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Roy, There are numerous people on this forum, and on others, who will have been aware of Dave Jones previous ventures (prior to his time at Dapol) and will see the parallels to what has happened here. I could tell a few tales, but since I wasn’t directly involved they would be just that, tales. Unless those directly concerned wish to come forth with facts then it is a very ropey situation to be dabbling in. As Phil quite rightly points out, if the “fact” turns out not to be so factual, someone could be in a world of pain. I for one am cautious of any trouble that the forum provider could be dragged into for simply ‘publishing’ such postings. The digital world can be quite ‘grey’ at times. I believe, despite the criticism and concerns here and elsewhere, others were quite able to, for want of a better phrase, give Dave another chance. He worked on and produced some great models whilst at Dapol so why shouldn’t he be able to pull it off on his own? To me it appears that whilst his business model was more ‘traditional’, ie commissions for retailers, own funded products etc, he was managing a small but ticking along business. But as soon as the crowd funding model is employed then for those familiar with his N-thusiast Resprays and N-Sprays ventures it became all too familiar territory. The best one can do without alluding too much would to link to this post, from 2015..... Regards, Paul

Evening, Intersting post from Durham Trains of Stanley on their Facebook page re. APT..... https://en-gb.facebook.com/pages/category/Collectibles-Store/Durham-Trains-Of-Stanley-312655538768765/ “It has come to our attention of rumours that DJ Models has gone into liquidation. At this time it has not been officially confirmed whether this is the case or not. It would not be fair on Mr. Jones to speculate at this time until confirmation is made that DJ Models have gone into liquidation. We would however like to make it known that Durham Trains of Stanley have not had any involvement with the APT project for over 12 months due to lack of communications on the project from DJ Models. We have continued to promote the project as we felt an obligation to DJ Models and those crowd funders who had invested in the project to keep the project in the public eye. In the last few months we have become increasingly concerned over the lack of updates and responses from DJ Models, despite many attempts to contact them.“

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At first I thought the address change could just be to one of those ‘corporate front’ type things, you know, the sort of place 12,759 businesses are registered to one office in an office complex. This sadly, does not paint a rosy picture of any company registering at 1 Booth Street, Manchester! https://www.companieshousedata.co.uk/a/178546 Oh dear indeed, Paul

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