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Blimey, I think you need to put it in perspective , I don’t find anything terrifying about toy trains - they are toy trains .

I’m a bit confused by the 56 . Was it a preorder max quantity job ? I was thinking I might get one if the reviews are good , but collets don’t list the EWS one and trains 4u have the 60 preorder but no longer any list of cavalex in the diesel list ?

The droopy slats is a nice addition

tricky one that . I’d be interested in hearing people’s reviews , good and bad inc anything that goes wrong . Whilst the caveat being , people tend to only write when stuff is wrong rather than praise . I’m not sure if Cavalex will want to do the intensive customer engagement and response that Accura do on their threads here , or have the time or resources ?

I think you are right . I surveyed 100 married men and their answer was …

Maybe but people will always find a way to find stuff . It’s about balance . I’d view retirement at 55 and final salary pensions as a luxury then .. and now . My industry compulsory retirement is 65 , which is quite early enough as I’d be bored rigid

TBF Hornby has never advertised spare diesel bodies ? Bachmann have a lot , but it’s a revenue generation thing as much as anything else . Before they had the Bachmann spares website , body shells were £34 , this wasn’t advertised as such , you rang or emailed to see what they had. Then they made the website so you can order direct and the price went seemingly overnight to an eye watering £57-60 each. I used to chop and change era by changing body shells - no longer . Whilst I sympathise with Mon ami, I see it as a car - warranty returns justified for mechanical bits that go wrong but cosmetic damage through accident , not really .

It goes to show how different our attitudes are . I go to shows to see something grander and better than I could produce .. the Mosytns of the world .. more than little planks like I already make .But TBH an hour on YouTube and I can see these anyway . I must admit I go to less and less of them . The other reason is to get little “ bits “ but the most recent exhibition I couldn’t even get a pack of scalpel blades .. prob due to the demise of real hobby shops and tendency fir shows to have one big retailer and maybe “Del boys trains “ flogging RTR stock . Overall if this hobby was going to die out , the killer blows of computer games etc in the 80s would have done it and it didn’t so it’ll recycle and replace . One generation of middle aged folk with disposable will be replaced by the next as they die out .

Well I’d be hoping for cavalex , as the alternative is Hornby and they’ll f*vk up the paint job as they before with three tone grey

Er, right there , I think . What’s the full story then if the 60 costs nothing but the 66 costs a lot ?

I think you are overlooking the fact , I believe they are still paying leases for 66s . The 60s cost nothing, inherited from BR. So would you rather have an asset costing , say, £25k a month ( absolute guess , I have no idea on train lease costs ) working , or let it rot and still pay that much . I don’t think that’s “ bean counters “ gone mad, I think it’s common sense .

It’s ok, we’ll just pretend it was a compressor stall instead ;)

What he said ….. Bachmann binned their retool / reissue of the Thames turbo . So we have nothing for Paddington , or the chiltern line from 1992 onwards for local services. As for steam ? Yes , Barry scrapyard ..in 4 mm

Is it like the 66 , in so much as overtightened bogie top screw limiting turn radius ?

Interesting , I presume 3 quid gets you the file for a 3D printer ? What I don’t have , nor know nothing about sadly . Its the earlier SSA I guess before EWS put reinforcing bits on

I think what also saves chuffer modelling is its diversity . And by that I mean the whole range of modelling / collecting … from the chap building white metal tea plantation narrow gauge … to the N gauge Unitrak on the kitchen table … to those heavily involved in DCC CVs etc … to the collector who carefully stores boxes away .. One branch may become less popular , whilst another flourishes for a bit , but it kind of balances out

SSA ?Id be up for some !

All I know is, when I returned to the hobby in 1998, all we had was crappy Lima lumps now….well, look at cavalex , look at accurascale to name but two ….They wouldn’t keep making them if there was no one to buy them . Hobbie have never really been affordable , they are discretionary . I remember my parents not being able to afford much , and now I have all the financial baggage of a middle aged man I can’t afford much . I save up….an idea often lost on the “ gimme gimme “ generation stare at the phone all day .

Fran, would you mind announcing some EWS 37s this week please ? That way I don’t go off hair trigger and order one of its replacements here ;)

I can’t imagine retiring at 55 unless I have literally millions of pounds to spend . More like 75 the way things are going

Rough guess, that’s about £8000 of units . them Accura lads will be contactable in Bermuda with immediate effect

How many ? One . At 500 quid , that’s all I’d get and to be honest unless I’m modelling Clapham junction - it can go one way and then another and nobody needs to know it’s same one . TBH , a lot of modern stuff looks similar and has the charisma of an ikea table . How about a hattons approach ( God rest their soul ) and a generic dmu/ emu like their little coaches ? Then it’s right for everywhere ! Only one colour available - white ! It’s off lease , between lease , taken back by the DOT , whatever - it can go anywhere ! I’d buy two of those .

I wouldn’t want to be accurascale on this one . So many units , so many liveries, so many areas . I saw one of those staedler FLIRTS today at Lowestoft , and was amazed that Hornby are modelling it I think. It’s very specific both in geography and time period . I think the key will be the right unit , that lasted decades, with many liveries and hopefully got about a bit . That would tend to make me think of the BR blue and sector period . Price wise 4 car I’d say £400 & £50 , ie £450. They’ll be a glass ceiling above which even the most avid “ I’ll bite your arm off merchant …” won’t venture .

Not bothered about the old one , but wouldn’t mind a go in the one under its wing !

Yeah, I wasn’t asking for your world strategy colonel. It was just a light hearted response to supply chain issues .