Monkersson

1 minute ago, Erixtar1992 said:

I do find it quite a giggle that people like yourself get so butthurt about my opinion, which im more than free to post on my own twitter account.

 

Also, i didnt say id bought it either did i.

After seeing it in person i decided otherwise, and after posting the photos of it, it seems so have a few others! Not that i need to really explain myself to a stranger on the internet 

 

 

time for me to leave this forum, too many people getting stress over toys

9 minutes ago, woodenhead said:

And no-one can insist that @Erixtar1992 has to share the same opinion as others - it's one opinion, others may disagree, but it's still an opinion.

 

Indeed he doesn't, the same he doesn't need to take to twitter to tell everyone that he's spent x-amount on overpriced junk.

Too many people just want to moan about the latest models, justified or not.

For the record Im not in the market for one, but if I was, I'd pay what is being asked and fix the problems myself

3 hours ago, Erixtar1992 said:

Except it wasnt, was it? 
I didnt say it was the worst model created.

For the price however, im dissapointed with it. It should be top tier stuff for that money, yet it isnt.

Well send it back then, no one is forcing you to keep it

14 minutes ago, Nick C said:

I take it you've never been to London then... 

London is a whole different ball game, spent 6 years there and couldn't wait to get out!

4 hours ago, Hobby said:

No they aren't and just going on the ones we see in built up areas gives a false impression. Most motorists won't deliberately run red lights, etc., simply because they can be traced reflectively easily. I wonder if cyclists would be so cavalier if they could be so easily identified though? 

I see people jumping the lights in cars and vans every single day on my commute - and not just blasting through an amber.  In contrast I could probably count on 1 hand the amount of I've seen cyclists do it.

20 minutes ago, Phil Parker said:

 

You can probably say the same for most restaurants. I knew an ex Police officer who refused to eat in any Chinese restaurant as he was involved with a raid and found a dog in the freezer. 

 

But then plenty of people lead unsanitary lives at home too. 

 

Best bet. Stop eating!

Very true Phil!

Back in the early 90's I used to do deliveries for a local kebab house, the place seemed clean, but  you wouldn't touch anything the owner, who the rest of the staff christened 'Black Bob' (cleanliness related, not race!), had made! 

I cant believe there is a grown adult defending McDonalds 'food' on here...

My son and daughter were both fast food afficionados, both got summer jobs McDonalds, within days both stopped eating fast food and a few years down the line now, both haven't touched any fast food.  

To quote my ever-so-eloquent daughter "no wonder this place is full of lazy, unhealthy, brain-dead b******* from eating all that sh*t"

On 16/10/2021 at 00:17, thohurst said:

 

Thanks for the advice. Will be doing a 24 and a 31, funnily enough the 24 did have the rounded top corners, so that's going to be fun to attempt. The 31 is nice and easy, just a big ol' rectangle. I've got some Tamiya light grey primer lying around, should do the job? 

To save yourself much frustration,  use a white primer.  Yellow pigment has poor coverage and will require many light coats to be fully opaque on anything darker than white, that could result in obscured details

2 hours ago, thohurst said:

Two further questions. Any recommendations as to whether enamel or acrylic would suit the job better? I'd imagine enamel would probably be more ideal?

Also, unfortunately in New Zealand we have a very limited choice of paints, no railmatch or phoenix precision paints. Does anybody know a good colour match to the 60's yellow panel colour from the humbrol, tamiya or vallejo range?

Humbrol do a BR Yellow which you could use, with a little white mixed in, its only available as acrylic.

6 hours ago, rorz101uk said:

Can I ask how many different running numbers are they doing? 
Would these have been in blocked trains? 
 

would there be a bundle price? 
 

 

Click on the link in the first post for info

Really liking your layout Turtlebah, can I ask the dimensions please?

I didn't really notice the passing of Lima, I had all the stock I needed at the time - mostly Lima, detailed and resprayed throughout the 90s.

When I started buying again in the late 2000's I still considered Lima, and to this day if I was looking for a 31/40/47/73/HST/101/156 I'd look at Lima first.  I think that's because I cut my teeth on Lima, I learned how to detail and respray on their products, and I still enjoy doing so.  Most Hornby products at the time I thought were rather toy-like with the exception of the 86/110/142.

