NGS Kit Production has started

[Dr Al]

We have certainly considered selling "spares" as has been suggested.  We were thinking of a nominal set price of maybe £1.50 per item because there can be a tremendous amount of time involved in ferreting for the right components.  The problem then of course is the dreaded postage cost.  That has got to be at least another £1.50.

Gill
Shop Manager

Certainly still be of possible of interest to me - the wagons I have have the majority of the components reusable, so it seems a shame to junk them for the lack of some specific parts.

Or alternatively, offering the bare kit sprues minus bogies/wheels/couplings would also be of interest, and would save volunteers having to find specific parts on the sprues?

Thanks,
Alan

[zopadooper]

The only problem with that is that the items will move from our bit-box to a member's "bit-box" without actually being made available to the member who really needs them.

Having said that, the Committee will consider all options


Gill
Shop Manager

[joe cassidy]

Reminds me of when Huntley & Palmers used to sell broken biscuits cheap !

Best regards,


Joe

[Ben Line 457]

Any news as to recent progress with the NGS kits?

[zopadooper]

Kits 1 & 8 have been listed on the Shop site for some weeks.  Kit 8 is almost sold out.
Missing components for many of the other kits have been identified and sourced and production has started.
As soon as they are available they will be listed on the NGS Shop at www.ngsjoin.com.
Please be patient because everything is done by volunteers in time that they could be spending on their hobby.

Gill
Shop Manager

[mickster04]

I don't want to sound hasty, nor impatient as I'm sure ben line 457 didn't, I think the question is more around notification of new kits going on sale. I am grateful to all those helping, I would obviously offer my hand but NZ is a bit far to travel a perfect excuse, but I personally don't want to miss out on kits that come up of interest to me because I don't recheck the ngsjoin site every week... anyway, keep up the good work, I'd send you all a coffee or cake or something but thanks will have to do!

[Ben Line 457]

Thanks Gill,

Good to know the gargantuan task is still in progress and thanks again to all involved.

Hope I didn't sound impatient but not being involved in the process directly its difficult to know what's happening without asking on this forum.
We had kits 1 & 8 re-launched - after a lot of hard work by a lot of people - in mid-December but from the outside at least nothing seems to have been said about progress since.....hence the question.

Thanks yet again to all who are working the kits, I look forward to more re-launches in the coming weeks.

[Kaian]

Just a posting to the news section of the main site will do when kits are put up in the shop in stock again.

Unfortunately, the web shop design is terrible for knowing what is in stock without clicking on every item, the alternative is to hide everything not currently in stock.

[mickster04]

You should be able to disable links as part of the html standard. Maybe that'd be a better approach? That way people can see what would be available without having to click on empty items?

[Mirrlees]

Last weekend.



Not to much to report but we are getting there!

I would like to thank @free debt man (Stuart), Roger and his wife Trish, Dave Thompkiss and Omar.  A further mention is @Skyline2uk (Adam) for his ongoing help with the kit tracker spreadsheet.

Tim

[NinOz]

Transfers for kit 1? :'( :'( :'(

[Mirrlees]

I'll check the stand stock as I think we have some NGST0002 - Kit NGSK0010 transfers.

The Stand is at Ali Pali and if we have them, then they'll be available for members to buy.

Cheers

[NinOz]

The perfect solution for me.

I give up.

[Railwaygun]

The perfect solution for me.

I give up.

If I go I will get you a set ( writes note on cuff )

How many sets?

[Railwaygun]

I'll check the stand stock as I think we have some NGST0002 - Kit NGSK0010 transfers.

The Stand is at Ali Pali and if we have them, then they'll be available for members to buy.

Cheers

Can these be ordered in advance? @NinOz