Moderators AY Mod Posted January 23, 2023 Author Moderators Share Posted January 23, 2023 54 minutes ago, Roy L S said: I can't see Sonic Models as a manufacturer - already produced one N wagon, one loco and a new OO one is on the boat somewhere another two N locos apparently in production Fair enough; I'd overlooked that (not that they communicate directly with press and leave it to one retailer). 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted January 23, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 23, 2023 Interesting exercise. As I am sure will be the responses. A few “best fit” ticks from me as would be expected. And a true indication of the collection size as this is anonymous; I never discuss that in detail in the public domain. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted January 23, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 23, 2023 Happy to skew the results as usual :) I did actually "ruin" a friend's dissertation once by being a statistical anomaly. Picture a nice neat graph, with mount everest right in the middle 😇 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium andythenorth Posted January 23, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 23, 2023 (edited) Done. Interesting. Thanks. 👍 Obviously some of the members would wish you had done a survey about the survey, in advance. And then another survey, about the survey about the survey. But eh, people 🙃 Edited January 23, 2023 by andythenorth 4 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Flying Pig Posted January 23, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 23, 2023 1 minute ago, Bucoops said: Happy to skew the results as usual :) I did actually "ruin" a friend's dissertation once by being a statistical anomaly. Picture a nice neat graph, with mount everest right in the middle 😇 If you put enough statistical anomolies together you get a distribution. I've joined the curve too. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris M Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 Done. Look forward to seeing any arising analysis. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold RedgateModels Posted January 23, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 23, 2023 Done, don't suppose there will be too many with only 2 coaches and 40 odd wagons ....... 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Keith Addenbrooke Posted January 23, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 23, 2023 1 minute ago, RedgateModels said: Done, don't suppose there will be too many with only 2 coaches and 40 odd wagons ....... Any modeller of North American Railroads from the 1970s onwards - my US HO collection is exactly 1 passenger car (a mail / baggage car) and 42 freight cars. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted January 23, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 23, 2023 4 minutes ago, RedgateModels said: Done, don't suppose there will be too many with only 2 coaches and 40 odd wagons ....... I managed 5 coaches* and about 200 wagons... *none of which are capable of being run anywhere though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Keith Addenbrooke Posted January 23, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 23, 2023 (edited) Very good, thank you. As @Peter Kazmierczak noted, a nice diversion for a Monday. A good range of questions which will hopefully give some interesting results once processed. A survey can't capture everything. One thing I don't think was covered in this particular survey was membership of specialist societies as distinct from Clubs (I ticked "Yes" to Club membership to cover this, which I hope was OK). I know I very much value the Society I belong to and enjoy our gatherings, but it is quite different to the Club near where I work, who have premises to maintain and multiple layout projects to fund and build. (To be clear - my comment above on Clubs and Societies is not intended as a negative observation for this particular survey, but is simply intended to offer additional information for the accompanying conversation. I hope that’s OK). Just a thought, Keith. Edited January 24, 2023 by Keith Addenbrooke (Additional Clarification - 24/1/23) 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium younGGuns7 Posted January 23, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 23, 2023 15 minutes ago, RedgateModels said: Done, don't suppose there will be too many with only 2 coaches and 40 odd wagons ....... Not far off and to be honest they are parcels and not coached I own 🤣 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Kylestrome Posted January 23, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 23, 2023 For the question "How much time do you spend on RMweb?" there is no 'Too much' button ... 😉 2 3 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted January 23, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 23, 2023 21 minutes ago, Flying Pig said: If you put enough statistical anomolies together you get a distribution. I've joined the curve too. True - although I really was an anomaly. I'm not known for being particularly healthy, and my friend was doing her dissertation on recovery times after heavy exercise comparting athletes to non-active people. The instructions were to get an initial reading of whatever, then get on an exercise bike, pedal to exhaustion then they would take readings every few minutes until it was back to the baseline. So I did exactly that, I nearly passed out getting off the bike. I think an ambulance was mentioned at one point. There was nice cluster of unfit people not cycling for long, then taking ages to recover, another nice cluster of fit people cycling for ages and not taking long to recover. And me, cycling for ages then taking over an hour to recover. She was going to leave me out but her professor said I would make an interesting case study 😄 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Flying Pig Posted January 23, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 23, 2023 2 minutes