M Graff
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Ha Ha have you read the write up for the ad what a joke he is deffinately havin a laugh i think the word proffesional is quoted some where
And don´t forget this "looker"
What´s the deal here really?
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Looked at his website, should have used the stuff that other beers don't reach. Nice clean areas where the most dirt collects.
Just another unfortunate case of:
"to call it weathered it has to look like it´s been on the bottom of the ocean for 6 months followed by a 6 month stint in the desert!"
As a custom painter myself; I can only say that it is much more difficult to make a convincing subtle/medium weathering that looks "real".
I´ve been teaching myself self restraint for the last 20 years, but it´s hard to resist, as it is so much fun to do "rustbuckets"
. I have found a nice way to express myself in the "to much" department, and that is to weather wartime shipmodels (WW2)..... -
A lot of Semantik going on here right now..........
I thought that "Ebay-madness" would be just that, and not bitching on some slight mistakes, that´s madness!
90% of all the punters on Ebay hasn´t got a clue what a correct description is anyway....
BTW, an acquaintance of mine is collecting old Pocher stuff. He had bought an unopened SNCF CC7107 "Mistral" on Ebay.
It was VERY unopened, and in the original factory paper wrapping!
When he opened up the different (unopened) layers of packaging he was excited, but when he picked up the locomotive the boggies crumbled to dust and the wheels and gears fell out!!
A very bad case of Zinc-plague......and a very expensive lesson learned!
Never buy old loco´s NIB!
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Oh, he´s hard alright. Too bad that it is from all the paint spill he has all over his clothes.......
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I really like this! The landscape is so spot on. I would however say that you should go for a black fascia, as the human mind has a way of deleting black frames.
I tried dark gray myself but I will either go for black or maybe do like Tim Warris and custom paint it to resemble rusted steel.
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I´m not surprised at all, £1400 for a never released prototype from a well known manufacturer. It could be much more expensive as I see it.
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I have seen a privately owned Rivarossi prototype steamer once, so I know what ridiculous prices they can have.
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. Finally, those who seem incapable of describing the condition of their item as anything other than 'very good' or 'nice condition' when it is clear that it has been eaten by a dog, played with by a wannabe Ninja and beaten to within an inch of its life.
Well I have been there, I bought a Branchline boxcar where it was described as "Very nice, as new", when it arrived it was obvious that it had been lying side down on a table and someone had spilled thinner there so that side was almost flat!
I got my money back, but I wont buy anything if they don´t show all sides of it.
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I remember them! They had double-page ads in RM/CM, seeking to buy surplus trains in any known configuration of scale/prototype etc. So in 1998 I rang 'em, offering some US HO. Yes, we'll buy it, quoth he. So I travelled from deep Kent to the Solent (yes it was free, yes it was 1st Class, yes I was staff) and was offered less than £1 per vehicle for quite nice US freight cars. Natch, common sense said take the money, and I did, but hearing that they have moved into this line of legal but marginally-moral vending is no surprise. Wotever, their measly £47 for 52 freight cars helped me finance my move into Digitrax DCC, which I have never regretted.
Did you feel tender sitting down after that? I know I would have. B)
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What´s so wrong with that? It´s a Deltic and should probably look even worse than that
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HI all
Found this weathered 31 ,looks like somone has set fire to it!
Top bit of weatheringIt reminds me of some of the locos that the owner of LOXX in Berlin showed me, but they had actually started burning!!!
No wonder Fleischmann uses them as testers....
The Forum Jokes Thread
in Wheeltappers
Posted
The couple had gone to bed and as they laid there; the husband let off a loud fart!
And immediately he shouted:
- 1-0!
The wife said:
-What was that?
The husband replied:
-It´s a game I invented, bed-football! One fart is one goal, and I´m in the lead.
The wife said:
-That´s disgusting!
But then she thought that this could be a bit fun, so she ripped a good one and a few seconds later a big one as an encore, and shouted:
-2-1! I´m in the lead!
The husband was really surprised at the response, but thought that he couldn´t be out.farted by a woman. So he tried to get one more out of his system.
As he was trying, he pressed a little bit too hard and ripped a major wet fart that had the unmistakenly sound of soiling the sheets!
The wife shouted to him:
-What in the world was that!!
He calmly replied:
Half time signal! It´s time to swap sides!