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Cash on collection only.... So I can't pay £29 a month for 24 months?

This is apparently stunning... It looks more like a trouser leg than a class 66.. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175137244746

Less ebay madness, more ebay eccentric. Who doesn't love the selection of photos posted with each listing by 2Ktechnologies? The shop, the van, the cat, the missus from 1963... It warms the cockles ;-) https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/361362929067

For that price it better come with a full tray of cakes.

Lookey-likey what now??? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/203808715784?hash=item2f73f23408:g:IaUAAOSwRD5h9Dqe

I know it is more Hornby Madness rather than eBay madness, but Over £100 for what is really a coach with no windows... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-APT-NDM-49004-034-Non-driving-motor-034-NEW-UNUSED-/144385178193?&_trksid=p2056016.l4276

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/330816767317 WHY? It is not as if you can't get top quality Black 5 RTR. Yes it is well built, but still, it is not worth megabucks, just because someone toiled over it and made a good job of it.

Well, this turned out to be a bargain. I picked it up for £70 on ebay as not working, and you can see from the image that C10 had been soldered incorrectly. So it has never works, and after a 30 minute run-in, it is purring like a kitten!

Merry Christmas Phil!

Good Morning campers! I've just picked up a non-working Dapol Class 52, that claims to not be functioning in the motor department. I have taken the top off to grab a peek and there is a card on the pins, but having not seen the blanking plate for a Dapol, I just want to double check. If it is a blanking plate, it is a posh one, as it has two slide switched to illuminate either or both cabs on DC. Can anyone just confirm that is what it is? A second question concerning a base board... Are the two unmarked contacts in the lower right corner a placement for an additional capacitor?

That is helpful to a point. the Royal mail code is GBX 3010, where the 30 gives 30' and 8' but the code does not marry up with anything as it is supposed to be a letter and a number, not two numbers. Likewise the CNC, is something like FXX 3202 which makes it 30' and 8'6" THis image shows the Royal Mail one with the other two, a 20' x 8' OCL smooth sided and a 40' x 8'6" Freightliner, which is the easy one to pick up.

Hello all, I am struggling with this line of white on black writing at the bottom of this tank. I have purchased a couple of images from Paul Bartlett, and he has also been kind enough to check all his other images, and he cannot make it out either. These are from a 35mm slide scanned at 9600dpi, but I still can't even begin to have a guess. Has anyone been up close and personal with one, that could tell me what it says? I am building a transfer set for it and this one has stopped me dead in my tracks.. Thanks

This half of the other side of the CNC Another shot of the left side.

I just order them from Bachmann, who are very helpful and will take bits off returned kit if they don't have spares.

Thanks for the information, I'm working in 4mm.

It appears very quiet in here, but I hope it is still a place I can maybe get an answer or two... I am trying to find/build the four containers from the Rocket 150 event in Rainhill in 1980, and I keep buying slides of the event to help with modelling, and while I have asked these questions elsewhere, this new image is the best one I have so far. My questions are concerning the difference in sizes between the two containers. I am aware of an 8'6" standard size, but which one is which? I am assuming that the CNC one of the standard size, so what does that make the Royal Mail one? Also, the CNC one with its side doors, and yet it also appears to have full length hinged end doors too. Is anyone out there making anything like it that I can adapt?

Well, last month I bought a Bachmann Jinty for £20 and a Webb Coal Tank for £40 at a real auction, today I picked up a Bachmann Class 25/3 new in box for £63 including all charges, from real auctions. Also, don't confuse the asking prices of "Buy it now" sales that never sell with the realised prices of auctions. The same Class 25/3 I was following on ebay went for £60 with £4.20 postage, so pretty much the same. The fact that other people are trying to get £180 for the same model does not count if they never actually sell.

“Near Mint - no marks, scratches or dust”.... Errr, buddy, you want £75 for a lump of scrap... That's not zinc, that's flaky pastry https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255253377666

I'd never call you a loon, we all have different priorities in life. Some of us prefer to buy food to live ;-) Seriously, I could spend £500 on a loco, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. I, personally, just do not see the value in doing so. If I had a spare £500, I'd probably prefer to go away for a weekend or get a cheap hotel in London and go do some research at the National Archives for a few days. I have wide and varied interests, but the bottom line is I have a fair understanding of the cost of China manufacturing these things and I just balk at these fantastical prices. If Hornby are only just breaking even, I would say that they need to have a look at why their business is so poorly run. However, if model railways are your passion and you have the disposable income, I would not begrudge you blowing a wad on something you really desire. The only point I have been making here is that I could not do that, and I don't claim to be in any moral majority. I had to smirk about the concept of the lines being wrong, still, as I don't know how to break this to you, but the models are also far too small to be realistic ;-)

Define "Something amazing"? A Princess Elizabeth is on my list of things to get, but on eBay all I am seeing are lots of gold plated ones, that no one seems to want. Is a HST with doors that open amazing? Points I have made in the past and are worth repeating, why so many limited runs these days? Why not keep making models? Is it not better for the customer to spread tooling costs over longer production runs, rather than artificially drive the prices up? I am an electronics Engineer by trade and I know it will only cost a couple of pounds to create DCC chips in China. When you add packaging and transport, you are still at about £3 per unit. When you are born in the days when the price of a commodity was related to the cost of production, the more modern concept that companies pick prices based on what the market is willing to pay, is not palatable.

I'm only speaking for me, I'm never one to claim my opinions are in the majority. But I am often saying a fool and his money are soon parted. I came to this thread because I was looking at existing alternatives, as I do not want to get a ringfield driven anything, plus I certainly do not want another Hornby bit of tat with holes in the body to allow for the clips on the chassis. However, to find that the modern alternative is the same cost as two decent steam locomotives with all the extra delicate bits stuck on, then common sense dictates that two basic shells with one engine in no way equate to the going rate. I mean, who on earth needs opening doors?? If you are lured in by flappy doors, then you do fit in with the fool and his money proverb...

There is lots of evidence that the market isn't as price averse as many like to think. I am, there is no way I am paying £300 for a single loco and what is, in reality, a single coach. I shall wait for a rich boomer to pop their clogs and pick it up for £75 at an auction. The original tooling was on sale for well over 30 years, but now they are all limited editions at unethical prices.

A decade later ;-) https://www.lskauctioncentre.co.uk/auction/lot/lot-772---various-items-all-concerning-track-and/?lot=475999&so=0&st=plasser&sto=0&au=715&ef=&et=&ic=False&sd=0&pp=24&pn=1&g=1

Coming to this thread five years too late and finding none of the links work