Ouroborus

£100 in a year. Might think about pulling the plug on this. It's not the bells and whistles model we thought it might be. (remember the speculation about lifting nose ends?)

Completely agree with this. I think given its price and specification, it is in a league of its own. Looking around, we're about to see another diesel come to market, fairly plain, nothing too fancy, no high tech gubbins, limited lighting and its £60 more expensive than this. Accurascale don't need me to be a fanboy for them, but this looks like one helluva bargain and the first impulse purchase I've made on a long time. It was the RfD yesterday, but the email dropped today and i saw the EWS and thought "do i need it? - no". But i just couldn't help myself

In for a third this evening with an RfD example, snagging the early bird price before it gets deleted.... Just like my post in the bargains thread was....

Yeah, noticed something odd with mine. Paypal has taken £173 (£30 deposit), but my invoice is for £229, the dcc fitted price

Ive just done this very thing. I had a picture of an estuary printed onto foamboard. £25. Absolutely delighted with it. Just choose your image carefully to ensure there is nothing in it that wrecks the concept of scale.

I follow your point, but it rather makes an assumption that track when new is perfectly smooth and flat and despite use, is not abraded by wheels passing over it. The finer grades of wet and dry are typically 3000 and used to polish paint shiny. You can go much further with polishing cloths such as those from Alcad which take you to 12000 There is a difference between cleaning and polishing and i would suggest that for the cleaner to be its most effective, that track needs to be polished smooth

Won't that depend upon the grade of the abrasive cleaner?

Agree with you. We've had instances of manufacturers insisting their colour is correct because they used the same RAL. If colour scales, does it become lighter/darker/richer/weaker etc? And might not the overhead lighting source have some effect. Most prototypes are photographed in daylight, models rarely so.

Watching this, I'm suspecting BS. What they're saying doesn't sit with their initial comments about the Blue Pullman HST when they refused to model the third headlight.

A rival HST??? Who saw that coming??

https://uk.Hornby.com/products/platform-island-x-2-r7304 24 cm long

its a section of platform

The latest advert for this programme suggests Sam's Trains might be about to provide another 'made for tv' special appearance. You wonder if the conversation went along the lines of: Production team: "throughout this series we've strived to show the skill and devotion to detail the modellers have and expect manufacturers to provide. The quest to do better, to push on for even higher standards. But perhaps this is all too serious and we need to show a flippant side that undoes all of this?" Sam's Trains: "hold my beer..."

Is that Coedbach? If so, it definitely did have sound and lights when new

What loco is this in? Mine have been fine, but i don't fit them to Heljan. I have burned tts decoders, but ive burned more hattons decoders

You know how to design boxes to give added 'value' now! Perhaps design the package to look like a chocolate egg and put the loco inside. What d'you mean that's been done????????????

Thats what my wife said

Not since Graham bought 50 and caused a wave of panic buying. They say he keeps them safe and secure at the top of his toilet roll tower

Having watched Riley in the latest episode, i have to feel he was being sent up and his good nature being taking advantage of. He seems a genuinely nice young man, but the producers show him glueing his fingers to the model and 'crashing' his model into the scenery, making a mess of the plaster scenery, the sign falling onto his head. I couldn't see a reason why they did this other to portray him as clumsy geeky nerd, the type with glasses held together by tape, someone the butt of everyone's jokes. I thought it pretty distasteful.

So the good news is the new NDM plays happily with the old one. No derailing, nothing. The bad news is that it can't move it without heavily spinning its wheels. The noise is the motor. With a seven car set on order, i hope this is just resistance in the old model

Hang fire there. Just have a look at the couplings already on your existing apt - i think you might find they do the job just fine. Iirc, the trailers and ndm are different lengths. I could be wrong, but given its so easy to swap a coupling, worth a go

Write to SK. .... that's Santa Klaus

They are remarkably similar. Almost as if the starting point for the new APT was the old one. Even the way the bogies clunk across the chassis, the same sound and feeling as if something is about to drop out of it. Looking more closely, you can pick out some differences, the roof particularly, but the body is very similar with respect to panel details. The new couplings are a pain in the backside. And i've just noticed that the orange upper cantrail is missing from the new NDM. The old one has it. See link: http://www.traintesting.com/images/APT V 49004 (370006) @ Carlisle p searle.jpg

Something very odd with this NDM (in a good way) The couplings unscrew. Once out, the original NDM coupling will screw in, though it does need a little boring out. Once out, it connects perfectly to the existing coupling on the original APT carriage. Same height, the joint equal between the two units. Coupled fairly close together. The coupling you take off the new NDM is a simple push fit and clip into the old NDM Disclaimer - haven't attempted to sent it around a corner yet. Very unusual to find a mod so easy....

I have used this type of thing. Amazed to see that price. They use to be over a grand. One piece of advice - don't go mad with the magnification. The higher it is, the smaller the depth of field and you find yourself bobbing your head back and forth to stay focused. From what i remember 3.5x is at the higher end. 4x was ridiculous. 2.5x might be a place to start to see if these are suitable for you