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2 hours ago, Ruston said:

I can't be bothered to wade through 193 pages of this stuff, so I don't know whether or not it's already been suggested and I don't know if anyone from Accurascale even reads this , as it isn't a thread started by them, but please can we have a BR 21-ton hopper? There's nothing produced, except the Parkside kit. I'm no stranger to building kits but I can't get one of those damned things to stay square, run true, and stay on the tracks well.

I'd buy a dozen of them and happily take a hammer to my Parkside ones!

I’m almost certain it’s been mentioned , and it seems a popular idea 

10 minutes ago, Mike_Walker said:

Another useful shop is closing down.  Collectables R Us in High Wycombe citing the usual complaints of rising rent and service charges along with hassle from their landlord, reduced footfall and spend despite being in a prime location in the town's main shopping arcade, and a steady rise in shoplifting which the police seem completely unwilling to do anything about.

 

They will continue on line and are actively looking for an alternative location within the town.  Fingers crossed they are successful - for one thing, they always had the best stock of Humbrol both acrylics and enamels of anywhere I know.

Thats a shame, I don’t live in south bucks anymore but it seems with the loss of this, the one at Aston Clinton , the one at Twyford, it really is a desert of model shops. Cant even nip up the M40 to motor books or howes anymore ( excepting paints )

1 hour ago, Moley48 said:

What makes it more scary. Is that what we have available to us on a consumer level will most  be waaaaay behind tech going on behind the scenes.

 

Whatever way you look at it we are all doomed! .. and its not just the tech that's scary these days. 

 

I'm staying in my own little world in the loft. 😂

Fair enough , I’m off back in time to shoot bill gates in the head with an AR15..

AI……was I the only one to watch “ terminator “ .We re in deep do do ….

Still looks like it’s on tippy toes to me - I think I cannot see a reason to move from Bachmann for this diesel 

1 hour ago, MikeParkin65 said:

Railway modelling is a very broad church with lots of competing priorities. There is a very popular thread on this forum where rtr models, whilst often lauded as being far more accurate than anything the majority could build from a kit or even scratch are held as being of less worth than something handbuilt. The majority of kit built loco's are lumpen and crude compared to the crisp moldings of modern day rtr but the priority for their builders and operators are different. They often use the term 'layout loco' and I think this is a useful concept describing something that looks the part doing what its designed to do.

 

Some want to focus solely on the model and compare it with multiple images of the prototype - nothing wrong with that its a broad church. Happily purchase of any model is voluntary so if you dont like it you can simply move on, nothing lost. 

 

I enjoy models, I enjoy new versions of existing models and I'm happy for all sorts to co exist on my layout. The priority for me is running quality and long term reliability and the established manufacturers still in my experience retain the upper hand in this respect. 

Very true .

For me the locos are the stars and not evoking the feeling of the prototype is like…Ryan gosling fluffing his lines !

I try to be humble though when I remember all those Lima I collected , great shapes but mechanisms not quite up to it for the 90s-2000s

58 minutes ago, cctransuk said:

 

This is the problem with ever more versions of the same subject - miniscule 'errors' are now deemed to be a "big problem".

 

It would require one to inspect the model from a matter of a couple of inches / centimetres in order to detect the lack of taper of the inset of the headcode glazing.

 

There will always be variations in interpretation by different model producers - I doubt that there will ever be the 'perfect' model.

 

It may well be that the ultra-critical are professionally familiar with the prototype - but this type of criticism is in danger of unfairly denigrating an excellent model.

 

CJI.

I disagree.In these days of laser scanning , CAD design etc and the fact that numerous of the prototype still exists , there’s no interpretation required….just accuracy . It’s not unfair in this day and age to expect excellence , especially for the prices we now pay - “ good enough “ just isn’t good enough .

3 hours ago, Rivercider said:

I have a small handful of old TOPS printouts from my days in the Bristol Area Freight Centre. I can also remember several of the TOPS printouts, so might be able to interpret some of the information if a scan of a printout is posted.

 

On a similar subject, being able to produce a realistic traffic flow for a particular yard or location is somewhere between a science and an art.

 

cheers 

Be easy these days … “ runs as required “

3 hours ago, cctransuk said:

 

Touchy!

 

CJI.

Nah - humourous more like 

3 hours ago, Hal Nail said:

Probably take 5 mins in total to drill and push them in?

And maybe I’ll get an angle grinder and fix the shape at the same time ?

