Ian Fisher Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Oh dear..ITV program on now with a 'friend' of ours on here, model railway collector and driver £27, 000 spent in last three years...oh dear that all My main erm comment I never knew east coast were sponsored by Modelzone! They have shown a 125 their limited edition but with Modelzone stickers on evey vehicle! Nawty Modelzone Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
southernelectric Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 I've been working at home today and accidentally stumbled on this programme just as it was starting. Interesting to see Bob at Alton Model Centre on there too, I've bought a fair amount of railway and Scalextric stuff from there over the last couple of years. Nice chap, and great shop if you're passing near Alton I'd highly recommend a visit - it's right near the Watercress Line too. Friendly service, vast amounts of stock, and lots of discontinued items as well. But I have to say spending £27,000 just on stock in 3 years and then only to put in a storage facility, and no layout to run it on, IS kinda nuts! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brenn Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 I've been working at home today and accidentally stumbled on this programme just as it was starting. Interesting to see Bob at Alton Model Centre on there too, I've bought a fair amount of railway and Scalextric stuff from there over the last couple of years. Nice chap, and great shop if you're passing near Alton I'd highly recommend a visit - it's right near the Watercress Line too. Friendly service, vast amounts of stock, and lots of discontinued items as well. But I have to say spending £27,000 just on stock in 3 years and then only to put in a storage facility, and no layout to run it on, IS kinda nuts! what the programme call? I show it to the wife tonight on play back so she can stop complaining about how much i spend:) mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
southernelectric Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 what the programme call? I show it to the wife tonight on play back so she can stop complaining about how much i spend:) mike The programme is called Storage Hoarders as per Ian's thread title. Shown on ITV1 at 2pm today. It's already available for viewing on the ITV Player: https://www.itv.com/itvplayer/storage-hoarders/series-1/episode-18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 ...spending £27,000 just on stock in 3 years and then only to put in a storage facility, and no layout to run it on, IS kinda nuts! Yes, he could have kept it all at home like my late friend Alistair did before expiring at the early age of 46. By the time he died, he no longer slept upstairs because the models had taken over the entire first floor. It's a bit like the late Polish war veteran Edward Trebus of Haringey (see "Life of Grime"), but with Swiss and American outline models instead of rubbish. And, compared to what he spent over several years, £27k is nothing. I suppose it's a form of obsessive compulsive disorder - any plans he might have had for a layout were very quickly swamped by a desire to either acquire every item in the catalogue, or every livery variation, or every limited edition. Or sometimes the whole lot if the going was good. And once he'd put it upstairs, it was rarely if ever touched again. I've posted the aftermath up here before, but let this be a warning to you, particularly if you have no immediate family: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium skipepsi Posted January 11, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 11, 2013 I still admire how you dealt with that lot, however I think your kit mountain is bigger! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edcayton Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Yes, he could have kept it all at home like my late friend Alistair did before expiring at the early age of 46. By the time he died, he no longer slept upstairs because the models had taken over the entire first floor. It's a bit like the late Polish war veteran Edward Trebus of Haringey (see "Life of Grime"), but with Swiss and American outline models instead of rubbish. And, compared to what he spent over several years, £27k is nothing. I suppose it's a form of obsessive compulsive disorder - any plans he might have had for a layout were very quickly swamped by a desire to either acquire every item in the catalogue, or every livery variation, or every limited edition. Or sometimes the whole lot if the going was good. And once he'd put it upstairs, it was rarely if ever touched again. I've posted the aftermath up here before, but let this be a warning to you, particularly if you have no immediate family: What's wrong with that? Ed (no immediate family any more) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelW Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 The programme is called Storage Hoarders as per Ian's thread title. Shown on ITV1 at 2pm today. It's already available for viewing on the ITV Player: https://www.itv.com/itvplayer/storage-hoarders/series-1/episode-18 Well, I've had a go at viewing it, but ITVplayer wants to know my region, asks for a postcode, then refuses to acknowledge that it is a valid postcode. In fact, it's not just my postcode it doesn't like... