Hornby 2017 Range
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Hornby 2017 Range
Hornby's new 2017 range is up on their website :
http://www.hornby.com/uk-en/shop/hornby ... -2017.html
GWR Green (sludge livery) HST powercar pack (limited edition) marked up at an eye watering £319 !!!
That's a £100 price increase on previous HST powercar packs released in 2016 , I had to double check I hadn't stumbled into a new O gauge section
Glad I knocked all that on the head a few years back , Even the second hand OO gauge is ridiculously over priced now , Some of the Lima stuff on ebay is marked up 5 or 6 times its original cost !!
http://www.hornby.com/uk-en/shop/hornby ... -2017.html
GWR Green (sludge livery) HST powercar pack (limited edition) marked up at an eye watering £319 !!!
That's a £100 price increase on previous HST powercar packs released in 2016 , I had to double check I hadn't stumbled into a new O gauge section
Glad I knocked all that on the head a few years back , Even the second hand OO gauge is ridiculously over priced now , Some of the Lima stuff on ebay is marked up 5 or 6 times its original cost !!
High visibility pixels must be worn when on or about the line !!
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Re: Hornby 2017 Range
Extortionate is an understatement, see all the New stuff is DCC ready but not fitted, at those prices I would have expected it to be standard. Way way over the cost of stuff I used to buy with my pocket money back in the 60's.
Prices of anything to do with model railways are extortionate, even the white metal kits I had are 10 times the cost and forget about getting a chassis!
Unfortunately my Step father gave all my stuff including about 15 years worth of model railway magazines away to a jumble sale when I joined the Navy, was not impressed!
Prices of anything to do with model railways are extortionate, even the white metal kits I had are 10 times the cost and forget about getting a chassis!
Unfortunately my Step father gave all my stuff including about 15 years worth of model railway magazines away to a jumble sale when I joined the Navy, was not impressed!
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Re: Hornby 2017 Range
Bloody hell! Some of the prices are eye watering. Glad I got shot of all that sort of stuff. Makes me laugh when people complain about paying a tenner or so for some DLC.
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Re: Hornby 2017 Range
£7.99 just for a catalogue now. That was the price of a BR MkII coach the last time I looked at their stuff
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Re: Hornby 2017 Range
It's no wonder kids don't get a 'Train Set' for Xmas anymore, it's cheaper to give them an Xbox or a smart phone.
When you consider that they can injection mould the bodies at thousands a day, even allowing for rejects they
must now work out at no more than 'pence' each. It's a total rip-off, companies with this sort of business model
are the ones we see going bust every month in this country (or sold off to India, China etc for a pittance).
Thankfully, my hobby of RC model boats has not gone that way.
When you consider that they can injection mould the bodies at thousands a day, even allowing for rejects they
must now work out at no more than 'pence' each. It's a total rip-off, companies with this sort of business model
are the ones we see going bust every month in this country (or sold off to India, China etc for a pittance).
Thankfully, my hobby of RC model boats has not gone that way.
Tane SP3 build 94916 + SnC & Duchess
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Re: Hornby 2017 Range
Bargain. I'll take 3.
On a serious note, I stopped modelling years ago (train modelling - not Y fronts for the C&A catalogue....).
Hornby used to new crap quality compared to Lima - and far more expensive.
I remember the HST Mk3 coaches being unbelievably out of scale . How can a professional modelling company get something so obvious wrong? I take it they did actually resolve it?
On a serious note, I stopped modelling years ago (train modelling - not Y fronts for the C&A catalogue....).
Hornby used to new crap quality compared to Lima - and far more expensive.
I remember the HST Mk3 coaches being unbelievably out of scale . How can a professional modelling company get something so obvious wrong? I take it they did actually resolve it?
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Re: Hornby 2017 Range
So you still model the Y fronts then, does it pay well?Briggsy wrote:Bargain. I'll take 3.
On a serious note, I stopped modelling years ago (train modelling - not Y fronts for the C&A catalogue....).
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Have you seen my figure? I have to to pay them!blackwatch13 wrote:So you still model the Y fronts then, does it pay well?Briggsy wrote:Bargain. I'll take 3.
On a serious note, I stopped modelling years ago (train modelling - not Y fronts for the C&A catalogue....).
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Re: Hornby 2017 Range
RA10 axle loading
High visibility pixels must be worn when on or about the line !!
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Re: Hornby 2017 Range
10 mph to clear the Main line only!
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