Newer tooled loco's have the central motor drive as a major plus point, but bodywise they sometimes arent too much of a step up (in my opinion).  Having said that, I think Accurascale, Cavalex and RevolutioN are definitely pushing things forward and I look forward to see how their ranges develop.

13 hours ago, fezza said:

I broadly agree Johnster but the affordability problem for youngsters has got worse. As a teen I could afford a new loco every few months or so when Lima was around - and I wasn't from a wealthy background. Today a single new loco costs the same as a complete PS4 gaming system.

 

Many middle aged guys today return to the hobby to remember the golden age of their model railway youth in the 80s. But going forward, if model railways aren't part of your youth today, what's the chance of you taking up the hobby in your 40s completely from scratch? That's why neglecting the young today might mean the hobby could be in real trouble 25 years from now.

Yes, you will find loco's that cost the same as a complete PS4 system.  You can also find rtr loco's that cost the same as a new car if you need to be specific.  But you will find many many new loco's that are much much cheaper than a basic PS4 system, never mind a complete system.  You cant compare a PS4 (or any gaming system) to model railways.  You don't need to buy a new locomotive every month, can you say the same for an avid game player who complete games in days if not quicker?

I have heard the hobby is in trouble for the last 40 years.  Usually the reason being there is no new blood and prices are too expensive.   I would say the hobby is in a better position now that it has been in the 40 years I've been part of it.  I was new blood, and I couldn't afford the top ticket items when I started out.  This hobby is only as expensive as you want it to be, the same with the majority of hobbies.  

If you have a tight budget you can still get a new loco,  it might not be all singing and dancing one, but it'll still be a loco that can still pull coaches and wagons. 

You don't need to have had an interest as a kid to develop an interest later in life.  My closest modelling friends all started the hobby in their 40's and one of them had never even been on a train before he bought his first model railway items.

1 hour ago, 30801 said:

 

What is this? The Daily Mail letters page?

Yeah, sorry about that...!

1 hour ago, PhilJ W said:

Do you know where 90% of the welfare budget goes? Well I will tell you, on the elderly. Most of whom have worked all their lives and contributed in tax and national insurance.

I have to disagree with you Phil, and as been stated, those who contribute receive the state pension, which is not a benefit.

1 hour ago, PhilJ W said:

If someone on benefits was driving around in a fancy new car I can assure you that they'd be looked at very closely.

Alas, that is not the case, quite the opposite in fact.  Its those who have minor problems such as being overpaid benefits, or wrongly declaring part time hours (mostly by accident) that are investigated and hammered.

1 hour ago, PhilJ W said:

As for the people you say are walking about with lanyards saying the don't have to wear a mask there is an RMweb member who wears such a lanyard for a very good reason, he suffers from very severe asthma. Despite that he has carried on working throughout the pandemic in a public facing job.

I am sure there are many people on RMWeb who do the exact same things, like decent people, but there are a whole lot who have nothing wrong with them but think they are too good to wear a mask.   

1 hour ago, PhilJ W said:

The real benefit cheats are those that can easily avoid paying any income tax at all.

Yes, those who will not work when the are perfectly capable of doing it

Unfortunately there is a growing section of society who think only of themselves and think society owes them.  Hence the panic buyers...

1 hour ago, Ron Ron Ron said:

 

This is categorically not the case.

Quite the opposite of reality.

The lowest paid are undoubtedly very highly squeezed on all fronts, including VAT, fuel duties etc, but they don't shoulder the national tax burden.

 

The lower paid and lower medium earners pay a smaller proportion of both the total income tax and the overall total personal tax take.

 

In addition, the tax free allowance on earnings, has risen in real terms, over the last 10 years, from £6,475 in 2010/11 to £12,570 in the current tax year.

Even allowing for inflation over that period, that is a significant rise.

 

The pandemic will have skewed the figures significantly for the last tax year, when they're released, but taking the last full tax year figures released, from just before the pandemic (2019-20).....

