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On 09/01/2024 at 09:15, nathan70000 said:
Locomotion No 1, interesting choice. There were a few hints in the latest Hornby A Model World series- IIRC there was a large scale model of it in shot at one point.
Otherwise, oh dear.
Several items from that list I can already see ending up in bargain bins - WWII black W1, Tiger, IoWC four wheelers, possibly the Triang nostalgia sets too.
As for the B1, which is it? 61306 or 61379?
It apears to be the modern pretender to Mayflowers name AKA 61306 as currently preserved
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18 hours ago, Bucoops said:
Interesting as the response I got is that they are aware and are arranging to amend the listing. Not sure if that was in reference to it not being a Q1 or it being £100 over the new price (or both).
I've followed up and now. They have said they will pass it on to the ebay team. I believe the kit is for a gn j2, j3 or j4 0-6-0. Ace do all of them. I'd actually buy it if it was at a reasonable price. I've had a few kits from rails recently all from ebay and we'll priced hence why this one stuck out like a sore thumb
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On 15/12/2023 at 11:09, paulmblythe said:
madness from rails. kit is for an 0-8-0 but contains a chassis for an 0-6-0. also the tender is a later ivatt one and the box shows a stirling tender. I showed interest in this as i just picked up the same kit with all the correct parts for £125 second hand they are £199 new!
additional. having further looked at it i believe the kit is actually for an Ivatt J3 0-6-0 and in the wrong box which makes it even more expensive as the j3 is a cheaper kit than the Q1
I've contacted rails suggesting that this kit is actually an 0-6-0 and is in the wrong box they have just replied telling me I am wrong. Thing is I'm not wrong...
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madness from rails. kit is for an 0-8-0 but contains a chassis for an 0-6-0. also the tender is a later ivatt one and the box shows a stirling tender. I showed interest in this as i just picked up the same kit with all the correct parts for £125 second hand they are £199 new!
additional. having further looked at it i believe the kit is actually for an Ivatt J3 0-6-0 and in the wrong box which makes it even more expensive as the j3 is a cheaper kit than the Q1
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22 hours ago, Hacksworth_Sidings said:
The one i had was the top one. I've only found reference to it being the prototype and not a production model. I definitly had the top one as despite my young age i remember clearly it having the rounded cab entry and an x04 motor. The lower one was what i received when it went back as it was faulty. I cant believe my local model shop in Grimsby had the actual prototype for sale so can only assume a very small amount of the prototypes went into production. I was always disapointed i didnt keeo the top one as it looked more like the thomas in the books whereas the lower one was modified to look like the tv version
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16 hours ago, Hacksworth_Sidings said:
Recently I've been debating getting back into collecting the Hornby Thomas range, namely nostalgia reasons (but I also want to replace my now deceased James and Gordon models, alongside having more T&F characters to go with my Hornby Thomas, Percy and Toby), so I've been looking around to see if I can find any good deals, prices on eBay and Hattons are some of the most ridiculous I've seen for toolings that date back as far as the 1980s, some even having originated in the 50s and 60s (if we're talking about things such as James' body which is a retooled Triang Deeley, and Diesel being the Triang 08 body which Hornby for some reason still produce today). Thought I might share some of my experiences with Hornby T&F items for sale:
I've seen some ludicrous things being sold in terms of Hornby T&F merch, namely the big names such as Spencer, Oliver, Stepney, Scotsman, etc, selling for hundreds, sometimes even thousands (seriously, an 80s tooled Scotsman with a Gordon face for £1K!? The brand new Trix/Marklin HO one is around half that price, and of much higher quality!), but also things like Henry, Edward, Emily, etc, all going for well over the £200 mark! Edward being a retooled D49 "Hunt" I believe, Emily being from the 2007 retool of the Triang Dean Single, Henry being a bog standard tender drive black 5.With every hundred or so overpriced listings though, there's always one or two bargains, for example: Christmas last year I picked up a job lot of Hornby TTTE locos, just the 90s versions of Thomas and Percy, £55 for the two of them! Checked recently and around £35-£40 for a Percy on his own, a bit pricey as he's an 80s tooled 0-4-0 but far more reasonable than the £50 that Hornby want for the new "retool" of his model (can we even call it a retool at this point?). Saw a James, 80s/90s version, loco only, £30, still got the tender body from my old one, and since he used the Jinty chassis (motor removed so he could be tender driven) I could've quite easily converted him to an X.04 if I wanted to, but that listing's ended. More recently I've found two interesting lots, the 0-4-0 variant of Thomas + Annie & Clarabel for just £25! If I recall correctly that's one of the rarer Thomas models, and £35 for one of the 1985(?) Thomas models (the first versions with the weird faces) + A&C for £35! Debating swiping one of those up... Also checked Hattons and saw a Gordon for £94, dropped from £117, overpriced? Maybe, but far more reasonable than the £150-£200 some sellers ask for him.
I should really check the local model train shows at some point, see if I can find any on cheap, been meaning to get my hands on some more of the Hornby T&F items for a while now, but with sellers of the stuff seemingly blinded by "Oh, this isn't in production any more and there's a bunch of people out there who'd pay ludicrous prices for collectable merchandise!" I doubt I'll get my hands on any of those items for a good while.
