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I don't wish to even contemplate the possibility, but if someone loaded up the wrong tool for making the driving wheels.... Nooooooo!!! Nahh, can't be that!

Just so long as you can move the little nubbin on the axle sideways to turn it off!

You know what I mean....... Personally, I'd have got the production company to source an equivalent from a well known auction site, althought going by the last series, Mr May does take care as he reassembles. The Radio Times? Have you seen how much they want for their Christmas Special???

Well, the jester is a bit of a clue as far as the "pull and go" suggestion is concerned. However, I do have knowledge of Chinese factories substituting cheaper cosmetically but not functionally equivalent parts after the final confirmation stage. One I know about resulted in a batch of 10,000 items being returned for rework.

Looks like another Chinese factory cockup. They send out the final decorated for production confirmation, then swap in lower spec parts to improve their profit margin. They've probably installed a "pull and go" clockwork mechanism instead of the 'leccy motor...

My mind was purely occupied with the image of Sir Archie passing a bottle of port to his left.... Hence the inclination!

Is Sir Archie one of your "clean" locos? You can see the nameplate, loco crest, cabside number AND BR crest! However, in post 1053, he looks as if he's leaning towards the port......

It doesn't matter at all, they're only model trains when alls said and done! But the BR(ec) was announced as initially arriving in mid-November, with the others spread over the next week or so and as each date arrived we had the game of Hornby Hopscotch as a new date was announced. A retailer was even told on the 29th that they were "in stock and ready for dispatch". It later turned out that they had been misinformed. Not the fault of the retailer, I might add. The same thing is happening with the other eagerly awaited loco, the Peckett W4, which has delivery dates now stretching into January, although only the most sanguine would have believed that the H&P Peckett would be delivered on Christmas Eve! So we're all waiting with varying degrees of (im)patience!

The best one is that the Hornby ad in the new, Jan 2017, Hornby Magazine (p94 if I remember correctly) advertises R3430 (LNER) and R3431 (BR early crest) as "available now"! Good luck with that.....

Ye gods....... I suppose it all depends on the time of year. *sigh* I've decided. I may or may not buy a Dean Goods.

Perhaps we could re-create the flags in 4mm when Dodo arrives on these shores!

The r/h one (from the viewers perspective) certainly is. On very close inspection, the bar to the diagonal cross* is definitely closer to the upper portion of the blue**. On Edwardians post the relevant spacing is on the l/h side (the hoist) of his picture of the Union Flag. * Northern Ireland ** Scotland

This is a new series. The first series of three "Reassemblers" were the Suffolk Colt lawnmower, the Electric Guitar and the GPO telephone. Evidently more than 400,000 viewers watched the first series! Series two will address a Hornby toy train (thats what the BBC say!), a monkey bike and a 1960s electric food mixer.... There are said to be 4 episodes in the second series but I don't know what the fourth is going to tackle. A bit more research revealed that its going to be a Dansette record player. Its evidently all part of the BBC "Slow Tv" output. Actually, I don't mind that the loco is Flying Scotsman, its just a Hornby loco, there's nothing precious about it!

Perhaps the person putting the flag on suddenly felt unwell?

Bravo! The hotel is immense, but just look at the size of that trainshed!!!

So long as the loco he's reassembling is not "Flying Scotsman"...

Lots of unhappiness around then! Its not just the B12s, the Pecketts have also been affected. Looks like there may have been a mismatch between what was supposed to be in the container and what had actually been supplied......

Hattons now believe that they'll have all liveries of B12 in stock by this Wednesday.....

Or you could consider the topic concerning MRJ issue 250 (not the "serious one"...) @Stationmaster: Pursuit is more akin to "aspire", they obviously aren't within spitting distance yet!

All we need now is a pic of the Bachmann Wickham trolley beside Dodo to demonstrate how small Dodo really is........

It depends on your camera, but it initially looked like you're exposing for the engine grot, and thats blowing all the pale areas, not just the lamps but the ballast and track too. Then again, apart from the exposure mode (spot vs average), you might have the exposure compensation mode set to over-expose in general, as the grot is a bit light too! The Fortress pics and Sir Archibald also look a bit pale...

But still not moved to New Arrivals from Coming Soon at Hornby!

Our family expression for such circumstances is "It looks ok to a blind man on a galloping horse". Dunno where that came from, but its very useful!

Well, I weakened and ordered a maroon Wickham which arrived today. Even having seen the pics of one standing alongside a Hornby Sentinel, nothing prepares you for how tiny it really is!

Almost....... It'll be Christmas come early!!! Wheeee!!!!!!!!!