letterspider

Firstly - I fully respect an artist's right to retain copyright upon their work Showing my age perhaps...but who else remembers audio cassette bootlegs from gigs? You'd find them on sale on the street around Camden market etc. Who do you think policed those illegal recordings? Possibly occasionally - it's difficult to catch someone selling bootlegs when they are moving around their goods. I have a few of those tapes - the quality is usually poor but you know, sometimes I would go and see a band because the gig sounded great Now compare online posting of videos Your webpage is probably fixed Your Youtube or TikTok account is linked to your identity - Your account can be closed down as soon as there is a complaint of copyright infringement Whoever is policing this process does not even need to leave the office - and they don't need to chase you around town Unless people are buying these bootleg videos and paying with cryptocurrency, or doing it on the dark web, I cannot see there is going to be a significant financial problem for artists unless their shows are overpriced and not very good...and they just don't want the bad publicity Otherwise they would be getting good (free) publicity - which can only be good for future sales. My guess is the artists are thinking one thing in private and in public taking direction in what to say from the record company lawyers

Reverse blue grey would definitely get my vote for next repaint

https://www.railmagazine.com/news/2024/06/10/class-93-tri-mode-completes-first-uk-main-line-tests Apparently September is when the mainline testing will be largely complete and the rest of the fleet will ship out from Spain for driver training...

A lot of his comments must resonate with a wide audience, or we wouldn't be talking about this... ...now back to the 60, which I had no interest in buying until I saw this mechanism....the problem is.....how much can I get for my Hornby Class 60s 2nd hand...?

Good luck, let the community know what happened

You have to go to the retailer. If it was bought from Hornby your chances are much better I would think. If you bought it 2nd hand....bad news

Next project... what to do with these bits of Lego... So I thought I would try this out (not my photo) and here is the result so far...

Some black washes to the container and some spare transfers applied. A quick mock up before I apply weathering to the under carriage The liveries are all a bit off but.... who cares?

The body shell donor is a 40' Dapol Intermodal. By cutting the end off and sticking it back on, it is easier to hide the cut lines Donor End cut off Assembled and with branding sprayed off. Now only needs weathering...

This week decided to buy an Piko track cleaning coach in RTC livery. The reason is that my CMX Track cleaner - which I cannot fault - does require some time and efffort to prepare it, while I also wanted something to do a quick clean for 5 minutes. The problem with this van is firstly it,s in HO scale and secondly the body shell is flat with the detail printed on and so disappointing at the RRP of around £45. However these do turn up on eBay occasionally 2nd hand ? unboxed and so I decided to see if I could make something more prototypical from the chassis.

Interesting the 4VEP is in the diesel profile list! C mon... where is the Class 87?!!

Yes jump on that bandwagon. Perhaps we may see an Election special set of banana vans painted in the colours of each of the main parties. Red Labour Blue Tories Orange Liberals Green Greens All the others can be put together into a rainbow colour. (I can't remember their colours)

Would Hornby perhaps consider a bit of finessing of some of their diesel and electric models? Nothing requiring major re-tooling; for example - the Class 60 lighting contacts were horrible and the sprung coupling cams not so great. The upgraded PCB connector for the lighting was a positive step and maybe stick in a speaker in the PCB. The 87 pantograph - in fact somewhere to put a speaker in the chassis - considering their Class 87 TXS profile is due to be released. The list of requests is well known ... but will they listen?

I bought one of these and an very happy with it.....now can you please do something for the Hornby Class 87 BW pantograph?

Perhaps Hornby will announce a new range of diesel and electric locos that will produced by other manufacturers? My mistake...none left to do...