Paul H Vigor Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 43 minutes ago, Michael Hodgson said: It sounds like you should succumb - and then resell them on Ebay at silly prices. Next year you may become a millionaire! 😉 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 8 hours ago, Darius43 said: Something you never thought you needed… Until now. Time to get the flock out of here. Cheers Darius https://www.wwscenics.com/product/oo-gauge-sheep-flocking-kit/ Video of a sheep getting flocked! 🤓🐑🏴 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esmedune Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 4 hours ago, phil_sutters said: Early 20th century B.R.(W) closet sign. Whoever faked that sign clearly hasn't a clue about railway history. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234807080928?hash=item36ab97b7e0:g:oEwAAOSwL21jjOUe Age: 1920 - 1940 When was BR formed again? 🤣 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
33C Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 3 hours ago, MrWolf said: Possibly English isn't their first language, which might explain some of the grandiose spiel in the eBay listings too. They also have this, which was highlighted earlier by @Paul H Vigor, https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/233869013183?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=RCidPT2rTsa&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=3qkTzGg7QRS&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY I'd looked at it when my phone was in monochrome mode, stating that I thought it might bring a few hundred as a piece of folk art. Now I see it in colour, I'm even less convinced. The yellow underpainting, (Why? Red oxide would be more convincing for something home made) which makes me think of a primer used on structural steelwork that is to have an intumescent coating. Possibly made in India last year... Whatever it is, it's not £6500. Seen this type of thing before. Old chest of drawers, split up, then one side charred over a bonfire. Black under-seal painted then rubbed off. Pity they didn't do that after they lettered it and where are the splits and cracks? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 The description is thoroughly amusing: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234774473000?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=RCidPT2rTsa&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=3qkTzGg7QRS&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted December 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 17, 2022 1 hour ago, MrWolf said: The description is thoroughly amusing: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234774473000?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=RCidPT2rTsa&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=3qkTzGg7QRS&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY Jackanory, Jackanory, Jackanory. Mike. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 Here's another favourite, the "Pro built". It doesn't say which particular pro, it must be a rarity though (hence the starting bid.) I can't think who has built it, all the pros around here are more interested in heroin than model railways... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115642726290?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=6JL2ex-0RM6&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=3qkTzGg7QRS&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted December 17, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 17, 2022 (edited) 8 hours ago, MrWolf said: Possibly English isn't their first language, which might explain some of the grandiose spiel in the eBay listings too. They also have this, which was highlighted earlier by @Paul H Vigor, https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/233869013183?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=RCidPT2rTsa&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=3qkTzGg7QRS&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY I'd looked at it when my phone was in monochrome mode, stating that I thought it might bring a few hundred as a piece of folk art. Now I see it in colour, I'm even less convinced. The yellow underpainting, (Why? Red oxide would be more convincing for something home made) which makes me think of a primer used on structural steelwork that is to have an intumescent coating. Possibly made in India last year... Whatever it is, it's not £6500. 4588 was my regular engine when she was on the TDR - that would give me nightmares .... Of interest the Torbay line opened on December 31st 1972 and ran a full time commuter service with just 4588 or 6412 to cover the school service as part of the take over from BR until I think it was November 1973 - thus we had once again steam hauled passenger commuter trains in the UK Edited December 17, 2022 by John Besley 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 So that's a model of a locomotive that is still around? It becomes a less convincing antique by the minute! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted December 17, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 17, 2022 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234461685566?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=RCidPT2rTsa&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=mAE25Fz1QpK&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY Looks like it's cobbled together out of plumbing offcuts, Singer sewing machines and Mamod wheels... Now that's a thought .... I've got numerous bits of scrap Mamod and Wilesco bits... I wonder 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted December 17, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 17, 2022 15 minutes ago, MrWolf said: So that's a model of a locomotive that is still around? It becomes a less convincing antique by the minute! And to saw it was found recently in Swindon.... come off it It might have been more convincing if they'd used a scrapped 45xx 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted December 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 17, 2022 1 hour ago, John Besley said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234461685566?