maico
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The traditionalist, or Luddites depending on your point of view, must be horrified at this loco which has water based smoke system, sound and LED lamps...!
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I posted a photo of a loco made for the British market with lights more than 80 years ago not 50 as you said. Here is the Marklin 1938 British catalogue. Not really British outline of course but more toy like.
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More on the Erzbergbahn mountain railway here https://manager.ladormilona.com/ebay/ad/view/id/s2-h0-brass-micrometakit-95700h-zahnardlokomotive-br-1973-29603-die-bboe-ovp
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Longer than that. This Pre-War Marklin Ho 3-rail has running bulbs. The Chinese factories are well versed in LEDs they must be puzzled Hornby don't normally specify them! If someone doesn't want the Black 5 ones pull off and replace with lamp irons has shown on YouTube...
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Museum quality brass RTR goes for big money on the used market. If you need to ask the price you can't afford it! German 1:87 Meta-Microkit photographed by Fitz Osterthun
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In 2017 the hammer price of this model at Vectis was only £110, the same as the Hornby Railroad P2 for some reason!? Listed as professionally built in 1993, painted by Larry Goddard, near mint.
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Tony, how do the wheels under the cab work on your DJH City of London. Do they pivot inside the fixed outer frame or move side to side? What would be the minimum radius a large DJH model like that could negotiate?
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In the small print it says: 'I understand if I am not completely satisfied I have been had'
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He uses a torque meter and extrapolates the number of coaches number.
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I watched Dunkirk at the South Bank IMAX. The director had been in and set the sound levels himself but for me it was way to loud. I had to leave before the end with my ears hurting. I think Christoper Nolan may have damaged hearing! I don't have any problems hearing actors mumbling but some of the sound effects were ridiculous. For example, the return fire from the Heinkel was slow thumping canon fire but at that stage of the war the Germans and British had rifle calibre machine guns.
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Oppenheimer had a British producer, British director and of course an Irish lead!
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Yep, I bought the LP in the mid 70s when I was still in my school shorts....
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This is the P2 for you Tony that existed in a parallel universe...
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Well, bokeh is how the out of focus area is rendered. If it is smooth it will give the subject in focus a three dimensional look and pop.. If the bokeh is messy the object in focus will look less defined and sharp to the eye. The best lenses for me are also the most expensive for example a Leica Summilux-C 25mm T1.4 cine lens is £24k
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A comparison of these Marklin-Trix turnover and profit charts is interesting. I didn't realize Bachmann are such minnows... https://www.marklin-users.net/forum/posts/m669175-A-quick-look-at-Marklin-s-economics
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I had enough reward points at Accurascale to get a free pre-programed Deltic Lokpilot decoder. Can I reset it to ESU factory standard via an F no. for use elsewhere or is it locked? Thanks.
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When I was focus puller you had to be careful with older Cooke primes. Some project a pronounced curved plane of focus. Focus in the middle and the edges were out and vice versa. Zeiss are flat field. In my time in the industry I can't recall any Sony lenses. It was Zeiss, Panavision Primo, Leica, Cooke zooms, and the odd Angénieux zoom and Canon superspeed primes. Long lens would be converted Canon still lenses.
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You mean equivalent field of view. The angle of view is the fixed property of the optic. A focal length of 25mm is the same regardless of the size of the recording medium behind it.
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On my screen Tony, the area in focus has more resolution in the image shot at F8. Having spent a lifetime working in the film industry behind the camera I've got a pretty good eye!
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You can't escape the laws of physics Tony. Even using a macro lens stopping down to F32 or F40 is degrading image quality significantly by iris diffraction. After f/11 on FF, f/8 APS-C noticeable image softening starts. (BTW. 75033 arrived in good shape thanks to your excellent packaging)
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This sounds like arbitrage. People list hundreds of items on Ebay based on being able to obtain stock from sites like Amazon. They add a small percentage mark-up. They only purchase the stock if they have a confirmed sale. There is software available to do this. I bet there is only one unauthorized source of Dapol O gauge in China.
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You sure about that? I turned on my proxy and went to eBay.pl and the O-gauge Dapol was the same tank loco range as shown on Ebay uk. In other words, the Chinese vendor has just ticked the global shipping option. He has not made any decisions about people fighting in the streets in Gdańsk for British outline O!
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At 7.10 mins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CIVqJAdBY0&ab_channel=HornbyModelRailways
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Accurascale Class 55 Deltic - 4mm scale
maico replied to Andy Y's topic in Accurascale / Irish Railway Models
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German MwSt is 19% and has been for years, not that you will be paying it for a non single-market export. The reduced rate for food, books etc is 7%
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