ago, Bucoops said: True - although I really was an anomaly. I'm not known for being particularly healthy, and my friend was doing her dissertation on recovery times after heavy exercise comparting athletes to non-active people. The instructions were to get an initial reading of whatever, then get on an exercise bike, pedal to exhaustion then they would take readings every few minutes until it was back to the baseline. So I did exactly that, I nearly passed out getting off the bike. I think an ambulance was mentioned at one point. There was nice cluster of unfit people not cycling for long, then taking ages to recover, another nice cluster of fit people cycling for ages and not taking long to recover. And me, cycling for ages then taking over an hour to recover. She was going to leave me out but her professor said I would make an interesting case study 😄 An exploration of the boundary between physiology and psychology... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted January 23, 2023 Author Moderators Share Posted January 23, 2023 44 minutes ago, RedgateModels said: Done, don't suppose there will be too many with only 2 coaches and 40 odd wagons ....... Wait until I get to pivot tables but I'm sure there'll be someone with 40 locos and 2 wagons. 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Popular Post AY Mod Posted January 23, 2023 Author Moderators Popular Post Share Posted January 23, 2023 24 minutes ago, Kylestrome said: For the question "How much time do you spend on RMweb?" there is no 'Too much' button ... 😉 It was self-selecting by finding those who completed the survey within 5 minutes of it going live. 😁 4 1 1 4 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 24 minutes ago, Kylestrome said: For the question "How much time do you spend on RMweb?" there is no 'Too much' button ... 😉 I think AY Mod has a pretty good idea about how much time we spent online already.... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dagworth Posted January 23, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 23, 2023 Just now, Hroth said: I think AY Mod has a pretty good idea about how much time we spent online already.... Demu forum has a thing where you can see who has spent the most time online, does RMweb have it too? Andi 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 1 hour ago, AY Mod said: Fair enough; I'd overlooked that (not that they communicate directly with press and leave it to one retailer). I hadn't heard of them. Do they produce hedgehogs as a side line? 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Popular Post AY Mod Posted January 23, 2023 Author Moderators Popular Post Share Posted January 23, 2023 7 minutes ago, Dagworth said: does RMweb have it too? There is a plugin for it available but I would think it invasive to know (it'd probably be me) so I've never installed it. It's probably theoretically possible to tell from the back end data but I'd definitely be up for something that could limit the amount of time particular people spend on here. ;) 7 2 9 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dagworth Posted January 23, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 23, 2023 2 minutes ago, AY Mod said: There is a plugin for it available but I would think it invasive to know (it'd probably be me) so I've never installed it. It's probably theoretically possible to tell from the back end data but I'd definitely be up for something that could limit the amount of time particular people spend on here. ;) Maybe some of us could do with the that too. A pop up that says "You've just wasted two hours on RMweb, go and do some modelling instead" Andi 7 3 7 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted January 23, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 23, 2023 32 minutes ago, Flying Pig said: An exploration of the boundary between physiology and psychology... Stupidity maybe? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
drduncan Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 3 hours ago, AY Mod said: Yes, the results for that so far are 'interesting'! I should have given an option for 'more than you could possibly ever need'. Or an entry broken down into finished, part built and unstarted! D 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyRule1 Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 I completed this and clicked no to clubs. Then I read @Keith Addenbrooke comment about specialist societies I am a member of three such who certainly play a big part in my modelling. None of the three would regard themselves as clubs but two have advertised in modelling magazines. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Claude_Dreyfus Posted January 23, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 23, 2023 (edited) Submitted, but not all of the answers are accurate. I have added a few comments below, which I hope are helpful. What time period are you interested in modelling? All of the answers were UK, but I do not model UK, so none of the answers are relevant. I have answered, but these are based on the time period. Probably best to trim off the UK from the answers, they add nothing - other questions state the geography of your modelling. What brands of stock do you buy? My answer is none of them from the list, I buy from a multitude of manufactures not on the list - Roco, Kato, Tomix, Piko etc. Perhaps an overseas manufacturer option (even if it is just an option of 'Overseas') may give a better answer-set. My selection of None may be a bit misleading, as that implies I scratchbuild my stock - I don't. How frequently do you buy magazines? The answer set does not match the question. The question is around frequency - monthly, once in a while etc,. The answer-set is more about the format and method of consumption . Where do you get the latest news? I get it from a number of sources...you can only pick one answer here. Edited January 23, 2023 by Claude_Dreyfus 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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