RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted August 18, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 18, 2022 Good! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium rab Posted August 18, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 18, 2022 3 hours ago, ianmacc said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/304601841765?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=LtrFMuqjTdy&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=fPrBGeR6QDO&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY Surely this isn’t permitted? listing now removed 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted August 18, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 18, 2022 (edited) Well, what can you say about this? Shows some imagination, I suppose, and it is yellow… There are a few more versions of these “Frankenlocos” on offer from this seller. Cheers Darius Edited August 18, 2022 by Darius43 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 Built out of odds and ends fora siding filler on his sons layout as there was a maintenance depot near their house. I think it rather nice that a father takes an active interest in his child's hobbies. 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted August 18, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 18, 2022 1 hour ago, rab said: listing now removed Blimey, out of all the listings I've reported, I think that's the first one to actually be taken down! 5 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
33C Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 17 minutes ago, Darius43 said: Well, what can you say about this? Shows some imagination, I suppose, and it is yellow… There are a few more versions of these “Frankenlocos” on offer from this seller. Cheers Darius I like it, a bit like the Robel mobile maintenance train! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 36 minutes ago, Darius43 said: Well, what can you say about this? Shows some imagination, I suppose, and it is yellow… There are a few more versions of these “Frankenlocos” on offer from this seller. Cheers Darius Errrrr..... Pass! An interesting concept, but not for me. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted August 18, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 18, 2022 I can say quite a lot about this, but not on a family forum… 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 6 hours ago, rab said: listing now removed Perhaps the seller is one of us!? 🥸 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 4 hours ago, Bucoops said: Blimey, out of all the listings I've reported, I think that's the first one to actually be taken down! Perhaps the seller is one of us!? 🥸 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 7 hours ago, Paul H Vigor said: Perhaps the seller is one of us!? 🥸 You don't mean?????? 🤔 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PeterStiles Posted August 19, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 19, 2022 15 minutes ago, 40152 said: What’s not to like? I'd still feel... dirty. Like the time at work we installed "autocaller" software for the sales team. I cried myself to sleep over that. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianmacc Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 I see mystery box is now back bit with a vague description the bare minimum. Why can’t he just show the contents instead of playing this deceitful game? 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 29 minutes ago, ianmacc said: I see mystery box is now back bit with a vague description the bare minimum. Why can’t he just show the contents instead of playing this deceitful game? Perhaps he sees himself as a bit of a PT Barnum, remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and credited with the memorable "There's a sucker born every minute". We don't have to bid on the lots. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted August 19, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 19, 2022 (edited) https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/373981508235?hash=item571308f28b:g:GxQAAOSwK3tiMY91&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoGGyBIN626kqAC5K1PYi7AO1zypklwP516spJkodo%2BWiEm5aY1wxZ5muSpp7UNtguqFQf%2BehNs9e6BT%2BtdEmSEYVM7tDRIoz5e5Yw8geNCd3YOIq0XQh7YSspyza02%2BbE9mkC7swAZ86VkNiyCfQRYvD1k%2FMdoo2q7wHPoRQmZz3v0ljrTY8Ti3UYG0%2FYi1fiAWjmjt8oYQQ6M3SgGGQWDU%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR8rmr9XWYA ...from Greg Diffen a.k.a. the Studebaker man..... Obviously people will pay this stupid amount of money for them judging by the number that are OOS. Edited August 19, 2022 by Re6/6 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 2 hours ago, Hroth said: You don't mean?????? 🤔 "Could be!" 😎 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 28 minutes ago, Paul H Vigor said: "Could be!" 😎 I'm shocked! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
40152 Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 Best part of £200 for a coach with a ropy paint job? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334465916696?hash=item4ddfb8df18:g:X88AAOSwIchinZ97 It could only be from…. 😉 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted August 19, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 19, 2022 "You may wish to redo the lining" - I may wish to not buy it. 2 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted August 19, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 19, 2022 I may wish to offer you only a tenner then drop the entire ensemble into a vat of paint stripper and start again... 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted August 19, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 19, 2022 (edited) 1980's shorty Hornby Mk3 with football stadium spotlights in part of the coach and a free magic wand for forty sheets anyone? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/225120189857 Not to mention some of the most serious light bleed ever seen in railway modelling and passengers who need a full radiation suit and glasses to protect themselves from the light... Edited August 19, 2022 by John M Upton 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 9 minutes ago, John M Upton said: 1980's shorty Hornby Mk3 with football stadium spotlights in part of the coach and a free magic wand for forty sheets anyone? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/225120189857 Not to mention some of the most serious light bleed ever seen in railway modelling and passengers who need a full radiation suit and glasses to protect themselves from the light... Experiment into using nuclear power for coach lighting goes horribly wrong... Also: How does adding extra weights to a coach improve traction? 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted August 19, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 19, 2022 17 minutes ago, MrWolf said: Experiment into using nuclear power for coach lighting goes horribly wrong... Also: How does adding extra weights to a coach improve traction? It might be getting light headed... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted August 19, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 19, 2022 9 hours ago, Re6/6 said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/373981508235?hash=item571308f28b:g:GxQAAOSwK3tiMY91&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoGGyBIN626kqAC5K1PYi7AO1zypklwP516spJkodo%2BWiEm5aY1wxZ5muSpp7UNtguqFQf%2BehNs9e6BT%2BtdEmSEYVM7tDRIoz5e5Yw8geNCd3YOIq0XQh7YSspyza02%2BbE9mkC7swAZ86VkNiyCfQRYvD1k%2FMdoo2q7wHPoRQmZz3v0ljrTY8Ti3UYG0%2FYi1fiAWjmjt8oYQQ6M3SgGGQWDU%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR8rmr9XWYA ...from Greg Diffen a.k.a. the Studebaker man..... Obviously people will pay this stupid amount of money for them judging by the number that are OOS. Sometimes he's not too bad. Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted August 19, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 19, 2022 1 hour ago, MrWolf said: How does adding extra weights to a coach improve traction? It doesn't, but if the ballast is low-mounted enough it should improve stability and 'road holding', which might be what the seller is trying to describe! It will also improve the wheelsets' rolling performance and free-running. Those lights are insanely bright, though, unless the photo is very badly overexposed. Overbright lighting on layouts and in vehicles is one of my soap boxes; they are usually far too bright, and one is left with the impression that it's more about 'look at my lights, aren't I clever, look, look how bright they are, look!!!' than it is about portraying realism. Real lights, even bright modern ones, do not intrude much upon the senses on any reasonably bright day, and steam age coach lights were barely visible even at night in a reasonably well lit station platform. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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