Simon_H

I’m still waiting as I got sent maritime one not poppy :-( I rang a week ago, very helpful in helping me send it back but yet mine has not arrived yet! Hopefully this week for me

I contacted them regarding this fix, they declined to send me the spares to repair it myself (which I was happy to do) but alas my one is re packed ready to be returned for repairs. I’ve not even ran it in, didn’t see the point in the disappointment of de railing. Let’s hope my journey is a smooth as you’re all reporting

You wont be alone I’ve done the same. I had one donor sat here doing nothing about to be sold. Now it has a new lease of life.

My model shop is not dispatching mine and others until he hears from Hornby so I have not had the outlay for this model yet and I’m unable to experience or attempt a repair but I’m also mindful about actually getting the model. It might be worth cancelling my order and wait to see if or ever a response will be made by Hornby.

R3514 GWR 800004 is here in the UK, I have just been charged by Hornby. Exciting, I shall be waiting for the postman like an excited puppy.

 

Me too, however my wallet is unprepared and it is not pay day yet. Going to inform the boss now :-D

CV 63 to change the volume

Thanks

Did any one buy one of the Chiltern sound 68s? The volume on mine is very loud, but I have no idea where I find the list of CVs and what they can be set to and change!

TIA

All 3 have been sold on to GBRF 47727 is in Caledonian sleeper livery and is not named. 47749 is still city of Truro in colas livery, and 47739 has had its robin of templecombe nameplates removed and refitted to 56049 and again is still in colas livery. There are indications that 47739 and 47749 at least will be equipped with emu couplers as per 37884 and 37800 for unit movement work, however this is not confirmed as yet. I would imagine they will be repainted in due course at Eastleigh presumably when their latest class 66 acquisitions from DB cargo have been completed. Maybe Bachmann will consider doing 47727 in Caledonian sleeper livery in due course!

Thanks for that info! I did see some of this. Eastleigh has its work cut out at the moment!!! Oh a CS 47 :-O that would be nice, or perhaps a 86 ? We already hopefully have a 92 from DJM! I’m hoping the MK5s are produced somewhen.

Take my money now! I’d for sure buy two at least (its a condition I cant get rid off!)

I received my drs 47 today from widness models and is simply stunning. I’m very tempted by the colas one that’s actually for my area of the uk! However hasn’t that one been sold to GBRF?

Becoming fist time customer after a little bit of luck finding him in a different forum topic, I found myself chatting to Barry who is very professional and pleasant and I would recommend his shop after purchasing a locomotive Yesterday. Many thanks Barry and to your team!

Simon

Hi,

We have some left. The DRS 47 is £154.95p, which is the RRP. We were asked to stick to this so everyone was charging the same price. This was to encourage the smaller shops to take them on and not have to compete with the larger retailers. Postage at cost.

How do I go about ordering one if to put have any left? I am not local so collection is impossible! Many thanks

You can see the cast of a shadow from the lamp in the back scene. If that was light bleed It would be one of the worst I’ve seen!

Cheers Mick. 

 

It was returned as not working on DCC by the buyer. Just didn't remember the chassis being in such a state! He had said that he had tried the correct chip for lighting and it was dead.  I plugged a Gaugemaster decoder in and hey presto works fine. Think I have just been messed about by it not being wanted.  Have started to fall out with eBay over the loss of postage, given the item is working, they of course are as useless as you'd expect. I had asked he try another chip, but he didn't have one, but assured it was the loco and not the chip, think we have all had chips that just do not like a loco sometimes!

 

Will keep it now. Take it as a lesson on the pitfuls of eBay...

I dipped into buying and selling on Facebook for A while and that proved just as challenging. I now firmly stay away from both evil bay and Feb buying and selling. It’s not worth the hassle.

Do you think Hornby will ever do a run of the 395 again?

I wouldn’t of thought so, I had one but I then sold it on. It was a good model but with the current IEPs it’s one of those models that will be something you have to buy second hand. It will be the same for the IEPs in a few years time once they are all in service and battered to hell.

Take my money now! :-D

I ordered the gwr sleeper pack from these guys I got charged and refunded as it is a pre order,

I totally agree. Absent data, this circular argument (like many we participate in) is pointless.

 

AndyY did threaten to run such a survey a couple of years back (limited by definition to people who access RMweb*) but this did not eventuate.

 

* Personally I don't think it's a terrible crime to extrapolate RMwebbers to represent the larger enthusiast fraternity who make RTR purchases, but that of course is an opinion.

 

There is a possibility that there is a armchair-bound grey army waiting for the Hornby catalogue to arrive in the post to place telephone orders with their local stockist and who never venture online to places like RMweb or MREmag, and who would therefore be underrepresented in online polling. Certainly some of these people exist, but the question is "how many?"

 

Absent survey data, our retailer friends who post here, are the most reliable source of what sells and what doesn't.

 

It certainly is unscientific and to your earlier point, without survey data it is an observation with little meaning.

 

I can just as easily (and in my case facetiously) extrapolate that in my own under 55 experience, we prefer to focus on the late 1920s and early 1930s, simply because I do.

 

There are truly few (as a total percentage of enthusiasts) who can remember what the grouping era was like. To really remember the beginning of the BR era you have to be at least 77- assuming an age of about seven where you can actually remember details of things other than what your bedroom looked like. I am happily quite sure there are goodly number of septuagenarians and octogenarians here who do indeed remember that transition with great clarity, but given the realities of our mortality, this demographic is sadly shrinking.

 

There cannot be many who remember the early grouping period - it is beyond the lifespan/memory ability of most, since you'd have to be over 100.

 

My conclusion is that the vast majority of people who model anything before 1947, probably weren't there to see it, but while I think it to be an opinion informed by some maths, it remains an opinion.

 

Such data was polled once upon a time (2012 MREmag poll). The polling includes ages and preferred era. I have posted this analysis before.

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The "I model what I remember" maxim is true for some, and certainly not for everyone. The data does correlate very well for the BR late crest era - which unsurprisingly is the mode of this analysis. It does not correlate well for any other period, be it old or contemporary.

This Graph was interesting, not what I’d expect. I wonder what it would look like if such a poll was done today. I model mostly privatisation from 2010 onwards, to which I generalise as modern image.

So, five pages and forty or so minutes after the announcment.

 

Is it only me that find people's reactions to the announcement more interesting the the announcement itself? (As interesting as is. [& Bachmanns ] )

 

P

No no you’re not the only one, I’m finding the comments far more interesting! ;-)

It is indeed I just saw it but I didn’t take down the full detail but it was 16 hours and 40 mins ish

I wonder why ?

 

Knowing how well the Dynamic Lines Livery sold and became sought after seems a strange decision.

 

Unless it's because of all the criticism of a lack of a DCC Class 158...

I don’t think we will ever know the whole truth, too many reasons to list.

Is the plain blue a permanent livery or temporary whilst the TPE starts up?

I wonder if there will be much to talk about on announcement day? I just had an email saying 31-029 GWR 166 has been cancelled from production!

I hear it a lot regarding era and “modern image”. It’s your layout run what you like when you like how you like. It depends what you are trying to achieve. Some people stick to era or region etc some don’t. I’ll be getting one and I run 2015- current day.

Is this survey still open?