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1 hour ago, MarkC said:
GBP415 for express postage to Greece - wow. Just...wow...
The buyer has a high score too - presumably he did look at delivery?
I see that postage on all the seller's items is pretty high, especially for abroad, although not GBP400+ - something like that would certainly make me think twice about buying, unless it was a really hard to get item.
And perhaps his packaging isn't as good as his pricing should justify. Ouch!
Mark
8 minutes ago, Damo666 said:Maybe he's hand delivering it.
There's a two week holiday in sunny Preston thrown in as well
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3 hours ago, Rockhopper said:
Bachmann Hornby Class 37, named Crepollo, and in green apparently.
23 minutes ago, Nova Scotian said:
Colour blindness is quite a common thing you know
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6 minutes ago, micklner said:
Short running video of the Inspection car.
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Video attempted on my small digital Canon it refuses to load NTSC and PAL files (only options on the camera ) , on my Canon SLR with the smallest file setting even with a 5 second long file, it refuses to load saying its over 10mb in size.
Any suggestions on loading Videos on here please ?
I suppose you could put it on YouTube or some other site & link it here.
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35 minutes ago, Colin_McLeod said:
I've seen some poor out of focus pictures on Ebay but this one takes the biscuit.
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F183928701352
I'd nearly buy it just to see what was in the photo
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59 minutes ago, Colin_McLeod said:
Frog juicers automatically switch the polarity in DCC systems. They are not simple change over switches.
I too have some Tam Valley frog juicers which I find very reliable.
With a bit of planning it is possible to allocate more than one turnout to a juicer thus reducing the number of juicers required.
Hi Colin.
Don't use frog juices myself but as a matter of interest how do you manage that ?
Tony.
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2 hours ago, melmerby said:
That's odd, the link I was copying showed the price in pounds (£61+) plus £31+ in import taxes. for something that is about £45
Now it's in Dollars!
I found an identical one under Iron Planet Hobbies,also US based
I assume Shopping.com must just be a linking page to listings.
If you click on that link & go visit shop it takes you to their Uk shop with Uk prices but if you select an item it takes you to the US prices with all the associated import duties etc.
All very confusing
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2 hours ago, melmerby said:
Has "Shopping.Com" been mentioned before?
Probably, but here is a current "bargain" of theirs:
Twice+ the normal price
And don't forget the import duty thanks to E bay's Global Shipping Programme
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3 minutes ago, leopardml2341 said:
I know this is from one of our 'usual suspects' but even so.........
And there's 5% off
If there was 95% off it would still be too expensive
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42 minutes ago, Colin_McLeod said:
So well camoflaged that I didn't see it at first
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Airfix-OO-Gauge-Repainted-Camoflaged-Ventilated-Van-/311544852686
Run out of paint again Colin
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21 minutes ago, markneilp14 said:
Ah i see. as you say we would chuck them in the bin or rob them for spares maybe.
Does he ever actually sell anything then?
Bizarre though how the sellers think they can ask for silly money for a junk.
Mark
He seems to although E Bay feedback isn't always reliable if you get what I mean
There was a time when his postal charges were often more than the cost of the item of tat itself.
Nowadays he seems to offer free postage although the prices being sought for the items themselves are still off the wall.
Perhaps he does have items at reasonable prices if you're prepared to put yourself through the torture of finding them.
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15 minutes ago, markneilp14 said:
sorry to sound daft but who is selling it?
The seller is a well known E Bay purveyor of tat & general rubbish at exorbitant prices.
Stuff you or I might give away or throw in the bin.
Being old, dirty & preferably broken makes it rare & collectable.
According to this seller that is.
There are one or two others as well.
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1 hour ago, markneilp14 said:
and this old thing looks almost professionally drop kicked
Weathered
More like left out in the weather.
You only have to look at who's selling it
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31 minutes ago, Garry D100 said:
Oh sorry, i didnt try it, just posted it as soon as i got the notification.
Not down to you at all. E Bay seemed to have made a mess of it.
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2 hours ago, Garry D100 said:
Latest ebay offer
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Fill ya boots !
Didn't work for me. E Bay withdrew the discount voucher. Just had murder with them about it.
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Here is some useful information taken from the above mentioned book by Carter.
