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    wenlock

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    Instead of having the cows present, as to my mind they always look too static as do figures generally, why not just leave signs of life with evidence of recent cattle movement with cow pats and a shovel or broom left closeby.

     

    Kevin

     

    PS whose track and points have you used, and just how hard is it to make the points for trackwork novice like me who has only ever used Peco?

    Stevethomas6444

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    In fairness to the manufacturers we have all been moaning for years about increasing the quality of our RTR locos and stock, we wanted more details, better quality running, more variety of product (which means diluting the number of sales for each model by the way), add to this we wanted better quality packaging too, to protect our models, we asked for more accuracy and research to ensure everything was right. Well in the main I think a huge number of manufacturers have delivered on a large number of these things.

     

    The catch of course is that it all comes at a price as we are all quick to throw up our hands when we see child labour being exploited to manufacture sports wear, and rightly so, then we have to expect manufacturers to also pay decent market wages to all who are involved in manufacturing and distribution both here in the UK and overseas.

     

    From the Cad design, tooling, assembly, painting, packaging, shipping, importing, customs duty, VAT, warehousing, advertising, distribution, retail outlets costs and profits, everyones salaries, pensions and tax national insurance payments, sick pay, holiday pay, accountancy etc etc. I can assure you the distance between raw production costs and RRP gets nibbled away at every stop along the way.

     

    The market we all have an interest in, is a relatively small one, and one that is sadly shrinking as more folk are dying than younger folk are coming into the hobby...

     

    So how about cheering the manufacturers for once and recognising our glass is half full rather than half empty.

     

    Kevin Derrick

    Strathwood Publishing

    KH1

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    Starting to look really good with the backscene, one tip however. Have you engaged the help and advice of the domestic overlord re hanging of curtains and such things as they are suprisingly really good at this kind of work and can offer lots of experience, far better than us mere mortals and may be able to give some technical advice towards the hanging of the backscene. If not then gawd help you as I have probably just dropped you along with myself right in it.

     

    Goodbye-ee, goodbye-ee,
    Wipe the tear, baby dear, from your eye-ee,
    Tho' it's hard to part I know,
    I'll be tickled to death to go.
    Don't cry-ee, dont sigh-ee,
    there's a silver lining in the sky-ee,
    Bonsoir, old thing, cheer-i-o, chin, chin,
    Nah-poo, toodle-oo, Goodbye-ee.

     

    Kevin

    Grasslands

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    Very nice indeed.

     

    The real ones would have had rusty buffers and wheel treads most of the time, before their scrap calls.

     

    But just imagine them painted out in Malachite with sunshine lettering perhaps, or maybe early BR black with the big lion and wheel emblems complete with larger style numbers along the sides. Would have been great to look at, but a nightmare to fire and work on for fitters no doubt.

     

    Kevin

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