These look way too far out to me 

The lad did well .

Verstappen won’t give up a winning drive on a tiff over staff . It’s BS 

Time will tell what they come up with .

6 hours ago, reddragon said:

As far as I know, Kings Lynn, Peterborough, Bedford, and Cardiff are not in London. Nor Brighton, Dover or Southend.

 

You can model most Southern Routes, LTS, Great Eastern, Great Northern, Midland and Great Western. No other unit type offers this, so that's half the British population covered!

 

In time these units will spread North, but as tested on the WCML from Crewe (not in London), anyone could model them.

 

PS - Southern class 401,402,403,410,411,412,414,416,419,423,450,466,438,491 units have sold well enough, so clearly plenty of Southern DC modellers out there!

Semantics. Ok not London but a hell of a lot of NSE territory .

” have sold well enough “ - have they ? I remember the Bachmann ones discounted to 79 quid to get rid of them , and there’s loads around from this run .

Without facts , it’s purely conjecture as to how well they did 

1 hour ago, reddragon said:

Based on the AS prices for Irish units, I think we're fine.

 

If they're the quality of the Mk 2Bs, they'd sell and with AS sales model, they'd manufacture to demand in batches.

 

The Electrostar would be the best for this, livery after livery and new liveries to follow in the real world.

In your opinion of course , How many times do we hear “ they’d sell” which roughly translated means “ It’s what I want “.

I hear electrostar a lot - is this purely a london area unit ?( besides the rainbow colours with each franchise change ), if so how many people model the contemporary third rail railway ? 
 

A fraction of a fraction I’d guess at .

As a model manufacturer surely you go after the most popular stuff , financial gambles not really needed ?

There’s lots of units to go at, but can they be produced at a price point that sells ? Bachmann eye watering EMU prices are a case in hand .

If I was Accura I’d watch and see how the revolution 321 goes first 

If you make an accusation which is proved to be incorrect or a lie , doesn’t that open you up to sacking on the basis of gross misconduct ?

I can’t believe in this day and age , he actually wrote something in a text - screenshots have taken down many people .

I never write, like or insinuate anything that can be used as a weapon against me .

2 hours ago, James Makin said:

 

I quite like Halfords grey cellulose primer to be honest! I've experimented with the white for lighter-coloured models but normally go for the grey as it never lets you down! The grey is great also for the sanding/body modification projects judging if you need to add a bit more filler and so on, and it seems to dry pretty quickly too which is a useful bonus !

In an ideal world “ Halfords announce rattle can range of contemporary railway colours “..we can but dream 

3 hours ago, Dutch-Traindriver said:

On my invoice payment class 66, pay before 01 February 2024...... !

I’m intrigued to know more about what it is you do and where you live ?

I remember my dad taking me to london stations just the once . Must have been 82-83 . I was brought up on a western region diet of 50s/HSTs and 117s.

St Pancras - like a medieval gothic cave full of strange short nosed diesels . 
 

Euston - numbers I’d never seen that existed only in my spotting ABC . 86xxx, 87xxx, making a strange sci fi humming , going to places that only existed in my head as Football teams . Some fairly sensible names - “ City of Milton Keynes “ etc ( was it a city then ??) . Hoped to see an APT - didn’t .

Kings cross. HSTs like a comfort blanket - 254 set numbers though . Underline em ! ( I used to draw a line through the number - what a numb nut , hadn’t read the Haynes guide to spotting ).

The phrase - out my comfort zone summed up that day 

Mainline wasted alot of their blue paint !

How long did  37109 last in blue before going EWS ? Months I think 

2 hours ago, Jeff Smith said:

You mean of course turbofans - pure jets, ie non- by-pass airliners were banned many years ago.....there's still a few very old military aircraft with them though!

No, I meant aircraft that whine that don’t have propellers 

I’m led to believe verstappen senior is a nasty piece of work 

1 hour ago, jjb1970 said:

I remember when the Embraer E-Jet was the future but it seemed to go off the boil for them. I have always enjoyed flying in them (though I think the A220 a better looking aircraft).

 

It would seem the economics of Ejets doesn’t always work . Flybe got some awful lease terms and it was part of their issues … airlines suddenly get over excited about pure jets 

13 minutes ago, BachelorBoy said:

 

I think you'll find that Mongolia, the country sometimes referred to as Outer Mongolia, has only ever had railways using Russian broad gauge. :-)

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