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Quote from: TeddytheSpoon on Yesterday at 08:28:26 PMFunnily enough the Ivatt 2MT was my first N gauge purchase as well - and funnily enough, also bought second-hand in (or near) Geneva! Must see if I can dig it out of my folks' storage one of these days...

Geneva had 4 or 5 model shops with good stocks of railway models back in the 1990s and I bought quite a few British profile minitrix items there including a Flying Scotsman, Evening Star and Britannia ... now I think there's only one left! A couple of the others went over to the dark side of RC cars and planes ...

Yes - on my last trip to our HQ office in Lausanne back end of last year I had some scheduling reason that I cannot remember to stay near GVA and took the chance to pop into town and look for the model shops. It was late in the day and I manage to get to a couple however it was nearly disappointing. There was Bollets Jouer which I had visited once before maybe 15+ years ago when they had much more N-gauge and I found the selection to be quite limited, mostly Fleischmann. And then there was Expertrains @ 8 rue de Berne where I had a good chat with the owner who has indeed largely transitioned to RC and planes - he was lamenting the decline in interest in trains and as such he has had to change his business model. I don't even think he has the company name on the street signange any more, although he has a massive model of a tank wagon (Gauge 1 maybe?) in the window - cannot miss it. Anyway in conversation it turms out he does have some N-gauge but largely not on display. So has dug several boxes of old inventory for me to dig through - a mix of Minitrix, Arnold &c. I ended up buying several items from him including this Arnold E16 that I have previously posted about here on the forum.



So worth a visit if passing - there is some treasure in those boxes, just need to ask.

There is a model shop that I do recommend if visiting Lausanne. I have been to it several times. Le TGV on Rue Saint-Martin. Significant quantities of 2nd hand N-gauge - bought my Krokodil there (also previously posted):


 
Cheers,

Colin. 

Oh you doubters. See what happens when you drink VB?

You win a football! (Needs inflating, and it's a rugby ball - rugby league is known as footy here)

Quote from: Moonglum on Yesterday at 07:58:08 PMMartin @port perran , Ian Gillian (Deep Purple) is nearly 81, Roger Glover is 80 and Ian Paice is 77! I am getting to point of being fed up of them (and others) thinking that they still have the same appeal and ability

I think it depends on the band and the people. Lemmy for example didn't exactly slow down or lose his touch, neither did Chuck Berry.

It depends on the exact terms of whatever agreement you had when you sold or licensed Electra Rail on.

Generally though, if you licensed them then the copyright is still yours and there are just whatever restrictions were in the contract. If you sold them then the rights are no longer yours.

Either way the contractual rights or the copyright end up in awkward places if you are not careful. A company that goes bust it'll end up with the administrator, and whether they can enforce or resell that contract depends how it was worded. If it simply gets struck off then the assets end up owned by the crown - not sure what happens with contract rights.

You can actually buy assets from a struck off company in some cases by applying to the relevant Bona Vacantia department. (Same process as buying land in that state).

Much will depend if you had a decent lawyer draft the original contract. If it's a good lawyer then there will be clauses covering this that revert the rights. If not you are going to need a lawyer to unpick the mess quite probably.

I have been looking on Companies House at Electra Rail and can see that the accounts are overdue and the company will be struck off the register within two months of April 28th.

Not being a legal eagle, I wonder what would happen to the copyright on the original artworks, which I still retain (most of which are attributed to me, rather than the company).

Kind of sad but at least this two-year mystery of what happened with Electra is coming to a close...

I tend to agree some bands stagger on and must be either desperate for the dosh or maybe are hard of hearing and can't hear how bad they sound. Still, there are folk who will pay good money to see them so they get away with it. I think they should walk away and just let the music recommend itself when in their prime. Not that I'm pointing fingers but..........

Have a read through this thread to get some tips

https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?msg=510533

The SQ11 camera is cheap as chips and the micro SD card you'd need to buy probably costs more

https://tinyurl.com/bddxvj4f

Quote from: TeddytheSpoon on Yesterday at 08:28:26 PMFunnily enough the Ivatt 2MT was my first N gauge purchase as well - and funnily enough, also bought second-hand in (or near) Geneva! Must see if I can dig it out of my folks' storage one of these days...

Geneva had 4 or 5 model shops with good stocks of railway models back in the 1990s and I bought quite a few British profile minitrix items there including a Flying Scotsman, Evening Star and Britannia ... now I think there's only one left! A couple of the others went over to the dark side of RC cars and planes ...

Quote from: Moonglum on Yesterday at 07:58:08 PMMartin @port perran , Ian Gillian (Deep Purple) is nearly 81, Roger Glover is 80 and Ian Paice is 77! I am getting to point of being fed up of them (and others) thinking that they still have the same appeal and ability.

There are many artists that are still performing that I once liked but are now way beyond their "best before date" and sadly (IMO) a bit of an embarrassment now*. Sad thing is there not much new blood about to offer the same aural stimulation and delight.

*An example (admittably from 7 years ago),

Sorry Annie...

Tim (also in grumpy mode)

 

A very good example indeed.

Funnily enough the Ivatt 2MT was my first N gauge purchase as well - and funnily enough, also bought second-hand in (or near) Geneva! Must see if I can dig it out of my folks' storage one of these days...