PatB Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 1 hour ago, Enterprisingwestern said: Pet free home??, well something has chewed the flanges off the centre wheels! Mike. Pet free. Didn't say anything about vermin though. 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieGuyRob Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 8 hours ago, PatB said: At least those do appear, as far as I can tell on my postage stamp sized screen, to be a reasonable representation of how diesels fade and weather if left standing for a long period. We'll leave aside the actual likelihood of seeing an individual HST power car in that state. The work does also appear to have been done carefully and probably represents a fair bit of time on the part of the maker, so the prices are somewhat understandable from someone charging their time at even hobby business/cottage industry rates. I wouldn't want one myself, but Rule 1 applies. Certainly a bit different from dipping a GBL/Dapol/Airfix junkbox model in glue, then rolling it in dried tealeaves. Though as I said in 2022, how does does the cab rust? It isn't made of metal. 3 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 3 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said: Pet free home??, well something has chewed the flanges off the centre wheels! Mike. The monster that lives under the bed, perchance!? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 2 hours ago, PatB said: Pet free. Didn't say anything about vermin though. Or panthers! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted May 25 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 25 7 hours ago, Paul H Vigor said: Where did this mania to drive up model railway prices come from? Gostude? 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 21 minutes ago, PhilJ W said: Gostude? Was it the lockdown? Or was it before the lockdown? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TinTracks Posted May 25 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 25 9 hours ago, Bucoops said: What a heap of Oh I don't know. Looks a lot like one of my mutations😅 Cheers, Rich 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
russell price Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 To be fair that Ks Q1 was never going to be too successfull on its Ks Chassis, maybe rewheel the Triang Chassis first and it would be fine. Mind not at £90??. i bought a superbly made and painted SEF one for £35 off ebay a couple of years ago. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 On 26/05/2024 at 06:31, russell price said: To be fair that Ks Q1 was never going to be too successfull on its Ks Chassis, maybe rewheel the Triang Chassis first and it would be fine. Mind not at £90??. i bought a superbly made and painted SEF one for £35 off ebay a couple of years ago. Much the same as my thoughts. A decently built white metal kit on a Triang chassis is still a perfectly respectable loco for, say, a retro style layout. But even back in the day most "serious" modellers would have changed those wheels for something a bit better. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium SteveyDee68 Posted May 27 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 27 On 25/05/2024 at 13:40, Edge said: Take my money https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/355741238547?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=svnwoihqq-a&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=x4CpQb3ERxC&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY Quite clearly misrepresentation, as the seller states that this is a limited edition model for The National Railway Museum. We can all chortle, but we have the knowledge to see it for what it is; less ‘educated’ buyers might be sucked in and pay over the odds. Caveat emptor and all that jazz, but a sale at an inflated price simply encourages another overpriced listing. Seller contacted (ooh, what a spoilsport I am!!) Steve S 7 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium SteveyDee68 Posted May 27 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 27 Taken a quick look at his other items for sale, all of which look like they have been picked up at car boot sales given their general age (Triang, old Hornby, Lima, Lima HO British outline (!) and Wrenn). Pricing is all ahem optimistic, shall we say… Triang Hornby BoB “Winston Churchill” - “rare” … it might be, especially with a dirty great chunk taken out of one side of it! Steve S PS Notification from eBay - seller has took down the listing for the “limited edition” Q1 (normally I word such messages quite politely, but on this occasion I pointed out that the photographs included unclear images of box and paperwork for an entirely different model which could be construed as misleading … and a few more less than gently made points … I think he got the message) 3 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edge Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 33 minutes ago, SteveyDee68 said: Quite clearly misrepresentation, as the seller states that this is a limited edition model for The National Railway Museum. We can all chortle, but we have the knowledge to see it for what it is; less ‘educated’ buyers might be sucked in and pay over the odds. Caveat emptor and all that jazz, but a sale at an inflated price simply encourages another overpriced listing. Seller contacted (ooh, what a spoilsport I am!!) Steve S I’d also reported it to eBay themselves before I put it on here - hence the screenshots preserving the item in perpetuity in case they took the listing down 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted May 27 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 27 Everyone's favourite ebay seller again. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334223723808 The wagon itself looks reasonably built - but why on earth has whoever built it used pen lids as the load?! 1 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted May 27 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 27 53 minutes ago, Bucoops said: Everyone's favourite ebay seller again. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334223723808 The wagon itself looks reasonably built - but why on earth has whoever built it used pen lids as the load?! Not just pen lids, but UHU glue caps... Anyway, you can get similar wagons new from Dapol for the same price or less. Admittedly you'd have to source yout own load..... 3 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sjcm Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 1 hour ago, Bucoops said: Everyone's favourite ebay seller again. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334223723808 The wagon itself looks reasonably built - but why on earth has whoever built it used pen lids as the load?! Is this one of these suspect adverts RM keeps warning me about? 1 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 1 hour ago, Hroth said: Not just pen lids, but UHU glue caps... Anyway, you can get similar wagons new from Dapol for the same price or less. Admittedly you'd have to source yout own load..... Someone thought they looked like industrial drums of some kind? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 1 hour ago, Hroth said: Not just pen lids, but UHU glue caps... Which would make me worry about what the wagon is stuck together with. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted May 27 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 27 25 minutes ago, PatB said: Which would make me worry about what the wagon is stuck together with. Also, if the wagon wasn't constructed using UHU, then what they were using it for... 🤔 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sjcm Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 Judging from the amount of tops, sniffing it? 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted May 27 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 27 3 hours ago, Bucoops said: Everyone's favourite ebay seller again. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334223723808 The wagon itself looks reasonably built - but why on earth has whoever built it used pen lids as the load?! Because the builder had run out of pencils? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted May 27 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 27 4 hours ago, Sjcm said: Judging from the amount of tops, sniffing it? Maybe the seller did build it then? Might explain a lot... 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieGuyRob Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 (edited) 4 hours ago, Hroth said: Also, if the wagon wasn't constructed using UHU, then what they were using it for... 🤔 They obviously know some of the more dodgy customers of the taxi company where I work. I have had 2 of the drivers kick someone out of their cabs for using glue for something other than modelling purposes. Those are the ones that I am aware of. Edited May 27 by PieGuyRob 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 1 hour ago, PieGuyRob said: They obviously know some of the more dodgy customers of the taxi company where I work. I have had 2 of the drivers kick someone out of their cabs for using glue for something other than modelling purposes. Those are the ones that I am aware of. Sticking unsuspecting punters to the seats, eh?? 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieGuyRob Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 3 minutes ago, Paul H Vigor said: Sticking unsuspecting punters to the seats, eh?? I know off people doing worse in taxis.... 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted May 28 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 28 Non runner perchance..? Collection in person from London but the item is in Serbia… ChatGPT description. What could possibly go wrong? Cheers Darius 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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