Cost of N Gauge Models in Context

[Newportnobby]

Ye Gods, Craig!

Although.....................

each one goes through £100 shoes every month, unless they throw one competing

£100 a month for shoes is nothing compared to my ex and she certainly threw them (at me) if I complained!

[emjaybee]

@exmouthcraig I feel your pain.

We bred four foals and someone said "wow, free horses".

Yeah right. One foal ran up a £4000 vets bill in its first week! The mare ran milk before the foal was born, so all the colostrum was lost, meaning the foal got no antibodies, meaning daily plasma transfers centifuged from the mares blood. I kid you not, I reckon I could raise Unicorns cheaper. That same foal cost £10k in vets bills in its first year.

We had to take one of our horses into the vets for a leg op a few years later and the vet nurse went to put our Storm into a ratty stable rather than the spanking new ones the other side, at which point my blood pressure went up, my fuse blew and I let rip on just how many 10's of thousands my wife had put their way over the previous few years.

We had a lovely airy, roomy, posh stable sharpish.

Then there's the insurance. Goes up most years, but they exclude any part of the animal that's had a claim. My wife no longer insures the two that are left as they've so many exclusions we can't fathom out which bits are actually covered.

And the shoeing, and the annual jabs, bedding, supplements, feed, hay, fencing, field shelter repairs.

But...

...and it's a good but {snigger}, I wouldn't want her NOT to have them.

Because it doesn't matter how much I spend on my shooting and modelling, I'll always have spent less than her.

So, y'know, it has its compensations.

[exmouthcraig]

Mines adamant that these are the last 2 she has, I hope shes joking because theres at least 4hrs a day that I'd have to see her, I'd never get a layout built 

Weve never spent that much time together!!!! Mind you wed be millionaires within 10years so.........

[emjaybee]

Mines adamant that these are the last 2 she has, I hope shes joking because theres at least 4hrs a day that I'd have to see her, I'd never get a layout built 

Weve never spent that much time together!!!! Mind you wed be millionaires within 10years so.........

Oh man, don't fall for that one. I've heard 'em all. "I'm going to get rid of them", "I don't know why I waste my time", etc., etc., etc.

I will say this though, I don't pay a penny towards them, she covers it all herself. Fair play.

[37214]

  and there was me thinking my flying hobby was expensive...........

[emjaybee]

and there was me thinking my flying hobby was expensive...........

Flying, flying! That's pocket money stuff that is.



What's sort of flying?

[37214]

and there was me thinking my flying hobby was expensive...........

Flying, flying! That's pocket money stuff that is.



What's sort of flying

Compared to horses, yes. Mostly Touring Motor Glider, Diamond HK36 Super Dimona but prior to Clovis, had moved onto Piper PA28 Warrior.

Before power flying it was all gliders. Plan to buy shares in both SEP and a glider once I retire.

[emjaybee]

and there was me thinking my flying hobby was expensive...........

Flying, flying! That's pocket money stuff that is.



What's sort of flying

Compared to horses, yes. Mostly Touring Motor Glider, Diamond HK36 Super Dimona but prior to Clovis, had moved onto Piper PA28 Warrior.

Before power flying it was all gliders. Plan to buy shares in both SEP and a glider once I retire.

Nice! Have you got a pilots licence?

[37214]

 2 - LAPL(S) - Light Aircraft Pilot Licence (Sailplanes) for gliding and motorglider and LAPL(A) - Light Aircraft Pilot Licence (Aeroplane) for Single Engine Piston.

I tried to post pictures of the aircraft I fly but I keep getting an error saying only PDF format allowed. If you google G-OSFB, that's the Dimona motorglider and G-BTRY is the PA28 I was flying pre-Covid.

[emjaybee]

2 - LAPL(S) - Light Aircraft Pilot Licence (Sailplanes) for gliding and motorglider and LAPL(A) - Light Aircraft Pilot Licence (Aeroplane) for Single Engine Piston.

I tried to post pictures of the aircraft I fly but I keep getting an error saying only PDF format allowed. If you google G-OSFB, that's the Dimona motorglider and G-BTRY is the PA28 I was flying pre-Covid.

Good stuff! Very cool.

[acko22]

£100 a month for shoes is nothing compared to my ex and she certainly threw them (at me) if I complained!

Well some would say she either missed or didn't throw hard enough! 

[crewearpley40]

£100 a month for shoes is nothing compared to my ex and she certainly threw them (at me) if I complained!

Well some would say she either missed or didn't throw hard enough! 

mick must have been able to jump out the way a lot quicker..... good job as we love his input  enthusiasm and knowledge here . Seriously the cost of my n gauge was due to space limitations not costs and funded by selling my 00 items after my late Grandfather passed away and late Gran had to move to a care home. So a smaller flat. I had an interest in N so sold my 00 and if like downsized

[acko22]

Hi all,

So just had a read through from what @Rabbitaway  originally posted, and avoiding @Newportnobby and his shoe dodging / catching antics 

My take on his original post is about what can be achieved with costs,
So you have 3 levels:

1 - Function over form - 16.99 RC helicopter or a Tomix motorized chassis - both do the function but beyond don't have a physical appearance of a real design.

2 - Function with some form - Mid range RC helicopters that look like an apache helicopter but there are inaccuracies - Pick a model but for me some of the Dapol 86s , there are inaccuracies but for the price I won't complain at all in fact give me some more! (well until work bin them all then I don't care  )

3 - Function and form - Well in this range for RC helicopters it gets real silly money if you want it to look perfect as well as function as close as feasible as the real thing - For N gauge truth be told this is the market for new models, not silly money but we want the function and from so it has to work right and look like the real thing or as close as can be achieved.

So I do think there is a market for all in N gauge just as in RC helicopters but its ho far do you want to go? I do know about top end RC helicopters before I came back to n gauge I was very very close to buying a 1:20 fully working model of an Apache you really couldn't tell it apart for the real thing, but the price well makes N gauge look really cheap, I was about to fly back to the UK after 9 months in sandier climates and it would have cost me half my tour wages!
Safe to say the sanity returned when balanced my choices not to buy and return home, or buy it and never return home as the domestic boss who as @red_death can vouch is very Scottish and even more batty would have been more of a danger to my life than the folks I had been having a "loud chat" with for 9 months!

[jpendle]

and avoiding @Newportnobby and his shoe dogging antics 

Well it takes all sorts I suppose 

John P

[acko22]

and avoiding @Newportnobby and his shoe dogging antics 

Well it takes all sorts I suppose 

John P

Shhhhh quick correction and it never happened, or i just blame it on no sleep!