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4 hours ago, boxbrownie said:

So are your car purchases based just on running costs?

That's my final decider. I put together a list of suitable cars from the motability list, list the advance payments (none of the cars we need have nil APs!) and then look at fuel costs (electric, diesel or petrol) and whichever is cheapest when adding fuel and AP together gets chosen! 

1 hour ago, Hroth said:

 

Hardly worth them taking part in qualifying tomorrow!

 

Won't it decide which order they start at the back?

Interesting... Have they crash tested it yet and if so was the damage repairable compared with other, conventional, cars? He went on and on about insurance companies not wanting to repair modern cars but I wonder with its construction if it's more susceptible to getting written off then the equivalent car from other manufacturers... Or is it just another way to get people to buy more!

Someone on FB has run BTTB and Tillig locos through them as well.

I've checked all the books I have and none have drawings! I'd suggest emailing the Railway and asking them, the number of times they've repaired it I'm sure they will have!

No drawing but some nice detail shots!

https://www.16mm.org.uk/2015/08/01/mom2015-08/

It doesn't worry me at all, they'll do what manufacturers always do with RTR, compromise. I'm not after a finescale model in TT and I doubt many other people are either, so I'll just wait and see rather than speculate on something I have no input into nor any influence over!

I certainly won't "worry" over it, though, life's too short without making it shorter by worrying! ;)

At least it's still in the UK!

Yes they can, but they have to serve the ban before being allowed to drive (legally!). It's on the Gov. website.

I'm simply reporting what owners have said on FB, perhaps running them in a business scenario with high mileage suits them better than more random home use. 

MG have been pushing their cars on Motability with very cheap advance payments compared with similar cars from other makes.

So there's been a fair bit of feedback on them, EV wise the advertised 250/260 mile range is actually around 150/170 miles and the petrol engines are very thirsty. 

You pay for what you get  it seems, I nearly got one of the MG EV estates 18 months ago, I'm glad I didn't. I'll let others do the true world figure tests gor me!

Yet they still give them a driving ban (which they then ignore) and points (to be applied if they decide to go all legal and get a license!).

It isn't, they normally just get banned again and told to do community work. If you check your local papers reports of such people is pretty regular, and it's not just the dregs of society that do it either.

Out of interest does the battery life go down when sitting on the drive doing nothing?

For the British Market I recon Mk1 coaches are a definite, they've been around since the 50s, are still used on the mainline and are a heritage railway go-to. What more do you want!

(Oh, and they'd go with that 31!)

5 hours ago, andythenorth said:

I think UK stock won't have so much presence as the German stock - more on this another time.

I look at this from a different angle, for me the use of 1:120 has always been about making a "railway within the landscape" rather than cramming a lot of track in, whilst keeping the stock and buildings "easily built". That's why N, for me, never worked, it's just too small, especially when you model narrow gauge where the stock is even smaller. 1:120 worked very well on the three layouts I built in TTe and "A Taste of Alber", probably my favourite, shows what can be done in 6x2...

Or this (what you can see is only 8ft long!):

That looks like a throwback to petrol/diesel/LPG pumps where you an see how much fuel you've put in... Is there a need? I wouldn't have thought that anyone would be stood watching the electricity flow(!) but surely just a printout would suffice, if that?

Bit of a sneaky question, but as this thread is by people who like them, does anyone have an N gauge model of one and can tell me the bogie centres and bogie wheelbase please? I need a chassis with fairly long bogie centres for an H0e railcar and the 156/8 might be suitable!

Thanks Luke, I used Ballast Bond on the last layout and would agree with you, it is better than the standard PVA mix, better grip as well, will go back to it next time.

47 minutes ago, steve1 said:

Form an orderly queue and I will set the time machine…

 

steve

 

 

Ooo! A Morris 1100 Auto in Beige, that'll probably be be the rarest car out of that list if brought back now!

Does that fit between the rails? If so I assume you have to modify it for narrower gauges (i.e. 9mm)? What do you use to get the glue into the ballast? Thanks!

57 minutes ago, boxbrownie said:

 

Yuck!

41 minutes ago, Jeff Smith said:

My concern with a manufacturer trying a new scale/gauge is the lack of experience, ie Heljan 009!

In mitigation I don't think the choice of prototype was the best for a new scale/gauge combo though. All the others chose more wisely!

And therein lies the problem, too many models competing with each other from the same company!

(Reply to Michael) I didn't say it was, it's still the same basics but the programme said that it was starting to adapt to a domestic human-made diet which is different to what they would get in the wild. It's the same principle as domestic cats adapting their behaviour to get the best out of their interactions with humans. Evolution!

52 minutes ago, luke_stevens said:

Most modellers don't seem to like ballasting but I quite enjoy it.

You can come and do mine any day, I hate it! 😉 🤣