cromptonnut
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Wow... I could definitely be tempted if a full 7 or 8 coach rake was to be available. Wish there was something in the picture to show the scale of the thing though, even though I know T is bonkers small it's always useful to have a reference.
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Dave, do you envisage eventually releasing these in 7mm to go with your 7mm stock programme...?
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That's a very... eclectic collection. Hard to tell if it's worth £9000 without a proper inventory though. My guess is that it probably isn't - a lot of people think to seem that just because it's in a box despite being second hand and 'played with' it's still worth as much as if it was bought brand new in a shop at full rrp today.
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A fairly generous offer considering the seller had the audacity to scream his wares at you!
On another note, isn't this a bit steep an asking price for a chopped up Lima O gauge shunter shell plonked onto a Smokey Joe chassis?
That Frankenstein's Monster has been up before. Can't possibly think why it didn't sell.
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Looks more 'barbecued' than 'weathered' to me...
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Someone has bid on this junk!
http://www.ebay.co.u...8#ht_500wt_1362
"Would look good in siding project." More like a dustbin project......
Appropriate user name selling it too.
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But for more than one the cost mounts up pretty quickly (as it does with all these nice wagons and coaches that are coming out these days). For example the branch terminus on my father's layout has two platforms with starter signals and a bracket home signal (i.e. 4 arms in total). Assuming a bracket signal follows at around the £50 mark, that's £100 to fit out a very simple station. Even that's possibly not too bad, but the other end of the line has 10 signal arms, and my own 00 terminus layout has around 20!
Accurate signalling isn't necessarily cheap; ready assembled colour light signals of 2 or 3 aspects are showing up between £10 and £15 each; add direction feathers, call on etc and your'e at the same or past the cost. Admittedly you can buy kits and do it cheaper but these are "ready to plonk" of course.
You probably will find discounts off of the price Dave quoted, but even at full price it's pretty impressive as a ready assembled product, when you look at the alternative home made option that usually involves a slow action point motor.
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I don't know what the answer is, only that I haven't "made it" yet.
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I'm sure I've seen the odd GWR one in the West Country.
There's more to the west country than GWR... some of us model the Southern you know.
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I hadn't come across the name 'spade bit' but now you mention it I know exactly what you mean. Thanks for the tip. Now, about those signals, how about some nice Southern region ones for us west country modellers?
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Very nice, I assume that the operating noise is somewhat more muffled when actually attached to a baseboard.
Just wondering how many modellers have 14mm drill bits to make the hole though? My electric drill will only go up to a 10mm bit.
Still, if the logical follow-through of this development follows Dapol's foray into 7mm then I can see me buying a couple for that project too.
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I always liked the approach to Stratford before all the redesigning going on now - tight curve and incline to come up alongside the single line link from Fenchurch Street, then running alongside the Liverpool Street lines.
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Impressive and definitely something to follow, the bodyshells seem something that 3D printing would lend itself too very well.
I've always fancied DLR, not just because there's an excuse to have setrack style curves on a visible scenic section....
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Fit a couple of these in your layout fascia.
http://www.airwick.co.uk/automatic-sprays-odour-detect-max.php
Alternatively, if your locos are fitted with smoke generators, use aromatherapy oils in with the smoke oil for a nice scent.
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A model of Tesco's supermarket in an ex-goods Yard selling general merchandise, coal, agricultural animal foods, tree trunks, sand, cement, grain, creosote, sheep, and gunpowder.
You could always use the Walthers kit - also available in HO.
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Reduction in prices...
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Although, apparently, 'it is working'. I can't help feeling it might not perform at its best with no wheels.
Can't see much sign of a motor or couplings either...
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At last, an accurate item description. "Seen much better days" indeed...
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But how many Delitics were made? It's unique!
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Given the amount of 4mm model buses out there, and 7mm cars and lorries, you'd have thought that buses would have been made by someone fairly inexpensively even if fairly basic and of a few common types.
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It does say it needs a dust, maybe thats giving it a green tinge!!
It's blue, with yellow and black wasp stripes on the cab. Put those colours together and you end up with a dark green.
I suppose it is an 'average' model...
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ERRRR... how's the driver ment to see where he is going !!!
Presumably with this thing which I guess is the other half of the 'unit'?
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I was watching when one of the signals had stopped working and someone was trying to fix it from underneath... must have been very strong wind to make it wobble like that
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Damn that self-combusting fruit, eh?
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Run it on 12v and you'd probably get smoke as well - albeit briefly...