By original Thomas with the wierd face do you mean the very first one with the slight rounder cab and x04 motor? i had one of those but it was faulty. my parents returned him and i recieved the newer one in exchange with the squarer cab that resembles the tv version of Thomas rather than the lbsc E2 he was in the books. They also changed the motor. id love to get my hands on the original one again
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12 hours ago, MrWolf said:
I mentioned earlier the very poor impression that Joe Average has of railway enthusiasts, I found this from Viz comic via Flickr:
I cant help but think that some of those "adverts" have enough accuracy and information in them to have been actually written by a railway enthusiast. ignoring the 47 deltic error
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On 09/11/2023 at 08:33, RFS said:
It's the same guy who has a Hornby purple West Country for sale at £1497.95. He has 1055 items for sale, yet in the last 3 months has only made 7 sales.
I have to wonder if some of theses sellers are some kind of tax evasion scam. maybe a vat registered ltd company buying items as stock which reduces your tax liabilty and you can then also claim the VAT back. you then put the items for sale at extortionate prices hoping they dont sell. or it could just be someone with an over inflated valuation
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13 minutes ago, papagolfjuliet said:
"This OO gauge Hornby 0-6-0 Pannier Tank Loco is a must-have for any train enthusiast. With its stunning green colour and detailed Great Western Railway corporate livery, this replica steam locomotive is an ideal addition to any model railway or train collection. The locomotive is a replica of the famous Pannier Tank and is suitable for Era 3 - The Big Four (1923-1947). The wheel configuration is 0-6-0, making it a powerful and reliable locomotive. Whether you are a seasoned collector or just starting, this Hornby locomotive is sure to impress."
It's a knackered Gaiety pannier with hardly any paint.Ive noticed recently that if your lazy you can use the automatic AI description creator on ebay. This reads like one of those. I had a laugh with some puzzles i was selling and it came up some similar guff. I actually listed some with the AI as they call it descriptions. strangely the ones with the AI descriptions are getting more bids.
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22 hours ago, The Johnster said:
Ye gads and little fishes!
28 items into £11k = £396.85 per item. I saw a Spencer going on the bay t'other day for £400, claimed to be rare and it might be for all I know, but surely the top end of what one would pay for any single Thomas item, and while I am not up to speed with which items are hard to come by or the 'TTTE premium/kiddie pester power leading up to xmas', I can't see this collection being worth half of what he/she's asking even in the most favourable seller's market, but what do I know? Blatant chiseller, that's what!
I like to look at the 'seller's other items' for these deluded idiots, usually some amusement to be had, but it seems to be branded stuff of reasonable price. This listing just doesn't make sense; if he/she's misplaced a decimal point it would be far too cheap at £1,100. I reckon about £4k would be reasonable, but what do I know? It's not even a complete TTTE set, no bogie coaches, vans, fish train stuff, just a trawl through the shops of what he/she could pick up at the time in the belief that they'd all become rocking horse doodoo.
Good luck to him/her, there's one born every minute but it might be him/her. This might be entertaining to follow, as low (i.e. reasonable) offers are refused and he/sheh gets angrier and angrier... Maybe he/she'll reduce his/her price to a very reasonable £10k to clear, then he/she'll start to get really upset; I'll find it hard to feel sorry for him/her. He/she's admitted deliberately setting out to buy one of each TTTE item after hearing that 'Hornby had lost the franchise', which I interpret as a blatant attempt at profiteering that we are apparently expected to admire his/her prescience for, but he/she's bought them in shops, thereby breaking the golden rule of trading 'buy low sell high', well the first half of it anyway! Buy high sell sky high doesn't sound like a particularly good business model to me (but what do I know?).
Stupid blatant chiseller.
S*d 'im/'er.
The rarest Thomas item i believe is the original Thomas from the 1st batch. They were mostly faulty so a lot went back including mine. When i got a replacement from Hornby thomas had morphed from the LBSCR E1 0-6-0 he was based on into a more boxey loco as he apeared on TV. Ive never forgiven my parents for doing the right thing and returning my faulty Thomas to Hornby as I much prefer him in original Awdry guise. Id probably get him running now too.
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22 hours ago, Hal Nail said:
oh don't start me on that! I noticed the other day that the wording of "new other" basically condones calling used new.
One of my pet hates is if people get things wrong often enough it seems to become accepted!
Ah yes a favourite of kit sellers. I bought a couple recently one of a kit thats been out of production for at least 15 years with tarnished etches. Sold as New other. another of more recent vintage but with a couple of parts missing. In both cases i knew exactly what i was getting and bid accordingly. I could see some not realising they are in effect second hand and being disapointed.
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Rails bargain. I assume its a part built Acme/college models kit and the builder gave up like many do when they get to the valvegear on this particular kit. did well to get that far...
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3 hours ago, andytrains said:
Thats...erm... interesting. I've just played a game of guess the donor. Looks like a lima 87 with the cabs replaced. the cab roof looks like a lima 117 dmu headcode box. it would be ingenious if it didn't look like it at hit something.