It may be of benefit to some.
"1894. Wolverhampton abandoned the 1880 livery and fell into line with that used at Swindon. The old livery could however still be seen as late as 1900.
1894. For some time after this there were two locomotive greens in use, one described in sources as “Deep Holly” used at Wolverhampton and very similar to the previous Swindon green and the other described as “Middle Chrome green” used at Swindon. This latter shade was introduced on the 7’ 8” 4-4-2 engine No 3031 “Achilles” and was eventually adopted as standard up to 1951."
Tony.
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40 minutes ago, Devo63 said:
I have a card somewhere in my collection sent to my father by BR (WR) sometime around 1960 which has the final green, cream and brown paints used by Swindon at that time. Each colour sample is about 2" x 1.5" in size. It would be interesting to see how this compares to some of the modern paints modelers use. Not really helpful for early liveries but I'll see if I can dig it up. Also in the package were 3/8" scale drawings of the 56XX class and a Barry 0-6-2T which I think would look good on the wall of my railway room.
If you can pick one up in good condition Ernest Carter's livery book from 1952 has a fold out in the rear with real paint samples applied.
Dave R.
Yes it has samples at the rear of the book.
I have a copy here myself but the samples are quite small.
The samples are numbered rather than named.
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15 minutes ago, Denbridge said:
It should also be considered that paints were far less durable in retaining their shades than modern paints. A loco that had been in traffic for a year or more, with perhaps just a revarnish would be a noticably different colour to one just out-shopped newly painted.
This is sometimes also evident on preserved lines between locos of supposedly the same colour but painted a couple of years apart.
Absolutely. Back when they used cellulose paint on cars, trucks etc you would notice that red vehicles would turn a shade of pink after a few years.
The older varnishes made a huge difference to what a colour looked like.
Sometimes an item that received two coats of varnish looked very different to an item that had received only one coat even though the base colour underneath was the same.
Of course paints back in time were full of compounds that are unheard of in today's world.
That's why when we used blow lamps to burn off old paint you were warned to wear breathing gear if the paint being burned off was pre 1960's.
Tony.
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People also need to remember that even though there was a set shade for a particular colour the mixing ratios of these shades were often in someone's head.
Yes there was a set mixture ratio but it differed from place to place. That's why there were variations in the shades.
When I started work in the painting trade over fifty years ago I learned how to mix shades from people many of whom were in their seventies.
They had nothing written down, it was all in their heads. They used their eyes to tell when a colour was right.
The strange thing is that they could produce the same shade over & over again with very little variation in the different batches.
Try & get someone to do that nowadays.
Tony.
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2 hours ago, Donw said:
My thoughts as well. However I dont think a GWR yard in Edwardian days would be poorly maintained. Ideal for todays cash strapped council maintained areas though.
Don
Yes a lot depends on the time period being modelled.
I can remember cobbles back in the sixties & sometimes they were all over the place. However I'm sure that they weren't always like that.
I do like that photo which shows them having moved about.
The rollers are very good but they look too perfect for me.
Tony.
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On 08/06/2019 at 18:03, PaulRhB said:
No way that I can find but I have asked Roco to add it by reporting it as a fault. I suggest that the more of us who ask by doing that the more likely it is to return
I have emailed Roco about it.
EDIT: No reply yet up to now 15th.
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Just revisited this thread after over a year to see if there are many updates.
Is there still no way to use a background photo like you could in the old app ?
I've been trying out the new app on my android tablet but can't seem to find if you can use a photo or not ?
Cheers.
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There's a video here which might be of some use.
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More on the bargain table in ian Allen Birmingham
Atlantic £120
Austerity £100
Gwr city £80
NSE 47 £90
Wickham trolley £40!
Lots of wagons
EFE wartime bus £7
Box codes
Just realised there are a couple of warships in that stack that I never spotted in the shop, hopefully melmerby May call in too and get a price on those!
Fortunately I don't live near Birmingham
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Return it.
The DC cv would have no effect.
Scalescenes wishlist
in Card structure modelling forum
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Georgian Terrace Houses like those in the squares of London.
1920-30's rows of grimy 3 or 4 story Tenements. (Low relief & Full size).