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted January 11, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11, 2013 It could be a regional program so you need a post code in the region try putting in the shop postcode. I have been in a house like that. I went round to quote for some work on building a layout, baseboards track and wiring. Came to nothing though probably just bought some more stock. To each their own, Don Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold grandadbob Posted January 11, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11, 2013 Well, I've had a go at viewing it, but ITVplayer wants to know my region, asks for a postcode, then refuses to acknowledge that it is a valid postcode. In fact, it's not just my postcode it doesn't like... It didn't like mine either but I put in the local High St postcode & it worked! Bob Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 What's wrong with that? Ed (no immediate family any more) Nothing, as long as you stay alive. What's going to happen to it once you go, though? Or do you plan to have the whole lot buried with you? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard Lamb Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Those photos look like a tidier version of a certain establishment that used to exist in Pentonville Road. A shared first name might provide a clue. Bernard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Twenty seven grand in three years is only a couple of decent 00 locos a week or a fairly modest 7mm one each month. Beyond my disposable income, I'll admit, but not really that spectacular in the greater scheme of things. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 11, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 11, 2013 Thats 9 grand a year, I know someone who spends more than that on a new car every year, and he's tighter than a duck's a**e, and thats watertight. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium skipepsi Posted January 11, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 11, 2013 If I had £9,000 disposable income a year then 1) I wouldn't be the whinging miserable git I am, and 2) I would have spent a lot of it on fast motorcycles so 1 would apply. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
28XX Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 This is, really, O.C.D. and it is obscene to make TV programs about it. Would other mental illnesses be turned into a freak show like this? No because there are no "Wow-Look-At-That" images to show. Gutter media - Ughh! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
forest2807 Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 I've just wasted the best part of an hour of my life watching this drivel! Apart from the irritation of not being able to skip through the adverts, the self appointed so-called expert who told the subject of the programme what I expect he already knew, (ie that if he'd invested in older rarer models instead of contemporary Bachmann locomotives then he'd have a proper collection rather than a bunch of acquisitions) annoyed me almost to the point of putting a fist through my laptop screen. And don't get me started on the train/locomotive mis-description minefield. Cheap ITV rubbish. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold griffgriff Posted January 11, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11, 2013 I think he made some sound investments if the ebay thread is anything to go by Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chris p bacon Posted January 11, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11, 2013 Programmes like this annoy me. A comment from Aggie was something like "£160 for plastic" I wonder if she has the same attitude to women who buy shoes for £1000's.? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltim Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Swiss and American outline models Good choices! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Well people like that Aggie know the price of everything and the value of nothing, plus they make Roman Amphitheatre shows like this, where cheap TV addicts with no empathy about them can sit, laugh and point. It's an illness of sorts, an OCD certainly. But it doesn't belong on telly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovex Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Somebody has to keep the model market alive - sounds like he was doing his bit Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium skipepsi Posted January 11, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 11, 2013 I watched as far as £160 for a plastic toy train, thought ignorant bitch and quit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
southernelectric Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Well people like that Aggie know the price of everything and the value of nothing, plus they make Roman Amphitheatre shows like this, where cheap TV addicts with no empathy about them can sit, laugh and point. It's an illness of sorts, an OCD certainly. But it doesn't belong on telly. I know a few people with clinically diagnosed OCD, I don't know if the person in the programme has been diagnosed with it but I for one certainly had at least some empathy with him even though I was staggered by the amount he had spent on locos and rolling stock in 3 years without even a single piece of track to run any of it on. No doubt though that he is a compulsive hoarder, as evidenced by some of the other stuff he had collected, such as the box of 300 novelty lighters. The programme did point out early on that he'd turned to model railway retail therapy after the break-up of his last relationship 3 years ago but if it was me I wouldn't want this broadcast on TV for all to see. I hope he gets the money he needs for his house and one day builds a layout in it to run his trains on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Programmes like this annoy me. A comment from Aggie was something like "£160 for plastic" I wonder if she has the same attitude to women who buy shoes for £1000's.? Imelda Marcos rarely had a problem with this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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