 

Share of total income tax revenue (rounding to the nearest whole number)........

 

Top 1% of earners           - 30%

Top 90-99%.                      -31%

Top 50-90%.                      -30%

Bottom 50% of earners    - 9%

 

Add in NIC's, VAT etc, ........

 

Top 1% of earners           - 13% 

Top 90-99%.                       -21%

Top 50-90%.                       -41%

Bottom 50% of earners    -25%

 

You can see from those figures, that the top half of tax payers are paying 91% of all income tax and 75% of all personal tax income for the treasury.

The top 10% of earners, are paying 61% of total income tax revenue and 34% of total personal tax income.

As always, the middle to higher (50-90%) earners carry the highest personal tax load.

 

It's also worth noting that 42% of all adults (18yrs and above), pay no income tax at all....0%.

That group includes a proportion of non-tax paying pensioners and those that can't work, such as disabled people, but the majority are able bodied people of working age.

Many will be part time, others will be on very low pay  (below £12,570 p.a.) .

 

 

 

 

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Those able bodied people of working age that cant work and wont work are the ones who should be the ones struggling.  Why should the rest of us who have pride in ourselves by getting up and out to work, earning 5k or 100k, have to continually subsidise the workshy, who quite often have a better standard of living than those on low to medium wages?    Why is it fair that the terminally lazy can afford a new mid-range BMW whilst a low paid early shift worker has to walk 3 miles to work each day in all weathers because there is no public transport at that time?

I live in Scotland (though not a native), its regularly referred to as the sick man of Europe, I would refer to it as the f**kwit of Europe.  The majority of people here are wonderful, but more and more all I see are utter f**kwits walking around with lanyards saying they dont need to wear a mask.  As always, those in power continue to penalise those who contribute to the nations coffers...  

26 minutes ago, Titan said:

 

There is one thing I have always wondered about Cartics - if the cars at the outer end on the top deck are in gauge, why the need for the dip in the middle?  If I was that Capri I would be nervous about the wires under that bridge!

 

There were some Cartics that had the top deck removed and were used for transporting transits.

Maybe the dips were to keep the centre of gravity as low as possible, or to create a bit extra length in the load area?  Or both!

I dont think I've seen any photo's of Cartics with the top deck removed, looking at @hmrspaul website I cant see any

11 hours ago, Legend said:

 

Well to date there has been nothing that really interested me , completely accepting that others want GT3,Fell, Leader, although no comprehension of why.    But I'm hanging on in there as I reckon with KRs prediliction for the more outlandish , I may yet get a Swindon 126 Ayrshire unit or perhaps even a 303/311 Glasgow Blue Train . The latter would be popular but probably not on any of the mainstream suppliers radar 

I reckon the 303/311 would be picked up by a larger manufacturer - thought not Hornby/Bachmann or Dapol.  Maybe Heljan as a toe in the EMU market, though I reckon it would be someone like Accurascale.    6 main liveries with fair number of variations, curved and flat cab windows, refurbished/original condition, and Scottish Railways are always popular with modellers (as is the North West, where 303's also operated!)

On 01/10/2021 at 16:03, hayfield said:

 

The fact is you must have been promoted on merit, sadly many managers now are employed/promoted due to their ability to complete applications which seems to outweigh the interview process. Past experience seems to be not considered that highly, that is until the **** hits the fan. 

 

 

I find a proportion of people are made managers due to their inability to do day-to-day work.  Easier to promote them 'out the way' than to get rid of them...

3 minutes ago, chris p bacon said:

 Did I suggest fraud was committed in the vote?

HM gave it a somewhat glowing revue and promoted it with video of the EP running on the test track without any mention of its shortcomings but lots of info about how to order and pay for it. That's not what I would call an impartial revue, but an unhealthy relationship between an unknown commissioner and magazine.

 I've now seen (and been sent clips) of several of these models and the tendency is to run like a bag of nails, model of the year it certainly isn't unless we've gone back to the 1970's

Give it up please, you only embarrass yourself further with each post on this subject

2 hours ago, ikcdab said:

sometimes you have to just go with what you have. Not everybody has the luxury of being able to buy brand new plywood for baseboards.

if you can afford it, then just leave the chipboard in the skip and use ply.