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=RCidPT2rTsa&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=mAE25Fz1QpK&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY Looks like it's cobbled together out of plumbing offcuts, Singer sewing machines and Mamod wheels... Now that's a thought .... I've got numerous bits of scrap Mamod and Wilesco bits... I wonder Looking at the seller’s inventory it certainly seems that they turned out an awful lot of tat in the early 20th Century… ‘Completely solid in structure and form” - shame as what I’m really after is something jelly-like and invisible… Cheers Darius 2 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted December 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 17, 2022 7 minutes ago, Darius43 said: Looking at the seller’s inventory it certainly seems that they turned out an awful lot of tat in the early 20th Century… I think he's Gosturd on steroids? Mike. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted December 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 17, 2022 (edited) 11 minutes ago, Enterprisingwestern said: I think he's Gosturd on steroids? Mike. More likely to be consciousness expanding pharmaceuticals, given the wide range of cr@p and the descriptions appended.... Then this came to mind Ahem.... Edited December 17, 2022 by Hroth My mind expanded.... 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
40152 Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 New variation on adding value (as if!) to Del Prado tat; put them on a mahogany plinth and whack up the price: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204176953894? Several at this price, or add the random but clearly well-deserved £4 FS supplement and get this beauty for pride of place on the mantelpiece: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204176904480? 🙄 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 15 minutes ago, 40152 said: New variation on adding value (as if!) to Del Prado tat; put them on a mahogany plinth and whack up the price: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204176953894? Several at this price, or add the random but clearly well-deserved £4 FS supplement and get this beauty for pride of place on the mantelpiece: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204176904480? 🙄 That's what you do with those big old 70s / 80s mahogany display cabinets that had little florescent lights in the top. Cut up the doors and sides to make little plinths for tat, because you sure can't sell them as is. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
40152 Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 2 minutes ago, MrWolf said: That's what you do with those big old 70s / 80s mahogany display cabinets that had little florescent lights in the top. Cut up the doors and sides to make little plinths for tat, because you sure can't sell them as is. Yep, was at a local roup last year. Two mahogany display cabinets started at 50p each and still neither of them sold. Perceptions of value… 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 7 hours ago, MrWolf said: The description is thoroughly amusing: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234774473000?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=RCidPT2rTsa&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=3qkTzGg7QRS&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY 'thehouseofantiqueslondon' is proving to be a very rich seam of 'madness'! 😎 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 It's almost as if the same hand made every piece in their inventory. How lucky to score such a vast collection spanning the entire naive school of 3D arts.... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234088015203?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=RCidPT2rTsa&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=3qkTzGg7QRS&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 7 hours ago, MrWolf said: The description is thoroughly amusing: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234774473000?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=RCidPT2rTsa&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=3qkTzGg7QRS&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY Oddly, there is a Westonia in Western Australia. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Paul H Vigor said: 'thehouseofantiqueslondon' is proving to be a very rich seam of 'madness'! 😎 It's a rich seam of something... We may have found the bull***t mother lode... Edited December 17, 2022 by MrWolf 2 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 3 minutes ago, MrWolf said: It's almost as if the same hand made every piece in their inventory. How lucky to score such a vast collection spanning the entire naive school of 3D arts.... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234088015203?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=RCidPT2rTsa&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=3qkTzGg7QRS&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY That paddle steamer has a peculiar charm - like an illustration from a children's story? But I wouldn't pay £895.00 for it! 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted December 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 17, 2022 4 minutes ago, MrWolf said: It's almost as if the same hand made every piece in their inventory. How lucky to score such a vast collection spanning the entire naive school of 3D arts.... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234088015203?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=RCidPT2rTsa&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=3qkTzGg7QRS&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY I'm assuming his clientele are Americans. Mike. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
40152 Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 4 minutes ago, MrWolf said: It's a rich seam of something... We may have found the bull***t mother lode... “Something” is certainly the watchword: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/233724424751? Some things are hard to unsee. And remember….there are such things… 💀 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 9 minutes ago, 40152 said: “Something” is certainly the watchword: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/233724424751? Some things are hard to unsee. And remember….there are such things… 💀 "... one man’s exotic and vivid artistic folk-art mind." No kiddin'! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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