NWR-Gordon-4 Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 Well final stocks of a disocontinued product will have to sell out eventually. Everytime one sells, that's one less on the market. Look at the Thomas items. As soon as the public know which items get discontinued, suddenly all the model shops are out of stock. Think yourself back to 2011. As soon as a small portion of the range had been left with a few new items being released that year and with more than 80% of the range had been discontinued, not even a week later you could find those discontinued items, anywhere. They were all gone in a flash. I was one of them, getting the stuff that been discontinued that I didn't own of course was what I needed. Some items though, like the Circus Stalls I had to wait until this year, to win box of them, new, in the condition I wanted them to be in. GNR-Gordon-4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 Oh for heavens sake Jacob just because something is discontinued it can take years for the whole stock to be sold. Did you check to see if there were any available. Somebody on here bought a brand new Q1 loco the other day that hasn't been made for years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWR-Gordon-4 Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 I am not arguing WTD. I am making a point. Yes, after something has been discontinued, you can still buy new, but there are rare in that condition, just like the rare Hornby Thomas products sells for head blasting prices on eBay, like R9244 Circus Stalls a few months ago. I got these on eBay, but becuase they are rare and this pack was new, I had to pay a high price for, when I think it costed around £15.00 - £20.00, when it was in production from 2006 - 2010. GNR-Gordon-4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 OK you win. Hattons have more than 10 I believe, very rare. It's like the shop on this forum. It often says out of stock. That doesn't mean they are all gone it just means Hornby don't have any left. -THE END - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWR-Gordon-4 Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Hee is a way to see my layout, but in these these vidoes, it does not show as much detail as they do now. The layout had just been built, as when I filmed these videos, I just built a new layout, on a new board. The layout was on top of the dining room table, so I didn't bother getting my builds out and placing them on the layout, while it was in the dinning room, awaiting to be fixed to the wall in my bedroom. It gives you an idea of the size of the layout though. Saving me from posting from posting all the videos, I will just post my Spencer and Murdoch videos: R9257 Spencer*R9684 Murdoch* *For best viewing pleausre, I suggest you watched both videos in HD. GNR-Gordon-4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Doc Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 My latest project, to be worked on at school with some year 9 students, is a minimum space continuous run layout - in a total space of 6' x 2'! The tightest radius curve is approximately 8". I've been testing the layout with various short wheelbase stock, and as well as all the Hornby 0-4-0s, we can run the Hornby and Bachmann class 08, Hornby J94 and Bachmann Toby. Short wheelbase wagons and short bogie wagons run fine (e.g. bogie bolster and weltrol wagons) - though we will have to standardise on the large Hornby tension lock couplings. Here are a couple of pictures to show the track plan: /media/tinymce_upload/676ea0bcc521de42e708c82975d52f3d.JPG/media/tinymce_upload/0b50cb1bc6a1ec59aef034db380a25a1.JPGFencing or some other sort of barrier will go around the long sides to prevent derailments from becoming disasters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigskybirds Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 @The Doc A tight squeeze but looks good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The son of Triangman Posted August 18, 2017 Share Posted August 18, 2017 The layout is packed away at present in it's boxes with shop stock in several rooms!/media/tinymce_upload/07fc1038d4f48a0390e8dad6e4d8c2c9.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The son of Triangman Posted August 18, 2017 Share Posted August 18, 2017 /media/tinymce_upload/0471c24f98616f930ede3a79879650f4.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The son of Triangman Posted August 18, 2017 Share Posted August 18, 2017 /media/tinymce_upload/4f63607ce261d72ff1b4d539d22cb71b.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The son of Triangman Posted August 18, 2017 Share Posted August 18, 2017 I might get around to putting the layout back together one day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWR-Gordon-4 Posted August 19, 2017 Share Posted August 19, 2017 @The son of Triangman Which two Hornby Thomas & Friends items, do you have there? GNR-Gordon-4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The son of Triangman Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 There's more than two items Gordon, I have the whole range tucked away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulleidboy Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 There's more than two items Gordon, I have the whole range tucked away. Looking at your photographs and the immense stack of I doubt if anybody will be surprised at that! 😆 But could he find them!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The son of Triangman Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 Not easily, too much stuff alas, I need to divide the shop stock from my own collection once I am able to locate a shoebox sized shop and workshop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The son of Triangman Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 It's taken over a bit, alas new stock is mixed in with my collection and old stock./media/tinymce_upload/54f7606a67cf9ecb47e7077215bb79b8.jpg This is my problem at present. New stock is mixed in with very old new stock. I am sorting it slowly./media/tinymce_upload/008a30ae233e671c23a227155d29536a.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The son of Triangman Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 I'm slowly sorting it all out, mixed parts and electronics are being sorted slowly./media/tinymce_upload/23a416a57b7b40e36695b9bc4185d74e.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RB51 Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 Have just repaired the backscene lighting after a tragic accident with a saw 😳 Can't get the image to upload at present (The file could not be written to disk). If that remains the case I will ask Adam to add it here. /media/tinymce_upload/c8e2ab7ad7e247dcabfaec96d4a97b5c.JPG EDIT: the image has now loaded (4th attempt). All I did when my original text was posted was re-open, and keep open, edit window - and kept trying.R- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Module00 Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 Hi, 😀My name is Alain, i live in Marseille (France).Excellent idea. Hello everyone, I will begin by introducing you my modular layout named Narrow Lane.It is a free evocation of Glasgow and its suburbs in 70' and 80'. It consists of two modules. A third is under preparation.First, the module one. 😀/media/tinymce_upload/715a2477ee5940fccc2a6f7e7f2dfcd1.JPG/media/tinymce_upload/735c4fa801a9d03257463f05db1b20b7.JPG/media/tinymce_upload/fe9bbb77aefaf9fcb69109a704ed1e1a.JPG/media/tinymce_upload/99a0b9a22f84c90f7424098a65f43a89.JPG/media/tinymce_upload/e827c93efd43e0eea4b6e62a3a8cf457.JPG/media/tinymce_upload/5952cd61d733a566c21ef0818c5337f8.jpg/media/tinymce_upload/0932c44b273e9bddc1274cb799c5bcbf.JPG/media/tinymce_upload/b1231129682e41557a4bf385bbc7175f.jpg/media/tinymce_upload/e1a93b791f251afaf51cad1f77c3b62b.jpgMore pictures very soon! AlainYou can find all the photos and video on my blog. http://voie-de-debord.blogspot.fr/or my video channel on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/user/moduleho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 Welcome to the Hornby forums Alain. A very nicely made set of modules.Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Module00 Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 Hi thank you very much for yours comments and welcome. I am very happy to join the Hornby Forum. 😆 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWR-Gordon-4 Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 Very good and nice layout you have there, Module00. Well done. By the way, welcome to the Hornby Forum! 😀 GNR-Gordon-4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Module00 Posted August 27, 2017 Share Posted August 27, 2017 Thank you very much for your comment ! 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VESPA Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 I have just looked back on this post and the mention of City of Truro as an NRM special. They did two versions with the two numbers that COT carried. I bought both, one as I saw it at first and then after the NRM repainted and renumbered it my wife suggested I bought the other version. Numbers being 3717 and 3440. No they are not for sale either! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigskybirds Posted November 2, 2017 Share Posted November 2, 2017 I thought I would resurrect this thread by adding a video showing my layout in actionhttps://youtu.be/9OUVqyO3Z7U Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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