Yeah, one BG won't weigh 2kgs unless they put it in a lead box topped up with lead shot

@Stuart Down Under

Hi Stuart,

just been e-mailing with Andrea@Dapol to make a small adjust to my order and questioning the shipping and the pricing:

"As we do not know the total weight yet we will say the order will probably come out with DHL as Royal Mail it has to be under 2kg"

So I think it would be worth you asking Dapol to ship to you with Royal Mail (which , for example, woudl be 13 quid if it were Rails),

Cheers,

Colin.

Colin.

Quote from: Stuart Down Under on October 21, 2026, 08:23:17 AMSo the email with my order arrived today. It turns out that I only ordered one unit - a maroon BG. Price of £39.95 – not too bad. But that includes £6.66 VAT which, as an Aussie resident should not apply. Then to "carriage" – FOURTY OF YOUR BRITISH POUNDS! – Good grief! That's a total of £80, when it should be more like £52, when compared with Rails & TMC international charges. At that price it becomes an elective purchase and I have elected to cancel. Nobody needs another full brake at that price. I hope that they come up with a better deal when we get to a couple of rakes of Stanier non-corriodors in the near future.
 

Hmmm - mine was calculated OK correctly with no VAT added (I am in Japan - and will end up paying Japan VAT on the import). As to the shipping charge that seems to be fixed - I have half a dozen vehicles on the order but the shipping was also 39.95....  it seems to be a flat rate ( although based on recent experiences somewhat more than Kernow and Rails' what appears to be flat rate - its similar to Harburns flat rate).

I am going to ask them their UK domestic shipping cost to compare to international as there is a crossover calculation of the differecne in paying UK VAT vs Japanese VAT where I then pick up the coaches from a family address on a UK trip ( like I am just now and have picked up a bunch of stuff I bought from Ebay since that makes such a hash of international shipping... ).

£40 courier? Wow. DHL at a guess from a parcel price comparison site.

Royal Mail is quoting less than half that for ~7 day, tracked delivery.

Perhaps worthy of an email to Dapol asking is they could use a different courier? Or save the model until the Staniers arrive?

So the email with my order arrived today. It turns out that I only ordered one unit - a maroon BG. Price of £39.95 – not too bad. But that includes £6.66 VAT which, as an Aussie resident should not apply. Then to "carriage" – FOURTY OF YOUR BRITISH POUNDS! – Good grief! That's a total of £80, when it should be more like £52, when compared with Rails & TMC international charges. At that price it becomes an elective purchase and I have elected to cancel. Nobody needs another full brake at that price. I hope that they come up with a better deal when we get to a couple of rakes of Stanier non-corriodors in the near future.
 

Lovely railcar. Reminds me very much of ones that used to run on Derek Naylor's classic Aire Valley railway.

Having a bit of a tidy up and adding a few more structural pieces to the scenery.  Couldn't help having a play though!

Also added a few details to Wittenheim station, some trees in planters, window boxes, a little paint changes.  Oh and ran the cutest little train I own a VT88

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Quote from: port perran on October 20, 2026, 11:37:57 AM

Quote from: Newportnobby on October 19, 2026, 07:11:05 PM@Moonglum Tim - this is the best William Orbit version (Ferry Corsten mix)
Even my Mum used to love this

Edit:- I used to have Deep Purple's 'Concerto for Group and Orchestra' on vinyl, some of which was good and some was dire! It wasn't based on any well known classical piece, though

Hmmmmmm

Good hmmmmmm or bad hmmmmmm? I suspect the latter

Not bad at all but, as you might have guessed, not my thing 

Quote from: port perran on October 20, 2026, 11:37:57 AM

Quote from: Newportnobby on October 19, 2026, 07:11:05 PM@Moonglum Tim - this is the best William Orbit version (Ferry Corsten mix)
Even my Mum used to love this

Edit:- I used to have Deep Purple's 'Concerto for Group and Orchestra' on vinyl, some of which was good and some was dire! It wasn't based on any well known classical piece, though

Hmmmmmm

Good hmmmmmm or bad hmmmmmm? I suspect the latter

Quote from: Newportnobby on October 19, 2026, 07:11:05 PM@Moonglum Tim - this is the best William Orbit version (Ferry Corsten mix)
Even my Mum used to love this

Edit:- I used to have Deep Purple's 'Concerto for Group and Orchestra' on vinyl, some of which was good and some was dire! It wasn't based on any well known classical piece, though

Hmmmmmm