lofty1966

Or just a plain 'F'

Is it a sin to shorten the K's Siphon F, mount it on a ratio chassis and call it a Siphon C ?

I bought some unpainted versions....they scrub up nicely with some extra details. http://s259.photobucket.com/user/lofty1966/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20160327_212928_zpsmzfdf0hg.jpg.html?filters[user]=62482376&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=0

Shows the Oxford LNER abortion up somewhat.

The chassis is glued in and from my attempts to separate the two results in a broken model.

Seems fairly safe to say product arrival chance practically zero, judging by the last few years of complaints

What do we want ?Everything and more ! Oh and last week for delivery wouldn't go amiss as well.

There were about 10 in GWR colours on Ebay a week or so ago at £25 several of which didn't sell. If I had the cash , I would have splashed !

Greedy boy !

Without wishing to denigrate Mr ABS , is there anything in r-t-r , he has ever been impressed with ?

It's old fashioned phone or letter with S E Finecast. Dave is one of the nicest guys to deal with and do his utmost to look after you.

And what about those Dean Goods , eh?

I am not prejudging, it is going to be interesting to watch Dapol overcome all the hurdles.

With all these quality control issues, I can't wait to see what their premium (Black label) range is gonna turn out like.

I phoned Mr Dunn about 18 months ago to obtain some etched luggage grills and some spare gwr monster windows. Yes yes , no problem. 3 months later phoned again "where are they ?" ,"grills out of stock , be a couple of months til etch supplier runs some more". Gave up and got some grills from brass masters, took all of about a week. Made my own windows. All stuff still ' on order' with Coopercraft....didn't seem much point on wasting money on a phone call (from Canada) to cancel (seeing as it's never going to come anyway. I got told off last year on here for saying he is as much use as a chocolate teapot but I think I stand by that remark !

I find it safer that way !;-)

'Tis a thing of beauty. Need to go wash my mouth out with soap now, me being GWR fan.

Having recently lost my job , perhaps you could give generously for the urgent "Bachmann for Lofty" Charity appeal ?Or if it makes you feel better , keep buying lots of Bachmann (at full retail) to keep them afloat until such time as I am back in the game ! Help a fellow modeller an' all that .....there's a good Chap !

No hammering from me. Bachmann pricing keeping me out for the moment.

Reading the Hammond books on Triang/Hornby , I was amazed that they did a prototype of a GWR "City of Truro". If they had forged on ,we could now have had a slew of Western 4-4-0 derivatives which would have been fantastic. Flowers , Bulldogs , Atbara's , etc. Ain't gonna happen now

Saw a couple of the APT's at Brampton (Ontario) British Train Show today. Stunning models !

True dat ! It's a nightmare trying to find stuff for sensible money in Midwestern Ontario. The biggest joke is I can usually source stuff from the UK with the shipping cheaper than within in Ontario itself !