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I've just been dithering about buying a very nice Dapol Terrier in Southern (which don't seem to appear very often) for 70 notes. That looks like a right bargain now...

 

(I bought it).

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What,s "rare" about them?

 

http://www.airfix.com/shop/figures/a01755-wwii-luftwaffe-personnel-172/

 

The seller has these (Chinese) ladies too (Incorrectly described as 'Dapol').

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/oo-gauge-1-76-Shopping-FIGURES-suit-Hornby-Bachmann-/191185141932?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item2c8385c0ac

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Apart from the featureless blobs, what sort of 'bond' is that wall. It looks to be 60% mortar.

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Anyone want some couplings (from 'you know who')

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WRENN-W7304-Hornby-DUBLO-REPLACEMENT-COUPLINGS-with-FIXINGS-NEW-ms-/330916636981?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item4d0c2b2935

 

or you can buy them from here (still expensive!)

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wrenn-Hornby-Dublo-model-railway-COUPLINGS-W7304A-flat-/130413191126?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item1e5d3b5fd6

 

(someone apparently bought some from 'our friend'!   :O :no: )

 

(You do get some screws and bushes thrown in but.....)

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Anyone want some couplings (from 'you know who')

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WRENN-W7304-Hornby-DUBLO-REPLACEMENT-COUPLINGS-with-FIXINGS-NEW-ms-/330916636981?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item4d0c2b2935

 

or you can buy them from here (still expensive!)

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wrenn-Hornby-Dublo-model-railway-COUPLINGS-W7304A-flat-/130413191126?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item1e5d3b5fd6

 

(someone apparently bought some from 'our friend'!   :O :no: )

 

(You do get some screws and bushes thrown in but.....)

Blimey I've got a box with quite a few in. (All HD original plastic ones)

 

Keith

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That is "Good condition" for those things! (acetate strikes again). The price is,of course, ridiculous - they're usually found in boxes under the stalls at fairs for a quid or so. (OK it's for charity, but .....)

 

(I do have a straight one, but it's 'Tri-ang' rather than 'Rovex')

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Someone bought them!  :O :o :O :o :O :o

I am not surprised.  The tooling to produce models of that quality must be costly. 

basic steps needed are

1.  Load up hot melt glue gun

2.  Heat up

3.  Squeeze trigger

4.  Stretch extrusions to the shape you want before glue hardens

5.  Remove glue and insert coloured crayon.

6.  Push coloured crayon through glue gun and spread onto the extruded figure (1-4)

Voila.

 

possible uses for figures include

1.  Face down in water

2.  Cemetery scenes (in sealed caskets)

3.  Positioned in coaches in the wc cubicles (obscure glazed)

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Another case of bidding madness:

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-X-Vintage-Tri-ang-BR-MkI-Carriages-Tri-ang-R21-OO-Gauge-/111355328921?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item19ed4b7999

 

Believe it or not there is a market for these, but that market values good loose ones at about £2 a pop, and they're about as un-rare as it's possible to be.......  

 

They're the 'improved' version of the 'bendy' Rovex one mentioned above (also available in green and in warped acetate). A collection of Tri-ang should have one for 'completeness', but there is no shortage of them and a couple of quid seems perfectly reasonable to me.

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They're the 'improved' version of the 'bendy' Rovex one mentioned above (also available in green and in warped acetate). A collection of Tri-ang should have one for 'completeness', but there is no shortage of them and a couple of quid seems perfectly reasonable to me.

Indeed. One seller has relisted a boxed one about a dozen times and failed to sell it at £4.99!

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 A collection of Tri-ang should have one for 'completeness',

 

Somehow, when dealing with Tri-ang, a collection sounds so much better than a set - as indeed would my teeth  :scratchhead:

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