Daddyman

Agreed! Finally got rid of my Accurascale one this evening on ebay, just in time to take advantage of the MRD offer and get some proper 37s!

TMC are hoping you haven't heard of the MRD sale and are offering them at 35% off instead of 30% - making them £161.49 (vanilla). More choice than MRD though.

The problem is they had logged it as "collected", and sent me an email, when in fact they hadn't collected it. I've requested the refund online, but suspect their system will be very confused as they're still convinced that they have it - tracking shows it en route!

Not out of the woods yet... They're still there.

Very proud of myself for not succumbing to this MRD offer. Bought myself some stilton as a reward...

Well, RM collected today, but I had to book a new collection and will have to spend 30+ mins on the phone to get the original £3.99 back. I take your point re ebay's labels, but I don't have a printer, and my Android doesn't do QRs!

Well, that worked well ... for a while. Emboldened by my first experience with RM's collection service, I booked a second parcel to be picked up today. Sitting at home this afternoon I was puzzled to get an email from RM saying that they'd picked it up ... when it hadn't moved from its spot on my desk!

What about the density of rice-pudding skin?

That's a very nice weathering job on 039.

The brass D&S carriages come in at about 200g. I never put extra weight in them.

These do look good. How strong is the brake lever guard/ratchet? On the Bachmann AB wagons and the Hornby OTAs it was always the first thing to snap.

If I understand correctly, the body fitted before you swapped the noses; if so, could it be that the noses are causing the problem? I seem to remember that on later models (around 37049 generation) the separate nose moulding was longer than the first generation ones. Could that be it?

You misunderstand me - we're saying the same thing. I was responding to a post that said things worked well for him. That's meaningless if we don't all have that - hence my lottery comment.

That means nothing. That means nothing. Everyone knows there are local anomalies where the service works . The problem is when you live in an area where it doesn't work, and don't know if it's going to another area where things are messed up. It's a lottery, and we already have a national one of those - don't need another.

Nope, that doesn't work: both buttons on the page are dead links...

Good tip, thanks - seems like this might have something to do with it:

I'm not going to say anything as my views on kits are violent and extreme: I think they should resemble the real thing.

Thanks. Curiouser and curiouser...

Many thanks. If the parcel was guaranteed by 1pm the next day, which I think it was, it still hasn't arrived - 3 days later. This ebay fees thing is weird! Where do you see it? When you open the ebay page, or do they send you a message? Thanks, Chas - only £50 compensation, though... But food for thought. Thanks to everyone who helped. Have gone for the £3.99 option above booking online, with RM bringing the label with them tomorrow morning (I remain sceptical on that point!). So RMWeb has saved me the best part of £6, thank you!

Thanks. I wonder why she told me my only option was £9.50 then? When you say "the weekend" do you mean ebay offer this every weekend or only every so often? I never seem to get these offers - just one a few weeks ago, and the item didn't sell - but I seem to remember reading on here some time ago that they varied from seller to seller.

Thanks. I'm limited by not having a printer - presumably necessary for the online service? Evri is good here too - it just depends on the individual. I wouldn't be too hard on the postie - speak to them and see what they're dealing with. And remember a sh*te postal service is what Britons want - or at least what 14 million of them voted for.

I haven't built any build bogie locos for some years, Chas, but, yes, they'd have to be - wait for it - sprung, which would probably involve dropping the wheels out. With your proven ingenuity, you should be able to rig up a bolt-on keeper plate for the bottom of the bogie, to which the springs (guitar wire rather than NS wire?) are soldered; then, to get the wheels out, you just unscrew the keeper plate. Here's what the Comet bogies look like. I don't have a photo of a made-up one with the keeper wires in place. - maybe someone else has? I won't say which kit manufacturer's bogie I bought this to replace as I'll get into trouble 😉 P.S have you thinned the w/m bogie frames to within an inch of their lives? All stick-on bogie frames are too wide, but that can be mitigated with some work with a file.

Hello. Looking for some advice. I've just sold an item on ebay - the second one in a week. The first one went for £95, out of which ebay chomped about a tenner, and then when I went to post it I was told that in order to have the parcel insured over £20 I'd need to pay £9.50 postage. Given the state of the mail (around here at least, where I'm currently seeing a postman every ten days and both the poor old postman and post office have actually told me not to post anything second class), I thought it was best to go for the insured version, which meant my take-home from the sale was £75-ish. I've just sold something else and would rather not have the RM taking such a big bite out of my winnings. Any ideas? I've never tried non-RM postal services - are they worth a go? Is there a better RM service? - I note a lot of talk of £3.29 on this page.

In haste as I have to go to shirk, but can't you open the axle holes downwards fully so that they are slots and retain the wheels with wire retained at the centre boss on its underside - à la Comet loco bogies?

Is it the one who ruins every thread on RMWeb, Mick? 😉 I see he's responded to one of my posts in this thread, but I've had him on ignore for years - highly recommended! On other matters, I take people's point that I've been too quick to write PDK off, and should have approached him before doing so. Seems he's trying to do the right thing by customers.