apparently - the one I have has a floor with a hole in the middle and a separate roof. I hope to be able to fill in the hole in the floor with suitable sheet, with reinforcements across the hole inside the body to support the infill, and then build the chassis directly onto it.

[markw]

54 minutes ago, Cwmtwrch said:

Apparently - the one I have has a floor with a hole in the middle and a separate roof. I hope to be able to fill in the hole in the floor with suitable sheet, with reinforcements across the hole inside the body to support the infill, and then build the chassis directly onto it.

There is enough floor to build the underframe directly onto.

[Tim Dubya]

but of course all this bodging stuff together is only academic isn't it?  I mean we're all here because we want the Irish jobbies, right? 😜