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On 08/06/2024 at 19:00, Steamport Southport said:

 

Not all of them though. Things like the GWR station and signal box are definitely 4mm scale. Even though they are now packaged as being Southern!

 

Just paint the green bits brown :D They did address this in an article https://www.gaugemasterretail.com/rightlines-article/changing_fordhampton_kits.html

Hope it goes better than when WH Smith acquired the Modelzone brand...

On 17/02/2024 at 11:05, MarkSG said:

 

It would depend a lot on what you want to do with it. It's unlikely to have had a huge amount of traffic as a pure redirector, because it won't crop up in any search results. But it would be a good choice of domain for a website about model railways, because then the domain name will match the content and that's a positive signal for search engines.

Or Rails could buy it and just use it as a redirect. Ho hum.

18 hours ago, bécasse said:

The British voted to be treated differently - and they are!

It's a brave new world...

20 hours ago, newbryford said:

Hattons are selling off stuff other than model trains.....

 

I would want to see some actual evidence of traffic through that redirect before parting with any cash...

10 hours ago, sixteen 12by 10s said:

having read I a lot of comments on this subject, and been privileged to know some additional information, the problem is not the lack of young people getting involved in the hobby, but the lack of young people who have the skills or the aptitude to carry it out running a large exhibition 

That's just ageism.

3 hours ago, woodenhead said:

They have other means to communicate - FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram and probably others I am too old to be aware or bothered with.

I don't hold with the fact that age is a factor in not knowing about things. The internet has been around for what, thirty years at least? We should all know how to use it by now.

21 hours ago, JSpencer said:

 

Of course tiktoks with identity influencers saying "I identify as a railway modeler and my pronouns are choo/chuff".

Hmmm That would probably work actually....

Yeah, that'll get them on board 🙄

4 hours ago, AY Mod said:

 

The Vintage Classics range is quite popular with stockists from Arundel to Aberdeen.

As ex-staff of a company in one of those locations, I'm not as ignorant as some may make out... One might say that they may be popular with stockists, but are they popular with customers?

22 minutes ago, Gatesheadgeek said:

Which presumably customers are buying otherwise they wouldn’t do it. New models being released as well. 

They are trading off the name though, granny is more likely to buy an Airfix Sherman than a Revell one, little Johnny never knows that better kits exist.

9 minutes ago, 1andrew1 said:

Airfix has flourished under Hornby's custodianship.

Still churning out 50 year old kits from knackered moulds

17 minutes ago, PeterStiles said:

Sorry to disappoint , but their injection moulding has "made in china" on the edges :o

 

 

Oh fair enough, metal and resin production is UK though :)

14 minutes ago, Harlequin said:

How do Warlord make their products? Do they have access to dedicated injection moulding facilities or are they perhaps 3D printing experts? Both those things might be very attractive and synergistic to Hornby.

 

Pretty sure all of their production is in-house in Nottingham.

Ignore GW, they are a whole different market to Warlord's. I would say Warlord are the Hornby of wargaming (read into that what you will...)

Don't forget Bognor Models in... Bognor!

On 15/12/2022 at 19:49, Shoey said:

Does anyone know when these are due into stock seeing as the others have hit the shelves?

Check with Gaugemaster, I would say!