If not, and the chipboard is the only option, then go for it. All of my original boy-hood trainsets were built on chipboard in my bedroom and worked well, though this is the 1970s and i then had no aspirations for a "proper" model railway, i just wanted to see trains belt round triang track. If you must use it, then beware of the limitations and problems and work round them.

Good luck

If the OP is building a layout that is to be long lasting and portable then avoid chipboard at all costs.  I learned the hard way by using chipboard on my first serious layout and paid the price for it.  Many wasted hours, materials and much frustration! 

Rather ironic moment in work today...

A woman I work with has been going on and on about her first electric car purchase (a Kona) for weeks on end, due to get delivered on friday coming.  Yesterday she was going on about soon she'll be able to drive by and laugh at those queuing for petrol & diesel.

She received a call today informing her she wont be getting her car on friday, as the transporters cant get diesel due to the panic buying...

1 hour ago, Mike Harvey said:

Unless you count the Dapol and RevolutioN trains Class 59 as duplication. :-)

Well thats true, however the 59 has carried a lot more liveries than the Peaks (Im a fan of the Peaks although I only seen one in real life)

The gestation period for Dapol's proposed 59 is glacial, and the latest CAD's are showing cut outs on the solebar for flange clearance.  Not exactly inspiring!

5 hours ago, Steven B said:

The only thing Farish can copy and paste from the Class 40 chassis is the mechanical parts of the  bogie (the side frames are different). The Peaks were shorter between bogie centres by 1' 7" (around 3mm in N) which would need a redesigned chassis. That's not a lot, but it would be enough to throw out the look of a model together with the size and positioning of the underframe gubbins.

 

Steven B.

I wasn't suggesting that they use the 40 chassis as is, more a case of they have a chassis of the right configuration ready to go.  I would hazard a guess that if/when they reintroduce the Peak, it will be a full blown new tool rather than a tickle over, not having to tool a new chassis/bogie block would reduce costs.

There have been duplications in the past, but it doesn't seem to happen anymore, which is good because the N-Gauge market isn't really big enough for 2 hi-spec models of the same limited prototype.

4 minutes ago, cessna152towser said:

This afternoon I decided to run an enthusiast special.  Class 66 and coaches taken from boxes, placed on fiddle yard and run to branch teminus.   Send out a steam outline loco, Hornby 34070 Manston,  light to take the return working.   Then use the class 66 to work back as a trip freight for a single VDA which has been out to the goods yard for a couple of days.   Start packing the stock away again and now there's a buffer missing off a Hornby coach and a coupling hook missing off the Bachmann VDA.    Logically one would expect to find the broken off bits either in or beside the boxes which they were taken out from earlier, or to have dropped off somewhere along the layout.    I failed to find either the buffer or the coupling hook despite an exhaustive search.  I am thankful for my spares box that I was able to repair the rolling stock before repacking into its boxes, but I wonder where all these small bits, buffers, coupling hooks etc. disappear to.   Does anyone else have the same problem?

The tentacles of the carpet monster reach far and wide...

2 hours ago, fezza said:

Each to their own, but I doubt they'll be grown men in tears at St. Pancras when the last 319 is withdrawn. I don't see hundreds of people chasing mileage on 800s either. Plus most Peak bashers must be well into their 50s now with the disposable income to buy them.

 

I  think the only units that ever attracted much of a real world following were Pacers and even that was in a wry semi-ironic way.

 

Yes we need units for realistic operations, but for goodness sake give us a model of one of the most popular diesel locos of all time. 

 

 

If you really want a Peak then either find one on eBay or build the P&D Marsh kit, or wait on Farish retooling.

It would be financial suicide for another manufacturer to proceed with a new Peak when Farish have a recently developed 1-Co-Co-1 chassis sitting there.   We could end up with duplication, could the market stand duplication for a series of loco's which only carried 5 main liveries?

It would make more sense to spend the money on something that hasn't been produced before be it an 81-85 or an MU