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Trust me, Mrs BB cannot read a map, I have tried to show her for over 45 years since our first forays abroad. The same way some people cannot take a good photo to save their lives, sure they think they have taken a world beater but they haven’t, the number of engineers who came into our lab and wanted to show us their latest competition entries which frankly were a waste of printing paper, but for some of them although keen amateur photographers I knew some of those for over 25 years (sorry Ken) and they never got better 😁……a lot of others did. You cannot teach everyone everything no matter how good a teacher they have because some people just don’t have the mental ability to master that particular task. I’ll never make an astro physicist, no matter who tried to teach me 🤣

Not so sure about the 10+ years, I have a Kestral I bought on discount at £70 odd quid it had been out a few years it was a lot more when new, which is why I waited, that was before I retired in 2012 and I think Kestral was out on 2008/09….and looking at the quality of Kestral and the way it still runs it is nothing like the KR Fell (which I sent back). Now I am not saying Heljan are perfect, far from it but when they do get it right it’s lovely.

How odd……just how do you know how odd I find it? 🤣

At least they give you room to open the doors in car parks 😁

Our science teacher did an experiment with a beaker of distilled water and a scalectrix motor running and lower it into the water, water is not a good conductor but it is a good noise suppressor. 😁

But what’s on before it…..School for Scoundrels…..brilliant B&W comedy film with the great late Terry Thomas.

Some people are absolutely useless at map reading, usually because they cannot visualise or have spacial awareness problems, Mrs BB couldn’t unfold an OS map without ripping it let alone reading one, where as I have always loved maps since being a dot, even before a teenager I was in the ATC leading a unit across Dartmoor, and later navigating in road rallies. But that doesn’t mean I need to read a paper map before going anywhere, thankfully I am savvy enough to know where we are going without pouring over a map before we leave, but I always have the map view on the sat nav open on the screen because it is useful for seeing the general layout of roads coming up and also extremely good if you suddenly come upon traffic problems you can instantly see if there are roads which can be used to get around jams or accidents, I rarely use it with guidance on but for giving local knowledge of roads never used before it’s excellent. I find this strange fear of technology very odd, after all as Hobby says we may as well ride horses instead of these technological machines 😉

Which is why we use New Holland on the farm 😄 And BTW they come out the same day, or next time we want to spend £100K + we’ll go elsewhere!

BTW that’s what I have done on two of my Heljan locos, one came with a handrail snapped in the middle.

Should we have to?

Your choice, I don’t want to buy a mobile phone big enough to read the maps on it, thank you, or risk being arrested by needing to touch it to change something while driving, with a Sat Nav you can, anyway I don’t think this conversation was actually about whether sat Nav are a personal choice or not.

No it most likely won’t, but then as a secondhand owner you should have been more careful with your choice on the market if you don’t want to pay after 😁 But what it does do is give the subsequent owners the choice, that’s got to be an advantage over not being able to upgrade it at all, like virtually every dealer will say if you wander in and say “I want heated seats please” sure Sir, that’ll be £3500 foe the seats and fitting, oh and by the way it’s a modification and the warranty is no longer valid.

You can, when you buy your new car just specify the option, you have it for life.

I get traffic updates all the time, I have never updated my system……are we really talking about map updates?

What they might/could do then is make one with the nice bits on and if you want luxury and smoothness buy the “basic power” version, if you want a whizzy Tesla chaser pay the extra or buy it as a secondhand owner.

Box car with a “ducking giraffe” 🤕

It’s Heljan, they are plastic 😁 It’s just very difficult to get plastic handrails that stay straight like wire.

I did say “or one from the many” 😄

Just don’t like the plastic cab handrails Heljan use on a lot of stuff, it is always a bit bent.

Is it though? If your a secondhand car buyer and you bought the model which the original owner didn’t buy the more powerful model, it gives the secondhand buyer the choice of a faster car if they want it, if they don’t all well and good.

Similar but not the same, no doubt the mechanics are the same I would guess, certainly the cardboard scenery is the same.

Presumably an Jouef model in the Hornby stable, or from one of many.

The lad that bought our first house had a Tiger and he had it in total teardown in the back bedroom, his Dad owned a very respected panel beaters/repairers locally and when the Tiger was finished it looked concours, only issue was during that time his wife divorced him. Salutary tale there somewhere 😄

We’ve had one of our meters read at least four times this year, we use so little gas in the annexe they don’t believe our readings so send a man around to read them, f*****g waste of their time and mine, as I have to go and unlock the gate for him to read it.

Is it a Tiger with the side badges, I think so…….not sure the Alpine had the rear wing badges. Although it’s Rootes, not an expert.