[Brian Considine]

Gary & DWB,

I agree - personally I prefer the way most of the europeans package their loco's - a clear plastic thingy that you sit the loco onto & then fold up the sides, cover the top using a piece of soft cloth, clip the end in place, then slide the clear outer cover on & then into its protected box.

I may be wrong but I supect that most UK modellers prefer to run their models rather than to look at it.

best regards
Brian

 

[Brian Considine]

QUOTE (Peter_Harvey @ 7 Nov 2006, 07:38) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Dose every thing in the UK have to do what the Americans do the the biggest bunch of Raceists, bigots & hippocrates out there This is England, Great Britain Who cares what the yanks do.

I say we get a good deal from the British Model manufaturers its just that some in the hobby in the UK want everything for nothing I have oftern thought that about some of the people at model rail.

Pete

A great deal of truth there !

best regards
Brian

 

[Brian Considine]

QUOTE (Gary @ 8 Nov 2006, 10:57) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Magazines should stick to railway modelling rather than trying to tell Hornby and Bachmann how to run a manufacturing business.

Quite - how would the magazines like it if Hornby & Bachmann started to tell them how to produce a magazine.

With the odd exception here & there the manufactures generally produce models that will sell. Sell is the operative word here. They conduct market research, have past sales figures, their own experience & a wealth of other facts & figures at their disposal to enable them to make a sucessfull commercial desision on what to produce.

On another forum I got tired of hearing people loudly slagging off the retail model trade. These "experts" said that the model trade should do this, do that & so on - they had all the answers. As soon as I suggested that these people "put their money where their mouths were" & maybe open a retail shop the silence became defening.

I'm not saying don't critisise at ll but try & look at things for a different perspective now & then.

best regards
Brian