MrWolf Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 Is it me or do they all look like redundant props from a Tim Burton movie? 1 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234770407946?hash=item36a968220a:g:vSkAAOSw0SVjaWK7 They list things that would haunt your darkest nightmares! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted December 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 17, 2022 16 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… 💀 It looks like the sort of things we used to make in woodwork* at school.... * The group who couldn't be trusted to hold the right end of a chisel. 1 6 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: Is it me or do they all look like redundant props from a Tim Burton movie? Yes, The Nightmare Before Christmas! 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 1 minute ago, Paul H Vigor said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234770407946?hash=item36a968220a:g:vSkAAOSw0SVjaWK7 They list things that would haunt your darkest nightmares! It looks more like one of those Kings of England who were dispatched with a red-hot poker up the fundament... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234419149461?hash=item3694785a95:g:EfsAAOSw6k9iCRq8 A wonderful stocking filler for someone called 'Norman'! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 2 minutes ago, Paul H Vigor said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234419149461?hash=item3694785a95:g:EfsAAOSw6k9iCRq8 A wonderful stocking filler for someone called 'Norman'! Firewood. That white paint looks surprisingly fresh. Somebody should have told them it goes bluish grey over time. 3 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 35 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… 💀 I wonder what mind altering medication this has been on 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted December 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 17, 2022 Carbon dating anybody? Don't think it works on anything under a fortnight old though. Mike. 1 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 20 minutes ago, John Besley said: I wonder what mind altering medication this has been on Twiggy's dad! 🤓 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
40152 Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 24 minutes ago, John Besley said: I wonder what mind altering medication this has been on Q: what’s brown and sticky? A: see pic I’ll get my coat….. 1 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted December 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 17, 2022 27 minutes ago, John Besley said: I wonder what mind altering medication this has been on Its Buttons from the panto... He's behind you!!! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
40152 Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 13 minutes ago, Hroth said: Its Buttons from the panto... He's behind you!!! Oh no he’s not! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 34 minutes ago, 40152 said: Oh no he’s not! Should I venture that in fact, Oh yes he is? 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimberValleyRailway Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 (edited) Quote That white paint looks surprisingly fresh. Somebody should have told them it goes bluish grey over time. I read somewhere I think it was a modelling magazine that White paint wasn't invented until the 1960s, when ICI invented it. No idea if that's true, but if it is, then it certainly wasn't early 20th century...... Edited December 17, 2022 by TimberValleyRailway typo 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastglosmog Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 1 hour ago, TimberValleyRailway said: I read somewhere I think it was a modelling magazine that White paint wasn't invented until the 1960s, when ICI invented it. No idea if that's true, but if it is, then it certainly wasn't early 20th century...... That would be non-lead based white paint. There was plenty of white lead based paint before that - most railway companies plastered their carriage and wagon roofs with it - which then turned dark grey in the sulphurous atmosphere. 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastglosmog Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 9 hours ago, MrWolf said: 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 "Please view all photographs. The photograph is the actual item you will be purchasing." So all you will be getting is a photograph of the model, not the model itself? 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastglosmog Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 (edited) 7 hours 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 Just to be pedantic, should we tell him it is a stationary or portable engine, not a locomotive (or even traction) engine. Like it does not have any driven wheels that could propel it anywhere. Edited December 17, 2022 by eastglosmog 3 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ted633 Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195504861239 They really have lost the plot at Rails. You can easily get 3 complete ones off eBay (or even Hattons!) for much less than that. Would really like to see what they are thinking (or not as the case may be) attempting to sell for that price 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted December 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 17, 2022 55 minutes ago, ted633 said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195504861239 They really have lost the plot at Rails. You can easily get 3 complete ones off eBay (or even Hattons!) for much less than that. Would really like to see what they are thinking (or not as the case may be) attempting to sell for that price They've probably got a Christmas "temp" in, so the usual intern can be released to packaging and dispatch where they can, knowing how Rails works, do more damage help a bit... 1 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 1 hour ago, ted633 said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195504861239 They really have lost the plot at Rails. You can easily get 3 complete ones off eBay (or even Hattons!) for much less than that. Would really like to see what they are thinking (or not as the case may be) attempting to sell for that price Firstly, thank you for dragging us away from the freak show. Secondly What The Actual F...? I'm struggling to figure out why someone removed the bogies, why Rails think that these are worth £100 and what they actually offered the previous owners, if anything, given that they were probably part of a job lot. 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted December 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 17, 2022 1 hour ago, eastglosmog said: Just to be pedantic, should we tell him it is a stationary or portable engine, not a locomotive (or even traction) engine. Like it does not have any driven wheels that could propel it anywhere. But portable engines have four wheels, even if none are driven. Otherwise, they wouldn't be portable... B. J. Kemp, of St Neot, Cornwall should be ashamed of himslef! 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieGuyRob Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 Its looking like 'thehouseofantiqueslondon' should rename themselves 'thehouseofoverpricedtat'. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 39 minutes ago, Hroth said: But portable engines have four wheels, even if none are driven. Otherwise, they wouldn't be portable... B. J. Kemp, of St Neot, Cornwall should be ashamed of himslef! Especially as he couldn't spell the name of his home town. It's St. Neots. 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted December 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 17, 2022 44 minutes ago, Hroth said: But portable engines have four wheels, even if none are driven. Otherwise, they wouldn't be portable... B. J. Kemp, of St Neot, Cornwall should be ashamed of himslef! 3 minutes ago, MrWolf said: Especially as he couldn't spell the name of his home town. It's St. Neots. I'm not criticising spelling, I managed to get "himslef"* wrong! "St Neot" was probably to get it all on the plate... Cornwall is an odd place, its full of off-grid artisans, its even worse than Totnes, Devon. BJK might be a "herself", I should have used the correct pronoun, "theirself"... 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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