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19 hours ago, Hroth said:
It all depends on the intern operating the ebay section that month....
haha yes i guess so. one of the other ones thats puzzling me. They have an ACME (shudder) 9f kit for sale. It says complete kit on the description. There's no photos of a tender though... They do have a BR standard tender lsited separatly. I think id go for the Scorpio version for less than they want for the loco minus tender though for both sanity and monetary reasons
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On 08/10/2023 at 14:06, SteveyDee68 said:
He says to contact him for further details and postage is available for a small fee. I think this is another example of someone trading off eBay - should be reported!Steve S
My thoughts exactly. although hes not thought it through. if someone does buy the lot for £1234 hes going to pay a lot in fees.... or maybe he doesnt care. confusing
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On 07/10/2023 at 16:51, Bucoops said:
cant work rails out at the minute on the o gauge kits. They have had some good deals and then some stupidly expensive ones. I just made an offer on an ace N1 kit. i got it for considerably less than the asking price which was already lower than what ace sell them for. Then they have this wagon....
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7 hours ago, cessna152towser said:
A different "Wolf of Badenoch"
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255022413208
The same seller also has a few more unusual liveries.
I have to admire the optimism as to their value.😄
Looks like they had a good stock of modern image nameplates to put on theyre southern.... i mean highland locos
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On 16/09/2023 at 20:37, Paul H Vigor said:
As a buyer, I don't need a brief history of the class of loco modelled, I need to know if it runs, how it runs, etc.
And £100 sounds a triffle 'hot' for what is on offer - given the past going rates for kitbuilt panniers?
this reminds me of mobile phone sales people where they tell you how great the camera is and how stylish the cover is for ages. ok but can i use it as a phone? ....sorry?
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On 16/09/2023 at 10:45, Michael Hodgson said:
People have locos with burnt out motors, can't get parts. So a simple plug-in replacement will find a market, although I don't know how big that market will turn out to be.
I have an old triang A3 which i superdetailed many years ago with a crownline kit. its not up to modern standards but i do have a fondness for it as one of my more succesfull early teenage modelling efforts. the motor has had it and i have looked into replacing it but dont want to do it enough to pay £30.
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Or buy new for £199 from mr ascough himself..
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Has no one else noticed the running number of the 81? i believe tops numbers on 81's only went up to 81022
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On 07/08/2023 at 17:31, MrWolf said:
The description I found interesting:
"
O GAUGE DJH HANDBUILT A2 CLASS 60528 TUDOR MINSTREL LOCOMOTIVE BR GREEN.
07734456359
EXTREMELY WELL BUILT
THE TENDER IS NOT CONNECTED TO THE LOCO IN ANYWAY AND THE TENDER COUPLING TO THE LOCO IS MISSING/NOT ATTACHED.
THIS MODEL HAS NEVER BEEN RUN
THIS MODEL HAS A MOTOR
THIS MODEL HAS BEEN STATIC FOR 17 years. +
PAYMENT IS REQUIRED BY B.A.C.S OR CASH ON COLLECTION.
SOLD AS SEEN, THERE ARE NO RETURNS AS STATED BY EBAY"
I'd be highly suspicious that even though it has a motor, it probably doesn't run, or if it does, the wheels do half a revolution and then lock up. Especially as the seller is keen to get your money locked down and puts plenty of emphasis on the no returns policy.
The lack of pictures rings alarm bells too.
Pictures might give away why it has never run in the last two decades.
It's probably worth less than a tenth of what they're asking in reality. See what a dealer would offer for that description and pictures. Very little if anything.
ive asked for further pictures just out of interest. i also see you can pay by the normal methods (cards Paypal etc). im almost tempted to buy it, pay via ebay and then immediately return it as hes a business seller. a bit petty on my part but would be a lesson to him.... maybe..
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On 27/07/2023 at 18:29, Bucoops said:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204400626525 or £13.50 direct from Isinglass...
As someone who has worked in a drawing office on and off for 25 years, the price isnt the only thing that annoys about this. No its not a schematic! a schematic is a drawing made of of symbols to show the workings of a system and not intended to be a realistic interpretation. These drawings are general arrangement drawings showing plan and elevation views. rant over lol
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On 28/05/2023 at 13:08, TinTracks said:
No critisism of the seller, who I think is the same person who treated us to the purple A4 a few pages ago.
A bit of a bidding war with this one. Looking at the amount it went for I think a couple of people got a bit over excited. Pedant mode engaged--the rear coupling on the tender is Trix not Dublo as stated.
In the unlikely event that the disappointed underbidder is reading this please feel free to pmail me as I might, just, be able to help.😉
Regards, Rich
its a shame hes done that to that as although its basically the original rovex b of b they only made that version in a very small batch and they fetch a fair bit in original condition. i had one and as a teenager ruined it by superdetailing mine. i wish i hadnt now mainly for sentimental reasons
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EBay madness
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Knowing ebays policys towards buyers and sellers i could see someone buying this and complaining when they only recieve the 2 or is it 4 cars (who knows) and actually winning and getting theyre money back and the unit. if it confuses us it will definitly confuse ebay