Ian Fisher

cheers for your positive words

4 hours ago, black and decker boy said:

maybe the abject lack of progress in your project in the past 5 years and seemingly little or no enthusiasm for you to do anything 

 

you can hardly claim this thread as a good sales pitch

Interesting wagon, Sorry being late to the party.

Both wagons seem to share the same chassis of 20'8" which for me is one I had not come across.

Each solebar has to be 7mm longer in 4mm between the headstock and axle?

The bodies are a variation on a wooden medfit?

Yet another interesting diagram to add to the possible builds list.

nine years on..

Odd how people post in other threads about wanting a 325.....

14 replies...two who PM'd me

a few nutty replies and very few meaningful approaches

On 06/04/2020 at 00:05, Huw Griffiths said:

I suspect you might be searching for rather a long time.

 

As far as I know, the models of these sets that have appeared on sites like this have been homebrews - typically fronts adapted from one class - bodyshells adapted from another - and so on.

what's wrong with homebrews?

In period til June 2019  they had a turnover of 14.7 million pounds

down to 12.6 million pounds to June 2020

Profit in 2019 pre tax was 748,000 pounds  which equates to 5%

profit in 2020 pre tax was 493,000 pounds which equates to 3.9%

found image gives the shop as being 47...

If you look on google earth Betfred currently occupy number 65

3d news 53

On 27/12/2015 at 19:20, peak experience said:

Thanks for the comparison Mark. They both look pretty good. I wonder why Bachmann decided to retool for such minor changes NEM coupling pocket perhaps?

If you look closely at the brake lever the tool has at this stage had some significant wear and or damage, which I understand had major issues in getting components out of the die.

Thinking of having a look at getting an old 03 and giving it a makeover refurb.

I have high level chassis kit. 

I recall craftsman did a kit but at a loss as to other parts that may be out there that I may want to consider

Bet its all that steam punk stuff that has put them in profit.

or Airfix! just try and buy a kit of late! Military modelling is a little bit more table top, I have invested in a few aircraft principally with the lack of rail shows my bits buying has shrunk.

Compare military traders they have grasped e commerce. 

Just now, TomScrut said:

 

I really really don't need another NR/test train, already having a PLPR train, NMT, MPV and RHTT along with several rakes of yellow wagons, but I am really glad I have one on order!

ditto... 

I had a very privileged but brief opportunity two years ago of working in Loram.  

Caroline was a favorite..

3 hours ago, TomScrut said:

There was an update today for those of you who haven't seen

 

http://www.revolutiontrains.com/caroline-looking-sweet/

looking like its going to be a top top model.

On 14/05/2021 at 09:48, Michael Hodgson said:

A lot of things are part of history but would be better forgotten.

I grew up in the 50s but that doesn't mean I want to see the return of winkle picker shoes or brylcream.

To put it into a 1970s context, there were piles of rubbish everywhere when the dustmen went on strike.

I bet you are the best of the best with an airbrush.

21 minutes ago, Class 158 productions said:

Wheels seem to have quite large flanges, hopefully not a repeat of the mk3sds. With casting issues etc

Not sure how you can tell from a cad what the spec is of a flange...

Just now, LNER4479 said:

I just loved the bit about the house numbers being on the fence bordering the ground so they know which door to knock on to get the ball back. Can you imagine Harry Kane doing that?

(I know it'll be the reserve reserve team and all that but it's a lovely image)

 

They had one of Footballs longest serving managers if not the longest for many years (33) By trade a window cleaner it was joked he would take advice from many of his clients in the Crosby area, area with many Merseyside based footballers calling the Crosby home....

Once you try to find your triggers things can settle.

Mine were red veg, mushrooms and strawberries.

Ibuprofen is worth keeping a supply of.

Also as daft as it sounds Cherry Juice seems to help me, it takes the edge of when you begin to get the tingle a few days before it might go boom!

Just now, frobisher said:

 

I would say that would be speculation based purely on the use of the Aifix style coupling mounts currently on the bogies.

Which is hardly proof....

7 hours ago, Rhydgaled said:

 

Have Hornby EVER released a scale-length mark 3 TS, TF or 3-window buffet WITHOUT Central Door Locking (CDL) lights? Does their tooling allow them to do that? The recent GWR train set one (the only Hornby mark 3 I have) appears to have the moulded detail for the CDL lights but these have not been decorated as such (they are just painted the same green as the rest of the body). If Hornby were going to produce it without painting the CDL lights orange you'd think they'd use a body tooling without them if they had the option of doing so.

 

 

 

 

 

 I read somewhere very recently that someone said these are ex Airfix..

Odd that they they had existed without a release and for the only addition Hornby would make is the door lights! not having the option to just alter the tools!

The Sleepers are I guess being released to make up the test trains as in the pics above.

4 hours ago, TomScrut said:

 

The 43 is unpowered.

 

I'm pleased it looks like a full retool. Now I need to think about how long a train I want...

Can you explain about the "full retool" please

2 minutes ago, jools1959 said:

They were all published twice a year as I still have mine though I think they became annually after the combined came out.

more info 

coaching stock on ever annually... 

https://daverowland.smugmug.com/Platform5-Railway-Books

Just now, jools1959 said:

I remember getting the pocket books in the early 80’s and they came out every 6 months and as you mentioned, the first combine came out in 1985 and I still have mine, suitably grubby 

I reckon the loco book was published twice a year, the others annually

A mate who started on the railway with the LMS ended his career in Liverpool Lime Street's top link.

He was one for a laugh too. 

A younger driver having done an inspection of his DVT and felt his DVT was missing a pantograph! report it then lad....to which the fitter then bent the younger drivers ear..

Jimmy, driving himself kicking back in his cab doing a ton going down working, was then greeted by a steward with a full brekkie. Imagine the surprise having worked on your own for twenty years, his comment "I almost s*te myself" but the brekkie was good.

11 hours ago, NorthenElectric91 said:

Totally, completely missing the point.. but,  we're gonna end up completely off topic if we go down that avenue so lets just leave it there.

I beg to differ.

A Mark 3b DVT aint a class 82/1.  

The model could actually be cheaper to produce as unlike a coach to convey passengers this has no interior to model after a small cab desk.

3 hours ago, NorthenElectric91 said:

Point taken RE the cost/benefit of offering a dummy loco.  I thought (based on the prices I have payed for such parts from Bachmann) that the electronic bits made up a larger percentage of the total price than has been suggested.

In light of this, I wonder how Hornby managed to put together a business case to produce their Class 82/1 DVT?  

 

 

Simple its a coach.

No motor.

Technically not a class either its number range falls within tops for npcs.